Environmental Studies
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Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved (06 Edition)
by Katz  Publisher Comments An instant classic for a new generation of monkey-wrenching food activists. Food in America is cheap and abundant, yet the vast majority of it is diminished in terms of flavor and nutrition, anonymous and mysterious after being shipped thousands of miles...
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Water Wars : Privatization, Pollution, and Profit (02 Edition)
by Vandana Shiva 
Publisher Comments While draught and desertification are intensifying around the world, corporations are aggressively converting free-flowing water into bottled profits. The water wars of the twenty-first century may match-or even surpass-the oil wars of the twentieth. In...
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Empty Ocean (03 Edition)
by Ellis
Publisher Comments In The Empty Ocean, acclaimed author and artist Richard Ellis tells the story of our continued plunder of life in the sea and weighs the chances for its recovery. Through fascinating portraits of a wide array of creatures, he introduces us to the many...
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ACT III in Patagonia: People and Wildlife
by William Conway Publisher Comments Patagonia. The name connotes the exotic and a distance that seems nearly mythical. Tucked toward the toe of South America, this largely unsettled landscape is among the most varied and breathtaking in the world-aching in its beauty as it sweeps from the...
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Responsible Growth for the New Millennium: Integrating Society, Ecology, and the Economy
by Bank World
Synopsis This book contends that economic growth is essential for development, but it is not enough. It presents a vision of a responsible approach to growth--sustainable growth in consumption, healthfulness, human capital, environmental quality and social equity-...
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Edible Forest Gardens Volume 1 Ecological VI
by Dave Jacke Publisher Comments Edible Forest Gardens is a groundbreaking two-volume work that spells out and explores the key concepts of forest ecology and applies them to the needs of natural gardeners in temperate climates. Volume I lays out the vision of the forest garden and...
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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...
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Scorched Earth: How the Fires of Yellowstone Changed America
by Rocky Barker Publisher Comments In 1988, forest fires raged in Yellowstone National Park, destroying more than a million acres. As the nation watched the land around Old Faithful burn, a longstanding conflict over fire management reached a fever pitch. Should the U.S. Park and Forest...
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Investing in Nature: Case Studies of Land Conservation in Collaboration with Business
by William J Ginn Publisher Comments In 2004, U.S. consumers spent $5.2 billion purchasing bottled water while the government only invested 5 percent of that amount to purchase critical watersheds, parks, and wildlife refuges-systems vital to clean water and healthy environments. How can we...
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Consciousness in Action: The Power of Beauty, Love, and Courage in a Violent Time
by Andrew Beath
Publisher Comments How to bring spiritual principles into environmental and other activist work and everyday life....
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A Handmade Life: In Search of Simplicity
by Wm Coperthwaite Publisher Comments William Coperthwaite is a teacher, builder, designer, and writer who for many years has explored the possibilities of true simplicity on a homestead on the north coast of Maine. In the spirit of Henry David Thoreau, Emily Dickinson, and Helen and Scott...
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What Can I Do?
by Lisa Harrow
Synopsis Concern for the health of our planet led award-winning actress Lisa Harrow and her husband, internationally renowned whale biologist Roger Payne, to create the performance piece "Lessons from Copernicus. But Lisa and Roger found that, following...
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The Hype about Hydrogen: Fact and Fiction in the Race to Save the Climate
by Joseph J. Romm Publisher Comments "Vital, very readable guidance for investors, environmentalists, and interested bystanders looking toward a future without fossil fuels." -BOOKLIST "It's hard to argue with the relentless logic...." -E/THE ENVIRONMENTAL MAGAZINE "Readers looking to...
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The River Runs Black: The Environmental Challenge to China's Future
by Elizabeth C Economy
Synopsis Economy examines China's recent economic growth with an eye on its looming environmental crisis, including the depletion of natural resources, skyrocketing rates of pollution and significant problems of public health and social unrest....
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The Citizen-Powered Energy Handbook: Community Solutions to a Global Crisis
by Greg Pahl Publisher Comments In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, Al Gore's summer blockbuster An Inconvenient Truth, and crude oil prices soaring to all-time highs, more people than ever know the truth about our oil addiction. Global warming is here. M. King Hubbert's oil peak is fast...
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Pinhook : Finding Wholeness in a Fragmented Land (05 Edition)
by Janisse Ray
Synopsis This award-winning author writes a beautifully evocative paean to wildness and wilderness restoration with an extraordinary journey into southern Georgia's Pinhook Swamp, a link between the great southern wildernesses of Okefenokee Swamp and Osceola...
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Tending Fire: Coping with America's Wildland Fires
by Stephen J Pyne
Publisher Comments The wildfires that spread across Southern California in the fall of 2003 were devastating in their scale-twenty-two deaths, thousands of homes destroyed and many more threatened, hundreds of thousands of acres burned. What had gone wrong? And why, after...
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Investing in Nature: Case Studies of Land Conservation in Collaboration with Business
by William J. Ginn Publisher Comments In 2004, U.S. consumers spent $5.2 billion purchasing bottled water while the government only invested 5 percent of that amount to purchase critical watersheds, parks, and wildlife refuges-systems vital to clean water and healthy environments. How can we...
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One with Nineveh: Politics, Consumption, and the Human Future
by Paul Ehrlich
Publisher Comments "Here, between the covers of one book, you can find out about the major problems facing the world today, and how to fix them. It all comes sprinkled with the deliciously surprising examples, and wrapped in the alternately gripping and humorous prose, for...
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Hope, Human and Wild: True Stories of Living Lightly on the Earth (World as Home)
by Bill McKibben Publisher Comments Divided into three sections, Hope, Human and Wild profiles the efforts of three caring communities to preserve wilderness and reverse environmental devastation. They include the reforestation of McKibben’s home territory, New York’s...
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