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  • Green vs. Green

    The Political, Legal, and Administrative Pitfalls Facing Green Energy Production

    by Ryan M. Yonk, Randy T. Simmons, Brian C. Steed ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Environmental Policy and Politics
    Renewable and carbon-neutral energy have been promoted as the future of energy production in the United States. Non-traditional energy sources show promise as alternatives to fossil fuels and may provide a sustainable source of energy in increasingly uncertain energy markets. However, these new sources of energy face their own set of political, administrative, and legal challenges. Green vs. Green ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

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    Wishful Thinking, Technology, and the Fate of the Nation

    by James Howard Kunstler ...
    The author of The Long Emergency explains why technology can't solve all our problems, and how excessive optimism can endanger our future .The Long Emergency quickly became a grassroots hit, offering a shocking vision of our post-oil future and capturing the attention of environmentalists and business leaders alike. As discussion about our dependence on fossil fuels and our dysfunctional financial ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Future Primitive Revisited

    by John Zerzan ...
    "Zerzan's writing is sharp, uncompromising, and tenacious." — Derrick Jensen"John Zerzan's importance does not only consist in his brilliant intelligence, his absolute clearness of analysis and his unequalled dialectical synthesis that clarifies even the most complicated questions, but also in the humanity that fills his thoughts of resistance. Future Primitive Revisited is one more precious gift ... Read more

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  • Being Ecological

    by Timothy Morton ...
    A book about ecology without information dumping, guilt inducing, or preaching to the choir.Don't care about ecology? You think you don't, but you might all the same. Don't read ecology books? This book is for you.Ecology books can be confusing information dumps that are out of date by the time they hit you. Slapping you upside the head to make you feel bad. Grabbing you by the lapels while ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The New Harvest

    Agricultural Innovation in Africa

    by Calestous Juma ...
    African agriculture is currently at a crossroads, at which persistent food shortages are compounded by threats from climate change. But, as this book argues, Africa faces three major opportunities that can transform its agriculture into a force for economic growth: advances in science and technology; the creation of regional markets; and the emergence of a new crop of entrepreneurial leaders ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Runaway Planet

    How Global Warming is already changing the Earth

    by The Washington Post ...
    Saving the world won't happen on the silver screen. In our fragile ecosystem, climate change is swiftly becoming the defining issue of how to prepare—and protect—the earth for the future.The climate change debate raged on in America in 2015, but the facts and the science now show irrefutably that our world is rapidly changing, and that irreparable damage has already begun. From rising sea levels ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Green Paradox

    A Supply-Side Approach to Global Warming

    by Hans-Werner Sinn ...
    A leading economist develops a supply-side approach to fighting climate change that encourages resource owners to leave more of their fossil carbon underground.The Earth is getting warmer. Yet, as Hans-Werner Sinn points out in this provocative book, the dominant policy approach—which aims to curb consumption of fossil energy—has been ineffective. Despite policy makers' efforts to promote ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Energy Innovation: Fixing the Technical Fix

    by Lewis Perelman ...
    Energy policy is a mess: a tangle of interconnected problems stirred by competing political agendas. Whether it's soaring fuel prices, noxious pollution, climate worries, security risks, or threats to the economy and jobs, energy politics are vexed by the tendency of single-issue solutions to make other problems worse.Many look to technology to break the logjam. But current energy technology ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Governance of Climate Change

    Edited by David Held, Marika Theros, Angus Fane-Hervey ...
    Climate change poses one of the greatest challenges for human society in the twenty-first century, yet there is a major disconnect between our actions to deal with it and the gravity of the threat it implies. In a world where the fate of countries is increasingly intertwined, how should we think about, and accordingly, how should we manage, the types of risk posed by anthropogenic climate change ... Read more

    $21.00 USD

  • The Vegetarian Imperative

    by Anand M. Saxena ...
    We have learned not to take food seriously: we eat as much as we want of whatwe want when we want it, and we seldom think about the health and environmental consequences of our choices. But the fact is that every choice we make has an impact on our health and on the environment. In The Vegetarian Imperative, Anand M. Saxena, a scientist and a vegetarian for most of his life, explains why we need ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • Successful Adaptation to Climate Change

    Linking Science and Policy in a Rapidly Changing World

    Edited by Susanne C. Moser, Maxwell T. Boykoff ...
    What does successful adaptation look like? This is a question we are frequently asked by planners, policy makers and other professionals charged with the task of developing and implementing adaptation strategies. While adaptation is increasingly recognized as an important climate risk management strategy, and on-the-ground adaptation planning activity is becoming more common-place, there is no ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • What is Environmental History?

    by J. Donald Hughes ...
    Series series What is History?
    What is environmental history? It is a kind of history that seeks understanding of human beings as they have lived, worked, and thought in relationship to the rest of nature through the changes brought by time.In this new edition of his seminal student textbook, J. Donald Hughes provides a masterful overview of the thinkers, topics, and perspectives that have come to constitute the exciting ... Read more

    $20.00 USD