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Going Green - Books on the Environment

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Now more than ever the environment is a central issue. Whether it’s politics, sociology, business, education, science, or individual action, whether it’s changing light bulbs or learning how power structures are adapting to shrinking resources—these books can provide enlightenment about the changing world.

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Hot, Flat, and Crowded

Why We Need a Green Revolution--and How It Can Renew America

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..."

Thomas L. Friedman Thomas L. Friedman

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St. Martin's Griffin

The 100 Day Action Plan to Save the Planet

A Climate Crisis Solution for the 44th President - Ebook Edition

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..."

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William S. Becker William S. Becker

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Picador

High Tide

The Truth About Our Climate Crisis

"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..."

Mark Lynas

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Holt Paperbacks

The Bill McKibben Reader

Pieces from an Active Life

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..."

Bill McKibben Bill McKibben

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Picador

The Little Green Handbook

Seven Trends Shaping the Future of Our Planet

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..."

Ron Nielsen, D.Sc.

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North Point Press

Cradle to Cradle

Remaking the Way We Make Things

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..."

By William McDonough and Michael Braungart

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Picador

Deep Water

The Epic Struggle over Dams, Displaced People, and the Environment

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..."

Jacques Leslie

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Thomas Dunne Books

The World Without Us

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..."

Alan Weisman

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Holt Paperbacks

Fight Global Warming Now

The Handbook for Taking Action in Your Community

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..."

Bill McKibben Bill McKibben

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Annals of the Former World

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..."

John McPhee John McPhee

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Holt Paperbacks

Enough

Staying Human in an Engineered Age

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..."

Bill McKibben Bill McKibben

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Holt Paperbacks

Deep Economy

The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future

“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..."

Bill McKibben Bill McKibben

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St. Martin's Griffin

How We Can Save the Planet

Preventing Global Climate Catastrophe

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..."

By Mayer Hillman, Tina Fawcett and Sudhir Chella Rajan

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Thomas Dunne Books

It's the Crude, Dude

Greed, Gas, War, and the American Way

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Holt Paperbacks

The Life and Death of Planet Earth

How the New Science of Astrobiology Charts the Ultimate Fate of Our World

“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..."

By Peter D. Ward and Donald Brownlee

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Hill and Wang

Beyond Oil

The View from Hubbert's Peak

“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..."

Kenneth S. Deffeyes

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Metropolitan Books

Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet

The New Geopolitics of Energy

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..."

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Michael T. Klare

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Picador

The World Is Flat 3.0

A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century

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..."

Thomas L. Friedman Thomas L. Friedman

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Palgrave Macmillan

Green

Your Place in the New Energy Revolution

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..."

By Jane Hoffman and Michael J. Hoffman

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St. Martin's Paperbacks

The Green Pharmacy

The Ultimate Compendium Of Natural Remedies From The World's Foremost Authority On Healing Herbs

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..."

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Palgrave Macmillan

Managing Green Issues

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..."

By Tom Curtin and Jacqueline Jones

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Palgrave Macmillan

Global Warming

Personal Solutions for a Healthy Planet

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..."

Chris Spence

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Manchester University Press

Global Warming Policy in Japan and Britain

Interactions between Institutions and Issue Characteristics

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..."

Shizuka Oshitani

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

Planting the Trees of Kenya

The Story of Wangari Maathai

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..."

Claire A. Nivola

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