Environment

“Available recommendation signals cluster around Nature, NatureHobbies, Fiction, Environment, Science lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for imaginative storytelling, atmosphere, or character-driven reflection. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.”

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER With a new afterwordIt is worse, much worse, than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears of sealevel rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possiblefood shortages, refugee emergencies, climate wars and economic devastation.The Uninhabitable Earth is both a trave...

Called the work of "a mesmerizing storyteller with deep compassion and memorable prose" (Publishers Weekly) and the book that, "anyone interested in natural history, botany, protecting nature, or Native American culture will love," by Library Journal, Braiding Sweetgrass is poised to be a classic of nature writing. As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmere...

A renowned climate scientist shows how fossil fuel companies have waged a thirtyyear campaign to deflect blame and responsibility and delay action on climate change, and offers a battle plan for how we can save the planet. Recycle. Fly less. Eat less meat. These are some of the ways that we've been told can slow climate change. But the inordinate ...

Brilliant, illuminating, and immensely absorbing, Collapse is destined to take its place as one of the essential books of our time, raising the urgent question: How can our world best avoid committing ecological suicideIn his millioncopy bestseller Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond examined how and why Western civilizations developed the tech...

Bill Gates shares what he's learned in more than a decade of studying climate change and investing in innovations to address the problems, and sets out a vision for how the world can build the tools it needs to get to zero greenhouse gas emissions.Bill Gates explains why he cares so deeply about climate change and what makes him optimistic that the...

Now a powerful documentary from the acclaimed director of Food Inc., Merchants of Doubt was one of the most talkedabout climate change books of recent years, for reasons easy to understand: It tells the controversial story of how a looseknit group of highlevel scientists and scientific advisers, with deep connections in politics and industry, ra...

“Available recommendation signals cluster around NonFiction, Energy, Business, Science, Environment lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for business judgment, leadership, or practical strategy. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.”

This groundbreaking book reveals how today's global businesses can be both environmentally responsible and highly profitable....

If human beings disappeared instantaneously from the earth, what would happen How would the planet reclaim its surface What creatures would emerge from the dark and swarm How would our treasured structures our tunnels, our bridges, our homes, our monuments survive the unmitigated impact of a planet without our intervention In his revelato...

A wideranging, interdisciplinary look at global changes that may occur over the next fifty yearswhether sudden and cataclysmic worldchanging events or gradually unfolding trends.Fundamental change occurs most often in one of two ways: as a "fatal discontinuity," a sudden catastrophic event that is potentially world changing, or as a persistent,...

Global warming skeptics often fall back on the argument that the scientific case for global warming is all model predictions, nothing but simulation; they warn us that we need to wait for real data, "sound science." In "A Vast Machine" Paul Edwards has news for these skeptics: without models, there are no data. Today, no collection of signals or ob...

An international best seller embraced and endorsed by policy makers, scientists, writers and energy industry executives from around the world, Tim Flannery's The Weather Makers contributed in bringing the topic of global warming to national prominence. For the first time, a scientist provided an accessible and comprehensive account of the history, ...

Humanity evolved in an Ice Age in which glaciers covered much of the world. But starting about 15,000 years ago, temperatures began to climb. Civilization and all of recorded history occurred in this warm period, the era known as the Holocenethe long summer of the human species. In The Long Summer, Brian Fagan brings us the first detailed record o...

This book is a wideranging and interdisciplinary examination and critique of meat consumption by humans, throughout history and around the world. Setting the scene with a chapter on meat's role in human evolution and its growing influence during the development of agricultural practices, the book goes on to examine modern production systems, their...

Provocative and illuminating essays from women at the forefront of the climate movement who are harnessing truth, courage, and solutions to lead humanity forward.There is a renaissance blooming in the climate movement: leadership that is more characteristically feminine and more faithfully feminist, rooted in compassion, connection, creativity, and...

As new groundbreaking research suggests that climate change played a major role in the most extreme catastrophes in the planet's history, awardwinning science journalist Peter Brannen takes us on a wild ride through the planet's five mass extinctions and, in the process, offers us a glimpse of our increasingly dangerous futureOur world has ended f...

“Available recommendation signals cluster around NonFiction, Energy, History, Science, Environment lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for big-picture nonfiction and accessible learning. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.”

