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The End of Nature
Reissued on the tenth anniversary of its publication, this classic work on our environmental crisis features a new introduction by the author, reviewing both the progress and ground lost in the fight ...to save the earth. This impassioned plea for radical and life-renewing change is today still considered a groundbreaking work in environmental studies. McKibben's argument that the survival of the globe is dependent on a fundamental, philosophical shift in the way we relate to nature is more relevant than ever. McKibben writes of our earth's environmental cataclysm, addressing such core issues as the greenhouse effect, acid rain, and the depletion of the ozone layer. His new introduction addresses some of the latest environmental issues that have risen during the 1990s. The book also includes an invaluable new appendix of facts and figures that surveys the progress of the environmental movement. More than simply a handbook for survival or a doomsday catalog of scientific prediction, this classic, soulful lament on Nature is required reading for nature enthusiasts, activists, and concerned citizens alike. A groundbreaking, impassioned plea for radical and life-renewing change.
Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit
A passionate and lifelong defender of the environment, Vice President Al Gore describes in this classic best-selling book how human actions and decisions can endanger or safeguard the vulnerable ecosy...stem that sustains us all. The book's groundbreaking analysis helped place the environment on the national agenda, summoning politicians, the media, and the public to attention and action. The message remains just as urgent today as it did eight years ago: while much has been accomplished, we must meet a global environmental challenge that reaches into every aspect of our society. In brave and unforgettable terms, Earth in the Balance probes the roots of the environmental crisis and offers a bold and forceful vision of a new, more sustainable path. Having provoked international discussion upon its original publication, it continues to confront us with profound challenges. Human civilization must change its course if we are to heal our ailing environment and preserve the earth's ecology for future generations. Vice President Gore describes in a new foreword to this classic what we have achieved and what remains to be done, and issues a clarion call to begin the millennium with an "Environment Decade." It is time to reflect deeply on the fate of our planet and commit ourselves to its future.
As the World Burns: 50 Simple Things You Can Do to Stay in Denial
Two of America's most talented activists team up to deliver a bold and hilarious satire of modern environmental policy in this fully illustrated graphic novel. The U.S. government gives robot machines... from space permission to eat the earth in exchange for bricks of gold. A one-eyed bunny rescues his friends from a corporate animal-testing laboratory. And two little girls figure out the secret to saving the world from both of its enemies (and it isn't by using energy-efficient light bulbs or biodiesel fuel). As the World Burns will inspire you to do whatever it takes to stop ecocide before it’s too late.
The Green Book: The Everyday Guide to Saving the Planet One Simple Step at a Time
Ellen DeGeneres, Robert Redford, Will Ferrell, Jennifer Aniston, Faith Hill, Tim McGraw, Martha Stewart, Tyra Banks, Dale Earnhardt, Jr., Tiki Barber, Owen Wilson, and Justin Timberlake tell you how t...hey make a difference to the environment. Inside The Green Book, find out how you can too: - Don’t ask for ATM receipts. If everyone in the United States refused their receipts, it would save a roll of paper more than two billion feet long, or enough to circle the equator fifteen times! - Turn off the tap while you brush your teeth. You’ll conserve up to five gallons of water per day. Throughout the entire United States, the daily savings could add up to more water than is consumed every day in all of New York City. - Get a voice-mail service for your home phone. If all answering machines in U.S. homes were replaced by voice-mail services, the annual energy savings would total nearly two billion kilowatt hours. The resulting reduction in air pollution would be equivalent to removing 250,000 cars from the road for a year! With wit and authority, authors Elizabeth Rogers and Thomas Kostigen provide hundreds of solutions for all areas of your life, pinpointing the smallest changes that have the biggest impact on the health of our precious planet.
