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An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It
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An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It
by Al Gore

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Published to tie in to a documentary film of the same name, "An Inconvenient Truth" is Gore's battle cry about what needs to be done about global warming. 75 illustrations. (Environmental Studies)...
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Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature
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Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature
by Janine M Benyus

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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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Simple Prosperity: Finding Real Wealth in a Sustainable Lifestyle
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Simple Prosperity: Finding Real Wealth in a Sustainable Lifestyle
by David Wann

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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 Hidden Forest: The Biography of an Ecosystem
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The Hidden Forest: The Biography of an Ecosystem
by John R Luoma

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The tallest species of spruce, hemlock, fir, cedar, and pine trees on earth coexist in the old growth of the H. J. Andrews Experimental Forest in Oregon's Cascade Range. Set aside as a living laboratory by the U.S. Forest Service in 1948, the 16,000...
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Fixing Climate: What Past Climate Changes Reveal about the Current Threat--And How to Counter It
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Fixing Climate: What Past Climate Changes Reveal about the Current Threat--And How to Counter It
by Wallace S. Broecker and Robert Kunzig

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The product of a unique collaboration between a pioneering earth scientist and an award winning science writer, Fixing Climatetakes an unconventional approach to the vitally important issue of global warming. Wallace S. Broecker, a longtime researcher...
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The Ecology of Commerce
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The Ecology of Commerce
by Paul Hawken

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A visionary new program that businesses can follow to help restore the planet....
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American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau
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American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau
by Bill (edt) Mckibben

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As America and the world grapple with the consequences of global environmental change, writer and activist Bill McKibben offers this unprecedented, provocative, and timely anthology, gathering the best and most significant American environmental writing...
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Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century
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Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century
by Alex Steffen

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Written by a collaboration of leading thinkers, this demonstrates that the means for building a better future lie all around us. Filled with information, resources, reviews and ideas, it gives readers access to the tools they need to make a difference....
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Earth Democracy : Justice, Sustainability (05 Edition)
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Earth Democracy : Justice, Sustainability (05 Edition)
by Vandana Shiva

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Boldly confronting the neoconservative Project for the New American Century, world-renowned physicist and activist Vandana Shiva responds with Earth Democracy, or, as she prophetically names it, "The People's Project for a New Planetary Millennium."A...
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Ecotopia
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Ecotopia
by Ernest Callenbach

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Ecotopia was founded when northern California, Oregon, and Washington seceded from the Union to create a "stable-state" ecosystem: the perfect balance between human beings and the environment. Now, twenty years later, the isolated, mysterious Ecotopia...
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Earth Prayers: From Around the World: 365 Prayers, Poems, and Invocations for Honoring the Earth
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Earth Prayers: From Around the World: 365 Prayers, Poems, and Invocations for Honoring the Earth
by Elizabeth Roberts

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When it was published in 1987, "Letting God was the first book to explore the themes of the Twelve-Step programs within the context of Christian tradition. Now revised to emphasize its spiritual focus, and including an introduction presenting a monthly...
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The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight: Revised and Updated: The Fate of the World and What We Can Do Before It's Too Late
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The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight: Revised and Updated: The Fate of the World and What We Can Do Before It's Too Late
by Thom Hartmann

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In this passionate and visionary call to enlightened consciousness, Hartmann combines spirituality and ecology to point the way to a luminous future for the planet....
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The Great Warming: Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations
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The Great Warming: Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations
by Brian M. Fagan

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How the earth’s previous global warming phase, from the tenth to the fifteenth centuries, reshaped human societies from the Arctic to the Sahara—a wide-ranging history with sobering lessons for our own time. From the tenth to the fifteenth...
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Field Notes from a Catastrophe
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Field Notes from a Catastrophe
by Elizabeth Kolbert

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Field Notes from a Catastrophe, a refreshingly slim and concise volume, grew out of Elizabeth Kolbert's remarkable series on global warming in the New Yorker. Kolbert spans the globe, from examining ice samples in Greenland to mosquitoes in a lab in...
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The Discovery of Global Warming: ,
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The Discovery of Global Warming: ,
by Spencer Weart

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In 2001 a panel representing virtually all the world's governments and climate scientists announced that they had reached a consensus: the world was warming at a rate without precedent during at least the last ten millennia, and that warming was caused...
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Measuring the Natural Environment (03 Edition)
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Measuring the Natural Environment (03 Edition)
by Ian Strangeway

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Cosiderably expanded new edition of a comprehensive survey of environmental measurement techniques....
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Watersheds: A Practical Handbook for Healthy Water
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Watersheds: A Practical Handbook for Healthy Water
by Clive Dobson

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Water is our most vital resource. Yet few understand even the basics of watershed ecology<P>Watersheds: A Practical Handbook for Healthy Water provides a fascinating overview of the fundamentals of ecology from the simple concept of a watershed to...
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Making Waves and Riding the Currents: Activism and the Practice of Wisdom (BK Currents)
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Making Waves and Riding the Currents: Activism and the Practice of Wisdom (BK Currents)
by Charles Halpern

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This inspiring memoir is about working for a more just, compassionate, and sustainable world, while cultivating the wisdom that supports and deepens this work. Everyone who is trying to make waves ? to bring about needed social and institutional change ?...
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Stolen Harvest : the Hijacking of the Global Food Supply (00 Edition)
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Stolen Harvest : the Hijacking of the Global Food Supply (00 Edition)
by Vandana Shiva

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"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...
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Cartoon Guide to the Environment
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Cartoon Guide to the Environment
by Larry Gonick

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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...
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