Environment category: 6530 books
The Spell of the Sensuous
Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2012
Winner of the International Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction
Animal tracks, word magic, the speech of stones, the power of letters, and the taste of the wind all figure prominently in this intellectual tour de force that returns us to our senses and to the sensuous terrain that sustains...
The Optimistic Environmentalist
Progressing Toward a Greener Future
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
A hopeful, inspiring, and honest take on the environment
Yes, the world faces substantial environmental challenges — climate change, pollution, and extinction. But the surprisingly good news is that we have solutions to these problems. In the past fifty years, a remarkable number of environmental...
City of Forests, City of Farms
Sustainability Planning for New York City’s Nature
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017
City of Forests, City of Farms is a history of recent urban forestry and agriculture policy and programs in New York City. Centered on the 2007 initiative PlaNYC, this account tracks the development of policies that increased sustainability efforts in the city and dedicated more than $400 million...
The Ends of the World
Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans, and Our Quest to Understand Earth's Past Mass Extinctions
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
New York Times Editors' Choice 2017
Forbes Top 10 Best Environment, Climate, and Conservation Book of 2017
As new groundbreaking research suggests that climate change played a major role in the most extreme catastrophes in the planet's history, award-winning science journalist Peter...
My Wild Life
The Story of a Most Unlikely Animal Rescuer
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2016
The true, heart-warming story of how a reluctant City trader left a life of champagne and bonuses to follow his dream of rescuing animals and setting up a wildlife sanctuary. Simon Cowell always wanted to be a vet. Instead he ended up as a wealthy commodities trader. But with a love of nature and...
The World in 2050
Four Forces Shaping Civilization's Northern Future
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2010
A vivid forecast of our planet in the year 2050 by a rising star in geoscience, distilling cutting-edge research into four global forces: demographic trends, natural resource demand, climate change, and globalization.
The world's population is exploding, wild species are vanishing, our environment...
Kivalina
A Climate Change Story
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2011
This story is a tragedy, and not just because of what’s happening to the people of Kivalina. It’s a tragedy because it’s unnecessary, the product, as the author shows, of calculation, deception, manipulation, and greed in some of the biggest and richest companies on earth.”
-Bill McKibben,...
Cities and Wetlands
The Return of the Repressed in Nature and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2016
From New Orleans to New York, from London to Paris to Venice, many of the world's great cities were built on wetlands and swamps. Cities and Wetlands is the first book to explore the literary and cultural histories of these cities and their relationships to their environments and buried histories....
Little Rivers and Waterway Tales
A Carolinian's Eastern Streams
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2015
Bland Simpson regales us with new tales of coastal North Carolina's "water-loving land," revealing how its creeks, streams, and rivers shape the region's geography as well as its culture. Drawing on deep family ties and coastal travels, Simpson and wife and collaborator Ann Cary Simpson...
Urban Green
Nature, Recreation, and the Working Class in Industrial Chicago
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2015
In early twentieth-century America, affluent city-dwellers made a habit of venturing out of doors and vacationing in resorts and national parks. Yet the rich and the privileged were not the only ones who sought respite in nature. In this pathbreaking book, historian Colin Fisher demonstrates that...
This Borrowed Earth
Lessons from the Fifteen Worst Environmental Disasters around the World
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2010
Over the last century mankind has irrevocably damaged the environment through the unscrupulous greed of big business and our own willful ignorance. Here are the strikingly poignant accounts of disasters whose names live in infamy: Chernobyl, Bhopal, Exxon Valdez, Three Mile Island, Love Canal, Minamata...
Money for the Cause
A Complete Guide to Event Fundraising
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
There has never been a greater need for raising the funds necessary to promote the causes that will help build a sustainable future. In Money for the Cause: A Complete Guide to Event Fundraising, veteran nonprofit executive director Rudolph A. Rosen lays out field-tested approaches that have been...
Unquenchable
America's Water Crisis and What To Do About It
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2010
In the middle of the Mojave Desert, Las Vegas casinos use billions of gallons of water for fountains, pirate lagoons, wave machines, and indoor canals. Meanwhile, the town of Orme, Tennessee, must truck in water from Alabama because it has literally run out. Robert Glennon captures the irony—and...
by Maryann Huk
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2014
Schwartz Living Market located on East Carson Street in Pittsburgh's Nationally recognized historic South Side neighborhood has brought an exciting and challenging change to what a retail space is all about. Not just a store front space to find healthful and sustainable products and services...