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Ethical oil: the case for Canada's oil sands
By Ezra Levant. 2010
While many North Americans may be aware of the financial and environmental price we pay for a gallon of gas…
or a barrel of oil, Levant argues that it is time we consider ethical factors as well. With the oil sands at our disposal, is it ethically responsible to import our oil from the Sudan, Russia, and Mexico? How should we weigh carbon emissions with human rights violations in Saudi Arabia? And assuming that we can't live without oil, can the development of energy be made more environmentally sustainable? Bestseller. c2010.El Nino: stormy weather for people and wildlife
By Caroline Arnold. 1998
Explains that "El Nino is the most powerful weather phenomenon on the earth and alters the climate across more than…
half the planet." Observes that the seasonal, warm, southward-moving current along the Peruvian coast occurs about every three to seven years affecting humans, animals, and the environment. Grades 4-7. c1998.Eau Canada: the future of Canada's water
By Karen Bakker. 2007
As the sustainability of our natural resources is increasingly questioned, Canadians remain stubbornly convinced of the unassailability of our water.…
The country's top water experts were assembled to discuss our most pressing issues, from a broad range of perspectives. Arguing that weak governance is at the heart of the problem, key failings are identified and solutions are presented for protecting out most important resource. 2007.Earth time: essays
By David T Suzuki. 1998
Suzuki illustrates the continuing need for the preservation of nature through a collection of his newspaper articles and essays. He…
covers topics such as the economy, globalization, political shortsightedness, local initiatives and children. He points the way towards a slower way of life that keeps us in tune with the Earth and its riches. 1998.Earth: our crowded spaceship
By Isaac Asimov. 1974
Dancing on the shore: a celebration of life at Annapolis Basin
By Harold Andrew Horwood. 1987
Beginning with a natural history of the Annapolis Basin in Nova Scotia and an account of its earliest inhabitants, the…
author describes his seasonal observations and uses them to reflect on the natural world and man's place in it. c1987.Dandelion hunter: foraging the urban wilderness
By Rebecca Lerner. 2013
Forager-journalist Becky Lerner sets out on a quest to find her inner hunter-gatherer in the city of Portland, Oregon. After…
a disheartening week trying to live off wild plants from the streets and parks near her home, she learns the ways of the first people who lived there and, along with a quirky cast of characters, discovers an array of useful wild plants hiding in plain sight. As she harvests them for food, medicine, and just-in-case apocalypse insurance, Lerner delves into anthropology, urban ecology and sustainability, and finds herself looking at Nature in a very different way. 2013.Cry of the Kalahari
By Delia Owens, Mark Owens. 1984
Adventurous story of two young American zoologists who come to study the wildlife in Kalahari in 1974 and stay for…
seven years. The immediate area, a fossil riverbed, is their home from which they watch lions, hyenas, wild dogs, and antelopes. The Owenses' main purpose is to document how species adapt to the harsh terrain and how the drought affects ecosystems. 1984.Blue covenant: the global water crisis and the coming battle for the right to water
By Maude Barlow. 2007
Barlow wants nations to define the world's fresh water as a human right rather than a commercial product, as she…
notes that a handful of multinational water companies, abetted by World Bank monetary policies and United Nations political timidity, are bidding for the complete commodification of formerly public water resources. Barlow calls for private citizens and nongovernmental organizations to challenge corporate control of water delivery, agitate for equitable access to clean water, and confront the reality that freshwater supplies are dwindling. Sequel to "Blue gold". 2007.Collapse: how societies choose to fail or succeed
By Jared M. Diamond. 2005
Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Guns, Germs, and Steel" presents a comparative study of societies that have collapsed from ecological problems.…
Studies ancient civilizations including the Maya and the Anasazi as well as modern countries like Haiti and Rwanda and proposes global solutions. Bestseller. 2005.Collins gem understanding sex (Collins Gem Ser.)
