Environmental Conservation Protection category: 3266 books
Holistic Management Handbook
Healthy Land, Healthy Profits
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
Holistic management, as described by Allan Savory in the books Holistic Resource Management (Island Press, 1988) and the revised edition, Holistic Management (Island Press, 2001), has been practiced by thousands of people around the world to profitably restore and promote the health of their land through...
Fair Food
Stories from a Movement Changing the World
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Australia’s food system is more than just broken—it’s killing us. The groundbreaking Fair Food: Inspiring People to Change the World tells the new story of food – the story of how food and farming in Australia are dramatically transforming at the grassroots to match the transition of our times....
by Randal Helten
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Economic growth after World War II was made possible through dramatic increases in the use of material resources and energy. It is apparent that current development patterns followed by industrialized countries are causing serious environmental problems and that they are neither ecologically nor socially...
A Survey of Sustainable Development
Social And Economic Dimensions
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Perpetual economic growth is physically impossible on a planet with finite resources. Many concerned with humanity's future have focused on the concept of "sustainable development" as an alternative. Sustainable developmbrings together elements of economics, public policy, sociology, ecology, resource...
Sustainable Education
Revisioning Learning and Change
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2015
While environmental education, and more recently education for sustainable development are important trends, they are not sufficient to reorient and transform education as a whole and yet time is short to realise such change. The Briefing critiques the prevailing managerial and mechanistic paradigm...
Most Good, Least Harm
A Simple Principle for a Better World and Meaningful Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2009
With a world steeped in materialism, environmental destruction, and injustice, what can one individual possibly do to change it? While the present obstacles we face may seem overwhelming, author and humane educator Zoe Weil shows us that change doesn't have to start with an army. It starts with you....
by Peter Denton
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
In his third thought-provoking RMB manifesto Peter Denton explains how we can change course toward a sustainable future in immediate and practical ways – and why it could make all the difference for ourselves and for future generations.
As individuals and as a culture and society, we have...
An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power
Your Action Handbook to Learn the Science, Find Your Voice, and Help Solve the Climate Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
A New York Times bestseller!
The follow up to the #1 New York Times bestselling An Inconvenient Truth and companion to Vice President Al Gore’s new documentary, An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power, this new book is a daring call to action. It exposes the reality of how humankind has aided...
But Will the Planet Notice?
How Smart Economics Can Save the World
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2011
You are one of seven billion people on Earth. Whatever you or I do personally—eat tofu in a Hummer or hamburgers in a Prius—the planet doesn't notice. In our confrontation with climate change, species preservation, and a planet going off the cliff, it is what several billion people do that makes...
The Land Grabbers
The New Fight over Who Owns the Earth
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
How Wall Street, Chinese billionaires, oil sheiks, and agribusiness are buying up huge tracts of land in a hungry, crowded world.
An unprecedented land grab is taking place around the world. Fearing future food shortages or eager to profit from them, the world’s wealthiest and most acquisitive...
The Essential Agrarian Reader
The Future of Culture, Community, and the Land
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2010
With a Foreword by Barbara Kingsolver. A compelling worldview with advocates from around the globe, agrarianism challenges the shortcomings of our industrial and technological economy. Not simply focused on farming, the agrarian outlook encourages us to develop practices and policies that promote...
The Wastewater Gardener
Preserving the Planet One Flush at a Time
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
Mark Nelson, PhD, takes us on a global expedition to learn how we are wasting the world’s dwindling supply of fresh water by flushing away a very valuable resource, our own human wastes! The author is founding director of the Institute of Ecotechnics and has worked for several decades in closed...
Alternative Energy 101
Learn And Discover The Different Alternate Energy Sources, Its Uses And Advantages Plus This Handbook’s Ideas About Solar Power Systems, Energy From The Ocean, Geothermal Energy Facts, Wind Power Facts And Many More!
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
There is a lot of energy that we can harness if we only seek to research and develop the technologies needed to do so. We can get away from the fossil fuels and the old electrical grids by turning to alternatives to these energy sources.
One of these alternative energy resources is...
by Bjorn Lomborg
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2007
Bjorn Lomborg argues that many of the elaborate and staggeringly expensive actions now being considered to meet the challenges of global warming ultimately will have little impact on the world’s temperature. He suggests that rather than focusing on ineffective solutions that will cost us trillions...