Product Description: This book gives 101 things you can do to make the world a better, brighter place.

Presents 365 photographs that capture the splendors of the natural world, accompanied by practical suggestions and simple environment-friendly actions that can help protect the fragile ecosystems and wildlife of the planet.

Product Description: Applied Natural Science: Environmental Issues and Global Perspectives provides the reader with a complete insight into the natural-scientific pattern of the world, covering the most important historical stages of the development of various areas of science, methods of natural-scientific research, general scientific and philosophical concepts, and the fundamental laws of nature...read more

Product Description: This powerful book shows us that we are in deep denial about the magnitude of the global environmental challenges and resource constraints facing the world. Despite growing scientific consensus on major environmental threats as well as resource depletion, societies are largely continuing with business as usual, at best attempting to tinker at the margins of the problems...read more

Product Description: In 1958, Charles David Keeling began measuring the concentration of carbon dioxide in the earth's atmosphere at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii. His project kicked off a half century of research that has expanded our knowledge of climate change...read more

For most people, animals are the most significant aspects of the nonhuman world. They symbolize nature in our imaginations, in popular media and culture, and in campaigns to preserve wilderness, yet scholars habitually treat animals and the environment as mutually exclusive objects of concern. Conducting the first examination of animals' place in popular and scholarly thinking about nature, Anna L. Peterson builds a nature ethic that conceives of nonhuman animals as active subjects who are simultaneously parts of both nature and human society. Peterson explores the tensions between humans and animals, nature and culture, animals and nature, and domesticity and wildness. She uses our intimate connections with companion animals to examine nature more broadly. Companion animals are liminal creatures straddling the boundary between human society and wilderness, revealing much about the mutually constitutive relationships binding humans and nature together. Through her paradigm-shifting reflections, Peterson disrupts the artificial boundaries between two seemingly distinct categories, underscoring their fluid and continuous character.

Product Description: The Law and Politics of Sustainability explores efforts to address pressing environmental concerns through legislation, conventions, directives, treaties, and protocols. Many articles explain the mechanics of environmental law as well as the concepts that shape sustainable development...read more

Product Description: This book tells the story of geothermal power and how we can find and use this energy to help us have a cleaner Earth. This book explains to our young people the power of our Earth's interior, the heat energy provided by nature and how we can use its warmth and power to provide a cleaner environment...read more

Product Description: This volume considers the response of selected cultures to climate events that have been documented from the archaeological and geological records. It includes articles by participants in a 2008 conference at the University of Pennsylvania s Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology as well as other prominent scholars...read more

In our increasingly polarized society, there are constant calls for compromise, for coming together. For many, these are empty talking points—for Lucy Moore, they are a life's work. As an environmental mediator, she has spent the past quarter century resolving conflicts that appeared utterly intractable. Here, she shares the most compelling stories of her career, offering insight and inspiration to anyone caught in a seemingly hopeless dispute. Moore has worked on wide-ranging issues—from radioactive waste storage to loss of traditional grazing lands. More importantly, she has worked with diverse groups and individuals: ranchers, environmental activists, government agencies, corporations, tribal groups, and many more. After decades spent at the negotiating table, she has learned that a case does not turn on facts, legal merit, or moral superiority. It turns on people. Through ten memorable stories, she shows how issues of culture, personality, history, and power affect negotiations. And she illustrates that equitable solutions depend on a healthy group dynamic. Both the mediator and opposing parties must be honest, vulnerable, open, and respectful. Easier said than done, but Moore proves that subtle shifts can break the logjam and reconcile even the most fiercely warring factions. This book should be especially appealing to anyone concerned with environmental conflicts; and also to students in environmental studies, political science, and conflict resolution, and to academics and professionals in mediation and conflict resolution fields.

Product Description: Conducting Research in Conservation is the first textbook on social science research methods written specifically for use in the expanding and increasingly multidisciplinary field of environmental conservation. The first section on planning a research project includes chapters on the need for social science research in conservation, defining a research topic, methodology, and sampling...read more

Product Description: Helping kids think about their earth’s future is no easy task. These days, there’s a lot of talk about being green, buying organic, and protecting our planet, but making eco-friendly choices can be hard for busy families. Luckily, Ian James Corlett—an award-winning children’s TV writer and author of E Is for Ethics—is back with a guide that makes saving the environment a fun family adventure...read more

Product Description: Sing Along With Dr. Jean And Dr. Holly To Learn About How We Can All Work Together To Take Care Of The Earth.

Tells the story of two children journeying around a town, learning about the environment and how to care for it. This title shows how we can all make our world a cleaner, healthier place to live. Part of a four-level pictorial reading scheme, it helps a child learn to read and encourages a life-long love of reading Earth matters.

A well-stocked larder contains all those homemade essentials which do not need a refrigerator, such as cheese, pies, sausages, condiments, breads, jams and preserves. David Mabey aims to show how simple it is to make provisions like these - the cornerstones of British cookery - whether or not you have a real larder to put them in. Why settle for dull, pasty, factory-made sausages with commercial tartrazine-coloured mustard when they can be made at home with your own course-grained condiment? This book offers over 100 recipes for breads, soft cheeses and dairy foods, bacon and cured meats, sausages, potted dishes, pies, pasties, smoked fish, condiments, jams, jellies, marmalades and ciders. It also provides an explanation of how and where these foods were first made and what place they have had in the kitchens of the past.

Product Description: The Business of Sustainability, Volume 2 of the ten-volume Berkshire Encyclopedia of Sustainability, is a core resource for policy makers, members of the development community, entrepreneurs, and corporate executives, as well as business and economics students and their professors...read more