From the bestselling author of Lab Girl comes a slim, urgent missive on the defining issue of our time: here is Hope Jahren on climate change, our timeless pursuit of more, and how the same human ambition that got us here can also be our salvation. Hope Jahren is an awardwinning geobiologist, a brilliant writer, and one of the seven billion people...

What if Atlantis wasn't a myth, but an early precursor to a new age of great flooding Across the globe, scientists and civilians alike are noticing rapidly rising sea levels, and higher and higher tides pushing more water directly into the places we live, from our most vibrant, historic cities to our last remaining traditional coastal villages. Wi...

On 24 June, 1837 Louis Agassiz stunned the learned members of the Swiss Society of Natural Sciences by addressing them, in his role as President, not with an anticipated lecture on fossil fishes, but with a passionate presentation on the existence of Ice Ages. No one was convinced. He even dragged the reluctant members of the Society up into the mo...

In The Eternal Frontier, worldrenowned scientist and historian Tim Flannery tells the unforgettable story of the geological and biological evolution of the North American continent, from the time of the asteroid strike that ended the age of dinosaurs 65 million years ago, to the present day. Flannery describes the development of North America's de...

We all know deep down that these are the 'make or break' years for humanity and the planet and that we cannot flee to another world: but what can any of us really do about it There Is No Planet B has many of the answers, laid out in an accessible and entertaining way, and filled with astonishing statistics and analysis. Framed around the key fasci...

Thirty years ago Bill McKibben offered one of the earliest warnings about climate change. Now he broadens the warning: the entire human game, he suggests, has begun to play itself out.Bill McKibben's groundbreaking book The End of Nature issued in dozens of languages and long regarded as a classic was the first book to alert us to global warm...

"We can place this book on the shelf that holds the writings of Thoreau and John Muir." San Francisco ChronicleThese astonishing portraits of the natural world explore the breathtaking diversity of the unspoiled American landscape the mountains and the prairies, the deserts and the coastlines. A stunning tribute to our land and a bold challenge ...

Mark Lynas was one of the original GM field wreckers. Back in the 1990sworking undercover with his colleagues in the environmental movementhe would descend on trial sites of genetically modified crops at night and hack them to pieces. Two decades later, most people around the worldfrom New York to Chinastill think that 'GMO' foods are bad f...

A "powerful and indispensable book" on the devastating consequences of environmental racismand what we can do to remedy its toxic effects on marginalized communities.Did you know...Middleclass AfricanAmerican households with incomes between $50,000 and $60,000 live in neighborhoods that are more polluted than those of very poor white households...

Rachel Carson?s Silent Spring was first published in three serialized excerpts in the New Yorker in June of 1962. The book appeared in September of that year and the outcry that followed its publication forced the banning of DDT and spurred revolutionary changes in the laws affecting our air, land, and water. Carson?s passionate concern for the fut...

The groundbreaking speeches of Greta Thunberg, the young climate activist who has become the voice of a generation, including her historic address to the United Nations In August 2018 a fifteenyearold Swedish girl, Greta Thunberg, decided not to go to school one day in order to protest the climate crisis. Her actions sparked a global movement, in...

From the Publishers Weekly review: "Two experts from Yale tackle the business wakeupcall du jourenvironmental responsibilityfrom every angle in this thorough, earnest guidebook: pragmatically, passionately, financially and historically. Though "no company the authors know of is on a truly longterm sustainable course," Esty and Winston label th...

The follow up to the #1 New York Times bestselling An Inconvenient TruthAn Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power is a daring call to action, exposing the reality of how humankind has aided in the destruction of our planet and groundbreaking information on what you can do now.Vice President Al Gore, a leading expert in climate change, combines cutting...

Naked Fashion invites you to join the movement of consumers, entrepreneurs, and creative professionals who are using their purchasing power, talents, and experience to make fashion more sustainable.Anyone with an active interest in fashion and where our clothes come from or looking for a career in fashion and the media will find inspiration and adv...

“Available recommendation signals cluster around Nature, NonFiction, Environment, Personal Development, Science lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for self-improvement and practical behavior change. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.”

The Great Lakes?Erie, Huron, Michigan, Ontario, and Superior?hold 20 percent of the world?s supply of surface fresh water and provide sustenance, work, and recreation for tens of millions of Americans. But they are under threat as never before, and their problems are spreading across the continent. The Death and Life of the Great Lakes is prizewin...

