A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Global warming. Soil loss. Freshwater scarcity. Extinction. Overconsumption . Toxic waste production. Habitat and biodiversity erosion. These are only a few of our most urgent ecological crises. There are others as well and, d espite the popularity of good-news environmentalism, few of them are going away. In this wide-ranging, grimly entertaining commentary on the environme ntal debate, Tom Athanasiou finds that these problems are exacerbated, if n o... View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. In a book hailed by Publishers Weekly as a "passionate plea for access to w ater activism," Blue Covenant addresses an environmental crisis that-togeth er with global warming-poses one of the gravest threats to our survival. How did the world's most vital resource become imperiled? And what must we do to pull back from the brink? In "stark and nearly devastating prose" (Bo oklist), world-renowned activist and bestselling author Maude Barlow-who is fea... View More...
A collection of articles drawn from World Watch magazine, winner of an Utne Reader Alternative Press Award for investigative reporting. A collection o f the best and most-requested articles from the Worldwatch Institute's awar d-winning magazine, World Watch. What ails the earth and how can we fix it? People all over the world are wrestling with this question, and requesting reliable information on the nature of the environmental threats and how to deal with them. The World Watch Reader responds to this need for timely, a uthoritative information. Written by the world's preeminent environmenta... View More...
To remake our outmoded notions of economics--and to save the global environ ment--the Worldwatch Institute delivers a comprehensive, persuasive guide t o achieving a sustainable economy based on energy efficiency and reuse, rat her than waste, of resources. Using an analogy to the denial that ran rampa nt on the Titanic, the authors of the Institute's yearly State of the World series stress the urgent need to move away from a fossil-fuel economy in o rder to counteract global warming. ``Renewables'' are the key: Brown and hi s colleagues present tables demonstrating that wind and solar energy ... View More...
[London] Guardian Its cool appraisal of our planet makes all other works of reference look tr ivial. Booklist boxed review A key source of hard facts on global trends. View More...
A crisp clean softcover, no markings throughout: International Environmental Diplomacy: The Management and Resolution of Transfrontier Environmental Problems. View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Practical advice on the management of flora and fauna in the land surrounding places of worship and in burial grounds. The text includes details of organizations able to provide further expert advice. View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. View More...
What's most inspiring about Earth in the Balance is who wrote it. It's a bi g deal, after all, that a sitting senator was willing to write, "We must ma ke the rescue of the environment the central organizing principle for civil ization." And that's not all. In his 1992 book, Al Gore also wrote: I have become very impatient with my own tendency to put a finger to the political winds and proceed cautiously.... [E]very time I pause to consider whether I have gone too far out on a limb, I look at the new facts [on the environm ent crisis] that continue to pour in from around the world and conclude... View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Our relationship with the ocean is undergoing a profound transformation. Whereas just three decades ago nearly everything we ate from the sea was wild, rampant overfishing combined with an unprecedented bio-tech revolution has brought us to a point where wild and farmed fish occupy equal parts of a complex and confusing marketplace. View More...
The author of "In Search of Schrodinger's Cat" and "A Hole in the Sky" has written this book on what is happening to the world's climate and the impli cations of mankind ignoring what it is doing to the planet. The official TV -tie in for Central TV's documentary, "Can Polar Bears Tread Water?" View More...
We can make a difference. If we all recycled our Sunday papers, we could sa ve over 500,000 trees a week! Lots of tips to save our planet. View More...
Ex-lib. "As climate change encroaches, animals and plants around the globe are havi ng their habitats pulled out from under them. At the same time, human devel opment has made islands out of even our largest nature reserves, stranding the biodiversity that lives within them. The Spine of the Continent introdu ces readers to the most ambitious wildlife conservation effort ever underta ken: to create linked protected areas extending from the Yukon to Mexico, t he entire length of North America."--Dust jacket, p. [2] Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-263) and index pt. I. America's n... View More...
The world is about to run out of cheap oil and change dramatically. Within the next few years, global production will peak. Thereafter, even if indust rial societies begin to switch to alternative energy sources, they will hav e less net energy each year to do all the work essential to the survival of complex societies. We are entering a new era, as different from the indust rial era as the latter was from medieval times. In The Party's Over, Richard Heinberg places this momentous transition in h istorical context, showing how industrialism arose from the harnessing of f ossil fuels, how compe... View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. People long for a sense of community in today's fast-paced world, for conne ctions to one another and to natural places of peace and beauty. Quietly, a nd for more than twenty years, a growing network of community trails, river front parks, forests, farms, gardens, and other green spaces has begun to s atisfy this hunger, offering welcome refuges in neighborhoods, rural towns, and cities across the country. Benefits of these special projects begin to ... View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Snow has had an astonishing influence on the shape of the land and human history. Ruth Kirk writes perceptively of how animals and people survive in the snow; of glaciers, continental ice sheets, blizzards, and avalanches; and of the awesome hazards of Arctic and Antarctic exploration. She discusses both our battles against snow and our uses of it, showing its importance to agriculture, climate, and the future. Through scientific reports and interview... View More...
