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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.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.