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Trees (A New true book)
By Illa Podendorf. 1982
Tout peut changer: capitalisme et changement climatique
By Naomi Klein. 2015
Oubliez tout ce que vous croyez savoir sur le réchauffement climatique. La " vérité qui dérange " ne tient pas…
aux gaz à effet de serre, la voici : notre modèle économique est en guerre contre la vie sur Terre. Au-delà de la crise écologique, c'est bien une crise existentielle qui est en jeu celle dune humanité défendant à corps perdu un mode de vie qui la mène à sa perte. Pourtant, prise à rebours, cette crise pourrait bien ouvrir la voie à une transformation sociale radicale susceptible de faire advenir un monde non seulement habitable, mais aussi plus juste... Naomi Klein soutient ici que le changement climatique est un appel au réveil civilisationnel, un puissant message livré dans la langue des incendies, des inondations, des tempêtes et des sécheresses. Nous n'avons plus beaucoup de temps devant nous. L'alternative est simple : changer... ou disparaître. 2015.To save the wild earth
By Ric Careless. 1997
Nine British Columbia environmental campaigns are highlighted here. The author provides behind-the-scenes glimpses of critical moments in each of the…
campaigns, all aimed at protecting wilderness areas. Careless reveals the kind of strategy needed to achieve victories, and includes personal reminiscences of some political leaders encountered as well. 1997.Time to change: essays
By David T Suzuki. 1994
In this collection of essays, David Suzuki urges us to place the environment above all else, arguing for a halt…
to the "mindless economic growth" that is killing the planet. He offers concrete suggestions for making changes that will matter to all our futures. To Suzuki, there is hope in our love of children, our reverence for nature, and the grass roots transformation that is already taking place. 1994.This changes everything: capitalism vs. the climate
By Naomi Klein. 2014
Explains why the environmental crisis should lead to an abandonment of "free market" ideologies and current political systems, arguing that…
a massive reduction of greenhouse emissions may offer a best chance for correcting problems. Winner of the 2014 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction. c2014.The Whale and the Supercomputer: on the northern front of climate change
By Charles Wohlforth. 2004
Journalist offers a nuanced account of global warming from the perspectives of scientists and native Alaskan In~upiaq people. Examines the…
impact of climate change on the In~upiaq, whose traditional livelihood is threatened by milder winters and thinning sea ice. Provides the contrasting viewpoints of scientists studying Arctic environmental changes. 2004.Climatologist discusses the art and science of long-term climate forecasting. Examines forty-year forecasts for seven locations that are physically vulnerable…
to climate change. Predicts that unless we actively work to reduce carbon emissions, weather conditions around the world will become unbearable. 2010.The trees in my forest
By Bernd Heinrich. 1997
In 1977 the author purchased 300 acres of recently cutover woodlands in Maine. His "biography" of that land shows how…
he went about restoring its ecological balance. As caretaker, owner, scientist, and teacher, Heinrich muses on the relationships of the trees, plants, animals, and natural forces at work within the forest. 1997.The revenge of Gaia: why the earth is fighting back - and how we can still save humanity
By J. E Lovelock. 2006
British scientist who originated the Gaia hypothesis that Earth is a superorganism assesses the impact of human activity on the…
planet. Lovelock supports a transition to nuclear energy and advocates preparation for inevitable climate and social changes in the twenty-first century as a result of global warming. 2006.Parker, former chief scientist of the National Ocean Service, interweaves stories of unpredicted natural disaster with those of scientific discovery.…
The result is a journey from ancient man's first crude tide predictions to today's advanced early warning ability based on the Global Ocean Observing System, as we search for ways to predict tsunamis and rogue waves and critical aspects of climate change. Some descriptions of violence. c2010.The plundered planet: why we must, and how we can, manage nature for global prosperity
By Paul Collier. 2010
Natural resources can transform the poorest countries or tear them apart, while the actions of the rich world could further…
impoverish them. Collier proposes standards that would help poor countries rich in natural assets better manage them, policy changes that would raise world food supply, and a new approach to climate change. c2010.The oil man and the sea: navigating the Northern Gateway
