Ecology category: 3266 books
The Roads from Rio
Lessons Learned from Twenty Years of Multilateral Environmental Negotiations
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2012
At the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, popularly known as the Rio Earth Summit, the world’s leaders constructed a new "sustainable development" paradigm that promised to enhance environmentally sound economic and social development. Twenty years later, the...
Developing Ecological Consciousness
The End of Separation
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Developing Ecological Consciousness is a marked departure from those standard environmental studies texts strongly focused on actions that humans need to take to fix the environment. Christopher Uhl explores the path to living in harmony with Earth, and believes it begins — not with fixing the environment...
The End of the Long Summer
Why We Must Remake Our Civilization to Survive on a Volatile Earth
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2009
For the past twelve thousand years, Earth’s stable climate has allowed human civilization to flourish. But this long benign summer is an anomaly in the Earth’s history and one that is rapidly coming to a close. The radical experiment of our modern industrial civilization is now disrupting our...
Cold Matters: The State and Fate of Canada's Fresh Water
The State and Fate of Canada's Fresh Water
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Cold Matters is a vital and approachable work that distills the scientific complexities of snow, ice, water and climate and presents the global implications of research put forth and funded by the Canadian Foundation for Climate and Atmospheric Sciences. This timely book gives the concerned reader...
Grandmothers Counsel the World
Women Elders Offer Their Vision for Our Planet
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2006
We are thirteen indigenous grandmothers. . . . We are deeply concerned with the unprecedented destruction of our Mother Earth, the atrocities of war, the global scourge of poverty, the prevailing culture of materialism, the epidemics that threaten the health of the Earth’s peoples, and with the...
Nature's Civil War
Common Soldiers and the Environment in 1862 Virginia
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
In the Shenandoah Valley and Peninsula Campaigns of 1862, Union and Confederate soldiers faced unfamiliar and harsh environmental conditions--strange terrain, tainted water, swarms of flies and mosquitoes, interminable rain and snow storms, and oppressive heat--which contributed to escalating disease...
In Defence of Life
Essays on a Radical Reworking of Green Wisdom
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2013
Julian Rose presents a penetrating series of essays calling for urgent action to overcome the perilous state of our planet, at the local as well as global level. He both guides and challenges his readers to share with him a journey through the matrix-maze, and to come out at the other end a...
by Gail Collins-Ranadive
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
We are made up of star stuff! This elegant idea became tangibly real when the liberal clergy author was handed a cottonwood twig with a tiny star hiding inside. Gathering up fists full of these star sticks, and in collaboration with her ‘rocket scientist’ partner, she set out to reframe the human...
The Myth of Progress
Toward a Sustainable Future
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
In this compelling and cogently argued book, Tom Wessels demonstrates how our current path toward progress, based on continual economic expansion and inefficient use of resources, runs absolutely contrary to three foundational scientific laws that govern all complex natural systems. It is a myth,...
Finding Higher Ground
Adaptation in the Age of Warming
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
While much of the global warming conversation rightly focuses on reducing our carbon footprint, the reality is that even if we were to immediately cease emissions, we would still face climate change into the next millennium. In Finding Higher Ground, Amy Seidl takes the uniquely positive—yet realistic—position...
by Elliott Maynard
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2012
The Twelve MetaStrategies are essentially a Set of inspirational tools for Creative Thinking and Action, designed to promote an Environmentally Sustainable Future for the universal benefit of Humans, their Planetary Homeworld, and the Generations yet to come.
Despite the bad news regarding...
Science, Soul, and the Spirit of Nature
Leading Thinkers on the Restoration of Man and Creation
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2005
An exploration of the relationship between humans and nature through conversations with 12 leading scientific and social visionaries
• Explores the importance of the unification of humankind and nature as it relates to creation, destruction, diversity, and the spiritual health of the world
•...
by Satish Kumar
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
A new trinity for our time. We are members of a one-earth society, and caring for the earth and soul is interrelated! This is the message of Satish Kumar, the internationally-respected peace and environment activist who has been gently setting the agenda for change for over 50 years. In Soil,...
Mindfully Green
A Personal and Spiritual Guide to Whole Earth Thinking
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2008
With all the attention on living sustainably, the one thing missing from the conversation is how to find a personal connection with green living that will sustain us on our green path. While practical approaches to an eco-responsible lifestyle offer important first steps, it is critical that we ground...