Environmental Conservation category: 3266 books
What Has Nature Ever Done for Us?
How Money Really Does Grow on Trees
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
During recent years, environmental debate worldwide has been dominated by climate change, carbon emissions and the greenhouse effect. But a number of academic, technical, political, business and NGO initiatives indicate the emergence of a new wave of environmental attention focused on “natural...
Time's Up!
An Uncivilized Solution to a Global Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2009
This is not an environmental book, even though it is concerned with the environment, nor is it a book to save the world, even though the world is clearly in trouble. Ultimately, Time's Up! is a book about survival and about ensuring that every individual human has the means to save herself or himself...
Recycling and Incineration
Evaluating The Choices
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2013
Recycling and Incineration presents information on the technology, economics, environmental concerns, and legal intricacies behind recycling and incineration programs.
by Jim Bowyer
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
In The Irresponsible Pursuit of Paradise, Dr. Jim L. Bowyer clearly documents an ethically bankrupt position that underlies much of our environmental policy. High consumption in wealthy countries usually goes hand-in-hand with resistance to domestic raw materials extraction and half-hearted interest...
Sustainability A Call to Action Part I
Individual Scale
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Sustainability: A Call to Action Part I (2nd Edition) provides the perfect antidote to environmental despair. The author blends solid science with a recognition that even small individual actions are available and beneficial. Our current path isn’t necessarily our fate. Ample tested tools and methods...
Mindfully Green
A Personal and Spiritual Guide to Whole Earth Thinking
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2008
With all the attention on living sustainably, the one thing missing from the conversation is how to find a personal connection with green living that will sustain us on our green path. While practical approaches to an eco-responsible lifestyle offer important first steps, it is critical that we ground...
Baptized in PCBs
Race, Pollution, and Justice in an All-American Town
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
In the mid-1990s, residents of Anniston, Alabama, began a legal fight against the agrochemical company Monsanto over the dumping of PCBs in the city's historically African American and white working-class west side. Simultaneously, Anniston environmentalists sought to safely eliminate chemical weaponry...
Unveiling the Whale
Discourses on Whales and Whaling
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
Whaling has become one of the most controversial environmental issues. It is not that all whale species are at the brink of extinction, but that whales have become important symbols to both pro- and anti-whaling factions and can easily be appropriated as the common heritage of humankind. This book,...
State of the World 2008
Innovations for a Sustainable Economy
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
Environmental issues were once regarded as irrelevant to economic activity, but today they are dramatically rewriting the rules for business, investors, and consumers. Around the world, innovative responses to climate change and other environmental problems are affecting more than $100 billion in...
Sustainability
A Way to Abundance
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2018
The book describes mechanisms whereby the Earth naturally thrives towards energy and resources abundance and how unsustainable industrial practices alter this trend.
Introduces the concept of earth energy and associates this to the conditions of the biosphere and emphasizes the possibilities...
A World to Live In
An Ecologist's Vision for a Plundered Planet
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
A scientist makes a powerful case that preservation of the integrity of the biosphere is a necessity and an inviolable human right.
A century of industrial development is the briefest of moments in the half billion years of the earth's evolution. And yet our current era has brought greater...
Harness the Sun
America's Quest for a Solar-Powered Future
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
Going from the inner city to the open desert, a seasoned environmental advocate looks at solar energy’s remarkable ascent and its promise for America’s future
Solar power was once the domain of futurists and environmentally minded suburbanites. Today it is part of mainstream America. Scan...
Future Drive
Electric Vehicles And Sustainable Transportation
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2013
In Future Drive, Daniel Sperling addresses the adverse energy and environmental consequences of increased travel, and analyzes currinitiatives to suggest strategies for creating a more environmentally benign system of transportation. Groundbreaking proposals are constructed around the idea of electric...
Maybe One
A Personal and Evironmental Argument for Single Child Families
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
From the groundbreaking, bestselling author of The End of Nature, a controversial and provocative book arguing that to help the planet we should begin to voluntarily limit our numbers.
Bill McKibben's books and essays on our environment -- physical and spiritual -- have shaped and spurred debate since...