From the bestselling, awardwinning author of 1491 and 1493an incisive portrait of the two littleknown twentiethcentury scientists, Norman Borlaug and William Vogt, whose diametrically opposed views shaped our ideas about the environment, laying the groundwork for how people in the twenty-first century will choose to live in tomorrow's world.I...

Greenland: a remote, mysterious island five times the size of California but with a population of just 56,000. The ice sheet that covers it is 700 miles wide and 1,500 miles long, and is composed of nearly three quadrillion tons of ice. For the last 150 years, explorers and scientists have sought to understand Greenlandat first hoping that it wou...

WINNER OF THE NATIONAL OUTDOOR BOOK AWARD A CHICAGO TRIBUNE TOP TEN BOOK OF 2018 A GUARDIAN, NPR's SCIENCE FRIDAY, PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, AND LIBRARY JOURNAL BEST BOOK OF 2018Hailed as "deeply felt" (New York Times), "a revelation" (Pacific Standard), and "the book on climate change and sea levels that was missing" (Chicago Tribune), Rising is both a h...

Over 200,000 copies sold?fully updated! Dye your own wool, raise chickens, make your own cheddar cheese, build a log cabin, and much much more.Anyone who wants to learn basic living skills?the kind employed by our forefathers?and adapt them for a better life in the twenty-first century need look no further than this eminently useful, fullcolor gui...

Even young children are eager to help the environment ? and here is a bright, inviting novelty book that offers simple ways to make a difference.Do you remember to turn off the tap while you brush your teeth How about using both sides of the paper when writing and drawing Or planting seeds and nurturing the new plants as they grow Bold, childfr...

The classic novel of fly fishing and spirituality republished with a new Afterword by the author. Since its publication in 1983, The River Why has become a classic. David James Duncan's sweeping novel is a comingofage comedy about love, nature, and the quest for selfdiscovery, written in a voice as distinct and powerful as any in American letter...

A brilliant, soulful, and timely portrait of a twohundredyearold crabbing community in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay as it faces extinction "BEAUTIFUL, HAUNTING AND TRUE." ? Hampton Sides ? ?GORGEOUS. A TRULY REMARKABLE BOOK.? ? Beth Macy ? "GRIPPING. FANTASTIC." ? Outside ? "CAPTIVATING." ? Washington Post ? "POWERFUL." ? Bill McKibben ? "V...

From apple cores to zinnia heads, readers will discover the best ingredients for a successful compost pile! Kids everywhere are knowledgeable about the environment and climate change. Not only is composting becoming more common in households and residential gardens, but many school gardens feature compost piles, too. But how do you start a compos...

From prominent outdoorsman and nature writer Mark Kenyon comes an engrossing reflection on the past and future battles over our most revered landscapes_x0097_America_x0092_s public lands.Every American is a publicland owner, inheritor to the largest publicland trust in the world. These vast expanses provide a home to wildlife populations, a vital source of c...

Ed Abbey called The Monkey Wrench Gang, his 1975 novel, a "comic extravaganza." Some readers have remarked that the book is more a comic book than a real novel, and it's true that reading this incendiary call to protect the American wilderness requires more than a little of the old willing suspension of disbelief.The story centers on Vietnam vetera...

This sourcebook on all aspects of sustainable fashion encompasses not only the environmental issues presented by a wasteful and fastmoving fashion cycle but also the social impact of the global fashion industry, which employs up to forty million people worldwide in manufacturing and agriculture.Sandy Black has assembled contributions from a divers...

A visionary new program that businesses can follow to help restore the planet....

Slow Fashion offers creatives, entrepreneurs, and ethical consumers alike a glimpse into the innovative world of the ecoconcept store movement, sustainable design, and business that puts people, livelihoods and sustainability central to everything they do.Safia Minney argues that the future of brick and mortar retail is in the best in fair trade, ...

Our old familiar globe is suddenly melting, drying, acidifying, flooding, and burning in ways that no human has ever seen. We've created, in very short order, a new planet, still recognizable but fundamentally different. We may as well call it Eaarth.That new planet is filled with new binds and traps. A changing world costs large sums to defendth...