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  • Ogallala

    Water for a Dry Land

    Series series Our Sustainable Future
    2019 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleThe Ogallala aquifer, a vast underground water reserve extending from South Dakota through Texas, is the product of eons of accumulated glacial melts, ancient Rocky Mountain snowmelts, and rainfall, all percolating slowly through gravel beds hundreds of feet thick.Ogallala: Water for a Dry Land is an environmental history and historical geography that tells ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Greening the College Curriculum

    A Guide To Environmental Teaching In The Liberal Arts

    Greening the College Curriculum provides the tools college and university faculty need to meet personal and institutional goals for integrating environmental issues into the curriculum. Leading educators from a wide range of fields, including anthropology, biology, economics, geography, history, literature, journalism, philosophy, political science, and religion, describe their experience ... Read more

    $38.19 USD

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  • Tar Sands

    Dirty Oil and the Future of a Continent, Revised and Updated Edition

    Tar Sands critically examines the frenzied development in the Canadian tar sands and the far-reaching implications for all of North America. Bitumen, the sticky stuff that ancients used to glue the Tower of Babel together, is the world’s most expensive hydrocarbon. This difficult-to-find resource has made Canada the number-one supplier of oil to the United States, and every major oil company now ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Empire of the Beetle

    How Human Folly and a Tiny Bug Are Killing North America's Great Forests

    Beginning in the late 1980s, a series of improbable bark beetle outbreaks unsettled iconic forests and communities across western North America. An insect the size of a rice kernel eventually killed more than 30 billion pine and spruce trees from Alaska to New Mexico. Often appearing in masses larger than schools of killer whales, the beetles engineered one of the world's greatest forest die-offs ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Ripple Effect

    The Fate of Fresh Water in the Twenty-First Century

    AS ALEX PRUD’HOMME and his great-aunt Julia Child were completing their collaboration on her memoir, My Life in France, they began to talk about the French obsession with bottled water, which had finally spread to America. From this spark of interest, Prud’homme began what would become an ambitious quest to understand the evolving story of freshwater. What he found was shocking: as the climate ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Soil Will Save Us

    How Scientists, Farmers, and Foodies Are Healing the Soil to Save the Planet

    Journalist and bestselling author Kristin Ohlson makes an elegantly argued, passionate case for "our great green hope"—a way in which we can not only heal the land but also turn atmospheric carbon into beneficial soil carbon—and potentially reverse global warming.Thousands of years of poor farming and ranching practices—and, especially, modern industrial agriculture—have led to the loss of up to ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Growing a Revolution

    Bringing Our Soil Back to Life

    **Finalist for the PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award"A call to action that underscores a common goal: to change the world from the ground up." —Dan Barber, author of The Third Plate**For centuries, agricultural practices have eroded the soil that farming depends on, stripping it of the organic matter vital to its productivity. Now conventional agriculture is threatening disaster for ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Bottlemania

    Big Business, Local Springs, and the Battle over America's Drinking Water

    Second only to soda, bottled water is on the verge of becoming the most popular beverage in the country. The brands have become so ubiquitous that we're hardly conscious that Poland Spring and Evian were once real springs, bubbling in remote corners of Maine and France. Only now, with the water industry trading in the billions of dollars, have we begun to question what it is we're drinking.In this ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Nature Wars

    The Incredible Story of How Wildlife Comebacks Turned Backyards into Battlegrounds

    by Jim Sterba ...
    This may be hard to believe but it is very likely that more people live in closer proximity to more wild animals, birds and trees in the eastern United States today than anywhere on the planet at any time in history. For nature lovers, this should be wonderful news -- unless, perhaps, you are one of more than 4,000 drivers who will hit a deer today, your child’s soccer field is carpeted with goose ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Down to Earth

    Nature's Role in American History

    by Ted Steinberg ...
    A tour de force of writing and analysis, Down to Earth offers a sweeping history of our nation, one that for the first time places the environment at the very center of our story. Writing with marvelous clarity, historian Ted Steinberg sweeps across the centuries, re-envisioning the story of America as he recounts how the environment has played a key role in virtually every social, economic, and ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • Consulting the Genius of the Place

    An Ecological Approach to a New Agriculture

    by Wes Jackson ...
    Locavore leaders such as Alice Waters, Michael Pollan, and Barbara Kingsolver all speak of the need for sweeping changes in how we get our food. A longtime leader of this movement is Wes Jackson, who for decades has taken it upon himself to speak for the land, to speak for the soil itself. Here, he offers a manifesto toward a conceptual revolution: Jackson asks us to look to natural ecosystems—or, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Dust Bowl

    The Southern Plains in the 1930s

    In the mid 1930s, North America's Great Plains faced one of the worst man-made environmental disasters in world history. Donald Worster's classic chronicle of the devastating years between 1929 and 1939 tells the story of the Dust Bowl in ecological as well as human terms. Now, twenty-five years after his book helped to define the new field of environmental history, Worster shares his more recent ... Read more

    $15.19 USD