Environmental Conservation category: 3266 books
Running Dry
A Journey From Source to Sea Down the Dying Colorado River
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2010
In 1869, John Wesley Powell led a small party down the Green and Colorado Rivers in a bold attempt to explore the Grand Canyon for the first time. After their monumental expedition, they told of raging rapids, constant danger, and breathtaking natural beauty of the American landscape at its most pristine.
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Nature as Teacher – New Principles in the Working of Nature
Volume 2 of Renowned Environmentalist Viktor Schauberger’s Eco-Technology Series
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 1999
Today we are standing helpless and perplexed. With no glimmer of improvement anywhere in sight, we feel hopelessly propelled towards a forlorn future. It is understandable therefore than an increasing number of people, sick and tired of this insane activity, are now seeking ways to return to Mother...
Here and There
Reading Pennsylvania's Working Landscapes
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013
The global economy threatens the uniqueness of places, people, and experiences. In Here and There, Bill Conlogue tests the assumption that literature and local places matter less and less in a world that economists describe as “flat,” politicians believe has “globalized,” and social scientists...
Saving Creation
Nature and Faith in the Life of Holmes Rolston III
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2011
Holmes Rolston III has long been recognized as the father of environmental ethics.” Internationally renowned for the synthesis he has found in evolutionary biology and Christianity, Rolston has followed an immensely interesting life course. In this compelling biography, Rolston’s story is traced...
The Four Global Truths
Awakening to the Peril and Promise of Our Times
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
With the planet increasingly threatened with catastrophe and perhaps even collapse, many seekers are looking to past, proven models to create meaningful change in their lives. One such model is Buddhism’s Four Noble Truths: the reality of suffering, the root cause of suffering, the end of suffering,...
Crunchy Cons
The New Conservative Counterculture and Its Return to Roots
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2010
When a National Review colleague teased writer Rod Dreher one day about his visit to the local food co-op to pick up a week’s supply of organic vegetables (“Ewww, that’s so lefty”), he started thinking about the ways he and his conservative family lived that put them outside the bounds of...
Little Black Lies
Corporate and Political Spin in the Global War for Oil
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Beginning in 1967 and for just over 30 years, the oil industry toiled in the relative obscurity of Northern Alberta as machines peeled away earth and boreal forest to exhume what has now become one of humanity’s most precious and contentious resources: bitumen. As the years passed, the bitumen mines...
Lost Woods
The Discovered Writing of Rachel Carson
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
When Rachel Carson died of cancer in 1964, her four books, including the environmental classic Silent Spring, had made her one of the most famous people in America. This trove of previously uncollected writings is a priceless addition to our knowledge of Rachel Carson, her affinity with the natural world, and her life.
Mountain Justice
Homegrown Resistance to Mountaintop Removal, for the Future of Us All
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2010
"Shapiro is one of the few writers on this subject that actually understands the strategy, the tactics, and the internal politics of a dynamic and growing movement. This is environmental journalism at it best."-Mike Roselle, Earth First! founder and author of Tree SpikerMountaintop removal (MTR) does...
Grand Canyon For Sale
Public Lands versus Private Interests in the Era of Climate Change
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Grand Canyon For Sale is a carefully researched investigation of the precarious future of America’s public lands: our national parks, forests, wildlife refuges, monuments, and wildernesses. Taking the Grand Canyon as his key example, and using on-the-ground reporting as well as scientific research,...
by Terry Barber
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
This biography of David Suzuki is a high-interest, low-vocabulary book for adolescents and adults with limited literacy skills. David Suzuki (1936- ) has become a household name in Canada and much of North America. He has spent the past 40 years educating the public about environmental...
Confronting Injustice
Social Activism in the Age of Individualism
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2017
A new generation of activists working for economic and environmental justice, and against war and poverty, confronts critical questions. Why is the world so unjust and crisis-prone? What kind of world should we fight for? How can we win? In this panoramic yet accessible book, Umair Muhammad engages...
The Humboldt Current
Nineteenth-Century Exploration and the Roots of American Environmentalism
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2007
A masterly and beautifully written account of the impact of Alexander von Humboldt on nineteenth-century American history and culture
The naturalist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt (1769?1859) achieved unparalleled fame in his own time. Today, however, he and his enormous legacy to American...
Deep Things out of Darkness
A History of Natural History
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
Natural history, the deliberate observation of the environment, is arguably the oldest science. From purely practical beginnings as a way of finding food and shelter, natural history evolved into the holistic, systematic study of plants, animals, and the landscape. Deep Things out of Darkness chronicles...