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The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems by Van Jones Publisher Comments Provocative, personal, and inspirational, The Green Collar Economy is not a dire warning but rather a substantive and viable plan for solving the biggest issues facing the country — the failing economy and our devastated environment. From a distance,... (read more) List Price $25.99 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover 
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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope by Bryan Mealer and William Kamkwamba Publisher Comments William Kamkwamba was born in Malawi, a country where magic ruled and modern science was mystery. It was also a land withered by drought and hunger, and a place where hope and opportunity were hard to find. But William had read about windmills in a book... (read more) List Price $25.99 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Body Toxic: How the Hazardous Chemistry of Everyday Things Threatens Our Health and Well-Being by Nena Baker Staff Pick Listen up, America, because this is a wake-up call. The Body Toxic sheds light on the toxic threats we encounter daily in toys, clothes, cosmetics, cookware, and more. The harmful effects of everyday products on our health are staggering, and Baker's eye-... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World by David Abram Publisher Comments David Abram draws on sources as diverse as the philosophy of Merleau-Ponty, Balinese shamanism, Apache storytelling, and his own experience as an accomplished sleight-of-hand magician to reveal the subtle dependence of human cognition on the natural... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $6.50 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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Cartoon Guide to the Environment by Larry Gonick Publisher Comments Chapter 1. Forests and Water Chapter 2. More Cycles Chapter 3. Evolving Systems, Struggling Individuals Chapter 4. Communities Wet... Chapter 5. ...And Dry Chapter 6. Let's Eat! Chapter 7. From Hunting to Planting Chapter 8. What Limiting Factors... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century by James Howard Kunstler Publisher Comments James Howard Kunstler's The Long Emergency was an underground hit, going into nine printings of the hardcover edition. His shocking vision for our post-oil future caught the attention of environmentalists and business leaders and was the subject of much... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution -- and How It Can Renew America by Thomas L. Friedman Staff Pick Friedman doesn't just have the world's greatest moustache ... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $13.95 Used - Hardcover
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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... (read more) Your price: $14.99 New - Trade Paper
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Cadillac Desert : the American West and Its Disappearing Water, Revised and Updated (Rev 93 Edition) by Marc Reisner Publisher Comments Newly updated, this timely history of the struggle to discover and control water in the American West is a tale of rivers diverted and damned, political corruption and intrigue, billion-dollar battles over water rights, and economic and ecological... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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No Impact Man: The Adventures of a Guilty Liberal Who Attempts to Save the Planet, and the Discoveries He Makes about Himself and Our by Colin Beavan Publisher Comments A guilty liberal finally snaps, swears off plastic, goes organic, becomes a bicycle nut, turns off his power, and generally becomes a tree-hugging lunatic who tries to save the polar bears and the rest of the planet from environmental catastrophe while... (read more) Your price: $25.00 New - Hardcover
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Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization by Lester R. Brown Synopsis "[Brown's] ability to make a complicated subject accessible to the general reader is remarkable."-Katherine Salant, Washington Post... (read more) Your price: $16.95 New - Trade Paper
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Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future by Bill McKibben Publisher Comments The bestselling author of The End of Nature issues an impassioned call to arms for an economy that creates community and ennobles our lives In this powerful and provocative manifesto, Bill McKibben offers the biggest challenge in a generation to the... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Living Downstream: A Scientist's Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment by Sandra Steingraber Publisher Comments Biologist and poet Sandra Steingraber shoulders the legacy of Rachel Carson, producing a work about people and land, cancer and the environment, that is as accessible and as invaluable as "Silent Spring". "An important, deeply felt book".--"Chicago... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The End of Nature by Bill McKibben Publisher Comments Reissued on the tenth anniversary of its publication, this classic work on our environmental crisis features a new introduction by the author, reviewing both the progress and ground lost in the fight to save the earth. This impassioned plea for radical... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Our Choice by Al Gore Publisher Comments Our Choice is an inspiring call to action for those ready to fight for solutions that really work — including some bold initiatives that were deemed impossible only a short time ago but are now gaining support around the world. Since the... (read more) Your price: $26.99 New - Trade Paper
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Environmental Ethics: What Really Matters, What Really Works by David Schmidtz Publisher Comments Environmental Ethics features first-hand descriptions from people who have actually been involved in such projects as wildlife management in Africa, ecofeminist initiatives in India, and radical activism on the high seas. It also provides up-to-date data... (read more) List Price $69.95 Your price: $38.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Sustainability Revolution: Portrait of a Paradigm Shift by Andres R. Edwards Publisher Comments Sustainability has become a buzzword in the last decade, but its full meaning is complex, emerging from a range of different sectors. In practice, it has become the springboard for millions of individuals throughout the world who are forging the fastest... (read more) Your price: $16.95 New - Trade Paper
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Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution by Paul Hawken and Amory Lovins and L. Hunter Lovins Publisher Comments Hawken (The Ecology of Commerce) and Amory and Hunter Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, an environmental think tank, have put together an ambitious, visionary book advocating natural capitalism. Based on the principle that businesses can be good... (read more) List Price $18.99 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Legacy of Luna: The Story of a Tree, a Woman and the Struggle to Save the Redwoods by Julia Butterfly Hill Publisher Comments On December 18, 1999, Julia Butterfly Hill's feet touched the ground for the first time in over two years, as she descended from "Luna," a thousandyear-old redwood in Humboldt County, California. Hill had climbed 180 feet up into the tree high on a... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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