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Hope'S Horizon - Three Visions For Healing The American Land

by Chip Ward

37,45€ + 10% CARD

 At a time of widespread environmental pessimism, Hope's Horizon goes on an inspirational offensive. In this entertaining and thought-provoking book, author Chip Ward tells of his travels among a new generation of activists who are moving beyond defensive environmental struggles and advocating pioneering, proactive strategies for healing the land.Chip Ward's three-year odyssey took him behind the scenes of efforts to reconnect fragmented habitats and "re-wild" the North American continent; the campaign to drain Lake Powell and restore Glen Canyon to its natural state; and the struggle to keep nuclear waste off Western Shoshone ancestral lands and, ultimately, to abolish all nuclear power and weapons. These movements, and the practical visionaries leading them, challenge readers with a new paradigm in which land is used in a spirit of collaboration with natural systems rather than domination of them. Broad in its sweep, Hope's Horizon uses its topical subjects as springboards for exploring how we can redefine our place in the world while restoring damaged habitats, replenishing lost diversity, and abandoning harmful technologies.Lively, literate, and free of the grimness that characterizes so much environmental writing, Hope's Horizon will change the way readers see the world. It makes complicated concepts and issues accessible, and wild ideas compelling. And while the book's starting point is a hard-nosed indictment of humanity's failed stewardship of the earth, the stories that follow tell of catalytic optimism and ecological wisdom in the face of self-destructive habit and blind pride.
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Kitchen Literacy - How We Lost Knowledge Of Where Food Comes From And Why We Need To Get It Back

by Ann Vileisis

40,34€ + 10% CARD

 Covering eighteenth-century garden to supermarket aisles, this book chronicles changes in how American cooks have considered their foods. It shows that greater understanding can lead consumers to healthier and more sustainable choices.
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Chasing Molecules - Poisonous Products, Human Health, And The Promise Of Green Chemistry

by Elizabeth Grossman

34,57€ + 10% CARD

 Each day, headlines warn that baby bottles are leaching dangerous chemicals, nonstick pans are causing infertility, and plastic containers are making us fat. What if rather than toxics, our economy ran on harmless, environmentally-friendly materials? This title tackles the hazards of ordinary consumer products.
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Aldo Leopold'S Odyssey - Rediscovering The Author Of A Sand County Almanac

by Julianne Lutz Warren

55,70€ + 10% CARD

 A household icon of the environmental movement, Aldo Leopold (1887-1948) may be the most quoted conservationist in history. This work illuminates his lifelong quest for answers to a fundamental issue: how can people live prosperously on the land and keep it healthy, too? It serves as a guide to one man's intellectual growth.
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Where The Dragon Meets The Angry River - Nature And Power In The People'S Republic Of China

by R. Edward Grumbine

44,18€ + 10% CARD

 Brings together the many facets of conservation and development in China, from the poorest rural hamlets to a globalized world.
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Bottled And Sold - The Story Behind Our Obsession With Bottled Water

by Peter H. Gleick

35,53€ + 10% CARD

 Peter Gleick knows water. A world-renowned scientist and freshwater expert, Gleick is a MacArthur Foundation "genius," and according to the BBC, an environmental visionary. And he drinks from the tap. Why don’t the rest of us?   Bottled and Sold shows how water went from being a free natural resource to one of the most successful commercial products of the last one hundred years—and why we are poorer for it. It’s a big story and water is big business. Every second of every day in the United States, a thousand people buy a plastic bottle of water, and every second of every day a thousand more throw one of those bottles away. That adds up to more than thirty billion bottles a year and tens of billions of dollars of sales.   Are there legitimate reasons to buy all those bottles? With a scientist’s eye and a natural storyteller’s wit, Gleick investigates whether industry claims about the relative safety, convenience, and taste of bottled versus tap hold water. And he exposes the true reasons we’ve turned to the bottle, from fearmongering by business interests and our own vanity to the breakdown of public systems and global inequities.   "Designer" H2O may be laughable, but the debate over commodifying water is deadly serious. It comes down to society’s choices about human rights, the role of government and free markets, the importance of being "green," and fundamental values. Gleick gets to the heart of the bottled water craze, exploring what it means for us to bottle and sell our most basic necessity.
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The Rising Sea

