Environmental category: 9736 books
by Ross Slater, Douglas Wight
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
It's 8am, it's freezing cold and I'm about to dump a lorry load of coal on the doorstep of the Prime Minister. Just a typical day in the life of an activist for Greenpeace, the world's biggest and best-known environmental campaigners. They're hoping I'll help them score massive publicity coup - one...
Crude Justice
How I Fought Big Oil and Won, and What You Should Know About the New Environmental Attack on America
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2015
“A page turner that reads like a crime novel—only the events documented in the book are all too real” (David Sirota, author of Back to Our Future).
One day in Laurel, Mississippi, a twenty-six-year-old expectant mom named Karen Street sat down at the edge of her bathtub—and felt her...
Blue and Green
The Drive for Justice at America's Port
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2018
How an alliance of the labor and environmental movements used law as a tool to clean up the trucking industry at the nation's largest port.
In Blue and Green, Scott Cummings examines a campaign by the labor and environmental movements to transform trucking at America's largest port in Los Angeles....
The Green Collar Economy
How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
“Steadily—by redefining green—Jones is making sure that our planet and our people will not just survive but also thrive in a clean-energy economy.”
—Leonardo DiCaprio
A New York Times bestseller, *The Green Collar Economy by award-winning human rights activist and environmental leader...
Citizen Science
Public Participation in Environmental Research
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2012
Citizen science enlists members of the public to make and record useful observations, such as counting birds in their backyards, watching for the first budding leaf in spring, or measuring local snowfall. The large numbers of volunteers who participate in projects such as Project FeederWatch or Project...
Whole Earth Discipline
Why Dense Cities, Nuclear Power, Transgenic Crops, RestoredWildlands, and Geoeng ineering Are Necessary
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2010
An icon of the environmental movement outlines a provocative approach for reclaiming our planet
According to Stewart Brand, a lifelong environmentalist who sees everything in terms of solvable design problems, three profound transformations are under way on Earth right now. Climate change is...
by J. R. McNeill
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2001
"Refreshingly unpolemical and at times even witty, McNeill's book brims with carefully sifted statistics and brilliant details."—Washington Post Book World
The history of the twentieth century is most often told through its world wars, the rise and fall of communism, or its economic...
The Optimistic Environmentalist
Progressing Toward a Greener Future
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
A hopeful, inspiring, and honest take on the environment
Yes, the world faces substantial environmental challenges — climate change, pollution, and extinction. But the surprisingly good news is that we have solutions to these problems. In the past fifty years, a remarkable number of environmental...
by David Owen
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
**Look out for David Owen's next book,*Where the Water Goes.
The Conundrum* is a mind-changing manifesto about the environment, efficiency and the real path to sustainability.**
Hybrid cars, fast trains, compact florescent light bulbs, solar panels, carbon offsets: Everything you've...
Green Management
Nature Protection in Live & Work, Sustainable Leading, Workplace Ecology, Process Optimization, Environmental Friendly Office & Business Ideas to avoid Pollution
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2019
THIS BOOK OFFERS YOU: Knowledge compact in a quick overview on the topic as well as advice tested in practice. The book helps you to make decisions step by step, to succeed & and contains numerous overviews & checklists to make it easier to read.
ALL AUTHORS can be found in the table...
Engineering Nature
Water, Development, and the Global Spread of American Environmental Expertise
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Focusing on globalization in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Jessica Teisch examines the processes by which American water and mining engineers who rose to prominence during and after the California Gold Rush of 1849 exported the United States' growing technical and environmental...
Wildlife Tourism, Environmental Learning and Ethical Encounters
Ecological and Conservation Aspects
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
This book outlines the status quo of worldwide wildlife tourism and its impacts on planning, management, knowledge, awareness, behaviour and attitudes related to wildlife encounters. It sets out to fill the considerable gaps in our knowledge on wildlife tourism, applied ecology, and environmental...
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Tar Sands [Revised and Updated]
Dirty Oil and the Future of a Continent
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
The book that put the tar sands -- and their devastating environmental impact -- on the map, for better or worse.
Andrew Nikiforuk's Tar Sands is a critical expose of the world's largest energy project -- the Alberta oil sands -- that has made Canada one of the worst environmental offenders...
by James Thornton, Martin Goodman
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2017
Environmentally, our planet lacks the laws to keep it safe and those laws we do have are feebly enforced. Every new year is the hottest in human history, while forest, reef, ice, tundra, and species are disappearing forever. It is easy to lose all hope.
Who will stop the planet from committing...