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Change Comes to Dinner: How Vertical Farmers, Urban Growers, and Other Innovators Are Revolutionizing How America Eats
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“Katherine Gustafson is a troubadour for sustainable food, inviting us to jump into her rental car as she maps the inspiring alternative food system emerging across the United States. And here’s a pleasant surprise: we don’t spend any time in the privileged bubbles of Brooklyn or Berkeley; Gustafson’s expansive and hopeful portrait puts the rest of America back in the picture. Change Comes To Dinner shows us the outline of a sane food system: now it’s up to us to fill it in.”—Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine

The Race for What's Left: The Global Scramble for the World's Last Resources
The Race for What's Left



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"As Michael Klare makes clear in this powerful book, the heads of our corporate empires have decided to rip apart the planet in one last burst of profiteering....
The Upcycle: Beyond Sustainability--Designing for Abundance
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From the authors of Cradle to Cradle, we learn what’s next: The Upcycle The Upcycle is the eagerly awaited follow-up to Cradle to Cradle, one of the most...
The Genius of Earth Day: How a 1970 Teach-In Unexpectedly Made the First Green Generation
The Genius of Earth Day



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The first Earth Day is the most famous little-known event in modern American history. Because we still pay ritual homage to the planet every April 22, everyone...
The Serpents of Paradise: A Reader
The Serpents of Paradise



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This book is different from any other Edward Abbey book. It includes essays, travel pieces and fictions to reveal Ed's life directly, in his own words. The...
Business Lessons from a Radical Industrialist:
Business Lessons from a Radical Industrialist


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"Ray Anderson is a personal inspiration for me and for anyone trying to find their way in this new world of green business.  He may be ‘radical’ but he’s also a profit-seeking businessman. Confessions tells an amazing first-hand story of a personal and business transformation, a journey from being a cold-eyed capitalist to being . . . a cold-eyed capitalist, but just with a much larger perspective on what profitable really means.  Ray has found a new path that’s good for the planet and great for his business.  He’s showing the world how it’s done yet again."—Andrew Winston, environmental strategist, author of Green Recovery and co-author of Green to Gold
No Impact Man: The Adventures of a Guilty Liberal Who Attempts to Save the Planet, and the Discoveries He Makes About Himself and Our Way of Life in the Process
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"No Impact Man is a deeply honest and riveting account of the year in which Colin Beavan and his wife attempted to do what most of us would consider impossible. What might seem inconvenient to the point of absurdity instead teaches lessons that all of us need to learn. We as individuals can take action to address important social problems. One person can make a difference."—Marion Nestle, author of What to Eat
The 100 Day Action Plan to Save the Planet: A Climate Crisis Solution for the 44th President
The 100 Day Action Plan to Save the Planet



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"The next president has no time to waste in building a post-carbon economy. This book is a distillation of the best policy advice he will get from anyone on the most important issue of our time."—David W. Orr, Paul Sears Distinguished Professor, Oberlin College
The Wisdom of Birds: An Illustrated History of Ornithology
The Wisdom of Birds



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What the birds have taught us: a gorgeously rendered and comprehensive history of ornithology, from folklore to facts—the perfect gift for bird enthusiasts...
Bird Sense: What It's Like to Be a Bird
Bird Sense



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A hugely engaging book about birds, their senses, and behaviour that is informed by an attractive blend of personal experience, entertaining stories and...
Visit Sunny Chernobyl: And Other Adventures in the World's Most Polluted Places
Visit Sunny Chernobyl



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For most of us, traveling means visiting the most beautiful places on Earth—Paris, the Taj Mahal, the Grand Canyon. It’s rare to book a plane ticket to visit...
Wild Blue: A Natural History of the World’s Largest Animal
Wild Blue



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The blue whale holds the title of largest creature that has ever lived, and it may also be the most mysterious. The biggest blue whales can outweigh every...
Thin Ice: Unlocking the Secrets of Climate in the World's Highest Mountains
Thin Ice



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“One of the best books yet published on climate change . . . The best compact history of the science of global warming I have read.”—Bill McKibben, The New...
The Other Side of Eden: Hunters, Farmers, and the Shaping of the World
The Other Side of Eden



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"An informed, passionate and enlightening volume, one that draws on an exceedingly rich experience and adds new dimensions to our understanding of the diversity of human life."—Richard Bernstein, The New York Times
Fixing Climate: What Past Climate Changes Reveal About the Current Threat--and How to Counter It
Fixing Climate



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“A remarkably readable and compelling account of the important advances in our understanding of the complexity of global climate that have taken place over the past 40 years. The book is a must-read for anyone wishing to understand the unique nature of the climate change underway today.”—Michael McElroy, Gilbert Butler Professor of Environmental Studies, Harvard University
Out of Eden: An Odyssey of Ecological Invasion
Out of Eden



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"One of the most comprehensive and readable accounts of [this] phenomenon . . . For people trying to figure out how our species fits, or doesn't, into the natural order, there is no more interesting subject than the blending of the native and the exotic. And no more interesting an introduction than this fine book."—Bill McKibben, The Boston Globe
The Devil's Teeth: A True Story of Obsession and Survival Among America's Great White Sharks
The Devil's Teeth



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"Indulges in just the right mix of anxiety, gore and reassuring shark science. One can find reason to fear the waves and then muster the courage to enter them, usually within the same chapter."—The New York Times Book Review
What a Plant Knows: A Field Guide to the Senses
What a Plant Knows



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“Enough absorbing science to concede that plants continue to inspire and amaze us.” —The Wall Street Journal How does a Venus flytrap know when to snap...
Songbird Journeys: Four Seasons In the Lives of Migratory Birds
Songbird Journeys



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Until recently, little was known about the lives of songbirds during their travels from autumn until spring. Now scientists have documented mass migrations...
100 Heartbeats: The Race to Save Earth's Most Endangered Species
100 Heartbeats



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Popular television host Jeff Corwin takes readers on a gripping journey around the world to meet the animals threatened by extinction It’s no secret that our...
Sustainable Excellence: The Future of Business in a Fast-Changing World
Sustainable Excellence



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HOW THE WORLD’S MOST INFLUENTIAL COMPANIES ARE BUILDING BUSINESS STRATEGIES THAT TACKLE THE BIGGEST GLOBAL CHALLENGES Today’s business landscape is changing...
Changes in the Land, Revised Edition: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England
Changes in the Land, Revised Edition



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"Written with an elegant simplicity of style, this pioneering study has become an enduring classic in the field of American colonial and environmental history."—Howard R. Lamar, Yale University
If Dogs Could Talk: Exploring the Canine Mind
If Dogs Could Talk



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“This book is endlessly enlightening and entertaining . . . will appeal to all dog owners.” —Ann LaFarge, Taconic News How do dogs think? Short of breeding...
Oceana: Our Endangered Oceans and What We Can Do to Save Them
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Most people know Ted Danson as the affable bartender Sam Malone in the long-running television series Cheers. But fewer realize that over the course of the...

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