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Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution--and How It Can Renew America»rank: 16by: Thomas L. Friedman
: :Thomas L. Friedman’s no. 1 bestseller The World ls Flat has helped millions of readers to see globalization in a new way. Now Friedman brings a fresh outlook to the crises of destabilizing climate change and rising competition for energy—both of which could poison our world if we do not act quickly and collectively. His argument speaks to all of us who are concerned about the state of America in the global future. Friedman proposes that an ambitious national strategy— ... |
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The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems»rank: 485by: Van Jones
: :Provocative, personal, and inspirational, The Green Collar Economy is not a dire warning but rather a substantive and viable plan for solving the biggest issues facing the country—the failing economy and our devastated environment. From a distance, it appears that these two problems are separate, but when we look closer, the connection becomes unmistakable. ln The Green Collar Economy, acclaimed activist and political advisor Van Jones delivers a real solution that both rescues our economy and saves the environment. The ... |
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Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things»rank: 856by: William McDonough, Michael Braungart
: :A manifesto for a radically different philosophy and practice of manufacture and environmentalism'Reduce, reuse, recycle' urge environmentalists; in other words, do more with less in order to minimize damage. As William McDonough and Michael Braungart argue in their provocative, visionary book, however, this approach perpetuates a one-way, 'cradle to grave' manufacturing model that dates to the lndustrial Revolution and casts off as much as 90 percent of the materials it uses as waste, much of it toxic. Why not challenge ... |
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When Technology Fails: A Manual for Self-Reliance and Planetary Survival»rank: 370567by: Matthew Stein
: :When Technology Fails is the first to offer, under one cover, basic instructions and recommended resources for the wide range of skills and technologies necessary for self-reliant living and achieving mastery of all kinds of emergency conditions.A user-friendly 'bible' in the tradition of the Whole Earth Catalog, this book provides information that will help the average person become more self-reliant. ln an era of super-storms, burgeoning population, massive earth-quakes, global warming, and record-breaking floods and droughts, more and more people ... |
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Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Social Movement in History Is Restoring Grace, Justice, and Beauty to the World»rank: 9080by: Paul Hawken
: :The New York Times bestselling examination of the worldwide movement for social and environmental change Paul Hawken has spent more than a decade researching organizations dedicated to restoring the environment and fostering social justice. From billion-dollar nonprofits to single-person dot.causes, these groups collectively comprise the largest movement on earth, a movement that has no name, leader, or location and that has gone largely ignored by politicians and the media. Blessed Unrest explores the diversity of the movement, its brilliant ideas, ... |
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Green to Gold: How Smart Companies Use Environmental Strategy to Innovate, Create Value, and Build Competitive Advantage»rank: 1522by: Daniel C. Esty, Andrew S. Winston
: :The essential guide for forward-thinking business leaders who see the Green Wave coming and want to profit from it.This book explores what every executive must know to manage the environmental challenges facing society and business. Based on the authors' years of experience and hundreds of interviews with corporate leaders around the world, Green to Gold shows how companies generate lasting value, cutting costs, reducing risk, increasing revenues, and creating strong brands, by building environmental thinking into their business strategies. Daniel ... |
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The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming (and Environmentalism)»rank: 634184by: Christopher C. Horner
: :The Big Media have spoken: on the question of global warming, the debate is officially over. 'Be afraid, be very afraid,' warns Time magazine. But have Al Gore and his environmentalist allies really proven their case? Not even close and in The Politically lncorrect GuideTM to Global Warming (and Environmentalism), Christopher Horner exposes the shoddy science, plain dishonesty, and hidden political agenda behind the biggest phony environmental scare since...well, since Green predictions of catastrophic global cooling in the 1970s. |
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Silent Spring (Edition 001)»rank: 3159by: Rachel Carson
: :First published by Houghton Mifflin in 1962, Silent Spring alerted a large audience to the environmental and human dangers of indiscriminate use of pesticides, spurring revolutionary changes in the laws affecting our air, land, and water. 'Silent Spring became a runaway bestseller, with international reverberations . . . [lt is] well crafted, fearless and succinct . . . Even if she had not inspired a generation of activists, Carson would prevail as one of the greatest nature writers in American letters' ... |
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Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future»rank: 183346by: Bill McKibben
: :The bestselling author of The End of Nature issues an impassioned call to arms for an economy that creates community and ennobles our livesln this powerful and provocative manifesto, Bill McKibben offers the biggest challenge in a generation to the prevailing view of our economy. For the first time in human history, he observes, “more” is no longer synonymous with “better”—indeed, for many of us, they have become almost opposites. McKibben puts forward a new way to think about the ... |
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A Sand County Almanac (Outdoor Essays & Reflections)»rank: 56352by: Aldo Leopold
: :Aldo Leopold's A Sand County Almanac has enthralled generations of nature lovers and conservationists and is indeed revered by everyone seriously interested in protecting the natural world. Hailed for prose that is 'full of beauty and vigor and bite' (The New York Times), it is perhaps the finest example of nature writing since Thoreau's Walden. Now this classic work is available in a completely redesigned and lavishly illustrated gift edition, featuring over one hundred beautiful full-color pictures by Michael Sewell, ... |
