Environment category: 6530 books
Gunfight at the Eco-Corral
Western Cinema and the Environment
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Most film critics point to classic conflicts—good versus evil, right versus wrong, civilization versus savagery—as defining themes of the American Western. In this provocative examination of Westerns from Tumbleweeds (1925) to Rango (2011), Robin L. Murray and Joseph K. Heumann argue for a more...
Adapting to Climate Change
A question for our societies
Language: French
Release Date: November 4, 2017
Adapting to climate change and global change have become vital goals for all societies. These same societies are faced at times with unexpected meteorological phenomena that are becoming increasingly frequent and intense, including flooding, droughts and tornadoes. They are also having to wrestle...
Rachel Carson
Witness for Nature
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
The authoritative biography of the marine biologist and nature writer whose book Silent Spring inspired the global environmentalist movement.
In a career that spanned from civil service to unlikely literary celebrity, Rachel Carson became one of the world’s seminal leaders in conservation....
Some Useful Wild Plants
A Foraging Guide to Food and Medicine From Nature
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2017
With over forty years since its original printing, and over 30,000 copies sold, this bestselling guide still remains a trusted and much-consulted reference for those interested in identifying, foraging and growing wild plants for food and medicine. Now Some Useful Wild Plants is back in print for...
Cradle to Cradle
Remaking the Way We Make Things
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
A manifesto for a radically different philosophy and practice of manufacture and environmentalism
"Reduce, reuse, recycle" urge environmentalists; in other words, do more with less in order to minimize damage. But as this provocative, visionary book argues, this approach perpetuates...
The Ecology Book
Big Ideas Simply Explained
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
Explore ecology in this accessible introduction to how the natural world works and how we have started to understand the environment, ecosystems, and climate change.
Using a bold, graphic-led approach, The Ecology Book explores and explains more than 85 of the key ideas, movements, and acts...
by Amory Lovins, Hildegarde Hannum
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2001
The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics.
It is fortunate for us all that Amory Lovins applies his brilliant ideas to caring for the environment. Here he argues that those industries...
Ecological Intelligence
How Knowing the Hidden Impacts of What We Buy Can Change Everything
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2009
The bestselling author of Emotional Intelligence and Primal Leadership now brings us Ecological Intelligence—revealing the hidden environmental consequences of what we make and buy, and how with that knowledge we can drive the essential changes we all must make to save our planet and ourselves.
We...
by Johan Rockström, Mattias Klum, Peter Miller
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
Big World, Small Planet probes the urgent predicament of our times: how is it possible to create a positive future for both humanity and Earth? We have entered the Anthropocene—the era of massive human impacts on the planet—and the actions of over seven billion residents threaten to destabilize...
by James B. Blackburn Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
In this powerful call to action, conservationist and environmental lawyer Jim Blackburn offers an unconventional yet feasible plan to protect the Texas coast. The coast is in danger of being damaged beyond repair due to the gradual starvation of freshwater inflows to its bays, the fragmentation of...
Boom, Bust, Boom
A Story About Copper, the Metal that Runs the World
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
From “a first-rate writer in the fascinating tradition of Junger and Krakauer” (Jim Harrison, author of Legends of the Fall), a sweeping account of civilization’s complete dependence on copper and what it all means for people, nature, and the global economy.
A SWEEPING ACCOUNT OF CIVILIZATION’S...
Blessed Unrest
How the Largest Social Movement in History Is Restoring Grace, Justice, and Beau ty to the World
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2007
The New York Times bestselling examination of the worldwide movement for social and environmental change
Paul Hawken has spent more than a decade researching organizations dedicated to restoring the environment and fostering social justice. From billion-dollar nonprofits to single-person dot.causes,...
by Fabelizer Movies One LLP
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2018
Ages: 6 – 10
There’s too much plastic waste.
When Oakwood’s recycling plant crumbles under plastic waste, the overflowing bins in the city cry out for help.
Enter Aychu, our invisible environmental warrior .
Equipped with a ‘Plastic Coin Maker’ and her trusty...
by William B. Rice
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 6, 2017
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 6, 2017
Perhaps nothing is more frightening than seeing a forest fire rage out of control. Sometimes, however, fires are set intentionally to benefit the environment. In this Spanish title, readers will learn what fire is, how it burns, and how fires can both help and harm the areas they affect.