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Author
Publisher
North Atlantic Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"An Indigenous environmental scientist breaks down why western conservationism isn't working--and offers Indigenous models informed by case studies, personal stories, and family histories that center the voices of Latin American women and land protectors"--
Author
Publisher
The MIT Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Growth has been both an unspoken and an explicit aim of our individual and collective striving. It governs the lives of microorganisms and galaxies; it shapes the capabilities of our extraordinarily large brains and the fortunes of our economies. Growth is manifested in annual increments of continental crust, a rising gross domestic product, a child's growth chart, the spread of cancerous cells. In this magisterial book, Vaclav Smil offers systematic...
Publisher
A&E Television Networks
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
What would happen if every human being on Earth disappeared? This isn't the story of how we might vanish, it is the story of what happens to the world we leave behind. Examine how the very landscape of planet Earth would change in our absence. A stunningly graphic journey to a world wiped clean of humanity.
Author
Series
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"There are almost eight billion people alive today. Having that many people in the world puts pressure on both social and natural resources, and we have to ask ourselves difficult questions like, What is our fair share? And how do we share more equitably? Ours to Share starts by giving an overview of human population growth, from the time when there were only a few hundred thousand people until now. The book goes on to examine some of the inequities...
Publisher
Rangeland Productions, LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Jeff Bridges shares the screen with scientists, profound thinkers and a dazzling array of Earth's living creatures to reveal eye-opening concepts about ourselves and our past, providing fresh insights into our subconscious motivations and their unintended consequences. Energy is the currency of life. Bridges reveals the keys we need to move in the future wisely."--Container.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
The author surveys the traces we will leave for peoples in the very distant future. He shows that modern civilization has created objects and landscapes with the potential to endure through deep time, including the plastic polluting the oceans, the nuclear waste entombed within the earth, and the thirty million miles of paved roads spanning the planet. This is his meditation on climate change and the Anthropocene, and an urgent search for fossils--industrial,...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Just as a pebble is part of a mountain, just as a wave is part of the sea, so, too, is every one of us part of something bigger. With bright collage illustrations and a simple, lyrical text, acclaimed author-illustrator Toni Yuly invites readers to celebrate our relationship to the natural world.
91) Instinct
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Anthropologist, Ethan Powell (Anthony Hopkins), who is in prison for the criminally insane is set to be examined by a young psychiatrist Theo Caulder (Gooding). Caulder will risk his life to get to the truth.
Publisher
Thames and Hudson
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Arctic: culture and climate explores the history of the Circumpolar North and its peoples through the lens of climate change and weather, drawing on a wealth of objects, artworks, and voices--from past and present--to show how Arctic Peoples and their cultural traditions have continued to thrive amid both social and environmental change"--Publisher website.
94) Love thy nature
Publisher
In the Light Productions
Pub. Date
[2017?]
Language
English
Description
Examines the interconnectivity between human beings and the natural world. Discusses ways in which the increasing estrangement from nature, brought on by modern lifestyles, is proving harmful both to people and the environment. Looks at biomimicry, the study of nature for the purpose of engineering new technologies. Argues that a reconnection with nature could be essential for restoring personal health and solving the environmental and climate crises....
Publisher
Cascade Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
In the midst of loss and death and suffering, our charge is to figure out what freedom really means -- and how we take steps to get there. The uprising of 2020 marked a new phase in the unfolding Movement for Black Lives. The brutal killings of Ahmaud Arbery, George Floyd, and Breonna Taylor, and countless other injustices large and small, were the match that lit the spark of the largest protest movement in US history, a historic uprising against...
Author
Publisher
Greystone Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"When you walk in the woods, do you use all five senses to explore your surroundings? For most of us, the answer is no--but when we do engage all our senses, a walk in the woods can go from pleasant to immersive and restorative. Forest Walking teaches you how to get the most out of your next adventure by becoming a forest detective, decoding nature's signs and awakening to the ancient past and thrilling present of the ecosystem around you. What can...
Author
Language
English
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"An inspired weaving of indigenous knowledge, plant science, and personal narrative from a distinguished professor of science and a Native American whose previous book, Gathering Moss, was awarded the John Burroughs Medal for outstanding nature writing. As a botanist and professor of plant ecology, Robin Wall Kimmerer has spent a career learning how to ask questions of nature using the tools of science. As a Potawatomi woman, she learned from elders,...
Author
Publisher
Zest Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer's best-selling book Braiding Sweetgrass is adapted for a young adult audience by children's author Monique Gray Smith, bringing Indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge, and the lessons of plant life to a new generation"--
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