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In this collection of adventure rebus stories, Chirp snorkels for treasure, explores a jungle, flies to...
Category: Environmental Politics
$19.95
Cold, Hungry and in the Dark
New Society Pub |
May 14, 2013 |
336 pages
What the frack ? exploding the myth of the natural gas ?one hundred-year supply.”
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Sepp Holzer's Permaculture
Chelsea Green Publishing Company |
April 11, 2011 |
232 pages
First published in German as Sepp Holzers Permakultur by Leopold Stocker Verlag.
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The Attacking Ocean
Bloomsbury Press |
June 11, 2013 |
288 pages
The past fifteen thousand years--the entire span of human civilization--have witnessed dramatic sea level changes, which began with rapid global warming at the end of the Ice Age, when sea levels were more than 700 feet below modern levels. Over the next eleven millennia, the oceans climbed in fits... More Info
$17.95
Spiritual Ecology
July 1, 2013 |
296 pages
Showing the deep connection between our present ecological crisis and our lack of awareness of the sacred nature of creation, this series of essays from spiritual and environmental leaders around the world shows how humanity can transform its relationship with the Earth. Combining the thoughts and... More Info
$17.95
Small Stories, Big Changes
New Society Pub |
April 16, 2013 |
240 pages
Voices from the vanguard of environmental change.
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$35.00
Seaweeds
University of Chicago Press |
June 5, 2013 |
305 pages
Until recently, seaweed for most Americans was nothing but a nuisance, clinging to us as we swim in the ocean and stinking up the beach as it rots in the sun. With the ever-growing popularity of sushi restaurants across the country, however, seaweed is becoming a substantial part of our total food... More Info
$22.95
Earth Repair
New Society Pub |
June 11, 2013 |
336 pages
Resistance is fertile ? bioremediation techniques to heal the earth.
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The Ocean of Life
Penguin Group USA |
May 28, 2013 |
432 pages
A Silent Spring for oceans—from “the Rachel Carson of the fish world” (The New York Times) The sea feeds and sustains us, but its future is under catastrophic threat. In this powerful and ambitious book Callum Roberts—one of the world's foremost conservation biologists—tells the story of... More Info
$57.50
Man and Sea
ABRAMS |
May 21, 2013 |
304 pages
Spanning from the arctic to the tropics, from large-scale views of Australia's barrier reef to close-up images of sea turtles, Man and Sea is a compelling, entirely unique journey through a fascinating world. Spectacular aerial images by Yann Arthus-Bertrand and striking underwater photographs by... More Info
Food Rules
Penguin Group USA |
December 29, 2009 |
140 pages
The author of The Omnivore's Dilemma and In Defense of Food presents a pocket-sized set of rules for eating wisely in accordance with a variety of ethnic and cultural traditions, sharing guidelines for making grocery choices and dining out. Original. 500,000 first printing.
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$16.95
Digging the City
Rocky Mountain Books Ltd |
October 1, 2012 |
164 pages
At the last census in 2006, just over 80 percent of Canada's population lived in urban centres. How we feed that population and protect its food sources is an enduring subject of debate in food security circles these days.
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$29.95
Gardener's A to Z Guide to Growing Organic Food
Storey Books |
June 19, 2013 |
485 pages
A single-volume reference for organic food gardening is arranged in an A-to-Z format that covers planting, watering, fertilizing, harvesting, storing, working in a greenhouse, and preventing and combating plant diseases and garden pests. Original.
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Food, Farms, and Solidarity
Duke University Press Books |
January 28, 2013 |
352 pages
The Confédération Paysanne, one of France's largest farmers' unions, has successfully fought against genetically modified organisms (GMOs), but unlike other allied movements, theirs has been led by producers rather than consumers. In Food, Farms, and Solidarity, Chaia Heller analyzes the group's... More Info
Food Politics
May 1, 2013 |
522 pages
We all witness, in advertising and on supermarket shelves, the fierce competition for our food dollars. In this engrossing exposé, Marion Nestle goes behind the scenes to reveal how the competition really works and how it affects our health. The abundance of food in the United States--enough... More Info
The Autism Puzzle
March 19, 2013 |
208 pages
"The Autism Puzzle unlocks many alarming truths about this worldwide epidemic and raises the deeper question: What are you going to do about it?” —Dr. Bob Sears, author of The Autism Book (Sears Parenting Library) With 1 in 88 American children now affected by autism, The Autism Puzzle is the... More Info
$13.95
Nuclear War and Environmental Catastrophe
April 30, 2013 |
160 pages
Nuclear War and Environmental Catastrophe is a focused discussion on the existential threats of our time, and their points of intersection since World War II. Both nuclear war and environmental catastrophe have the potential for similar outcomes: a world made uninhabitable by the scarcity of water,... More Info
$29.95
Eat Up
New Society Pub |
April 16, 2013 |
288 pages
From roof to table ? urban food has reached new heights.
