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Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We're in Without Going Crazy by Joanna Macy Synopsis The challenges we face can be difficult even to think about. Climate change, the depletion of oil, economic upheaval, and mass extinction together create a planetary emergency of overwhelming proportions. Active Hope shows us how to strengthen our... (read more) Your price: $14.95 New - Trade Paper 
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Oregon Plans: The Making of an Unquiet Land Use Revolution by Sy Adler Publisher Comments Oregon Plans provides a rich, detailed, and nuanced analysis of the origins and early evolution of Oregon’s nationally renowned land use planning program. Drawing primarily on archival sources, Sy Adler describes the passage of key state laws... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Trade Paper
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Great Disruption (11 Edition) by Paul Gilding Publisher Comments It's time to stop just worrying about climate change, says Paul Gilding. Instead, we need to brace for impact, because global crisis is no longer avoidable; we have come to the end of a world economy based on consumption and waste, where we live beyond... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet by Bill McKibben Publisher Comments "Read it, please. Straight through to the end. Whatever else you were planning to do next, nothing could be more important." —Barbara Kingsolver Twenty years ago, with The End of Nature, Bill McKibben offered one of the earliest warnings about... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Hardcover
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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 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... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Ecomind: Changing the Way We Think, to Create the World We Want by Frances Moore Lappe Publisher Comments In EcoMind, Frances Moore Lappe — a giant of the environmental movement—confronts accepted wisdom of environmentalism. Drawing on the latest research from anthropology to neuroscience and her own field experience, she argues that the biggest... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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Rambunctious Garden: Saving Nature in a Post-Wild World by Emma Marris Publisher Comments A paradigm shift is roiling the environmental world. For decades people have unquestioningly accepted the idea that our goal is to preserve nature in its pristine, pre-human state. But many scientists have come to see this as an outdated dream that... (read more) Your price: $25.00 New - Hardcover
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The Land Grabbers: The New Fight Over Who Owns the Earth by Fred Pearce Publisher Comments An unprecedented land grab is taking place around the world. Fearing future food shortages or eager to profit from them, the world’s wealthiest and most acquisitive countries, corporations, and individuals have been buying and leasing vast tracts... (read more) Your price: $27.95 New - Hardcover
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The Fate of the Species: Why the Human Race May Cause Its Own Extinction and How We Can Stop It by Fred Guterl Publisher Comments The sixth "mass extinction event" in the history of planet Earth is currently under way, with over two hundred species dying off every day. The cause of this seismic event is also the source of the single biggest threat to human life: our own inventions.... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $17.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Story of Stuff: The Impact of Overconsumption on the Planet, Our Communities, and Our Health-And How We Can Make It Better by Annie Leonard Publisher Comments The Story of Stuff, now available in paperback, offers an astonishing, galvanizing exploration of the stuff we use every day, revealing how overconsumption threatens the planet and our health, and providing hope that change is within reach. The... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Shaping Memories: Reflections of African American Women Writers by Joanne Veal Gabbin Publisher Comments "A vital and volatile part of the New Orleans landscape and lifestyle, the Lake Pontchartrain Basin actually contains three major bodies of water--Lakes Borgne, Pontchartrain, and Maurepas. These make up the Pontchartrain estuary. Robert W. Hastings... (read more) Your price: $40.00 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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Original Instructions: Indigenous Teachings for a Sustainable Future by Melissa K. Nelson Publisher Comments This collection of presentations gathered from the annual Bioneers conference focuses on the original instructions for living preserved in indigenous traditions, and how this natural wisdom can enable us to live in harmony with biological and cultural... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $18.00 New - Trade Paper
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Tom Browns Field Guide To Wilderness Survival by Tom Brown Publisher Comments Here, in one essential volume, are the basics of wilderness survival. The most ancient and important skills, preserved for generations, are presented in a simple, easy-to-use format with clear illustrations and instructions. A complete must-have... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A Sand County Almanac: With Essays on Conservation from Round River (Outdoor Essays & Reflections) by Aldo Leopold Publisher Comments "We can place this book on the shelf that holds the writings of Thoreau and John Muir." San Francisco Chronicle These astonishing portraits of the natural world explore the breathtaking diversity of the unspoiled American landscape -- the... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Mass Market
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The Control of Nature by John Mcphee Publisher Comments The Control of Nature is John McPhee's bestselling account of places where people are locked in combat with nature. Taking us deep into these contested territories, McPhee details the strageties and tactics through which people attempt to control nature.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Endgame, Volume 2 Resistance (06 Edition) by Derrick Jensen Publisher Comments Whereas Volume 1 of Endgame presents the problem of civilization, Volume 2 of this pivotal work illustrates our means of resistance. Incensed and hopeful, impassioned and lucid, Endgame leap-frogs the environmental movement's deadlock over our... (read more) List Price $20.95 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Encounters with the Archdruid by John Mcphee Publisher Comments The narratives in this book are of journeys made in three wildernesses - on a coastal island, in a Western mountain range, and on the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon. The four men portrayed here have different relationships to their environment, and... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Love, Life, and Elephants: An African Love Story by Daphne Jenkins Sheldrick Publisher Comments Daphne Sheldrick, whose family arrived in Africa from Scotland in the 1820s, is the first person ever to have successfully hand-reared newborn elephants. Her deep empathy and understanding, her years of observing Kenyas rich variety of wildlife, and her... (read more) Your price: $27.00 New - Hardcover
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Tending the Wild by M. Kat Anderson Publisher Comments John Muir was an early proponent of a view we still hold today--that much of California was pristine, untouched wilderness before the arrival of Europeans. But as this groundbreaking book demonstrates, what Muir was really seeing when he admired the... (read more) Your price: $32.75 New - Trade Paper
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Neotropical Companion : an Introduction To the Animals, Plants and Ecosystems of the New World Tropics, Revised and Expanded (2ND 97 Edition) by John Kricher Publisher Comments A Neotropical Companion is an extraordinarily readable introduction to the American tropics, the lands of Central and South America, their remarkable rainforests and other ecosystems, and the creatures that live there. It is the most comprehensive one... (read more) List Price $36.25 Your price: $27.00 Used - Trade Paper
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