Ecology category: 3266 books
The Anthropology of Extinction
Essays on Culture and Species Death
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2011
We live in an era marked by an accelerating rate of species death, but since the early days of the discipline, anthropology has contemplated the death of languages, cultural groups, and ways of life. The essays in this collection examine processes of—and our understanding of—extinction across...
Nature and Culture
Rebuilding Lost Connections
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2010
There is a growing recognition that the diversity of life comprises both biological and cultural diversity. But this division is not universal and, in many cases, has been deepened by the common disciplinary divide between the natural and social sciences and our apparent need to manage and control...
Positive Development
From Vicious Circles to Virtuous Cycles through Built Environment Design
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2012
Janis Birkeland presents the innovative new paradigm of 'Positive Development' in which the built environment provides greater life quality, health, amenity and safety for all without sacrificing resources or money. With a different form of design, development itself can become a 'sustainability solution'....
The Green Book
New directions for Liberals in government
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2013
Leading Liberal Democrats and policy experts re-examine their political approach and propose a radical new direction for the party, setting the agenda for the next election and beyond. The Green Book cogently argues that a low-carbon economy and environmental investments are the best way to escape...
Flourishing Within Limits to Growth
Following nature's way
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2015
Decades of research and discussion have shown that the human population growth and our increased consumption of natural resources cannot continue – there are limits to growth. This volume demonstrates how we might modify and revise our economic systems using nature as a model.
The book...
The Energy Evolution – Harnessing Free Energy from Nature
Volume 4 of Renowned Environmentalist Viktor Schauberger’s Eco-Technology Series
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2000
The Energy Evolution, the final volume in the revolutionary Eco-Technology series, contains radical environmentalist Viktor Schauberger’s groundbreaking writings on methods for energy generation that harness the enormous potential of Nature.
Nature produces energy by slow, cool, implosive...
by Anonymous
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2015
Every season has its own peculiar rains. What can be more refreshing or invigorating than the showers of spring? When the snows of February have disappeared, and the blustering winds of March have performed their office of drying up the excess of moisture, and preparing the earth for fruitfulness,...
Implementing Ecological Integrity
Restoring Regional and Global Environmental and Human Health
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This book contains some of the papers which were presented at the NATO Science, Environmental Security, Advanced Research Workshop on "Implementing Ecological Integrity: Restoring Regional and Global Environmental and Human Health" held in Budapest from June 26 to July 1, 1999. All papers...
Teaming with Nutrients
The Organic Gardener's Guide to Optimizing Plant Nutrition
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
“Gets deep into the weeds, so to speak, of the microscopic architecture of plants and the biochemical processes at play.” —Washington Post
Most gardeners realize that plants need to be fed, but many of us know little about the nature of the science involved. In Teaming with Nutrients,...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011
Investigators with the House Committee on Energy and Commerce have discovered that oil and gas service companies conducting hydraulic fracturing for shale gas production used more than 2500 fracturing products containing 750 chemicals, some of which are toxic and carcinogenic. This report lists every...
The Farm As Ecosystem
Tapping Nature's Reservoir -- Biology, Geology, Diversity
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Nature is complex, elegant, and infinite in its wisdom. Farmers who are truly successful learn nature's many facets and her intricate dance; they crack the code of how to honor and feed this boundless natural system while coaxing the production needed for the survival of a modern farm. Natural product...
Once and Future Ocean
Notes Toward a New Hydraulic Society
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
Peter Neill's The Once and Future Ocean aspires to do nothing less than transform our relationship with the world's most promising and imperiled natural element: the ocean and the inter-connected cycles of water, essential for all aspects of human survival in the 21st century. A successor to the...
State of the World 2012
Moving Toward Sustainable Prosperity
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2012
In the 2012 edition of its flagship report, Worldwatch celebrates the twentieth anniversary of the 1992 Earth Summit with a far-reaching analysis of progress toward building sustainable economies. Written in clear language with easy-to-read charts, State of the World 2012 offers a new perspective...
Native to Nowhere
Sustaining Home And Community In A Global Age
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2005
Meaningful places offer a vital counterbalance to the forces of globalization and sameness that are overtaking our world, and are an essential elemin the search for solutions to currsustainability challenges. In Native to Nowhere, author Tim Beatley draws on extensive research and travel to communities...