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Learning from the Octopus: How Secrets from Nature Can Help Us Fight Terrorist Attacks, Natural Disasters, and Disease by Rafe Sagarin Publisher Comments Despite the billions of dollars we’ve poured into foreign wars, homeland security, and disaster response, we are fundamentally no better prepared for the next terrorist attack or unprecedented flood than we were in 2001. Our response to catastrophe... (read more) List Price $26.99 Your price: $18.50 Used - Hardcover 
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The World without Us by Alan Weisman 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... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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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Last Chance to See by Douglas Adams Publisher Comments In "The Hitchhiker's Trilogy" and the bestselling "Dirk Gently" novels, Douglas Adams has taken his millions of fans on wild excursions through time and space. Last Chance to See continues the trip--but this time the place is Earth, the date is today... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - 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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Ecotopia by Ernest Callenbach Publisher Comments A novel both timely and prophetic, Ernest Callenbachs Ecotopia is a hopeful antidote to the environmental concerns of today, set in an ecologically sound future society. Hailed by the Los Angeles Times as the “newest name after Wells, Verne, Huxley,... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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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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Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place by Terry Tempest Williams Publisher Comments As Utah-born naturalist Terry Tempest Williams records the simultaneous tragedies of her mother's death of cancer and the flooding of the Bear River Migratory Bird Sanctuary, she creates a document of renewal and spiritual grace destined to become a... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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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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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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The Ocean of Life: The Fate of Man and the Sea by Callum Roberts Publisher Comments A Silent Spring for oceans, written by "the Rachel Carson of the fish world" (The New York Times) Who can forget the sense of wonder with which they discovered the creatures of the deep? In this vibrant hymn to the sea, Callum Roberts&mdash... (read more) Your price: $30.00 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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Visit Sunny Chernobyl: And Other Adventures in the World's Most Polluted Places by Andrew Blackwell Publisher Comments For most of us, traveling means visiting the most beautiful places on Earth—Paris, the Taj Mahal, the Grand Canyon. Its rare to book a plane ticket to visit the lifeless moonscape of Canadas oil sand strip mines, or to seek out the Chinese city... (read more) Your price: $25.99 New - Hardcover
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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 Limits to Growth: The 30 Year Global Update by Donella Meadows and Jorgen Randers and Dennis Meadows Publisher Comments In 1972, three scientists from MIT created a computer model that analyzed global resource consumption and production. Their results shocked the world and created stirring conversation about global 'overshoot,' or resource use beyond the carrying capacity... (read more) Your price: $22.50 New - 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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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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Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply by Vandana Shiva Publisher Comments Contents Introduction Chapter 1 The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply Chapter 2 Soy Imperialism and the Destruction of Local Food Cultures Chapter 3 The Stolen Harvest Under the Sea Chapter 4 Mad Cows and Sacred Cows Chapter 5 The Stolen Harvest of... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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