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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.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.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.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.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.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.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.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.By Shoba Narayan. 2018
When Shoba Narayan, a writer and cookbook author who had lived for years in Manhattan, moves back to Bangalore with…
her family, she befriends the milk lady, from whom she buys fresh milk every day. These two women from very different backgrounds bond over not only cows, considered holy in India, but also family, food, and life. After Narayan agrees to buy her milk lady a new cow (she needs one and Narayan can afford it, so why not?), they set off looking for just the right cow. What was at first a simple economic transaction becomes something much more complicated, though never without a hint of slapstick. 2018.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.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.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.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.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.By Benjamin Woo. 2018
Comic book superheroes, fantasy kingdoms, and futuristic starships have become inescapable features of today’s pop-culture landscape, and the people we…
used to deride as “nerds” or “geeks” have ridden their popularity and visibility to mainstream recognition. Yet these conventionalized representations of geek culture typically ignore the real people who have invested time and resources to make it what it is. Woo recentres our understanding of geek culture on the everyday lives of its participants, drawing on fieldwork in comic book shops, game stores, and conventions. He shows how geek culture is a set of interconnected social practices that are associated with popular media and argues that typical depictions of mass-mediated entertainment as something that isolates and pacifies its audiences are flawed because they do not account for the conversations, relationships, communities, and identities that are created by engaging with the products of mass culture. 2018. "What is a nerd?" -- Talk nerdy to me: the meaning of geek culture -- Taking geek culture seriously: a practice-theoretic account -- Values and virtues: what is best in life? -- Careers: boldly going on -- Making communities from mass culture -- Institutions: building worlds between production and consumption -- The limits of participation -- The geek, the bad, and the ugly --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.By Doug Bock Clark. 2019
Journalist Doug Bock Clark tells the stunning inside story of the Lamalerans, an ancient tribe of 1,500 hunter-gatherers who live…
on a volcanic island so remote it is known by other Indonesians as "The Land Left Behind." They have survived for centuries by taking whales with bamboo harpoons, but now are being pushed toward collapse by the encroachment of the modern world. 2019.By Francis Eustache, Béatrice Desgranges. 2010
" [...] Véritable synthèse des connaissances actuelles - l'imagerie cérébrale y tient un rôle important - cet ouvrage permet de…
comprendre la mise en place progressive de la mémoire chez l'enfant comme ses modifications au cours du vieillissement. " -- 4e de couv. 2010.