by Orrin H. Pilkey e Rob Young

33,61€ + 10% CARD

 While rising seas are inevitable, we are far from helpless. By making hard choices - including uprooting communities, changing where and how we build, and developing a coordinated response - we can save property, and ultimately lives. This title helps us in understanding the threat and keeping our heads above water.
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Six Modern Plagues And How We Are Causing Them

by Mark Jerome Walters

31,69€ + 10% CARD

 Mark Jerome Walters elucidates the surprising connections between human-induced changes to the natural environment and recent epidemics, including West Nile virus, mad cow disease, HIV/AIDS. Lyme disease, and SARS. According to Walters, we are not only victims of these emerging diseases; we are helping exacerbate their creation and spread.
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The Empty Ocean

by Richard Ellis

37,45€ + 10% CARD

 In The Empty Ocean, acclaimed author and artist Richard Ellis tells the story of our continued plunder of life in the sea and weighs the chances for its recovery. Through fascinating portraits of a wide array of creatures, he introduces us to the many forms of sea life that humans have fished, hunted, and collected over the centuries, from charismatic whales and dolphins to the lowly menhaden, from sea turtles to cod, tuna, and coral.Rich in history, anecdote, and surprising fact, Richard Ellis’s descriptions bring to life the natural history of the various species, the threats they face, and the losses they have suffered. Killing has occurred on a truly stunning scale, with extinction all too often the result, leaving a once-teeming ocean greatly depleted. But the author also finds instances of hope and resilience, of species that have begun to make remarkable comebacks when given the opportunity.Written with passion and grace, and illustrated with Richard Ellis’s own drawings, The Empty Ocean brings to a wide audience a compelling view of the damage we have caused to life in the sea and what we can do about it. "
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Lives Per Gallon - The True Cost Of Our Oil Addiction

by Terry Tamminen

27,85€ + 10% CARD

 Looks at the health, environmental, and national security costs hidden in every barrel of oil. This book presents a searing indictment of America's oil economy and a prescription for change. It contains tales of corporations knowingly exposing citizens to poisonous chemicals and conspiring to derail public transportation.
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Heatstroke - Nature In An Age Of Global Warming

by Anthony D. Barnosky

42,26€ + 10% CARD

 Shows how global warming is fundamentally changing the natural world and its creatures. This title draws connections between the coming centuries and the end of the last ice age, when mass extinctions swept the planet. It gives us a portrait of what we stand to lose and the vitality of what can be saved.
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Lake Effect - Two Sisters And A Town'S Toxic Legacy

by Nancy A. Nichols

29,77€ + 10% CARD

 Presents a story of the investigation of the author into the connection between the industrial pollution in their hometown of Waukegan, Illinois and the rare cancer that was killing her sister. This book also calls us to stop the pollution that is endangering the health of families.
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Where Our Food Comes From - Retracing Nikolay Vavilov'S Quest To End Famine

by Gary Paul Nabhan

30,73€ + 10% CARD

 Shows how climate change, free trade policies, genetic engineering, and loss of traditional knowledge are threatening our food supply. This book reveals just how much diversity has already been lost. It also shows what resilient farmers and scientists in many regions are doing to save the remaining living riches of our world.
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The Dominant Animal - Human Evolution And The Environment

by Anne H. Ehrlich e Paul R. Ehrlich

52,82€ + 10% CARD

 In humanity's more than 100,000 year history, we have evolved from vulnerable creatures clawing sustenance from Earth to a sophisticated global society manipulating every inch of it. This title traces the interplay between environmental change and genetic and cultural evolution since the dawn of humanity.
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Diagnosis: Mercury - Money, Politics, And Poison