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$35.95
The Global Hunger Crisis
Pluto Press (UK) |
March 5, 2013 |
272 pages
Millions across the world face the daily challenge to find enough food to survive. Hunger is on the rise globally with more than 1.2 billion people suffering from food insecurity. Rising prices are further restricting food access.In this deeply informative study, Majda Bne Saad identifies the... More Info
$28.00
Billion-Dollar Fish
May 15, 2013 |
280 pages
Alaska pollock is everywhere. If you're eating fish but you don't know what kind it is, it's almost certainly pollock. Prized for its generic fish taste, pollock masquerades as crab meat in california rolls and seafood salads, and it feeds millions as fish sticks in school cafeterias and... More Info
The Ecology of Commerce Revised Edition
HarperBusiness |
October 26, 2010 |
256 pages
The world has changed in the seventeen years since the controversial initial publication of Paul Hawken's Ecology of Commerce, a stirring treatise about the perceived antagonism between ecology and business. Yet Hawken's impassioned argument—that business both causes the most egregious abuses of... More Info
$18.95
The Approaching Great Transformation
March 26, 2013 |
256 pages
Shares uplifting views about how individuals and communities can break habitual ways of producing and consuming in a post-fossil fuels world, sharing examples of working systems while outlining a philosophical blueprint for economic institutions centered on self-reliance, ecological permanence and... More Info
$29.50
Cooked
Penguin Press |
April 23, 2013 |
464 pages
Fire, water, air, earth—our most trusted food expert recounts the story of his culinary education In Cooked, Michael Pollan explores the previously uncharted territory of his own kitchen. Here, he discovers the enduring power of the four classical elements—fire, water, air, and earth—to... More Info
$33.95
The Rhino Keepers
October 1, 2012 |
240 pages
The conservation of the rhinos in southern Africa is described in this account of these fascinating animals, the reasons behind their historical decline, the myths that surround them, and the resurrection of the rhinoceros horn trade. Few animals face as violent, as well organized, and as... More Info
Eating Animals
September 1, 2010 |
368 pages
The award-winning author of Everything Is Illuminated exposes common misconceptions about how animals are slaughtered and processed for food, drawing on sources from popular culture to national tradition to reveal how the meat industry misrepresents its practices. Reprint. A best-selling book.
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Trash Animals
April 1, 2013 |
320 pages
Why are some species admired or beloved while others are despised? An eagle or hawk circling overhead inspires awe while urban pigeons shuffling underfoot are kicked away in revulsion. Fly fishermen consider carp an unwelcome trash fish, even though the trout they hope to catch are often equally... More Info
$26.00
How Animals Grieve
University of Chicago Press |
March 21, 2013 |
201 pages
From the time of our earliest childhood encounters with animals, we casually ascribe familiar emotions to them. But scientists have long cautioned against such anthropomorphizing, arguing that it limits our ability to truly comprehend the lives of other creatures. Recently, however, things have... More Info
$17.95
Financing Our Foodshed
New Society Pub |
February 12, 2013 |
288 pages
Bringing money home - real people and real stories from the Slow Money movement
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$22.00
Save the Humans
Vintage Books Canada |
April 2, 2013 |
304 pages
An impassioned and inspiring story from the creator of the award-winning documentary Sharkwater. Beginning with a childhood spent catching poisonous snakes and chasing after alligators, Rob Stewart, the award-winning documentary filmmaker behind Sharkwater, charts his development into one of the... More Info
$21.00
Outside the Box
Vintage Books Canada |
April 2, 2013 |
304 pages
When Canadian journalist Jeannie Marshall moved to Rome with her husband, she delighted in Italy's famous culinary traditions. But when Marshall gave birth to a son, she began to see how that food culture was eroding, especially within young families. Like their North American counterparts, Italian... More Info
$29.95
My Backyard Jungle
April 22, 2013 |
376 pages
The captivating story of an urban family who welcomes wildlife into their backyard and discovers the ups and downs of sharing habitat
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$26.95
The Incidental Steward
April 22, 2013 |
248 pages
A thoughtful citizen scientist contemplates our changing natural world and the value of stewardship
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$24.95
Contested Water: The Struggle Against Water Privatization in the United States and Canada
MIT Press (MA) |
March 15, 2013 |
254 pages
Attempts by local governments to privatize water services have met with furiousopposition. Activists argue that to give private companies control of the water supply is to turnwater from a common resource into a marketized commodity. Moreover, to cede local power to a globalcorporation puts... More Info
