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The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight: The Fate of the World and What We Can Do Before It's Too Late
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Rob Hopkins · 242 pages
We live in an oil-dependent world, and have got to this level of dependency in a very short space of time, using vast reserves of oil in the process without planning for when the supply is not so plentiful. Most people don't want to think about what happens when the oil runs out (or becomes prohibitively expensive), but The Transition Handbook shows how the inevitable and profound changes ahead ca
The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems
Van Jones · 237 pages
The award-winning human rights activist and advisor to policy makers and presidential candidates delivers a 21st-century economic plan to rescue working-class Americans. Van Jones illustrates how we can invent and invest our way out of the pollution-based grey economy and into the healthy new green economy. Built by a broad coalition deeply rooted in the lives and struggles of ordinary people, thi
Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit
Al Gore · 407 pages
Presents a comprehensive plan for saving the environment by addressing population, technology, and education.
Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet
Jeffrey D. Sachs · 400 pages
From one of the world's greatest economic minds, author of The New York Times bestseller The End of Poverty, a clear and vivid map of the road to sustainable and equitable global prosperity and an augury of the global economic collapse that lies ahead if we don't follow itThe global economic system now faces a sustainability crisis, Jeffrey Sachs argues, that will overturn many of our basic assump
Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World
John Robert McNeill · 416 pages
When the Rivers Run Dry: Water--The Defining Crisis of the Twenty-first Century
Fred Pearce · 346 pages
The Big Thirst: The Marvels, Mysteries & Madness Shaping the New Era of Water
Charles Fishman · 388 pages
The water coming out of your kitchen tap is four billion years old and might well have been sipped by a Tyrannosaurus rex. Rather than only three states of water -- liquid, ice, and vapor -- there is a fourth, "molecular water," fused into rock 400 miles deep in the Earth, and that's where most of the planet's water is found. Unlike most precious resources, water cannot be used up; it can always b
The Human Age: The World Shaped By Us
Diane Ackerman · 344 pages
The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World
Bjorn Lomborg · 540 pages
Laudato Si': On the Care of Our Common Home
Pope Francis
Prosperity Without Growth: Economics for a Finite Planet
Tim Jackson, Bill McKibben, Herman E. Daly, Mary Robinson · 276 pages
Green Illusions
Ozzie Zehner · 437 pages
"We don't have an energy crisis. We have a consumption crisis. And this book, which takes aim at cherished assumptions regarding energy, offers refreshingly straight talk about what's wrong with the way we think and talk about the problem. Though we generally believe we can solve environmental problems with more energy--more solar cells, wind turbines, and biofuels--alternative technologies come w
Storms Of My Grandchildren: The Truth About The Climate Catastrophe And Our Last Chance To Save Humanity
James Hansen · 336 pages
The Soil Will Save Us: How Scientists, Farmers, and Foodies Are Healing the Soil to Save the Planet
Kristin Ohlson · 256 pages
Thousands of years of poor farming and ranching practicesand, especially, modern industrial agriculturehave led to the loss of up to 80 percent of carbon from the worlds soils. That carbon is now floating in the atmosphere, and even if we stopped using fossil fuels today, it would continue warming the planet. In The Soil Will Save Us, journalist and bestselling author Kristin Ohlson makes an elega
Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution--and How It Can Renew America
Thomas L. Friedman · 516 pages
Friedman's bestseller "The World Is Flat" has helped millions of readers to see globalization in a new way. Now the author brings a fresh outlook to the crises of destabilizing climate change and rising competition for energy.
How Bad Are Bananas?: The Carbon Footprint Of Everything
Mike Berners-Lee · 304 pages
The Man Who Planted Trees: Lost Groves, Champion Trees, and an Urgent Plan to Save the Planet
Jim Robbins · 236 pages
Describes the efforts of a former alcoholic nurseryman, whose near-death experience prompted him to attempt to find the best specimens of the U.S.'s 872 known species of trees and use them to propagate their offspring around the world.
The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century
James Howard Kunstler · 313 pages
The Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update
Donella H. Meadows, Dennis L. Meadows, Jorgen Randers · 207 pages
*Limits to Growth*, a study of the patterns and dynamics of human presence on earth, pointed toward environmental and economic collapse within a century if "business as usual" continued. In 1972, the book's findings sparked a worldwide controversy about the earth's capacity to withstand constant human and economic expansion. More than 40 years later, with more than 10 million copies sold in 28 lan
The Revenge of Gaia: Why the Earth is Fighting Back and How We Can Still Save Humanity
James E. Lovelock · 184 pages
SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes And Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance
Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner · 279 pages
The New York Times bestselling Freakonomics was a worldwide sensation, selling more than four million copies in thirty-five languages and changing the way we look at the world.Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner return with Superfreakonomics, and fans and newcomers alike will find that the freakquel is even bolder, funnier, and more surprising than the first.SuperFreakonomics challenges the way
The Politics of Geoengineering
Kai-Uwe Schrogl, Christina Giannopapa, Ntorina Antoni · 216 pages
This book offers the first comprehensive social science perspective on geoengineering—technologies that deliberately intervene in Earth’s systems to counter climate change. It examines the political, legal, economic, and societal dimensions of Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) and Solar Radiation Modification (SRM), combining SWOT analyses with regional perspectives from Africa and the Asia-Pacific. Co
The Conundrum: How Scientific Innovation, Increased Efficiency, and Good Intentions Can Make Our Energy and Climate Problems Worse
David Owen · 261 pages
"This is a mind-changing manifesto about the environment, efficiency, and the real path to sustainability. Hybrid cars, fast trains, compact florescent lightbulbs, solar panels, carbon offsets: everything you've been told about being green is wrong. The quest for a breakthrough battery or a 100 mpg car are dangerous fantasies. We are consumers, and we like to consume greenly and efficiently. But D