Ecology category: 3266 books
by James E. Garratt
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2018
NATURE RESERVE ON THE CITY'S EDGE
" In this book James E Garratt has written a love story, a tone poem... It's astonishing to think that something this relatively untouched still exists in the Anthropocene Age. But it's not in a fairy tale book, it's in Vaughan [Ontario, Canada]. Garratt...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
The essays in this inaugural volume were commissioned from a number of outstanding writers (many of them national prize winners). Some are professional naturalists, others are poets, filmmakers, dancers, philosophers, activists. All write with passion, originality and humour about the natural world,...
by Richard Higgins
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
Trees were central to Henry David Thoreau’s creativity as a writer, his work as a naturalist, his thought, and his inner life. His portraits of them were so perfect, it was as if he could see the sap flowing beneath their bark. When Thoreau wrote that the poet loves the pine tree as his own shadow...
Raven Walks Around the World
Life of a Wandering Activist
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2017
In 1970, twenty-two-year-old Thom Henley left Michigan and drifted around the northwest coast, getting by on odd jobs and advice from even odder characters. He rode the rails, built a squatter shack on a beach, came to be known as "Huckleberry" and embarked on adventures along the West Coast...
A Great Aridness
Climate Change and the Future of the American Southwest
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2011
With its soaring azure sky and stark landscapes, the American Southwest is one of the most hauntingly beautiful regions on earth. Yet staggering population growth, combined with the intensifying effects of climate change, is driving the oasis-based society close to the brink of a Dust-Bowl-scale catastrophe....
Medicine for the Earth
How to Transform Personal and Environmental Toxins
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2010
From cross-cultural legends recounting shamanic cures to the biblical accounts of the parting of the Red Sea and Jesus multiplying the loaves and fishes, many spiritual traditions are rich in stories about seemingly inexplicable transformations of the natural world. The ancient healing art of transmutation,...
Heal the World
David Icke's Do-It-Yourself Guide to Human & Planetary Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 1999
The Earth is in crisis. Clearly, humanity has lost touch with Nature. We are, every second, committing appalling damage to the environment, to ourselves, to other species and to the home we share.
The answers to environmental decline will not come by trying to persuade politicians and industrialists...
Wilderness and the American Mind
Fifth Edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2014
Roderick Nash’s classic study of changing attitudes toward wilderness during American history, as well as the origins of the environmental and conservation movements, has received wide acclaim since its initial publication in 1967. The Los Angeles Times listed it among the one hundred most influential...
by Viktor Schauberger
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 1999
More energy is encapsulated in every drop of good spring water than an average-sized power station is presently able to produce.
Viktor Schauberger (1885–1958)
Water – all life depends on it. Yet how often do we stop to consider its true significance, its essential nature? The Water Wizard,...
Dawn Again
Tracking the Wisdom of the Wild
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The wolf was so close now... Approaching the place where the edge of the forest met the open meadow, I paused before stepping out from the shadows of the trees. The sun was directly overhead. In that moment I stood frozen in my tracks next to the fresh footprint of the wolf that had led me here. I...
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...
Working with Your Woodland
A Landowner’s Guide
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2012
Packed with information and illustrations, Working with Your Woodland has given woodland owners all the basics necessary for making key decisions since it was first published in 1983. The revised edition reflects the fundamental changes in the way private woodlands are viewed. Today they must be seen...
Spirituelle Ökologie
Der Ruf der Erde
Language: German
Release Date: July 10, 2015
Diese brandaktuelle Sammlung von Essays, geschrieben von Leitfiguren der Spiritualität und des Umweltschutzes rund um die Welt, beleuchtet den grundlegenden Zusammenhang unserer gegenwärtigen ökologischen Krise mit unserem fehlenden Bewusstsein für die lebendige Erde. Die Beiträge zeigen, wie...
by Carl Ewald, Warwick Reynolds (Illustrator)
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2013
At first glance the pond is an idyllic place so Mr. and Mrs. Warbler pick it as the perfect location to raise their family. But everything is not as smooth as it seems and danger is prevalent in the animal kingdom. An interesting and detailed look at the delicate ecosystem of a pond. ...