$33.50
Critical Animal Studies
SUNY Press |
January 1, 2013 |
202 pages
Having roots as a specialized philosophical movement at Oxford University in the early 1970s, critical animal studies is not taking shape as a wide-open, mutlidisciplinary endeavor through which scholars across the humanities, sciences, and social sciences, and others, are joining together to... More Info
$16.00
The No-Nonsense Guide to Animal Rights
June 15, 2006 |
143 pages
The protection of animal rights is more than a modern, western phenomenon. In fact, there is a long history of concern for animals around the world, and it is this concern that underlies today's animal rights movement. The No-Nonsense Guide to Animal Rightsexplains the key issues, charts the growth... More Info
$24.95
Eco-Business
MIT Press |
March 1, 2013 |
208 pages
McDonald's promises to use only beef, coffee, fish, chicken, and cooking oil obtainedfrom sustainable sources. Coca-Cola promises to achieve water neutrality. Unilever has set adeadline of 2020 to reach 100 percent sustainable agricultural sourcing. Walmart has pledged tobecome carbon neutral.... More Info
$27.95
Societies beyond Oil
Zed Books |
February 5, 2013 |
224 pages
This groundbreaking book, from a distinguished sociologist, examines the profound adjustments required to live in a world where oil is no longer an easily-available energy source. It considers what societies that are powering down would be like; what lessons can be learned from the past; will... More Info
Growing Resistance
University of Manitoba Press |
April 1, 2013 |
184 pages
Growing Resistance is the remarkable story of how Canadian farmers led an international coalition to a major victory for the anti-GM movement by defeating the introduction of Monsanto's genetically modified wheat. Through interviews with producers, industry organizations, and biochemical companies,... More Info
$24.95
Doing Democracy with Circles
November 1, 2009 |
194 pages
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One river
Simon & Schuster, 1997 |
August 5, 1997 |
544 pages
Recounts the author's education under Richard Evans Schultes, who studied the drug qualities of plants in the Amazon basin, and his own journey in his teacher's footsteps
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Igniting a Revolution
A K PressDistribution |
April 1, 2006 |
441 pages
Revolutionary environmentalists take on the corporations destroying our planet.
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$24.95
Captain Paul Watson
Firefly Books Limited |
March 19, 2013 |
264 pages
The behind-the-scenes true story of Paul Watson, the world's most famous eco-pirate and marine animal rights activist. Paul Watson became an animal rights activist at the young age of eleven, in 1962. When trappers killed a beaver that Paul had befriended, he systematically and efficiently located... More Info
$40.00
Ginkgo
March 19, 2013 |
400 pages
The life story of the ancient and majestic ginkgo tree, from the age of dinosaurs to the twenty-first century
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$28.00
Earthmasters
Yale University Press |
April 22, 2013 |
264 pages
DIVThis book goes to the heart of the unfolding reality of the twenty-first century: international efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions have all failed, and before the end of the century Earth is projected to be warmer than it has been for 15 million years.
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$16.95
Wavelengths of Your Song
McGill Queens Univ |
April 1, 2013 |
144 pages
Intuitive environmentalism from the Canadian North is carried forth into creative global adventuring.
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$39.95
Bridges Over Troubled Water
Asp-Academic & Scientific Pub |
January 1, 2013 |
271 pages
The most recent academic research on water management, this publication examines two-years-worth of workshops and seminars and presents border-crossing perspectives on water technologies, challenges, and governance from Brussels and beyond. Featuring contributions by the World Health Organization... More Info
$40.95
Making Your Home Sustainable
Scribe Publications Pty Limited |
September 26, 2012 |
144 pages
This is a practical and easy-to-follow guide for homeowners, builders and architects who are concerned about the effects of climate change and environmental degradation and want to do something about reversing the trend.
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$22.95
Good News for a Change
August 7, 2003 |
399 pages
A practical guide for bringing about planetary change shares stories of ordinary people who managed to make a dent in big problems, such as Third World villages experimenting in participatory democracy. Original. 20,000 first printing.
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Plowing With Pigs
New Society Pub |
March 5, 2013 |
272 pages
Off-the-wall solutions for real farmstead problems
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$17.95
The End of Energy
MIT Press (MA) |
February 8, 2013 |
384 pages
Forty years of energy incompetence: villains, failures of leadership, and missedopportunities.
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