Environmental Conservation category: 3266 books
by Henry Thoreau
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2005
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings...
by Vandana Shiva
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
"Her great virtue as an advocate is that she is not a reductionist. Her awareness of the complex connections among economy and nature and culture preserves her from oversimplification. So does her understanding of the importance of diversity." -- Wendell Berry, from the foreword
Motivated...
by Sim Van der Ryn, Stuart Cowan
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Ecological Design is a landmark volume that helped usher in an exciting new era in green design and sustainability planning. Since its initial publication in 1996, the book has been critically important in sparking dialogue and triggering collaboration across spatial scales and design professions...
Diet for a Hot Planet
The Climate Crisis at the End of Your Fork and What You Can Do About It
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2010
Beyond what we already know about "food miles" and eating locally, the global food system is a major contributor to climate change, producing as much as one-third of greenhouse gas emissions. How we farm, what we eat, and how our food gets to the table all have an impact. And our government...
This Land
How Cowboys, Capitalism, and Corruption are Ruining the American West
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2019
**“A big, bold book about public lands . . . The Desert Solitaire of our time.” —Outside
A hard-hitting look at the battle now raging over the fate of the public lands in the American West--and a plea for the protection of these last wild places**
The public lands of the western...
Something's Rising
Appalachians Fighting Mountaintop Removal
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2009
Like an old-fashioned hymn sung in rounds, Something's Rising gives a stirring voice to the lives, culture, and determination of the people fighting the destructive practice of mountaintop removal in the coalfields of central Appalachia. Each person's story, unique and unfiltered, articulates the...
A Native Plant Propagation Guide And Nursery Model
For Gardeners, Activists, and Professionals in the Eastern U.S.
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2019
This eBook is designed to empower individuals, businesses, non-profits, and public organizations to grow high quality native plants for their projects in support of biodiversity and restoration. The 13 Chapter eBook is sectioned off into 3 parts; Part 1. A Native Nursery Model, Part 2. Native Plant...
Climate Justice
Hope, Resilience, and the Fight for a Sustainable Future
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
The antidote for your climate change paralysis. -Sierra Magazine
An urgent call to arms by one of the most important voices in the international fight against climate change, sharing inspiring stories and offering vital lessons for the path forward.
Holding her first grandchild in her...
by Edward O. Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2002
One of the world’s most important scientists, Edward O. Wilson is also an abundantly talented writer who has twice won the Pulitzer Prize. In this, his most personal and timely book to date, he assesses the precarious state of our environment, examining the mass extinctions occurring in our time...
by William H. Calvin
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2010
Passionately written yet thoroughly grounded in the latest climate science, "Global Fever" delivers both a stark warning and an ambitious blueprint for saving the future of the planet. Photos.
The Story of Stuff
How Our Obsession with Stuff Is Trashing the Planet, Our Communities, and Our Health-and a Vision for Change
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2010
A classic exposé in company with An Inconvenient Truth and Silent Spring, The Story of Stuff expands on the celebrated documentary exploring the threat of overconsumption on the environment, economy, and our health. Leonard examines the “stuff” we use everyday, offering a galvanizing critique...
The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight: Revised and Updated Third Edition
The Fate of the World and What We Can Do Before It's Too Late
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
While everything appears to be collapsing around us – ecodamage, genetic engineering, virulent diseases, the end of cheap oil, water shortages, global famine, wars – we can still do something about it and create a world that will work for us and for our children’s children. The inspiration for...
No Impact Man
The Adventures of a Guilty Liberal Who Attempts to Save the Planet, and the Discoveries He Makes About Himself and Our Way of Life in the Process
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
A guilty liberal finally snaps, swears off plastic, goes organic, becomes a bicycle nut, turns off his power, and generally becomes a tree-hugging lunatic who tries to save the polar bears and the rest of the planet from environmental catastrophe while dragging his baby daughter and Prada-wearing,...
Legacy of Luna
The Story of a Tree, a Woman, and the Struggle to Save the Redwoods
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2010
On December 18, 1999, Julia Butterfly Hill's feet touched the ground for the first time in over two years, as she descended from "Luna," a thousandyear-old redwood in Humboldt County, California.
Hill had climbed 180 feet up into the tree high on a mountain on December 10, 1997, for...