Environment category: 6530 books
by Loreen Doherty
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
Since the early 1900’s over 75,000 synthetic, toxic chemicals have been introduced into our environment and homes. Harmful chemicals are in virtually everything we use in the home, work place and on our bodies every single day.Scientific research shows how damaging these hazardous chemicals are...
by David Boyd, David Suzuki
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
A practical guide to reducing your ecological footprint from the man Tim Flannery calls "the greatest environmentalist of our age."
Everyone knows that human actions affect our natural environment. With this indispensable guide, readers will learn to consume fewer resources and become...
Ethical Eating
A Complete Guide to Sustainable Food
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2014
Global food is not a nice business. Farming is no longer the gentle vocation of previous generations, food production is not the artisan craft of past centuries, retailing is not the friendly personal service of our grandparents' generation - these concepts are gone, swept away by the Big Food corporations...
by Leroy G. Dorsey
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Among Theodore Roosevelt’s many initiatives, one of the most important accomplishments was his effort to convince the nation that conserving the environment was crucial to its continued existence. Years of national tours, presidential edicts, and policy wrangling culminated in an unprecedented conference...
EarthTalk
Expert Answers to Everyday Questions About the Environment
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2009
From the authors of the leading environmental handbook Green Living, the best of E's nationally syndicated Q&A column, EarthTalk
Knowledge of environmental issues and sustainability is increasingly important as industrialization and climate change continue to wreak havoc on our ecosystems...
365 Ways to Live Green
Your Everyday Guide to Saving the Environment
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
It's the choices we make every day that affect our world tomorrow
365 Ways to Live Green offers an extended list of opportunities to live with more care for the environment by educating, inspiring and motivating people to look at the choices that are made everyday, and challenging them to change...
Mountains on the Market
Industry, the Environment, and the South
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2012
Manufacturing in the Northeast and the Midwest pushed the United States to the forefront of industrialized nations during the early nineteenth century; the South, however, lacked the large cities and broad consumer demand that catalyzed changes in other parts of the country. Nonetheless, in contrast...
Nature All Around Us
A Guide to Urban Ecology
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2012
It’s easy to stand in awe of a city’s impressive skyline, marveling at its buildings reaching for the clouds and its vast network of roadways and train lines crisscrossing in every direction. It can often seem like everything in a city is man-made, all concrete, steel, and glass. But even the...
The Everglades Handbook
Understanding the Ecosystem, Fourth Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
** **"This fourth edition covers the key subjects of previous editions with major updates of the new science and understanding. If there ever was a necessary book for Everglades advocates, students, authors, members of government and their agencies, The Everglades Handbook: Understanding the...
BP Blowout
Inside the Gulf Oil Disaster
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
The story of the worst environmental disaster in American history and its enduring consequences
BP Blowout is the first comprehensive account of the legal, economic, and environmental consequences of the disaster that resulted from the April 2010 blowout at a BP well in the Gulf of Mexico....
Ghostworkers and Greens
The Cooperative Campaigns of Farmworkers and Environmentalists for Pesticide Reform
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
Throughout the twentieth century, despite compelling evidence that some pesticides posed a threat to human and environmental health, growers and the USDA continued to favor agricultural chemicals over cultural and biological forms of pest control. In Ghostworkers and Greens, Adam Tompkins reveals...
Breakfast Of Biodiversity
The Political Ecology of Rain Forest Destruction
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
The continuing devastation of the world’s tropical rain forest affects us all-spurring climate change, decimating biodiversity, and wrecking our environment’s resiliency. Millions of worried people around the world want to do whatever it takes to save the forest that is left.But halting rain forest...
The Green Year
365 Small Things You Can Do to Make a Big Difference
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2008
Go green one day at a time.
Do something every day. Most of us want to do the right thing for the environment, but making the commitment to change our fast-paced, convenience-oriented lifestyles can be more than a little daunting. What's the answer? Take that giant commitment and cut it up...
by Toby Clark BSc CFIOSH AIEMA Cert Ed
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2014
A primer suitable for environmental foundation courses such as IOSH 'Managing Environmental Responsibilities', NEBOSH Certificate in Environmental Management and IEMA Foundation Certificate. It is also intended as a general reader in environmental management matters