By Arno Kopecky. 2013
As oil and gas behemoth Enbridge Inc.'s Northern Gateway pipeline proposal nears approval, Arno Kopecky and Ilja Herb set forth…
in a forty-one-foot sailboat to explore the controversial tanker route. Novice sailors both, Kopecky and Herb followed whale highways and indigenous creation stories through the largest tract of temperate rainforest on the planet, confronted Enbridge hacks and the activists who opposed them, while struggling to stay afloat. c2013.The optimistic environmentalist: progressing towards a greener future
By David R Boyd. 2015
The world faces substantial environmental challenges - climate change, pollution, and extinction. But the good news is that we have…
solutions to these problems. In the past 50 years, a remarkable number of environmental problems have been solved, while substantial progress is ongoing on others: endangered species pulled back from the precipice of extinction; thousands of new parks, protecting billions of hectares of land and water; the salvation of the ozone layer, vital to life on Earth; the growth of renewable energy powered by wind, water, and sun; remarkable strides in cleaning up the air we breathe and the water we drink; the banning of dozens of the world’s most toxic chemicals. Past successes will pave the way for even greater achievements in the future. 2015.The once and future world: nature as it was, as it is, as it could be
By J. B MacKinnon. 2013
J.B. MacKinnon argues that we are living in the midst of an ecological disaster and we hardly notice it. We…
have forgotten what nature can be, and adapted to a diminished world of our own making. The author invites us to remember nature as it was, to reconnect to nature in a meaningful way, and to remake a wilder world everywhere. Bestseller. 2013.The legacy: an elder's vision for our sustainable future
By David T Suzuki. 2010
The world witnessed an explosion of scientific knowledge as well as a tripling of the world's population, a greatly increased…
ecological footprint through the global economy, and a huge growth in technological capacity. These changes have had a dire effect on Earth's ecosystems and consequently on our own well-being. We must accept that the laws of nature have priority over the forces of economics, and join together to respond to the problems we face. Bestseller. 2010.The last panda
By George B Schaller. 1993
From 1980 to 1985, George and Kay Schaller lived among the pandas on the Wolong panda reserve in China's Sichuan…
province. By the 1990s, there were fewer than 1,000 living in the wild -- despite efforts by the World Wildlife Fund International. Schaller describes his study of the panda in its natural habitat and efforts to save it, as well as discussing various factors -- such as human greed -- that have placed the panda in critical danger. 1993.The legacy of Luna: the story of a tree, a woman, and the struggle to save the redwoods
By Julia Butterfly Hill. 2000
The author writes of the more than two years she spent living high in a thousand-year-old California redwood tree called…
Luna. Her "treesit" was to protest Luna's slated destruction in an environmentally destructive clear-cutting. In December 1999 Hill, twenty-five, descended after an agreement was reached to preserve Luna and surrounding trees. 2000.Our choice: a plan to solve the climate crisis
By Albert Gore. 2009
Picks up where An Inconvenient Truth left off, providing a blueprint for solving the global climate crisis and drawing on…
Mr. Gore's forty years of experience as a student, policymaker, author, filmmaker, entrepreneur, and activist. A co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 for his environmental work, Mr. Gore illuminates the real solutions to the climate crisis and describes a comprehensive global strategy to implement them urgently. 2009.An inconvenient sequel: truth to power
By Albert Gore. 2017
Al Gore has been advocating on earth's behalf for twenty-five years. Here he recounts and contextualizes the critical issues and…
moments in the climate change movement since the release of An Inconvenient Truth more than ten years ago, and highlights the real solutions we have at hand to change the planet for the better. 2017.Orchid fever: a horticultural tale of love, lust and lunacy
By Eric Hansen. 2000
In 1993 Eric Hansen led an expedition through the steaming jungles of Borneo to find the world's rarest orchid. Five…
years later he was still on the trail of the true story behind one of the world's strangest plants and humanity's oddest obsessions. 2000.