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Sophie's Planet
A Search for Truth About Our Remarkable Home Planet and Its Future
Hardcover
James Hansen
9781632868947
$36.50
SCIENCE
Sep 13, 2022
In a series of letters to his granddaughter, Sophie, the world's leading climatologist shows how it is still possible to ensure that young people inherit a clean world.Dr. James Hansen is the single most credible scientific voice worldwide on the issue of global warming. In his celebrated first book,Storms of My Grandchildren, he presented the full truth about climate change, a truth born out in the years since as climate disasters continue to ravage our world. The urgency is apparent; the response so far, inadequate. But Hansen remains an opti...
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Resilient Agriculture
Cultivating Food Systems for a Changing Climate
Expanded and Updated Second Edition
Paperback
Laura Lengnick
9780865719507
$29.99
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING
Sep 21, 2021
Climate change presents an unprecedented challenge to the productivity and profitability of agriculture in North America. Drought and flooding rains create the most obvious damage, but hot summer nights, warmer winters, changing pest pressures, and other changes have more subtle but far-reaching effects on the production of crops and livestock.This updated second edition of Resilient Agriculture takes you beyond the headlines and the hype to examine the complexities of climate change, resilience, and the future of food through the adaptation st...
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A Year of Living Green
365 Things You Can Do for Yourself and the Planet
Paperback
Julie Fisher-McGarry
9781642502947
$24.95
NATURE
Jun 15, 2021
A Year of Living Green is a daily chronicle/journal by author Julie Fisher-McGarry to help keep your mind and heart open to all that lives. The book is a collection of nonreligious, yet deeply soulful suggestions for demonstrating concern, kindness, and consideration for nature and its animals. Organized by month, it includes tips on living green, where to purchase organic and fair-trade products, how to unplug from the grid, supporting local economies, nourishing the earth, and creating a sustainable lifestyle. Julie offers daily personal ane...
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Series: Nature | History | Society
Fossilized
Environmental Policy in Canada's Petro-Provinces
Paperback
Angela V. Carter
9780774863537
$32.95
POLITICAL SCIENCE
May 15, 2021
Thanks to increasingly extreme forms of oil extraction, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Newfoundland and Labrador underwent exceptional economic growth from 2005 to 2015. Fossilized investigates the environmental policy trends that supported this development trajectory, such as institutional restructuring that prioritizes extraction over environmental protection, alongside inadequate environmental assessment, land-use planning, and emissions controls. Angela Carter’s detailed analysis situates the policy dynamics of Canada’s largest oil-producing pr...
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Plants of Haida Gwaii
Third Edition
3rd edition
Paperback
Nancy Turner
9781550179149
$29.95
NATURE
Apr 24, 2021
For many thousands of years the lands and waters of Haida Gwaii have been home to the Haida. Plants of Haida Gwaii, written with the cooperation and collaboration of Haida knowledge holders and botanical experts, is a detailed and insightful record of the traditional uses of over 150 species of native plants. Moreover, it explains the systems of knowledge and understanding that enabled the Haida to use the resources of their islands sustainably from one generation to the next over millennia. The Haida names of these plants indicate their import...
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Our Changing Menu
Climate Change and the Foods We Love and Need
Paperback
Michael P. Hoffmann
9781501754623
$29.95
SCIENCE
Age (years) from 18
Apr 15, 2021
Our Changing Menu unpacks the increasingly complex relationships between food and climate change. Whether you're a chef, baker, distiller, restaurateur, or someone who simply enjoys a good pizza or drink, it's time to come to terms with how climate change is affecting our diverse and interwoven food system. Michael P. Hoffmann, Carrie Koplinka-Loehr, and Danielle L. Eiseman offer an eye-opening journey through a complete menu of before-dinner drinks and salads; main courses and sides; and coffee and dessert. Along the way they examine the escal...
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Minimal
For Simple and Sustainable Living
Hardcover
Stéphanie Mandrea
9781487009434
$29.95
HOUSE & HOME
Apr 06, 2021
A stylish and inspiring guide for living a happier life in balance with the natural world.Minimal: For Simple and Sustainable Living offers readers inspiration and tools to embrace simple living and create meaningful, lasting change in their lives. From advice on home decorating and decluttering, easy-to-follow recipes for making your own cosmetics and cleaning products, and tips for shopping sustainably, composting, and restoring old furniture, Minimal provides a host of small but powerful ways to live a more balanced life while being good to ...
