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Climate Solutions: What Works, What Doesn't, and Why: A Citizen's Guide (Chelsea Green Guides)
by Peter Barnes  Publisher Comments In 2006, NASA's top climate scientist warned that we have at most a decade to turn the tide on global warming. After that, James Hansen said, all bets are off. Temperature rises of 3 to 7 degrees Farenheit will "produce a different planet." If Hansen is...
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Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Social Movement in History Is Restoring Grace, Justice, and Beauty to the World
by Paul Hawken 
Powells.com Staff Pick Feeling crushed beneath the weight of ominous news, borderline-apocalyptic statistics, and global warming alerts that offer no recourse but panic? Paul Hawken's Blessed Unrest is the book you've been waiting for. Here is a call to arms with concrete...
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Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature
by Janine M Benyus Publisher Comments This profound and accessible book details how science is studying nature's best ideas to solve our toughest 21st–century problems. If chaos theory transformed our view of the universe, biomimicry is transforming our life on Earth. Biomimicry is...
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The World without Us
by Alan Weisman
Powells.com Staff Pick "Let us try a creative experiment," Alan Weisman proposes on page three: If humans disappeared from earth, what would happen? To your home, for example. To our cities, farms, and oceans. To the animals that remain. Or to the billion tons of plastic we'd...
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Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future
by Bill McKibben
Powells.com Staff Pick "Timely and useful. This valuable benchmark is a substantial contribution to the rethinking of unlimited economic expansion." Recommended by Ted, Powells.com...
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Earth: The Sequel: The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming
by Fred Krupp and Miriam Horn
Publisher Comments How to harness the great forces of capitalism to save the world from catastrophe. The forecasts are grim and time is running out, but that's not the end of the story. In this book, Fred Krupp, longtime president of Environmental Defense Fund, brings...
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Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-made Landscape
by James Howard Kunstler Publisher Comments The Geography of Nowhere traces America's evolution from a nation of Main Streets and coherent communities to a land where every place is like no place in particular, where the cities are dead zones and the countryside is a wasteland of cartoon...
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Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
by William McDonough and Michael Braungart
Powells.com Staff Pick "An eco-sustainable manifesto. The next Industrial Revolution will be Green!" Scott Smith, Powells.com...
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Unbowed : a Memoir (06 Edition)
by Wangari Maathai Publisher Comments In Unbowed, Nobel Prize winner Wangari Maathai recounts her extraordinary journey from her childhood in rural Kenya to the world stage. When Maathai founded the Green Belt Movement in 1977, she began a vital poor people’s environmental movement...
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Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came Into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming
by Paul Hawken
Publisher Comments One of the world's most influential environmentalists reveals a worldwide grassroots movement of hope and humanity. Blessed Unrest tells the story of a worldwide movement that is largely unseen by politicians or the media. Hawken, an environmentalist...
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The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century
by James Howard Kunstler
Powells.com Staff Pick In his previous books, James Kunstler focused on the shortsighted vision of suburban planning; now he expands that view to the country's urban growth challenges and the need to drastically change our current course of auto and oil dependency. The Long...
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Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution
by Paul Hawken and Amory Lovins and L. Hunter Lovins Publisher Comments The world of business is changing — fast. The prevailing model for creating wealth — which has its roots in the industrial revolution and which dominated the last century — no longer applies. Natural Capitalism introduces an alternative, a...
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Gaviotas: A Village to Reinvent the World
by Alan Weisman Publisher Comments The eastern savannas of war-ravaged Colombia, known as the llanos, are among the most brutal environments on Earth, an unlikely setting for one of the most hopeful environmental stories ever told. Here, more than twenty-five years ago, an intrepid...
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The Ecology of Commerce
by Paul Hawken Publisher Comments A visionary new program that businesses can follow to help restore the planet....
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Blue Covenant: The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water
by Maude Barlow Publisher Comments A passionate call to action from one of the leading voices in the global struggle for universal access to the earth's most vital element—a sequel to the acclaimed Blue Gold. "Life requires access to clean water; to deny the right to water is to deny...
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Simple Prosperity: Finding Real Wealth in a Sustainable Lifestyle
by David Wann Publisher Comments In his bestseller Affluenza, David Wann and his co-authors diagnosed the debilitating disease of over-consumption. In Simple Prosperity he shows readers how we can overcome this disease by investing in a variety of ...
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The Hot Topic: What We Can Do about Global Warming
by Gabrielle Walker Publisher Comments Last year, awareness about global warming reached a tipping point. Now one of the most dynamic writers and one of the most respected scientists in the field of climate change offer the first concise guide to both the problems and the solutions. Guiding...
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Global Fever: How to Treat Climate Change
by William H. Calvin Publisher Comments Every decade since 1950 has seen more floods and more wildfires on every continent. Deserts are expanding, coral reefs are dying, fisheries are declining, hurricanes are strengthening. The debate about climate change is over: there’s no question that...
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As the World Burns: 50 Simple Things You Can Do to Stay in Denial
by Derrick Jensen and Stephanie McMillan Publisher Comments Two of America's most talented activists team up to deliver a bold and hilarious satire of modern environmental policy in this fully illustrated graphic novel. The US government gives robot machines from space permission to eat the earth in exchange for...
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The Consumer's Guide to Effective Environmental Choices
by Michael Brower Publisher Comments From one of the most prestigious nonprofit organizations devoted to environmental issues comes a clear, practical, and rational overview of the relationship between consumers and the environment. Paper or plastic? Bus or car? Old house or new? Cloth...
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