The environment
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How Green Became Good. Urbanized Nature and the Making of Cities and Citizens, Hardback/Hillary Angelo
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The Everglades: River of Grass, Hardcover/Marjory Stoneman Douglas
Before 1947, when Marjory Stoneman Douglas named The Everglades a "river of grass," most people considered the area worthless. She brought the world's attention to the need to preserve The…Catre Magazin -
The Atlas of Water: Mapping the World’s Most Critical Resource, Paperback/Maggie Black
Climate change, population increase, and the demands made by the growing number of people adopting urban lifestyles and western dietsthreaten the world s supply of freshwater, edging us closer to…Catre Magazin -
Half-Earth: Our Planet’s Fight for Life, Hardcover/Edward O. Wilson
In order to stave off the mass extinction of species, including our own, we must move swiftly to preserve the biodiversity of our planet, says Edward O. Wilson in his…Catre Magazin -
Sustainable Urban Development Reader, Paperback/Stephen M Wheeler
Building on the success of its second edition, the third edition of the Sustainable Urban Development Reader provides a generous selection of classic and contemporary readings giving a broad introduction…Catre Magazin -
Surrey Matters, Hardback/Nick Oakley
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Land of Extremes: A Natural History of the Arctic North Slope of Alaska, Paperback/Alex Huryn
This book is a comprehensive guide to the natural history of the North Slope, the only arctic tundra in the United States. The first section provides detailed information on climate,…Catre Magazin -
Patterns in Nature: Why the Natural World Looks the Way It Does, Hardcover/Philip Ball
Though at first glance the natural world may appear overwhelming in its diversity and complexity, there are regularities running through it, from the hexagons of a honeycomb to the spirals…Catre Magazin -
Being the Change: Live Well and Spark a Climate Revolution, Paperback/Peter Kalmus
Life on 1/10th the fossil fuels turns out to be awesome. We all want to be happy. Yet as we consume ever more in a frantic bid for happiness, global…Catre Magazin -
Mirage: Florida and the Vanishing Water of the Eastern U.S., Paperback/Cynthia Barnett
``In the days before the Internet, books like Rachel Carson's Silent Spring and Marjorie Stoneman Douglas' River of Grass were groundbreaking calls to action that made citizens and politicians take…Catre Magazin -
The Story of Science: Aristotle Leads the Way, Hardcover/Joy Hakim
Readers will travel back in time to ancient Babylonia, Egypt, and Greece. They will meet the world's first astronomers, mathematicians, and physicists and explore the lives and ideas of such…Catre Magazin -
Cool Cities: Urban Sovereignty and the Fix for Global Warming, Hardcover/Benjamin R. Barber
A pointed argument that cities--not nation-states--can and must take the lead in fighting climate change Climate change is the most urgent challenge we face in an interdependent world where independent…Catre Magazin -
The Fourth Phase of Water: Beyond Solid, Liquid, and Vapor, Paperback/Gerald H. Pollack
Professor Pollack takes us on a fantastic voyage through water, showing us a hidden universe teeming with physical activity-- providing simple explanations for common everyday phenomena, which you have inevitably…Catre Magazin -
The Ghosts of Evolution Nonsensical Fruit, Missing Partners, and Other Ecological Anachronisms, Paperback/Connie Barlow
A new vision is sweeping through ecological science: The dense web of dependencies that makes up an ecosystem has gained an added dimension-the dimension of time. Every field, forest, and…Catre Magazin -
Calculated Risks, Paperback/Joseph V. Rodricks
The toxicity and human health risks of chemicals in our environment.Catre Magazin -
Eleven, Paperback/Paul Hanley
The sweeping changes that make a 'full world' work-involving dual processes of destruction and reconstruction-will transform global culture, agriculture, and ultimately the human race. ELEVEN is a call to consciousness.…Catre Magazin -
The Wasting of Borneo: Dispatches from a Vanishing World, Hardcover/Alex Shoumatoff
