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Inventing the future
By David T Suzuki. 1989
Suzuki wrote regular newspaper columns on environmental and scientific matters for the "Toronto Star" and "Globe and Mail" during the…
1980s. This collection of those columns is organized into categories such as genetics, technology and its effects, science and the military, the importance of education about science and the environment, and the aboriginal worldview. 1989.2 minutes a day for a greener planet
By Marjorie Lamb. 1990
Use a rag instead of paper towels; turn off the tap while brushing your teeth; take your own shopping bags…
to the supermarket. These are just some of the suggestions listed in this book that provides easy, practical ways to help the environment.In the rainforest
By Catherine Caufield. 1985
An account of the author's travels through the tropical rain forests of South and Central America, Indonesia, New Guinea, Africa…
and the Philippines. She discovers that indiscriminate logging, cattle ranching and farming destroy the forests at the rate of 50 million acres per year. 1985.L'or bleu: l'eau, nouvel enjeu stratégique et commercial
By Maude Barlow, Tony Clarke, Paule Noyart. 2002
Wisdom of the elders: honoring sacred native visions of nature
By Peter Knudtson, David T Suzuki. 1992
Two scientists explore the "often striking parallels between traditional Native ecological perspectives and Western scientific ones." Brief sketches of Western…
thought on various themes such as the relationship between humans and animals, vegetation, and land are followed by vignettes relating the views of various indigenous groups or "First Peoples" around the world. 1992.The garden of the gods
By Gerald Durrell. 1978
Naturalist Durrell writes about his adventures with friends, human and animal, on the island of Corfu before World War II.…
He evokes the rapture of a small boy discovering the world around him. 1978.The company of animals: a naturalist's adventures in the jungle of Malaya
By Ronald Cecil Hamlyn McKie. 1966
The story of James Alexander Hislop, the last of the white game wardens of Malaysia, stresses the beauty of the…
Jungle, the potential for its conservation, and includes discussions of its wildlife. 1966.Since Silent spring
By Frank Graham. 1970
A tribute to the late Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring," a pioneering effort against the threat of pesticides. Describes the book's…
inception, evaluation, and stormy reception in governmental, chemical, and agricultural circles. 1970.Rogue primate : an exploration of human domestication
By John A Livingston. 1994
In the 1970s, environmentalist John Livingston began to find serious flaws in the conventional conservation argument. He began to challenge…
the belief that the survival of undomesticated plants and animals in a world dominated by humans could be enabled through "resource conservation" managed by humans. He argues that our dependence on ideas -- in effect, our own domestication -- has cut us off from the natural world, and led us to believe that our domination over nature is itself "natural." Winner of the 1994 Governor General's Award for Non-fiction.Pour que la terre reste humaine ((Points ; 830).)
By Robert Barbault, Nicolas Hulot, Dominique Bourg, Jean-Louis Schlegel. 1999
Wa$ted!: save your planet, save your cash
By Francesca Price. 2007
Based on a TV3 programme, this book is full of tips and information on how to save money while saving…
the planet. Each part begins by helping you audit your own household and then goes into detailed actions you can take. The book looks at everything from worm farms, big purchases, nappies, double glazing, tuning your car and even food miles. 2007.Dirty planet: the Friends of the Earth guide to pollution and what you can do about it (Youth project)
By Caroline Clayton. 1999
Car bans in Mexico City. Oxygen bars in Peking. This guide offers the lowdown on the most pressing of the…
Earth's pollution problems and tells exactly who is to blame. It provides practical tips to make homes, schools and environment more green and influence local councils and governments. For junior and senior high students.Pouah! les déchets ((Protège ta planète).)
By Núria Jiménez, Empar Jiménez, Rosa Maria Curto, Annick Lalucq, Christine Barozzi. 2010
Wouh! l'air ((Protège ta planète).)
By Núria Jiménez, Empar Jiménez, Rosa Maria Curto, Annick Lalucq, Christine Barozzi. 2010
Splash! l'eau ((Protège ta planète).)
