Environmental Conservation category: 3266 books
The God Species
Saving the Planet in the Age of Humans
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
We humans are the God species, both the creators and destroyers of life on this planet. As we enter a new geological era - the Anthropocene - our collective power now overwhelms and dominates the major forces of nature.
But from the water cycle to the circulation of nitrogen and carbon through...
The Invention of Nature
Alexander von Humboldt's New World
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
The acclaimed author of Founding Gardeners reveals the forgotten life of Alexander von Humboldt, the visionary German naturalist whose ideas changed the way we see the natural world—and in the process created modern environmentalism.
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Wild Ones
A Sometimes Dismaying, Weirdly Reassuring Story About Looking at People Looking at Animals in America
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
"Intelligent and highly nuanced… This book may bring tears to your eyes." -- San Francisco Chronicle
Journalist Jon Mooallem has watched his little daughter’s world overflow with animals butterfly pajamas, appliquéd owls—while the actual world she’s inheriting slides into...
How to Shit in the Woods, 3rd Edition
An Environmentally Sound Approach to a Lost Art
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
It’s the feisty third edition of How to Shit in the Woods, jam-packed with new information for outdoor enthusiasts of every stripe. Hailed in its first edition as “the most important environmental book of the decade” by Books of the Southwest, and in its second as “the real shit” by the...
The Ragged Edge of the World
Encounters at the Frontier Where Modernity, Wildlands and Indigenous Peoples Mee t
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2011
A pioneering work of environmental journalism that vividly depicts the people, animals and landscapes on the front lines of change's inexorable march.
A species nearing extinction, a tribe losing centuries of knowledge, a tract of forest facing the first incursion of humans-how can we even...
This Borrowed Earth
Lessons from the Fifteen Worst Environmental Disasters around the World
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2010
Over the last century mankind has irrevocably damaged the environment through the unscrupulous greed of big business and our own willful ignorance. Here are the strikingly poignant accounts of disasters whose names live in infamy: Chernobyl, Bhopal, Exxon Valdez, Three Mile Island, Love Canal, Minamata...
The Anthropocene
The Human Era and How It Shapes Our Future
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
For more than two decades, award-winning science and environmental journalist, Christian Schwägerl has researched how humans, nature, and technology interact. Schwägerl is inspired by the idea of Nobel Prize-winning chemist Paul Crutzen who argued that we are living in a new geological epoch, the...
The Climate War
True Believers, Power Brokers, and the Fight to Save the Earth
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2010
In The Climate War, Eric Pooley--deputy editor of Bloomberg BusinessWeek--does for global warming what Bob Woodward did for presidents and Lawrence Wright did for terrorists. In this epic tale of an American civil war, Pooley takes us behind the scenes and into the hearts and minds of the most important...
Planetwalker
22 Years of Walking. 17 Years of Silence.
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2008
When the struggle to save oil-soaked birds and restore blackened beaches left him feeling frustrated and helpless, John Francis decided to take a more fundamental and personal stand-he stopped using all forms of motorized transportation. Soon after embarking on this quest that would span two decades...
by Bill McKibben
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
"[McKibben is] a marvelous writer who has thought deeply about the environment, loves this part of the country, and knows how to be a first-class traveling companion."—Entertainment Weekly
In Wandering Home, one of his most personal books, Bill McKibben invites readers to join him...
Sustainable Compromises
A Yurt, a Straw Bale House, and Ecological Living
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Living simply isn’t always simple. When Alan Boye first lived in sustainable housing, he was young, idealistic, and not much susceptible to compromise—until rattlesnakes, black widow spiders, and loneliness drove him out of the utilities-free yurt he’d built in New Mexico. Thirty-five years...
Tree Spiker
From Earth First! to Lowbagging: My Struggles in Radical Environmental Action
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2009
Lauded by some, despised by others, Mike Roselle is one of the most controversial figures in the crusade to protect the environment. Mike has succeeded in stopping a lumber project by spiking trees, struggled with death threats and the car bombing of fellow activist Judi Bari, endured countless days...
Engineering Eden
The True Story of a Violent Death, a Trial, and the Fight over Controlling Nature
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
**The fascinating story of a trial that opened a window onto the century-long battle to control nature in the national parks. **
When twenty-five-year-old Harry Walker was killed by a bear in Yellowstone Park in 1972, the civil trial prompted by his death became a proxy for bigger questions...
Plastic-Free
How I Kicked the Plastic Habit and How You Can Too
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
Guides readers toward the road less consumptive, offering practical advice and moral support while making a convincing case that individual actions . . . do matter.” -Elizabeth Royte, author, Garbage Land and Bottlemania
Like many people, Beth Terry didn’t think an individual could have...