Acclaimed naturalist Alex Shoumatoff issues a worldwide call to protect the drastically endangered rainforests of Borneo In his eleventh book, but his first in almost two decades, seasoned travel writer…Catre Magazin -
Flower Farmer’s Year, Hardcover/Georgie Newbery
Georgie Newbery is a leading artisan cut-flower farmer and florist, and this book combines beautiful images with the story of how she started her business. Filled with practical information for…Catre Magazin -
Fossil Capital: The Rise of Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming, Paperback/Andreas Malm
How capitalism first promoted fossil fuels with the rise of steam power The more we know about the catastrophic implications of climate change, the more fossil fuels we burn. How…Catre Magazin -
Enduring Acequias: Wisdom of the Land, Knowledge of the Water, Paperback/Juan Estevan Arellano
For generations the Rio Embudo watershed in northern New Mexico has been the home of Juan Estevan Arellano and his ancestors. From this unique perspective Arellano explores the ways people…Catre Magazin -
Extreme Cities: The Peril and Promise of Urban Life in the Age of Climate Change, Hardcover/Ashley Dawson
A cutting exploration of how cities drive climate change while being on the frontlines of the coming climate crisis How will climate change affect our lives? Where will its impacts…Catre Magazin -
Gem Identification Made Easy: A Hands-On Guide to More Confident Buying & Selling (6th Edition), Hardcover/Antoinette Leonard Matlins
Gem Identification Made Easy is the first and only book that explains in non-technical terms how to identify diamonds and colored gems, and how to separate natural gems from imitations,…Catre Magazin -
Tiger Tales: The Story of the Paradise Village Bengals, Paperback/Deborah Scott
LONG DESCRIPTION What would it be like to raise a tiger? Graziano Sovernigo, the owner/developer of Paradise Village found out when he took delivery of a tiger cub seized from…Catre Magazin -
Transition Companion, Paperback/Rob Hopkins
Subtitled }Making Your Community More Resilient In Uncertain Times{. Draws on over 3 years' experience of the worldwide Transition movement, and gives a new, easily accessible approach to creating change.…Catre Magazin -
A Precautionary Tale: How One Small Town Banned Pesticides, Preserved Its Food Heritage, and Inspired a Movement, Paperback/Philip Ackerman-Leist
Mals, Italy, has long been known as the breadbasket of the Tyrol. But recently the tiny town became known for something else entirely. A Precautionary Tale tells us why, introducing…Catre Magazin -
Wild Ohio: The Best of Our Natural Heritage, Hardcover/Jim McCormac
A photographic documentation of the most outstanding natural habitats in Ohio "We hope this book never becomes an epitaph for what once was. Ohio is incredibly rich in biodiversity, possibly…Catre Magazin -
Virginia Climate Fever: How Global Warming Will Transform Our Cities, Shorelines, and Forests, Paperback/Stephen Nash
Climate disruption is often discussed on a global scale, affording many a degree of detachment from what is happening in their own backyards. Yet the consequences of global warming are…Catre Magazin -
Water 4.0: The Past, Present, and Future of the World’s Most Vital Resource, Paperback/David Sedlak
The little-known story of the systems that bring us our drinking water, how they were developed, the problems they are facing, and how they will be reinvented in the near…Catre Magazin -
Field Guide to the Sandia Mountains, Paperback/Robert Julyan
Each year over 2 million visitors to New Mexico's Sandia Mountains enjoy more than 100 miles of trails, hiking, climbing, running, biking, skiing, and birding, as well as viewing the…Catre Magazin -
Crown Jewel Wilderness: Creating North Cascades National Park, Paperback/Lauren Danner
North Cascades National Park is remote, rugged, and spectacularly majestic. Efforts to establish a park gained traction after World War II, as national interest in wilderness preservation and concerns about…Catre Magazin -
Unprecedented Crime: Climate Science Denial and Game Changers for Survival, Paperback/Dr Peter Carter
In 2017, the heat waves, extreme wild fires, and flooding around the world confirmed beyond doubt that climate disruption is now a full-blown emergency. We have entered Churchill's ``period of…Catre Magazin -
Applications of Hypothesis Testing for Environmental Science, Paperback/Abbas F.M.
