Environmental Conservation category: 3266 books
Facing the Change
Personal Encounters with Global Warming
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2013
"Steven Pavlos Holmes offers a rich, refreshing, and much-needed collection of personal responses to climate change. Though the volume is slender, its selections of poetry and prose-written over the past ten years by a variety of mostly lesserknown authors-provide a tonal and emotional diversity that...
Banning DDT
How Citizen Activists in Wisconsin Led the Way
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
On a December day in 1968, DDT went on trial in Madison, Wisconsin. In Banning DDT: How Citizen Activists in Wisconsin Led the Way, Bill Berry details how the citizens, scientists, reporters, and traditional conservationists drew attention to the harmful effects of “the miracle pesticide” DDT,...
The Burning Season
The Murder of Chico Mendes and the Fight for the Amazon Rain Forest
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2004
In this reissue of the environmental classic The Burning Season, with a new introduction by the author, Andrew Revkin artfully interweaves the moving story of Chico Mendes's struggle with the broader natural and human history of the world's largest tropical rain forest. "It became clear," writes Revkin,...
Recovering a Lost River
Removing Dams, Rewilding Salmon, Revitalizing Communities
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
A powerful argument for why dam removal makes good scientific, economic, and environmental sense—and requires our urgent attention
The Snake River, flowing through the Northwest, was once one of the world's greatest salmon rivers. As recently as a hundred years ago, it retained some of its...
Operation Bite Back
Rod Coronado's War to Save American Wilderness
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
Dean Kuipers takes us behind the scenes of the Animal Liberation Front and its punk-anarchist sibling the Earth Liberation Front, two of the most notorious and violent environmental groups and one of the FBI's biggest domestic terrorist priorities--even in the wake of 9/11. Kuipers tells us the story...
Opportunity, Montana
Big Copper, Bad Water, and the Burial of an American Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
A memoir-meets-exposé that examines our fraught relationship with the West and our attempts to clean up a toxic environmental legacy
In 2002, Texas journalist Brad Tyer strapped a canoe on his truck and moved to Montana, a state that has long exerted a mythic pull on America’s imagination...
Left in the Dust
How Race and Politics Created a Human and Environmental Tragedy in L.A.
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
An intensely personal story crossed with a political potboiler, Left in the Dust is a unique and passionate account of the city of Los Angeles's creation, cover-up and inadequate attempts to repair a major environmental catastrophe. Owens River, which once fed Owens Lake, was diverted away from the...
by Friends of the Earth, C40 Cities
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Big cities don’t have to mean a dystopian future. They can be turned around to be powerhouses of well-being and environmental sustainability – if we empower women.
This book is a unique collaboration between C40 and Friends of the Earth showcasing pioneering city mayors, key voices in the...
Good News For a Change
How Everyday People are Helping the Planet
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2003
The litany of environmental bad news -- rapid extinction of species, pollution, depleted food sources -- can be overwhelming, but there's hope too. In this thoughtful look at whatís happening behind the grim headlines, authors David Suzuki and Holly Dressel show that thousands of individuals, groups,...
Wisdom for a Livable Planet
The Visionary Work of Terri Swearingen, Dave Foreman, Wes Jackson, Helena Norberg-Hodge, Werner Forn
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2011
The author profiles the work of eight visionaries who have dedicated their lives to various environmental issues. Each story provides a portrait of an individual's valiant and inspiring campaign to improve the conditions for life on our planet. Taken together, the work of these people points the way...
Hydrocarbon Hucksters
Lessons from Louisiana on Oil, Politics, and Environmental Justice
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2014
Hydrocarbon Hucksters is the saga of the oil industry's takeover of Louisiana--its leaders, its laws, its environment, and, by rechanneling the flow of public information, its voters. It is a chronicle of mindboggling scientific and technical triumphs sharing the same public stew with myths about...
by Jason Drew
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2014
The Protein Crunch Civilisation on the brink is a capitalist’s tour of the environment. The authors reveal the hard facts of how environmental degradation is already affecting all of us from food price riots to the collapse of countries like Somalia. Water, land and sea combine to produce the food...
Earth Calling
A Climate Change Handbook for the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
Our earliest mythologies tell us we all start as a little bit of dirt. These stories carry a profound message: each of us is born with a deep and abiding connection to the earth, one that many of us have lost touch with. The Silent Spring for today's environmental activists, this book offers an invitation...
Ethical Eating
A Complete Guide to Sustainable Food
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2014
Global food is not a nice business. Farming is no longer the gentle vocation of previous generations, food production is not the artisan craft of past centuries, retailing is not the friendly personal service of our grandparents' generation - these concepts are gone, swept away by the Big Food corporations...