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Go Green! Activity Book
Projects, Activities, and Ideas to Make a Difference
Paperback
Alice Harman
9781839406119
$12.95
JUVENILE NONFICTION
Age (years) from 6 - 10
Apr 01, 2021
This inspirational, optimistic activity book is packed with imaginative suggestions and fun projects that show how small changes in our everyday lives can make a big difference to the environment. Young readers can explore the challenges facing our planet through eye-opening facts and intriguing activities, and discover top tips about how to protect and nurture the environment for future generations. Vibrantly illustrated in full-color, this charming book contains a mixture of write-in activities and step-by-step projects.Includes:• A tree...
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Series:
I Have the Right to Save My Planet
Hardcover
Alain Serres
9781773064871
$19.95
JUVENILE NONFICTION
Age (years) from 4 - 7
Apr 01, 2021
From the author and illustrator duo who created the award-winning I Have the Right to Be a Child comes this beautifully illustrated picture book about a child’s right to advocate for the environment they live in.All children have the right to learn about the world, to celebrate the water, air and sunshine, and to be curious about the animals and plants that live on our planet. All children also have the right to learn about endangered species, to be concerned about plastic in the ocean, and to understand what a changing climate means for our Ea...
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Series: Biblioasis International Translation Series
On Time and Water
Paperback
Andri Snaer Magnason
9781771964210
$24.95
SCIENCE
Mar 30, 2021
Finalist for the 2021 Nordic Council Literature Prize Asked by a leading climate scientist why he wasn’t writing about the greatest crisis mankind has faced, Andri Snær Magnason, one of Iceland’s most beloved writers and public intellectuals, protested: he wasn’t a specialist, he said. It wasn’t his field. But the scientist persisted: “If you cannot understand our scientific findings and present them in an emotional, psychological, poetic or mythological context,” he told him, “then no one will really understand the issue, and the world will en...
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The Wind and the Trees
Hardcover
Todd Stewart
9781771474337
$19.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 4 - 8
Mar 15, 2021
A gentle meditation on the cycle of life, told by two trees One day, a tiny pine seedling strikes up a conversation with a nearby tree. As the seedling grows larger, the older pine shares what it has learned about the strong wind that blows through the forest. Wind stretches trees and dries them out, but it also scatters seeds, spreads messages across the forest, and helps trees grow strong as it pushes against their trunks. As time passes, the wind takes its toll on the older tree. It loses needles and starts to droop as the young tree gro...
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Beaver, Bison, Horse
The Traditional Knowledge and Ecology of the Northern Great Plains
Paperback
R. Grace Morgan
9780889777880
$34.95
NATURE
Nov 14, 2020
As one of North America’s most unique ecologies, the Great Plains have fostered symbiotic relationships between humans and animals for millennia. Among these, Indigenous bonds to beavers, bison, and horses have been the subject of numerous anthropological and scientific surveys. Beaver, Bison, Horse is an interdisciplinary account that centers on Indigenous knowledge and tradition. R. Grace Morgan’s research, considered essential reading in the field, shows an ecological understanding that sustained Indigenous Peoples for thousands of years pr...
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The Story of CO2
Big Ideas for a Small Molecule
Hardcover
Geoffrey Ozin
9781487506360
$34.95
NATURE
Nov 06, 2020
The climate crisis requires that we drastically reduce carbon dioxide emissions across all sectors of society. The Story of CO2 contributes to this vital conversation by highlighting the cutting-edge science and emerging technologies – a number of which are already commercially available – that can transform carbon dioxide into a myriad of products such as feedstock chemicals, polymers, pharmaceuticals, and fuels. This approach allows us to reconsider CO2 as a resource, and to add "carbon capture and use" to our other tools in the fight against...
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A Small Farm Future
Making the Case for a Society Built Around Local Economies, Self-Provisioning, Agricultural Diversity and a Shared Earth
Paperback
Chris Smaje
9781603589024
$32.95
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Oct 21, 2020
A modern classic of the new agrarianism "Chris Smaje...shows that the choice is clear. Either we have a small farm future, or we face collapse and extinction."—Vandana Shiva "Every young person should read this book."—Richard Heinberg In a groundbreaking debut, farmer and social scientist Chris Smaje argues that organising society around small-scale farming offers the soundest, sanest and most reasonable response to climate change and other crises of civilisation—and will yield humanity’s best chance at survival. Drawing on a vast range of...
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Orcapedia
A Guide to the Victims of the International Orca Slave Trade
Paperback
Captain Paul Watson
9781570673986
$29.95
NATURE
Oct 15, 2020
Orcapedia presents a sobering look at the current imprisonment of a highly intelligent, socially complex, non-threatening species?orcas?by an industry strictly for profit. Many remember the movement to release Keiko, the orca who appeared in the family drama Free Willy, into the wild. Today, there are still dozens of orcas still in captivity. Readers are introduced to more than 60 individual orcas by name along with colored photos, personal history, and notable incidents that have occurred during their captivity. The text makes it clear that th...
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