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Planet Palm. How Palm Oil Ended Up in Everything-and Endangered the World, Hardback/Jocelyn C. Zuckerman
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The View from Lazy Point: A Natural Year in an Unnatural World, Paperback/Carl Safina
Hailed MacArthur Fellow Carl Safina takes us on a tour of the natural world in the course of a year spent divided between his home on the shore of eastern…Catre Magazin -
Water: Exploring the Blue Planet, Hardcover/Markus Eisl
Water is in crisis. We are in crisis. All life depends on water and we are running out of it, but where exactly is the water and where is it…Catre Magazin -
The Upcycle: Beyond Sustainability – Designing for Abundance, Paperback/William McDonough
From the authors of Cradle to Cradle , we learn what's next: The Upcycle The Upcycle is the eagerly awaited follow-up to Cradle to Cradle , one of the most…Catre Magazin -
After Nature: A Politics for the Anthropocene, Paperback/Jedediah Purdy
An Artforum Best Book of the Year A Legal Theory Bookworm Book of the Year Nature no longer exists apart from humanity. Henceforth, the world we will inhabit is the…Catre Magazin -
Sharing Nature(r): Nature Awareness Activities for All Ages, Paperback/Joseph Cornell
Sharing Nature with Children sold more than half a million copies and sparked a worldwide revolution in nature education. Now that classic has been rewritten, with added new activities and…Catre Magazin -
The Soil Will Save Us: How Scientists, Farmers, and Foodies Are Healing the Soil to Save the Planet, Hardcover/Kristin Ohlson
Thousands of years of poor farming and ranching practices--and, especially, modern industrial agriculture--have led to the loss of up to 80 percent of carbon from the world's soils. That carbon…Catre Magazin -
Longleaf, Far as the Eye Can See: A New Vision of North America’s Richest Forest, Hardcover/Bill Finch
Longleaf forests once covered 92 million acres from Texas to Maryland to Florida. These grand old-growth pines were the "alpha tree" of the largest forest ecosystem in North America and…Catre Magazin -
Into the Storm: Two Ships, a Deadly Hurricane, and an Epic Battle for Survival, Hardcover/Tristram Korten
"An intense, immersive deep dive into a wild, dangerous, and unknown world, written with the pace and appeal of a great thriller. This is nonfiction at its very best."--Lee Child…Catre Magazin -
Blue Planet II, Hardcover/James Honeyborne
A lavish and definitive view of the oceanic world - accompanying a landmark 7-part BBC series being narrated by Sir David Attenborough. Includes over 200 photographs and stills from the…Catre Magazin -
Rethinking the Oceans: Towards the Blue Economy, Hardcover/James Alix Michel
The world has come to a crossroads. By the end of this century the total population is expected to exceed ten billion, but the area of land to support this…Catre Magazin -
The Future of Nature: Writing on a Human Ecology from Orion Magazine, Paperback/Barry Lopez
The western mindset is arguably one of the greatest threats to the world’s ecological balance. Corporatism and globalization are two of the obvious villains here, but what part does human…Catre Magazin -
Shalom and the Community of Creation: An Indigenous Vision, Paperback/Randy Woodley
Materialism. Greed. Loneliness. A manic pace. Abuse of the natural world. Inequality. Injustice. War. The endemic problems facing America today are staggering. We need change and restoration. But where to…Catre Magazin -
Lost in the Driftless: Trout Fishing on the Cultural Divide, Paperback/Timothy O. Traver
The Driftless Area in rural southwestern Wisconsin has some of the most productive spring creeks in the world. Brown trout numbers can reach 5000 catchable fish per mile in creeks…Catre Magazin -
Rising Tides: Climate Refugees in the Twenty-First Century, Paperback/John R. Wennersten
Global climate change is undeniable. Over the next few decades, as sea levels rise, storms intensify, and drought and desertification run rampant, hundreds of millions of civilians will abandon their…Catre Magazin -
Sustainability, Paperback/Leslie Paul Thiele
The pursuit of sustainability has generated lifestyle changes for individuals across the globe; innovations within the arts and sciences, business, design, engineering, and agriculture; historic policies and laws at municipal…Catre Magazin -
Saving Arcadia: A Story of Conservation and Community in the Great Lakes, Paperback/Heather Shumaker
Contributor(s): Author: Heather Shumaker Saving Arcadia: A Story of Conservation and Community in the Great Lakes is a suspenseful and intimate land conservation adventure story set in the Great Lakes…Catre Magazin -
Dark Age America: Climate Change, Cultural Collapse, and the Hard Future Ahead, Paperback/John Michael Greer
After decades of missed opportunities, the door to a sustainable future has closed, and the future we face now is one in which today's industrial civilization unravels in the face…Catre Magazin -
Keeper of the Wild: The Life of Ernest Oberholtzer, Paperback/Joe Paddock
Ernest Oberholtzer (1884-1977) is one of the great unsung heroes of the American conservation movement of the twentieth century. Selected as one of the 100 influential Minnesotans of the twentieth…Catre Magazin -
100 Plants to Feed the Bees: Provide a Healthy Habitat to Help Pollinators Thrive, Hardcover/The Xerces Society
The international bee crisis is threatening our global food supply, but this user-friendly field guide shows what you can do to help protect our pollinators. The Xerces Society for Invertebrate…Catre Magazin -
Ancient Pinewoods of Scotland, Hardcover/Clifton Bain
With forewords by Vanessa Collingridge and Aubrey Manning, and lavishly illustrated with many colour photographs, maps and drawings by wildlife artist Darren Rees, this is a stunning exploration of the…Catre Magazin