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  • A Deluge of Consequences

    Poised atop the high Himalayas is a frightening daisy chain of fragile glacial lakes, all produced by glacial melting as a result of climate change. When the lakes burst, the torrents of water sweep entire populations in their wake. In A Deluge of Consequences, intrepid journalist Jacques Leslie takes us along on a mythic, spell-binding trip to the bucolic kingdom of Bhutan, where the planet’s ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Deep Water

    The Epic Struggle over Dams, Displaced People, and the Environment

    "If the wars of the last century were fought over oil, the wars of this century will be fought over water." -Ismail Serageldin, The World BankThe giant dams of today are the modern Pyramids, colossally expensive edifices that generate monumental amounts of electricity, irrigated water, and environmental and social disaster.With Deep Water, Jacques Leslie offers a searching account of the current ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • The Water Wizard – The Extraordinary Properties of Natural Water

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    More energy is encapsulated in every drop of good spring water than an average-sized power station is presently able to produce. Viktor Schauberger (1885–1958) Water – all life depends on it. Yet how often do we stop to consider its true significance, its essential nature? The Water Wizard, the first volume of the Eco-Technology series which presents the original, passionate and convincing ... Read more

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  • The Fertile Earth – Nature's Energies in Agriculture, Soil Fertilisation and Forestry

    Volume 3 of Renowned Environmentalist Viktor Schauberger's Eco-Technology Series

    Translated by Callum Coats ...
    How does nature work? When one looks closely at the enormously complex web of life, it is impossible not to be caught by the wonder of how all living things – including rocks and crystals – are interconnected. Just as there is thought behind action, so there is energy behind matter. The Fertile Earth, the third volume of the Eco-Technology series which presents the original, passionate and ... Read more

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  • Plant Spirit Healing

    A Guide to Working with Plant Consciousness

    A hands-on approach to working with the healing powers of plant spirits• Explores the scientific basis underlying the practices of indigenous healers and shamans• Illuminates the matrix where plant intelligence and human intelligence join• Reveals that partnering with plants is an evolutionary imperativeIndigenous healers and shamans have known since antiquity that plants possess a spirit essence ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Food Confidential

    The Corporate Takeover of Food Security and the Family Farm—and What to Do About It

    by Nicole Faires ...
    When author and homesteader Nicole Faires decided to retrofit an old school bus and tour America’s small farms with her husband and two small children, she expected to learn a lot, be inspired, and have some fun. But what she found disturbed her. Mismanaged small farms; clueless urbanites setting up shop to get back to the land”; a mindless devotion to organic farming; and, ultimately, the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Crossing the Line

    Australia’s Secret History in the Timor Sea

    by Kim McGrath ...
    Series Book 12 - Redback
    For fifty years, Australia has schemed to deny East Timor billions of dollars of oil and gas wealth.With explosive new research and access to never-before-seen documents, Kim McGrath tells the story of Australia’s secret agenda in the Timor Sea, exposing the ruthlessness of successive governments. Australia did nothing to stop Indonesia’s devastating occupation of East Timor, when – on our ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Weather Shamanism

    Harmonizing Our Connection with the Elements

    by Nan Moss ...
    Creating an alliance and working partnership with the spirits of weather to restore well-being and harmony to Earth and ourselves• Reveals that, intentionally or not, we affect the weather not only through our actions but also through our thoughts and emotions• Explains shamanic techniques for working with the spiritual nature of weather• Special section on “weather dancing” details both its ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Man Who Planted Trees

    A Story of Lost Groves, the Science of Trees, and a Plan to Save the Planet

    by Jim Robbins ...
    The Man Who Planted Trees is the inspiring story of David Milarch’s quest to clone the biggest trees on the planet in order to save our forests and ecosystem—as well as a hopeful lesson about how each of us has the ability to make a difference.“When is the best time to plant a tree? Twenty years ago. The second best time? Today.”—Chinese proverbTwenty years ago, David Milarch, a northern Michigan ... Read more

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  • Come On!

    Capitalism, Short-termism, Population and the Destruction of the Planet

    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Current worldwide trends are not sustainable. The Club of Rome’s warnings published in the book Limits to Growth are still valid. Remedies that are acceptable for the great majority tend to make things worse. We seem to be in a philosophical crisis. Pope Francis says it clearly: our common home is in deadly danger. Analyzing the philosophical crisis, the book comes to the conclusion that the world ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • The Limits to Growth Revisited

    by Ugo Bardi ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    “The Limits to Growth” (Meadows, 1972) generated unprecedented controversy with its predictions of the eventual collapse of the world's economies. First hailed as a great advance in science, “The Limits to Growth” was subsequently rejected and demonized. However, with many national economies now at risk and global peak oil apparently a reality, the methods, scenarios, and predictions of “The ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Perfect Order

    Recognizing Complexity in Bali

    Series series Princeton Studies in Complexity
    Along rivers in Bali, small groups of farmers meet regularly in water temples to manage their irrigation systems. They have done so for a thousand years. Over the centuries, water temple networks have expanded to manage the ecology of rice terraces at the scale of whole watersheds. Although each group focuses on its own problems, a global solution nonetheless emerges that optimizes irrigation ... Read more

    $25.99 USD