Environmental Conservation category: 3266 books
The Green Collar Economy
How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
“Steadily—by redefining green—Jones is making sure that our planet and our people will not just survive but also thrive in a clean-energy economy.”
—Leonardo DiCaprio
A New York Times bestseller, *The Green Collar Economy by award-winning human rights activist and environmental leader...
Citizen Science
Public Participation in Environmental Research
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2012
Citizen science enlists members of the public to make and record useful observations, such as counting birds in their backyards, watching for the first budding leaf in spring, or measuring local snowfall. The large numbers of volunteers who participate in projects such as Project FeederWatch or Project...
Whole Earth Discipline
Why Dense Cities, Nuclear Power, Transgenic Crops, RestoredWildlands, and Geoeng ineering Are Necessary
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2010
An icon of the environmental movement outlines a provocative approach for reclaiming our planet
According to Stewart Brand, a lifelong environmentalist who sees everything in terms of solvable design problems, three profound transformations are under way on Earth right now. Climate change is...
The Optimistic Environmentalist
Progressing Toward a Greener Future
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
A hopeful, inspiring, and honest take on the environment
Yes, the world faces substantial environmental challenges — climate change, pollution, and extinction. But the surprisingly good news is that we have solutions to these problems. In the past fifty years, a remarkable number of environmental...
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Tar Sands [Revised and Updated]
Dirty Oil and the Future of a Continent
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
The book that put the tar sands -- and their devastating environmental impact -- on the map, for better or worse.
Andrew Nikiforuk's Tar Sands is a critical expose of the world's largest energy project -- the Alberta oil sands -- that has made Canada one of the worst environmental offenders...
by Ralph Maughan
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2014
In the fall of 1979, millions of some of the most beautiful acres in the world were under threat. The political heat surrounding the environmental controversy prompted then Senator Frank Church to wear a bullet proof vest to public hearings. This is Ralph Maughan's personal story of the courageous creation...
by Robert S. Devine
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Since becoming president, George W. Bush has walked away from the Kyoto Protocol, pushed for oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, undermined protections for endangered species and wilderness, and retreated from his campaign pledge to regulate carbon dioxide. But the president’s agenda...
Visit Sunny Chernobyl
And Other Adventures in the World's Most Polluted Places
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
For most of us, traveling means visiting the most beautiful places on Earth—Paris, the Taj Mahal, the Grand Canyon. It's rare to book a plane ticket to visit the lifeless moonscape of Canada's oil sand strip mines, or to seek out the Chinese city of Linfen, legendary as the most polluted in the...
Written in Water
Messages of Hope for Earth's Most Precious Resource
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2010
*Written in Water: Messages of Hope for Earth's Most Precious Resource *comprises a collection of essays authored by heroes and leaders in the field of water solutions and innovations—a broad range of people from varied disciplines who have contributed their hearts and minds to bringing awareness...
by Derrick Jensen
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
In this impassioned polemic, radical environmental philosopher Derrick Jensen debunks the near-universal belief in a hierarchy of nature and the superiority of humans. Vast and underappreciated complexities of nonhuman life are explored in detail—from the cultures of pigs and prairie dogs, to the...
David Brower
The Making of the Environmental Movement
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
In this first comprehensive authorized biography of David Brower, a dynamic leader in the environmental movement over the last half of the twentieth century, Tom Turner explores Brower's impact on the movement from its beginnings until his death in 2000.
Frequently compared to John Muir, David...
by David W. Orr, Hildegarde Hannum
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 1992
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 1992
The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics.
"For the most part . . . we are still educating the young as if there were no planetary emergency." Yet, continues David Orr, the...
Under the Surface
Fracking, Fortunes, and the Fate of the Marcellus Shale
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
Running from southern West Virginia through eastern Ohio, across central and northeast Pennsylvania, and into New York through the Southern Tier and the Catskills, the Marcellus Shale formation underlies a sparsely populated region that features striking landscapes, critical watersheds, and a struggling...
EarthTalk
Expert Answers to Everyday Questions About the Environment
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2009
From the authors of the leading environmental handbook Green Living, the best of E's nationally syndicated Q&A column, EarthTalk
Knowledge of environmental issues and sustainability is increasingly important as industrialization and climate change continue to wreak havoc on our ecosystems...