by Jane Marie Hightower

34,57€ + 10% CARD

 Retraces the author's investigation into the modern prevalence of mercury poisoning, revealing how political calculations, dubious studies, and industry lobbyists endanger our health. This book discovers questionable connections between ostensibly objective researchers and industries that fear regulation and bad press.
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High Tech Trash - Digital Devices, Hidden Toxics, And Human Health

by Elizabeth Grossman

40,34€ + 10% CARD

 The Digital Age was expected to usher in an era of clean production, an alternative to smokestack industries and their pollutants. But as environmental journalist Elizabeth Grossman reveals in this penetrating analysis of high tech manufacture and disposal, digital may be sleek, but it's anything but clean. Deep within every electronic device lie toxic materials that make up the bits and bytes, a complex thicket of lead, mercury, cadmium, plastics, and a host of other often harmful ingredients. High Tech Trash is a wake-up call to the importance of the e-waste issue and the health hazards involved. Americans alone own more than two billion pieces of high tech electronics and discard five to seven million tons each year. As a result, electronic waste already makes up more than two-thirds of the heavy metals and 40 percent of the lead found in our landfills. But the problem goes far beyond American shores, most tragically to the cities in China and India where shiploads of discarded electronics arrive daily. There, they are "recycled"-picked apart by hand, exposing thousands of workers and community residents to toxics. As Grossman notes, "This is a story in which we all play a part, whether we know it or not. If you sit at a desk in an office, talk to friends on your cell phone, watch television, listen to music on headphones, are a child in Guangdong, or a native of the Arctic, you are part of this story." The answers lie in changing how we design, manufacture, and dispose of high tech electronics. Europe has led the way in regulating materials used in electronic devices and in e-waste recycling. But in the United States many have yet to recognize the persistent human health and environmental effects of the toxics in high tech devices. If Silent Spring brought national attention to the dangers of DDT and other pesticides, High Tech Trash could do the same for a new generation of technology's products.
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No Way Home - The Decline Of The World'S Great Animal Migrations

by David S. Wilcove

32,65€ + 10% CARD

 Guides us on migrants' treacherous journeys, describing the barriers to migration and exploring what compels animals to keep on trekking. This title presents the adventures of scientists who study migrants.
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The Whaling Season - An Inside Account Of The Struggle To Stop Commercial Whaling

by Kieran Mulvaney

33,61€ + 10% CARD

 A behind-the-scenes look at the hazards and triumphs of life as an environmental activist on the high seas. Author Kieran Mulvaney explores the larger struggles underlying his expeditions to Antarctica where, as a member of Greenpeace, he has fought against commercial whaling.
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Aldo Leopold'S Odyssey - Rediscovering The Author Of A Sand County Almanac

by Julianne Lutz Warren

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 Illuminates the conservationist's quest for answers to a fundamental question: how can people live prosperously on the land and keep it healthy, too?
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The Rising Sea

by Orrin H. Pilkey e Rob Young

27,03€ + 10% CARD

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 While rising seas are inevitable, we are far from helpless. By making hard choices - including uprooting communities, changing where and how we build, and developing a coordinated response - we can save property, and ultimately lives. This title helps us in understanding the threat and keeping our heads above water.
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The Rising Sea

by Orrin H. Pilkey e Rob Young

37,85€ + 10% CARD

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 On Shismaref Island in Alaska, homes are being washed into the sea. In the South Pacific, small island nations face annihilation by encroaching waters. For these communities, sea level rise isn't a distant, abstract fear: it's happening now and it's threatening their way of life. This title warns that many other coastal areas may be close behind.
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Where The Dragon Meets The Angry River - Nature And Power In The People'S Republic Of China

by R. Edward Grumbine

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The Unnatural History Of The Sea

by Callum Roberts

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Chasing Molecules - Poisonous Products, Human Health, And The Promise Of Green Chemistry

by Elizabeth Grossman

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 Focuses on the hazards of ordinary consumer products. This title shows that for the sake of convenience, efficiency, and short-term safety, we have created synthetic chemicals that fundamentally change, at a molecular level, the way our bodies work and states that consequences range from diabetes to cancer, reproductive and neurological disorders.
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