By Núria Jiménez, Empar Jiménez, Rosa Maria Curto, Annick Lalucq, Christine Barozzi. 2010
Big Lonely Doug
By Harley Rustad. 2018
On a cool morning in the winter of 2011, a logger named Dennis Cronin was walking through a stand of…
old-growth forest near Port Renfrew on Vancouver Island. His job was to survey the land and flag the boundaries for clear-cutting. As he made his way through the forest, Cronin came across a massive Douglas fir the height of a twenty-storey building. It was one of the largest trees in Canada that if felled and milled could easily fetch more than fifty thousand dollars. Instead of moving on, he reached into his vest pocket for a flagging he rarely used, tore off a strip, and wrapped it around the base of the trunk. Along the length of the ribbon were the words "Leave Tree." When the fallers arrived, every wiry cedar, every droopy-topped hemlock, every great fir was cut down and hauled away--all except one. The solitary tree stood quietly in the clear cut until activist and photographer T.J. Watt stumbled upon the Douglas fir while searching for big trees for the Ancient Forest Alliance, an environmental organization fighting to protect British Columbia's dwindling old-growth forests. The single Douglas fir exemplified their cause: the grandeur of these trees juxtaposed with their plight. They gave it a name: Big Lonely Doug. The tree would also eventually, and controversially, be turned into the poster child of the Tall Tree Capital of Canada, attracting thousands of tourists every year and garnering the attention of artists, businesses, and organizations who saw new values encased within its bark. 2018.Eat Like a Fish: My Adventures as a Fisherman Turned Restorative Ocean Farmer
By Bren Smith. 2019
Part memoir, part manifesto, in Eat Like a Fish Bren Smith-a former commercial fisherman turned restorative ocean farmer-shares a bold…
new vision for the future of food: seaweed. Through tales that span from his childhood in Newfoundland to his early years on the high seas aboard commercial fishing trawlers, from pioneering new forms of ocean farming to surfing the frontiers of the food movement, Smith introduces the world of sea-based agriculture, and advocates getting ocean vegetables onto American plates (there are thousands of edible varieties in the sea!). Here he shows how we can transform our food system while enjoying delicious, nutritious, locally grown food, and how restorative ocean farming has the potential to create millions of new jobs and protect our planet in the face of climate change, rising populations, and finite food resources. Also included are recipes from acclaimed chefs Brooks Headley and David Santos. Written with the humor and swagger of a fisherman telling a late-night tale, this is a monumental work of deeply personal food policy that will profoundly change the way we think about what we eat. Includes a PDF of sea greens recipes by chefs Brooks Headley and David SantosThe Hidden World of the Fox
By Adele Brand. 2019
In the spirit of H is for Hawk, an intimate portrait of foxes, by a British mammal ecologist who has…
studied the beloved yet mysterious creatures across four continents."Succinct, clear, sophisticated. I couldn't stop reading." -Jeff VanderMeer, bestselling author of Annihilation and theSouthern Reach Trilogy For thousands of years, human beings have been fascinated by the fox. Refusing to be domesticated, the fox has thrived at the margins of human activity. The astonishing intelligence and cunning that served them well in the ancient wildwood now helps them navigate concrete parking lots and railroad lines, as human settlements increasingly encroach on their habitat.Adele Brand, a renowned British mammal ecologist, has followed the fox from the windswept prairies of Canada to the green meadows of Romania, jaguar-prowled jungles in Mexico to the scorching salt deserts of India. In The Hidden World of the Fox, she pens a lyrical love letter to this beloved animal.Brand takes us on a scientific and personal journey into the heart of the fox. Drawing upon evolution (like dogs, foxes have thrived because they are highly adaptable to their environment, and eat an unusually varied diet), cultural history (the fox has starred in myths, religious rituals, and English literature), and philosophy (what do we owe to our natural neighbors?), Brand offers a heartfelt paean to a revered animal. Over the course of the book, we get to know a host of furry acquaintances-among them Chatter, Old Dogfox, Sooty, and the aptly named The Interloper-and are charmed, and transformed, by their intelligence and grace.My Penguin Year: Living with the Emperors
By Lindsay McCrae. 2019
An unprecedentedly intimate portrait of an emperor penguin colony in Antarctica, by a Bafta Award-winning BBC director of photography who…
observed these extraordinary birds for a year. Lindsay McCrae followed 4,000 emperor penguins amid the singular beauty of Antarctica, chronicling their remarkable year Even in the depths of the Antarctic winter -- the harshest environment on earth -- McCrae witnessed the most intimate moments of these beloved animals as they sought survival with temperatures reaching 60 degrees below zero.This Land: How Cowboys, Capitalism and Corruption are Ruining the American West
By Christopher Ketcham. 2019
A hard-hitting look at the battle now raging over the fate of the public lands in the American West-and a…
plea for the protection of these last wild places The public lands of the western United States comprise some 450 million acres of grassland, steppe land, canyons, forests, and mountains. It's an American commons, and it is under assault as never before. Journalist Christopher Ketcham has been documenting the confluence of commercial exploitation and governmental misconduct in this region for over a decade. His revelatory book takes the reader on a journey across these last wild places, to see how capitalism is killing our great commons. Ketcham begins in Utah, revealing the environmental destruction caused by unregulated public lands livestock grazing, and exposing rampant malfeasance in the federal land management agencies, who have been compromised by the profit-driven livestock and energy interests they are supposed to regulate. He then turns to the broad effects of those corrupt politics on wildlife. He tracks the Department of Interior's failure to implement and enforce the Endangered Species Act-including its stark betrayal of protections for the grizzly bear and the sage grouse-and investigates the destructive behavior of U.S. Wildlife Services in their shocking mass slaughter of animals that threaten the livestock industry. Along the way, Ketcham talks with ecologists, biologists, botanists, former government employees, whistleblowers, grassroots environmentalists and other citizens who are fighting to protect the public domain for future generations. This Land is a colorful muckraking journey-part Edward Abbey, part Upton Sinclair-exposing the rot in American politics that is rapidly leading to the sell-out of our national heritage. The book ends with Ketcham's vision of ecological restoration for the American West: freeing the trampled, denuded ecosystems from the effects of grazing, enforcing the laws already in place to defend biodiversity, allowing the native species of the West to recover under a fully implemented Endangered Species Act, and establishing vast stretches of public land where there will be no development at all, not even for recreation.