Farewell, My Subaru
1,555円 From the award-winning director and star of American Hemp Farmer comes “an antic and engaging account of one man’s giant step toward a smaller carbon footprint” (St. Petersburg Times). “If you’re a fan of Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy-style humorーand also looking to find out how to raise your...
Checking the Waste: a Study in Conservation
164円 First published in 1911. According to the Preface: " Much has been said and written on the subject of conservation and many excellent ideas have been advanced, but as yet too little has been accomplished in the way of practical results. Probably this is due largely to the fact that most people th...
Extreme Insects
2,187円 Insects are the most extreme organisms on Earth and, despite their diminutive size, they wield inordinate power. With the exception of the polar icecaps, every terrestrial ecosystem on earth is colonized by them, and they account for almost three-quarters of all named animals – that's one million...
A Delicate Balance
3,846円 An interdisciplinary study of conservation efforts and attitudes in the Carolina lowcountry Sustainability of the natural environment and of our society has become one of the most urgent challenges facing modern Americans. Communities across the country are seeking a viable pattern of growth that...
The Story of the Fly
927円 The story of the fly and how it could save the world will take you behind the pesky reputation and inside the brain and body of the much misunderstood fly.It investigates the insect as a pest and how man has tried tirelessly, often unsuccessfully) to kill it exploring everything from how it walks...
A Global Green New Deal
5,305円 Meeting the short run challenges of reviving the worldwide economy need not mean sacrificing long run economic and environmental sustainability. A Global Green New Deal (GGND) is an economic policy strategy for ensuring a more economically and environmentally sustainable world economic recovery. ...
The Custodians of Biodiversity
8,787円 Globally, local and indigenous approaches to conserving biodiversity, crop improvement, and managing precious natural resources are under threat. Many communities have to deal with 'biopiracy,' for example. As well, existing laws are usually unsuitable for protecting indigenous and traditional kn...
Parks in Transition
9,616円 Parks face intense pressure from both environmental and developmental perspectives to conserve biodiversity and provide economic opportunities for rural communities. These imperatives are often in conflict, while potential solutions may be subject to theoretical and practical disagreement and com...
Rethinking Energy Security in Asia: A Non...
6,072円 Traditional notions of security are premised on the primacy of state security. In relation to energy security, traditional policy thinking has focused on ensuring supply without much emphasis on socioeconomic and environmental impacts. Non-traditional security (NTS) scholars argue that threats to...
My Rapture!
112円 My Rupture that Rapture! This narrative nonfiction tells a story of my recovery from a near-death experience. On February 23, 2007, I woke up in the critical ICU at Albany Medical Center due to a brain aneurysm rupture. My near-death memories from inside of me were like many broken bits of a glas...
Winging Home
1,326円 In British Columbia's remote and exotic Cariboo Plateau, "Everything is slow. Everything is happening at the same speed, which is no speed at all." Harold Rhenisch has spent eleven years watching birds every day from his house on the shore of 108 Lakeーat this speed, but you wouldn’t know it from...
The Root Causes of Biodiversity Loss
13,265円 The world is losing species and biodiversity at an unprecedented rate. The causes go deep and the losses are driven by a complex array of social, economic, political and biological factors at different levels. Immediate causes such as over-harvesting, pollution and habitat change have been well s...
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