Environmental Conservation category: 3266 books
Traveling the 38th Parallel
A Water Line around the World
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Between extremes of climate farther north and south, the 38th North parallel line marks a temperate, middle latitude where human societies have thrived since the beginning of civilization. It divides North and South Korea, passes through Athens and San Francisco, and bisects Mono Lake in the eastern...
Road Ecology
Science and Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
A central goal of transportation is the delivery of safe and efficiservices with minimal environmental impact. In practice, though, human mobility has flourished while nature has suffered. Awareness of the environmental impacts of roads is increasing, yet information remains scarce for those interested...
Discovering Westcave
The Natural and Human History of a Hill Country Nature Preserve
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2016
In the heart of the Texas Hill Country lies an astonishing place called Westcave Preserve, a 76-acre nature preserve and environmental education facility in western Travis County, near Austin, that provides a sanctuary for the flora and fauna of surprisingly diverse ecosystems.
Westcave has...
Toby Toucan's Jungle Jeopardy
Jeff's Environmental series
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2012
We first see Toby sitting on a vine deep in the heart of the rainforest looking quite sad and deep in thought. Toby tells the reader of how his father’s friend Tanno had told him of how his parents became lost in a forest fire the other side of the Purple Mountain. Tanno tells us that it had been...
Witness Tree
Seasons of Change with a Century-Old Oak
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
An intimate look at one majestic hundred-year-old oak tree through four seasons--and the reality of global climate change it reveals.
In the life of this one grand oak, we can see for ourselves the results of one hundred years of rapid environmental change. It's leafing out earlier, and dropping...
Hap Wilson's Wilderness 3-Book Bundle
The Cabin / Grey Owl and Me / Trails and Tribulations
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018
Noted traveller and environmentalist Hap Wilson shares accounts of his lifelong involvement with wilderness living within the Canadian Shield. Wilson knows better than most how to live in the woods. As park ranger, canoe guide, outfitter, trail builder, and environmental activist, he learned from...
State of the World 2014
Governing for Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
Citizens expect their governments to lead on sustainability. But from largely disappointing international conferences like Rio II to the U.S.'s failure to pass meaningful climate legislation, governments' progress has been lackluster. That's not to say leadership is absent; it just often comes from the...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
You're overseeing a large-scale project, but you're not an engineering or construction specialist, and so you need an overview of the related sustainability concerns and processes. To introduce you to the main issues, experts from the fields of engineering, planning, public health, environmental design,...
Climate Ethics
Essential Readings
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2010
This collection gathers a set of seminal papers from the emerging area of ethics and climate change. Topics covered include human rights, international justice, intergenerational ethics, individual responsibility, climate economics, and the ethics of geoengineering. Climate Ethics is intended to serve...
50 Simple Things You Can Do to Save the Earth
Completely New and Updated for the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
Together, We Can Make a Difference
Today's environmental problems may seem too overwhelming for one person to tackle . . . but you don't have to do it alone. Now you have partners--50 of them.
50 Simple Things You Can Do to Save the Earth, the revolutionary 1990 bestseller, is back in...
Earth Odyssey
Around the World in Search of Our Environmental Future
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2009
Like many of us, Mark Hertsgaard has long worried about the declining health of our environment. But in 1991, he decided to act on his concern and investigate the escalating crisis for himself. Traveling on his own dime, he embarked on an odyssey lasting most of the decade and spanning nineteen countries....
Clean Politics, Clean Streams
A Legislative Autobiography and Reflections
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
In this legislative autobiography Franklin L. Kury tells the story about his election to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, and later the Senate, against the senior Republican in the House and an entrenched patronage organization. The only Democrat elected from his district to serve in the...
The Oyster War
The True Story of a Small Farm, Big Politics, and the Future of Wilderness in America
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
“A compelling and evocative read” about an all-out battle over a marine sanctuary in Northern California (Erik Larson, New York Times–bestselling author of Dead Wake).
Located in that estuary was a small, struggling oyster farm. In existence for more than eighty years, it was accused...
The Fate of the Forest
Developers, Destroyers, and Defenders of the Amazon, Updated Edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2011
The Amazon rain forest covers more than five million square kilometers, amid the territories of nine different nations. It represents over half of the planet’s remaining rain forest. Is it truly in peril? What steps are necessary to save it? To understand the future of Amazonia, one must know how...