Environmental Conservation Protection category: 3266 books
Oil and Honey
The Education of an Unlikely Activist
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
Bestselling author and environmental activist Bill McKibben recounts the personal and global story of the fight to build and preserve a sustainable planet
Bill McKibben is not a person you'd expect to find handcuffed and behind bars, but that's where he found himself in the summer of 2011 after...
Little House Off the Grid
Our Family's Journey to Self-Sufficiency
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Like so many other city-dwellers, Cam and Michelle Mather longed for a simpler, quieter life in the country. When they found a century-old farmhouse on 150 acres of land that was in their price range, they jumped at the chance to make their move. The fact that the home was “off-grid” with no power...
The Human, the Orchid, and the Octopus
Exploring and Conserving Our Natural World
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2010
The beloved explorer Jacques Cousteau witnessed firsthand the complexity and beauty of life on earth and undersea-and watched the toll taken by human activity in the twentieth century. In this magnificent last book, now available for the first time in the United States, Cousteau describes his deeply...
The Big Thirst
The Secret Life and Turbulent Future of Water
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2011
Praised as “an entertaining and torrential flow of a book**” by Nature magazine, The Big Thirst** is a startling examination of the passing of the golden age of water and the shocking facts about how water scarcity will soon be a major factor in our lives.
The water coming out of your kitchen...
by Maryann Huk
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2014
Schwartz Living Market located on East Carson Street in Pittsburgh's Nationally recognized historic South Side neighborhood has brought an exciting and challenging change to what a retail space is all about. Not just a store front space to find healthful and sustainable products and services...
Quarterly Essay 44 Man-Made World
Choosing Between Progress and Planet
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2011
Witnessing at first-hand the failure of the Copenhagen Climate Conference and wondering what went wrong, Andrew Charlton realised the truth of a colleague’s words: “The world is split between those who want to save the planet and those who want to save themselves.” In this groundbreaking essay,...
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Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2011
An “informative and vividly reported book” that goes beyond the politics of climate change to explore practical ways we can adapt and survive (San Francisco Chronicle).
Journalist Mark Hertsgaard has reported on global warming for outlets including the New Yorker, NPR, Time, and Vanity...
by Lester R. Brown
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2008
"How to build a more just world and save the planet....We should all heed Brown's advice."—Bill Clinton
In this updated edition of the landmark Plan B, Lester Brown outlines a survival strategy for our early twenty-first-century civilization. The world faces many environmental trends...
Greener than Thou
Are You Really An Environmentalist?
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
In a powerful argument for free market environmentalism, Terry Anderson and Laura Huggins break down liberal and conservative stereotypes of what it means to be an environmentalist. They show that, by forming local coalitions around market principles, stereotypes are replaced by pragmatic solutions that improve environmental quality without necessarily increasing red tape.
Waking Up in Eden
In Pursuit of an Impassioned Life on an Imperiled Island
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009
A woman journeys to Kauai to save Hawaii’s native plants: “Part history, part personal confession, part cautionary tale about environmental preservation” (Gioia Diliberto, author of Paris Without End).
One day, Lucinda Fleeson quit her big-city newspaper job, sold her suburban house,...
Where the Rivers Meet
Pipelines, Participatory Resource Management, and Aboriginal-State Relations in the Northwest Territories
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Oil and gas companies now recognize that industrial projects in the Canadian North can only succeed if Aboriginal communities are involved in the assessment of project impacts. Are Aboriginal concerns appropriately addressed through current consultation and participatory processes? Or is the very...
by Guy Waterman, Laura Waterman
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
The classic environmental call to action
2014 marks the 50th anniversary of the passing of the Wilderness Act—the landmark piece of legislation to set aside and protect pristine parts of the American landscape. This anniversary edition of Wilderness Ethics should help put the many issues surrounding wilderness in focus.
Ruin Nation
Destruction and the American Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
During the Civil War, cities, houses, forests, and soldiers’ bodies were transformed into “dead heaps of ruins,” novel sights in the southern landscape. How did this happen, and why? And what did Americans—northern and southern, black and white, male and female—make of this proliferation...
Citizen Scientist
Searching for Heroes and Hope in an Age of Extinction
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of 2016: “Intelligent and impassioned, Citizen Scientist is essential reading for anyone interested in the natural world.”
Award-winning writer Mary Ellen Hannibal has long reported on scientists’ efforts to protect vanishing species, but it was only...