Author: Gow McDilda, Diane Publisher: Adams Media Format: Adobe PDF
Description: 365 Ways to Live Green will educate, inspire, and motivate you to do your part. With easy-to-implement tips, you'll learn how to:Create biodegradable home cleaning productsFind the hidden ingredients ...
Author: Freyfogle, Eric T. Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Every society expresses its fundamental values and hopes in the ways it shapes and inhabits its landscapes. In this literate and wide-ranging exploration, Eric T. Freyfogle raises difficult questions ...
Author: Zimdahl, Robert L. Publisher: Elsevier S&T Format: Adobe PDF
Description: What are the goals of agricultural science? What should the goals of agricultural science be? How do and how should the practitioners of agriculture address complex ethical questions? These questio...
Author: Zimdahl, Robert L. Publisher: An Elsevier Title Format: Adobe PDF
Description: What are the goals of agricultural science? What should the goals of agricultural science be? How do and how should the practitioners of agriculture address complex ethical questions? These questio...
Author: ICON Health Publications Publisher: ICON Health Publications Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This is a 3-in-1 reference book. It gives a complete medical dictionary covering hundreds of terms and expressions relating to air pollution. It also gives extensive lists of bibliographic citations. ...
Author: Freinkel, Susan Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The American chestnut was one of America's most common, valued, and beloved trees-a "perfect tree" that ruled the forests from Georgia to Maine. But in the early twentieth century, an exotic plague sw...
Author: Coates, Peter Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Sometimes by accident and sometimes on purpose, humans have transported plants and animals to new habitats around the world. Arriving in ever-increasing numbers to American soil, recent invaders have ...
Author: Tremper, Chuck Publisher: Sustainable Planet Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Responding effectively to global warming requires doing much more than changing light bulbs or even converting from fossil fuels to renewable energy. That's because global warming is just one aspect ...
Author: Trimble, Mr. Stephen Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Beginning with an Olympic ski race in northern Utah, this heartfelt book from award-winning writer and photographer Stephen Trimble takes a penetrating look at the battles raging over the land-and the...
Author: Royte, Elizabeth Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Second only to soda, bottled water is on the verge of becoming the most popular beverage in the country. The brands have become so ubiquitous that we're hardly conscious that Poland Spring and Evian w...
Description: Since 1973, Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletins have offered practical, hands-on instructions designed to help readers master dozens of country living skills quickly and easily. There are now more than ...
Author: Dasmann, Raymond F. Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A pioneer in international conservation and wildlife ecology, Raymond Dasmann published his first book, the influential text Environmental Conservation, when the term "environment" was little known an...
Author: Romero, Aldemaro Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Biospeleology, the study of organisms that live in caves, has a tremendous potential to inform many aspects of modern biology; yet this area of knowledge remains largely anchored in neo-Lamarckian vie...
Author: Ndenecho, Emmanuel Neba Publisher: Langaa RPCIG Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book emphasises that planning is essential, as the conservation approaches of the past may not work in an ever-changing warmer environment. It appraises current management strategies, assesses th...
Author: Davies, Stephanie Publisher: Krause Publications Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Rethink Your Refuse Hundreds of millions of tons of solid waste are produced in the U.S. annually, and the landfills simply store it, not eliminate it. Recycling diverts significant amounts of wast...
Author: Rattle, Robert Publisher: AltaMira Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Rattle's new book challenges key assumptions concerning the role of Internet and communication technologies (ICTs) in globalization processes. The author argues that while globalization is predicated ...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: One of the biggest threats to the survival of many plant and animal species is the destruction or fragmentation of their natural habitats. The conservation of landscape connections, where animals, pla...
Author: N/A Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In an era of climate change, deforestation and massive habitat loss, we can no longer rely on parks and protected areas as isolated 'islands of wilderness' to conserve and protect vital biodiversity. ...
Description: In an era of climate change, deforestation and massive habitat loss, we can no longer rely on parks and protected areas as isolated 'islands of wilderness' to conserve and protect vital biodiversity. ...
Author: Reed, Kristin Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: After decades of civil war and instability, the African country of Angola is experiencing a spectacular economic boom thanks to its most valuable natural resource: oil. But oil extraction--both on- an...
Author: Burr, Chuck Publisher: Trafford Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: There is a reason that after 10,000 years, our culture is now unraveling—it has hit the wall. Every global crisis today shares one underlying cause—the story that perpetuates our culture, ...
Author: Suzuki, David / Boyd, David Publisher: Greystone Books Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Everyone knows that the planet is in trouble, but is there a solution? This timely book identifies the most effective ways individuals can be more green in four key areas: home, travel, food, and cons...
Author: Coonan, Timothy J. / Schwemm, Catherin A. / Garcelon, David K. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Decline and Recovery of the Island Fox is the first account of the natural history and ecology of the smallest canid in North America, and describes the conservation efforts applied to save this speci...
