Going Green - Books on the Environment

Thomas L. Friedman’s phenomenal number-one bestseller The World Is Flat has helped millions of readers to see the world in a new way. In his brilliant,...

"...clean power and energy-efficiency systems and inspiring an ethic of conservation toward the natural world, which is increasingly imperiled. We’re going to need both massive breakthroughs in clean power..."

When the 44th President of the United States is elected, he will face urgent crises on three major fronts: the American economy, the wars in Iraq and...

"....   It’s not too late; climate change can be dramatically reversed.  Green energy is the key to America..."

"President Bush and his Administration have risen to the global warming challenge with responses ranging from obfuscation to pretense to outright denial...I'd...

"...to global warming,' he said.2 Was the minister right? Had climate change indeed come home to Britain..."

Powerful, impassioned essays on living and being in the world, from the bestselling author of The End of Nature and Deep Economy For a generation, Bill...

"...relationship to our world and our environment. His groundbreaking book on climate change, The End of Nature..."

Published for the first time in the United States, The Little Green Handbook is a unique reference work that illustrates the most important global developments...

"...important global developments facing us today, explains them, and suggests area for positive change..."

A manifesto for a radically different philosophy and practice of manufacture and environmentalism "Reduce, reuse, recycle" urge environmentalists; in other...

"...-- clean air, water, soil, and energy, as well as food, medicine, resources. Whatever we do, that's what..."

A Discover Magazine Top Science Book of the Year A Northern California Book Award Finalist There are more than 45,000 of them in the world. They...

"...bounties of water and power but end up producing blights on the citizenry and landscape. Deep Water..."

A penetrating, page-turning tour of a post-human Earth In The World Without Us, Alan Weisman offers an utterly original approach to questions of...

"...of engineers, atmospheric scientists, art conservators, zoologists, oil refiners, marine biologists..."

Bestselling author Bill McKibben turns activist in the first hands-on guidebook to stopping climate change, the world’s greatest threat Hurricane...

"...are greening up, while entrepreneurs are building a clean-energy alternative economy that has..."

The Pulitzer Prize-winning view of the continent, across the fortieth parallel and down through 4.6 billion years Twenty years ago, when John McPhee began...

"...of the book never changed, but its breadth caused him to complete it in stages, under the overall title..."

Passionate, succinct, chilling, closely argued, sometimes hilarious, touchingly well-intentioned, and essential.” —Margaret Atwood, The New York Review of...

"...York Review of Books Nearly fifteen years ago, in The End of Nature, Bill McKibben demonstrated that humanity had begun to irrevocably alter and endanger our environment on a global scale. Now he turns his eye to an array of technologies that could change our relationship not with the rest of nature but with ourselves. He explores the frontiers of genetic engineering, robotics, and nanotechnology..."

“Masterfully crafted, deeply thoughtful and mind-expanding.”—Los Angeles Times In this powerful and provocative manifesto, Bill McKibben offers the biggest...

"...climate change and peak oil—that continuing to expand the economy may be impossible; the very..."

An outstanding overview on global warming---and what we can do about it---from a distinguished world-class authority Climate change is the single biggest...

"...outcome of global warming. But climate change is also distinctive for several reasons. Humanity..."

“They deftly bring together findings from many disparate areas of science in a book that science buffs will find hard to put down.”...

"...-free world. Water, air, plants, solar energy and plate tectonics created the conditions for natural..."

“This book explains both why the decline of our most precious fuel is inevitable and how challenging it will be to cope with what comes next.”—Richard E....

"...exhaustion of the economically vital world oil reserves. Kenneth S. Deffeyes, a geologist who was among the first to warn of the coming oil crisis, now takes the next logical step and turns his attention to the earth’s supply of potential replacement fuels. In Beyond Oil, he traces out their likely..."

From the author of the now-classic Resource Wars, an indispensable account of how the world’s diminishing sources of energy are radically changing the...

"...by the ownership of mammoth reserves of oil, natural gas, and other sources of primary energy. Hence, Russia..."

A New Edition of the Phenomenal #1 Bestseller "One mark of a great book is that it makes you see things in a new way, and Mr. Friedman certainly...

"...at lifting millions out of poverty, and its drawbacks--environmental, social, and political, powerfully..."

Green illustrates and sheds new light on the gamut of issues associated with renewable energy, a topic whose importance increases exponentially with every...

"...and confusion over global warming, and demonstrate the degree to which renewable energy can be part..."

The Green Pharmacy Many diseased and conditions for which we turn to modern medicine can also be treated naturally with healing herbs, medicinal food, other...

"...The Green Pharmacy Many diseased and conditions for which we turn to modern medicine can also be treated naturally with healing herbs, medicinal food, other.... The Green Pharmacy Many diseased and conditions for which we turn to modern medicine can also be treated naturally with healing herbs, medicinal food, other natural remedies--and these treatments can be safer, less expensive and possibly..."

The management of environmental has become a key concern for many companies. Not only do these issues influence how an organization is seen and how its...

"...The management of environmental has become a key concern for many companies. Not only do these issues influence how an organization is seen and how its.... The management of environmental has become a key concern for many companies. Not only do these issues influence how an organization is seen and how its reputation is judged, it has huge implications for the organization's success, brand..."

Global warming is the greatest environmental threat facing humanity. From killer heat waves and increasingly violent weather to the spread of pests and...

"...Global warming is the greatest environmental threat facing humanity. From killer heat waves and increasingly violent weather to the spread of pests and.... Global warming is the greatest..."

Focusing on institutional contrasts between Japan and Britain in terms of corporatist or pluralist characteristics of government-industry relations and...

"...Focusing on institutional contrasts between Japan and Britain in terms of corporatist or pluralist characteristics of government-industry relations and.... Focusing on institutional contrasts between Japan and Britain in terms of corporatist or pluralist characteristics of government-industry relations and decision-making and implementation styles, the book examines how and to what extent institutions explain climate policy in Japan and Britain..."

Wangari Maathai, winner of the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize and founder of the Green Belt Movement, grew up in the highlands of Kenya, where fig trees cloaked the...

"...initiative, and conservation of natural resources is a timely one." —Starred, School Library..."