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  • Chemicals without Harm

    Policies for a Sustainable World

    by Ken Geiser ...
    Series series Urban and Industrial Environments
    A proposal for a new chemicals strategy: that we work to develop safer alternatives to hazardous chemicals rather than focusing exclusively on controlling them.Today, there are thousands of synthetic chemicals used to make our clothing, cosmetics, household products, electronic devices, even our children's toys. Many of these chemicals help us live longer and more comfortable lives, but some of ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

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  • What Has Nature Ever Done for Us?

    How Money Really Does Grow On Trees

    by Sir Tony Juniper ...
    During recent years, environmental debate worldwide has been dominated by climate change, carbon emissions and eff orts to achieve low carbon economies. But a number of academic, technical, political, business and NGO initiatives indicate that there is a new wave of environmental attention focused on a wholly different set of subjects: namely that of natural capital, ecosystem services and ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • State of the World 2014

    Governing for Sustainability

    by The Worldwatch Institute, David W. Orr, Tom Prugh, Michael Renner, John Gowdy, Robert Engelman, Michael L. Weber, Conor Seyle, Matthew Wilburn King, Matt Leighninger, Diana Lind, Monty Hempel, Peter Brown, Jeremy J. Schmidt, Cormac Cullinan, Isabel Hilton, Sam Geall, Shakuntala Makhijani, Aaron Sachs, Inge Kaul, Maria Ivanova, Rick Worthington, Sean Sweeney, Dr., Thomas Palley, Gar Alperovitz, Colleen Cordes, David Bollier, Burns Weston, Petra Bartosiewicz, Marissa Miley, Evan Musolino, Katie Auth, Nina Netzer, Judith Gouverneur, Josephine Mitschke, Ian Johnson, Yu Hongyuan ...
    Series series State of the World
    Citizens expect their governments to lead on sustainability. But from largely disappointing international conferences like Rio II to the U.S.’s failure to pass meaningful climate legislation, governments’ progress has been lackluster. That’s not to say leadership is absent; it just often comes from the bottom up rather than the top down. Action—on climate, species loss, inequity, and other ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Canada and the Changing Arctic

    Sovereignty, Security, and Stewardship

    by Franklyn Griffiths, Rob Huebert, P. Whitney Lackenbauer ...
    Global warming has had a dramatic impact on the Arctic environment, including the ice melt that has opened previously ice-covered waterways. State and non-state actors who look to the region and its resources with varied agendas have started to pay attention. Do new geopolitical dynamics point to a competitive and inherently conflictual “race for resources”? Or will the Arctic become a region ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • How to Breathe Underwater

    Field Reports from an Age of Radical Change

    by Chris Turner ...
    The essays and reportage in How to Breathe Underwater offer a panoramic overview of this age of radical change-from the online gambling boom in the Caribbean to Cyberjaya, the Malaysian government’s attempt to build its own Silicon Valley; from video game design to digital-age tabloid journalism to the artistry of The Simpsons; and from the fate of the Great Barrier Reef to Cuba’s economic limbo ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Some Like It Cold

    The Politics of Climate Change in Canada

    by Robert C. Paehlke ...
    Some Like It Cold plunges headlong into the political conundrum of Canada’s climatechange debate. Focusing on the past responses of both Liberal and Conservative governmentsto the looming crisis—ranging from negligence to complicity and connivance—Paehlke illuminatesthe issues surrounding compliance with global regulations such as Kyoto, includingthe dilemma of tar sands development. But he also ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • Thermophobia

    Shining a Light, #3

    by Rod Martin, Jr ...
    Series Book 3 - Shining a Light
    Top 25 Weather BestsellerThermophobia means "fear of warmth."Did you know that Global Warming made civilization possible 12,000 years ago? What were the benefits back then? What changed?We live in an Ice Age and governments want to cool down the planet. That could trigger the next glacial period, and Ice Age glacials are brutal. They make the 1998 Great Ice Storm, and 1816 Year Without a Summer, ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Leap of Faith

    by Laura Adams ...
    Based on a true story of recent events that took place in one of America's most famous small towns. Known for cereal, Battle Creek, Michigan, became world-famous again in July of 2010 when over 800,000 gallons of crude oil were spilled into the river that runs through town, from a pipeline that nobody knew existed, owned by a company no one had heard of.Leap of Faith is the true story of a small ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Organizing Cools the Planet

    Tools and Reflections to Navigate the Climate Crisis

    by Joshua Kahn, Hilary Moore ...
    Series series PM Pamphlet
    Organizing Cools the Planet offers a challenge to all concerned about the ecological crisis: find your frontline. This booklet weaves together stories, analysis, organizing tools, and provocative questions, to offer a snapshot of the North American Climate Justice movement and provide pathways for readers to participate in it. Authors share hard lessons learned, reflect on strategy, and grapple ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Risk Pivot

    Great Powers, International Security, and the Energy Revolution

    by Bruce D. Jones, David Steven ...
    The last decade has seen a revolution in global energy. First, we saw explosive growth in demand from Asia's rising powers, which fueled fears about scarcity and conflict. But we've also seen an American revolution in technology and markets, resulting in a dramatic increase in sup-ply. This is strengthening America's hand in the world-but it's not without complications. There are major security ... Read more

    $22.19 USD

  • Sustainable Urban Energy Policy

    Heat and the city

    by David Hawkey, Janette Webb, Heather Lovell, David McCrone, Margaret Tingey, Mark Winskel ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Energy Policy
    Minimising the most severe risks of climate change means ending societal dependence on fossil fuels, and radically improving the efficiency with which we use all energy sources. Such deliberate transformative change is, however, without precedent.Sustainable Urban Energy Policy debates the major public issue of developing a sustainable, clean and affordable energy system by adopting a distinctive ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Climate Change and Global Policy Regimes

    Towards Institutional Legitimacy

    by Timothy Cadman ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    An analysis of the global climate talks and the key human systems threatened by increased greenhouse gas emissions including health, refugee management, energy production, carbon markets and local government. ... Read more

    $89.09 USD