By David Lambert, Margaret Doyle. 1996
This is an up-to-date straightforward guide designed to help teenagers understand and cope responsibly with the physical and emotional changes…
of emerging adulthood. The book includes chapters on periods, sexual attraction, making love, safe sex, sex and the disabled and sex and the laws. Junior and Senior High . 1996.Childbirth with insight
By Elizabeth Noble. 1983
Back to the well: rethinking the future of water
By Marq De Villiers. 2015
Water is a renewable resource, but what are its limits? Between drawing down our resources of fresh water at ever-increasing…
rates and continuing to pollute water that should have been cleaned up decades ago, are we entering upon a global crisis? Is water a human right? Who owns water? Who is responsible for keeping it clean and ensuring it gets to the people who need it most? Is privatization of ownership and supply networks an unmitigated evil? Assesses the state of water on Earth today and looks at the ways its use and abuse encompasses intersections between our daily personal water use, agriculture, energy policy, climate change, national security, and global conflicts. Follow-up to de Villiers' book "Water". 2015.A shriek in the forest night: wilderness encounters
By R. D Lawrence. 1996
R. D. Lawrence recalls some of his most fascinating encounters with the wild as he writes about his more than…
forty years as a field biologist. Along with tales of outrunning a herd of bison and saving an orphan bear cub, he writes about unfair hunting practices and how best to learn about nature. 1996.2030: confronting thermageddon in our lifetime
By Robert Hunter. 2002
Is our time on earth running out? Hunter believes that around the year 2030, climate change will be so extreme…
as to be irreversible; the burning off of the planet's ozone layer and the melting of the polar ice cap will be impossible to stop. He argues that if we all act now and change our own climate-damaging habits, and every government makes environmental protection its chief concern, then we can still change all this and ensure that our children have a future. 2002.The period book: everything you don't want to ask (but need to know) (Youth project)
By Karen Gravelle, Jennifer Gravelle. 1997
Karen Gravelle and her 15-year-old niece, Jennifer, look at physical, emotional and social changes, as well as other issues associated…
with menstruation. The book seeks to ease the confusion many teenage girls might feel, and celebrates the new sense of maturity their period can bring.The best friends' guide to pregnancy: or everything your doctor won't tell you
By Vicki Iovine. 1995
A guide for the expectant mother, containing practical tips and humorous tales on anything pregnant. Vicki Iovine discusses what really…
happens to your body, common fears and paranoia, the pregnancy experts, how to have sex during pregnancy, and looking and feeling your best. 1995.Thinking like a mountain
By Rick Archbold, Robert Bateman. 2000
Part memoir, part sketchbook, and part environmental testament, Bateman's book charts the progress of his ecological consciousness. In the process,…
Bateman presents an historical overview of threats to our human and natural heritages, among them the near extinction of the whales due to massive commercial whaling and PCBs and other toxins; the clear-cutting of old-growth forests at Clayoquot Sound; the devastation of wetlands as a result of modern industrial agriculture; and the vanishing of unique human societies such as the Ba Mbuti in the former Belgian Congo. Bateman writes an impassioned plea to attend to the health of our planet, present and future. 2000.The right to be cold: one woman's story of protecting her culture, the Arctic, and the whole planet
By Sheila Watt-Cloutier. 2015
The author explores the parallels between safeguarding the Arctic and the survival of Inuit culture - and ultimately the world…
- in the face of past, present, and future environmental degradation. She argues that climate change is a human rights issue, and one to which all of us are inextricably linked. Bestseller. Canada Reads 2017. 2015.10 idées écolos: aujourd'hui, je protège ma planète (Album Illustre Ser.)
By Claude Cossette, Mélanie Walsh. 2010
Ce magnifique album interactif propose dix gestes verts que les enfants peuvent facilement poser à chaque jour. Une façon simple,…
efficace et amusante d'encourager les jeunes à apprendre comment devenir des adultes avisés et respectueux de l'environnement. -- 4e de couv. Titre uniforme: My green day.