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The Transition Handbook: From oil dependency to local resilience
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Thom Hartmann · 336 pages
"While everything appears to be collapsing around us - ecodamage, genetic engineering, virulent diseases, the end of cheap oil, water shortages, global famine, wars - we can still do something about it and create a world that will work for us and for our children's children. The inspiration for Leonardo DiCaprio's web movie Global Warning, The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight details what is happeni
When the Rivers Run Dry: Water--The Defining Crisis of the Twenty-first Century
Fred Pearce · 346 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
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
Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World
John Robert McNeill · 416 pages
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
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
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
Prosperity Without Growth: Economics for a Finite Planet
Tim Jackson, Bill McKibben, Herman E. Daly, Mary Robinson · 276 pages
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.
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 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.
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
Laudato Si': On the Care of Our Common Home
Pope Francis
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
How Bad Are Bananas?: The Carbon Footprint Of Everything
Mike Berners-Lee · 304 pages
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
Our Planetary Condition
Frederic Hanusch, Liza B. Bauer, Clemens Finkelstein, and Claus Leggewie
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
Elizabeth Kolbert · 336 pages
From the author of Field Notes from a Catastrophe, a powerful and important work about the future of the world, blending intellectual and natural history and field reporting into a compelling account of the mass extinction unfolding before our eyes.
The Revenge of Gaia: Why the Earth is Fighting Back and How We Can Still Save Humanity
James E. Lovelock · 184 pages
Sustainable Energy - Without the Hot Air
David J.C. MacKay · 384 pages
Provides an overview of the sustainable energy crisis that is threatening the world's natural resources, explaining how energy consumption is estimated and how those numbers have been skewed by various factors and discussing alternate forms of energy that can and should be used.