Author: Swan, Christopher C. Publisher: Perseus Books, LLC Format: Adobe PDF
Description: What if it was possible to combine energy and water in such a way that would contribute to the reversal of global warming and the restoration of the planet? What if it were possible to have a better q...
Author: Law, Tom Publisher: Longership Publishing Australia Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Tom Law, author of "Nuclear Islam and Other Stories", has hit out again at conventional thinking with this new tome on the problem of Global Warming. His blunt narrative interlaced with humour leads u...
Author: O'Leary, Richard Publisher: Algora Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Westerner Richard O'Leary loves the wilderness, but he loves American liberties too - and he says that extreme environmentalism is trampling on our rights every day.
Author: Ndenecho, Emmanuel Neba Publisher: Langaa RPCIG Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Mountain forests provide important ecological services, and essential products. This book focuses on the importance of mountain forests in Cameroon for the local people who depend most directly on the...
Author: N/A Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: We are living in the early stages of a looming worldwide extinction crisis. Abundant evidence shows that the current rate of species extinctions is nearing its highest level since the asteroid collisi...
Author: Deamer, David Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This pathbreaking book explores how life can begin, taking us from cosmic clouds of stardust, to volcanoes on Earth, to the modern chemistry laboratory. Seeking to understand life's connection to the ...
Description: The 21st century qualifies as one in which humanity raised environmental decay, especially climate change, as a key global concern requiring urgent political attention. The book Framework and Tools fo...
Author: Jacobsen, Rowan Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Many people will remember that Rachel Carson predicted a silent spring, but she also warned of a fruitless fall, a time with no pollination and no fruit. The fruitless fall nearly became a reality whe...
Description: The litany of environmental bad news â rapid extinction of species, pollution, depleted food sources â can be overwhelming, but there's hope too. In this thoughtful look at what's happening ...
Author: Howard, Brian Clark / Leitman, Seth / Brinsky, William Publisher: McGraw-Hill/TAB Electronics Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Flip the switch to energy-efficient lightingThis do-it-yourself guide makes it easy to upgrade residential and commercial lighting to reduce costs and environmental impact while maintaining or even im...
Author: Howard, Brian Clark / Leitman, Seth / Brinsky, William Publisher: McGraw-Hill/TAB Electronics Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Flip the switch to energy-efficient lightingThis do-it-yourself guide makes it easy to upgrade residential and commercial lighting to reduce costs and environmental impact while maintaining or even im...
Author: Allen, Valorie M. Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Each day we share the earth and its resources with a quarter million more people than the day before. Our population is increasing by three people per second, with a growth rate of more than 80 millio...
Author: Fujita, Rod Publisher: Perseus Books, LLC Format: Adobe PDF
Description: An oil tanker breaks up off the coast of Spain, contaminating beaches and killing over one hundred thousand birds. Colorful coral reefs turn a deathly white around the world. Six whales die in the Bah...
Description: To Help or Not to Help? When faced with an injured bird or orphaned nestling, most people want to help but don't know how - and also fear doing more harm than good. In fact, many wild birds tha...
Author: Nash, Linda Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Among the most far-reaching effects of the modern environmental movement was the widespread acknowledgment that human beings were inescapably part of a larger ecosystem. With this book, Linda Nash giv...
Author: Watson, Dwight Publisher: Brown Walker Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Integrated coastal zone management is a process of good governance that guides decision-making on the equitable allocation and sustainable use of natural resources. Integrated Planning and Management ...
Author: Shah, Bindi V. Publisher: Temple University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Laotian Daughters focuses on second-generation environmental justice activists in Richmond, California. Bindi Shah's pathbreaking book charts these young women's efforts to improve the degraded c...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Most large herbivores require some type of management within their habitats. Some populations of large herbivores are at the brink of extinction, some are under discussion for reintroduction, whilst o...
Author: Lannoo, Michael J. Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Aldo Leopold and Ed Ricketts are giants in the history of environmental awareness. They were born ten years and only about 200 miles apart and died within weeks of each other in 1948. Yet they never m...
Author: Lannoo, Michael J. Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: ""Leopold's Shack and Ricketts's Lab brings fresh insight to the fertile ideas and writings of two innovators of early twentieth century ecology. In this insightful and important book, Michael J. Lann...
Author: Thayer, Robert L. , Jr. Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Robert Thayer brings the concepts and promises of the growing bioregional movement to a wide audience in a book that passionately urges us to discover "where we are" as an antidote to our rootless, st...
Author: Jensen, Sara E. / McPherson, Guy R. Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Fire, both inevitable and ubiquitous, plays a crucial role in North American ecosystems. But as necessary as fire is to maintaining healthy ecosystems, it threatens human lives and livelihoods in unac...