Green Earth
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American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau
As America And The World Grapple With The Consequences Of Global Environmental Change, The Author, A Writer And Activist Offers This Anthology Gathering The Best And Most Significant American Environm...ental Writing From The Last Two Centuries. Each Advance In Environmental Practice In Our Nation's History, He Observes In His Introduction, Was Preceded By A Great Book. In This Work Are The Words That Made A Movement. Classics Of The Environmental Imagination, The Essays Of Henry David Thoreau, John Muir, And John Burroughs; Aldo Leopold's A Sand County Almanac; Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, Are Set Alongside An Emerging Activist Movement, Revealed By Newly Uncovered Reports Of Pioneering Campaigns For Conservation, Passages From Landmark Legal Opinions And Legislation, And Searing Protest Speeches. Throughout, Some Of America's Greatest And Most Impassioned Writers Take A Turn Toward Nature, Recognizing The Fragility Of Our Situation On Earth And The Urgency Of The Search For A Sustainable Way Of Life. The Anthology Includes Essays On Overpopulation, Consumerism, Energy Policy, And The Nature Of Nature Join Ecologists' Memoirs And Intimate Sketches Of The Habitats Of Endangered Species, As Well As A Detailed Chronology Of The Environmental Movement And American Environmental History. Henry David Thoreau -- George Catlin -- Lydia Huntley Sigourney -- Susan Fenimore Cooper -- Table Rock Album -- Walt Whitman -- George Perkins Marsh -- P.t. Barnum -- John Muir -- W.h.h. Murray -- Frederick Law Olmsted -- J. Sterling Morton -- Theodore Roosevelt -- Mary Austin -- Nathaniel Southgate Shaler -- John Burroughs -- Gifford Pinchot -- William T. Hornaday -- Theodore Dreiser -- Gene Stratton-porter -- Henry Beston -- Benton Mackaye -- J.n. Ding Darling -- Robert Marshall -- Don Marquis -- Caroline Henderson -- Donald Culross Peattie -- Robinson Jeffers -- John Steinbeck -- Woody Guthrie -- Marjory Stoneman Douglas -- Aldo Leopold -- Berton Roueché -- Edwin Way Teale -- Helen And Scott Nearing -- Sigurd F. Olson -- E.b. White -- Loren Eiseley -- William O. Douglas -- Jane Jacobs -- Rachel Carson -- Russell Baker -- Eliot Porter -- Howard Zahniser -- Lyndon B. Johnson -- Kenneth E. Boulding -- Lynn White Jr. -- Edward Abbey -- Paul R. Ehrlich -- Garrett Hardin -- Philip K. Dick -- Colin Fletcher -- R. Buckminster Fuller -- Stephanie Mills -- Gary Snyder -- Denis Hayes -- Joseph Lelyveld -- Joni Mitchell & Marvin Gaye -- John Mcphee -- Friends Of The Earth -- Wendell Berry -- Annie Dillard -- Lewis Thomas -- David R. Brower -- Amory B. Lovins -- N. Scott Momaday -- Leslie Marmon Silko -- R. Crumb -- Wes Jackson -- Lois Marie Gibbs -- Jonathan Schell -- William Cronon -- Alice Walker -- E.o. Wilson -- César Chávez -- Barry Lopez -- W.s. Merwin -- Bill Mckibben -- Robert D. Bullard -- Mary Oliver -- Terry Tempest Williams -- Rick Bass -- Alan Durning -- Scott Russell Sanders -- George B. Schaller -- Ellen Meloy -- Linda Hogan -- David Abram -- Jack Turner -- Carl Anthony & Renée Soule -- Al Gore -- Richard Nelson -- David Quammen -- Janisse Ray -- Julia Butterfly Hill -- Calvin B. Dewitt -- Sandra Steingraber -- Barbara Kingsolver -- Michael Pollan -- Paul Hawken -- Rebecca Solnit. Edited By Bill Mckibben ; Foreword By Al Gore. A Special Publication Of The Library Of America. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.
Eyes Wide Open: Going Behind the Environmental Headlines
We're Living In An Aha Moment. Take 250 Years Of Human Ingenuity. Add Abundant Fossil Fuels. The Result: A Population And Lifestyle Never Seen Before. The Downsides Weren't Visible For Centuries, But ...Now They Are. Suddenly Everything Needs Rethinking -- Suburbs, Cars, Fast Food, Cheap Prices. It's A Changed World. This Book Explains It. Using Politics, Psychology, And History For Altitude, Eyes Wide Open Shows How To See The Principles Driving Events And Attitudes, From Vested Interests To Denial To Big-country Syndrome. Here's The Briefing You Need To Comprehend The Twenty-first Century.
The Bridge at the Edge of the World: Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability
Looking Into The Abyss -- Modern Capitalism : Out Of Control -- The Limits Of Today's Environmentalism -- The Market : Making It Work For The Environment -- Economic Growth : Moving To A Post-growth S...ociety -- Real Growth : Promoting The Well-being Of People And Nature -- Consumption : Living With Enough, Not Always More -- The Corporation : Changing The Fundamental Dynamics -- Capitalism's Core : Advancing Beyond Today's Capitalism -- A New Consciousness -- A New Politics -- The Bridge At The Edge Of The World. James Gustave Speth. A Caravan Book--t.p. Verso. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 239-279) And Index.
10 Things I Can Do to Help My World
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Cartoon Guide to the Environment
Do You Think That The Ozone Hole Is A Grunge Rock Club? Or That The Food Web Is An Online Restaurant Guide? Or That The Green Revolution Happened In Greenland? Then You Need The Cartoon Guide To The E...nvironment To Put You On The Road To Environmental Literacy. The Cartoon Guide To The Environment Covers The Main Topics Of Environmental Science: Chemical Cycles, Life Communities, Food Webs, Agriculture, Human Population Growth, Sources Of Energy And Raw Materials, Waste Disposal And Recycling, Cities, Pollution, Deforestation, Ozone Depletion, And Global Warming-and Puts Them In The Context Of Ecology, With Discussions Of Population Dynamics, Thermodynamics, And The Behavior Of Complex Systems. Acknowledgments -- Forest And Water -- More Cycles -- Evolving Systems, Struggling Individuals -- Communities Wet- -- -and Dry -- Let's Eat! -- From Hunting To Planting -- What Limiting Factors? -- Bye, Bye, Biome! -- Energy Webs -- Let's Eat Again! -- Bright Lights, Big City -- Pollution -- Earth Island -- Bibliography -- Index. Larry Gonick And Alice Outwater. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 218-219) And Index.
