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Author : Edward Barbier
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-31
Category : BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
ISBN : 9781108830829
As global environmental challenges mount, this book offers a policy blueprint for building a safer, sustainable and more inclusive world.
Author : The Xivth Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1896559735
An ethical approach to dealing with the urgent issues of climate change and taking care of our delicate ecosystems. This Fragile Planet features 80 inspiring quotations from His Holiness the Dalai Lama on environment, matched with 120 eye-catching photos and visuals from a dozen professional photographers - all carefully curated and edited by Tibet expert Michael Buckley. The book lays out the vision of His Holiness concerning secular ethics and environmental protection, great respect for all living beings, the importance of interdependence, and the concept of universal responsibility for protecting Mother Earth. Material in the book is as current as Earth Day 2021. The Dalai Lama's 1989 Nobel Peace Prize was the first ever awarded on the basis of environmental protection. Over the decades since, His Holiness has worked tirelessly as an environmental activist, making this one of his key commitments in life. He is a staunch advocate of the value of education of the heart - the need for compassion and ethics, inspiring the coming generations - and has worked closely with educators to realise this vision.
Author : David Remnick,Henry Finder
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 567 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780063017566
A New York Times New & Noteworthy Book One of the Daily Beast’s 5 Essential Books to Read Before the Election A collection of the New Yorker’s groundbreaking reporting from the front lines of climate change—including writing from Bill McKibben, Elizabeth Kolbert, Ian Frazier, Kathryn Schulz, and more Just one year after climatologist James Hansen first came before a Senate committee and testified that the Earth was now warmer than it had ever been in recorded history, thanks to humankind’s heedless consumption of fossil fuels, New Yorker writer Bill McKibben published a deeply reported and considered piece on climate change and what it could mean for the planet. At the time, the piece was to some speculative to the point of alarmist; read now, McKibben’s work is heroically prescient. Since then, the New Yorker has devoted enormous attention to climate change, describing the causes of the crisis, the political and ecological conditions we now find ourselves in, and the scenarios and solutions we face. The Fragile Earth tells the story of climate change—its past, present, and future—taking readers from Greenland to the Great Plains, and into both laboratories and rain forests. It features some of the best writing on global warming from the last three decades, including Bill McKibben’s seminal essay “The End of Nature,” the first piece to popularize both the science and politics of climate change for a general audience, and the Pulitzer Prize–winning work of Elizabeth Kolbert, as well as Kathryn Schulz, Dexter Filkins, Jonathan Franzen, Ian Frazier, Eric Klinenberg, and others. The result, in its range, depth, and passion, promises to bring light, and sometimes heat, to the great emergency of our age.
Author : Kenneth Steven
Publisher : Lion Children's Books
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-07
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780745967943
How the Seasons Came to Be The Hunter and the Swan The Saint and the Blackbird The Tale of the Lion Grey-eye and the Whale A Fishy Tale The Panda's Tale Maha and the Elephant The Shepherd and the Stone The Story of the Tower
Author : Collins Collins Books
Publisher : Collins
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03
Category : Photography
ISBN : 0008409315
This unique book provides a striking look at the dramatic changes that are happening to our planet. 230 dramatic images of sea level rising, glaciers melting, flooding, and impacts from fires.Striking images of the following locations are included: * American, European and Asian glaciers * Australian bushfires * Pacific Islands under threat * Rivers drying out * Cities flooding * Alaskan coastline * Advancing deserts * Greenland's shrinking ice A unique record of the dramatic changes which are shaping our planet.
Author : Dana Desonie
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Climatic changes
ISBN : 9781438105642
Discusses the issue of global warming and what we can do to prevent its rise. This book addresses how people must use energy more efficiently, develop alternative energy sources, and lower emissions technologies.
Author : Dana Desonie
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Business
ISBN : 9781438105659
Details how sustainability is gaining ground with individuals, communities, regions, and even nations, and shows readers how they, too, can become involved.
Author : Susannah Wise
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781473232358
What would you do to protect your family if the world stopped working? Not long from now, in a recognisable yet changed London, Signy and Matthew lead a dull, difficult life. They've only really stayed together for the sake of their six year old son, Jed. But they're surviving, just about. Until the day the technology that runs their world stops working. Unable to use their phones, pay for anything, even open the smart door to their flat, Matthew assumes that this is just a momentary glitch in the computers that now run the world. But then the electricity and gas are cut off. Even the water stops running. And the pollination drones - vital to the world, ever since the bees all died - are behaving oddly. People are going missing. Soldiers are on the streets. London is no longer safe. A shocking incident sends Signy and Jed on the run, desperate to flee London and escape to the small village where Signy grew up. Determined to protect her son, Signy will do almost anything to survive as the world falls apart around them. But she has no idea what is waiting for them outside the city...
Author : Bradley Trevor Greive,Mitsuaki Iwago
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2002-11-02
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780740726958
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Author : Rod Taylor
Publisher : Odyssey Books
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781922311269
Humanity is sliding toward a collision between global warming, resource depletion, and population growth. The evidence is daunting but we are hampered by anti-science demagogues who tell us everything’s okay, that we’ll run forever on our current course. The problem we are facing is on a global scale, far beyond any individual. It can be overwhelming and it is difficult to remain cheerful. In Ten Journeys on a Fragile Planet, journalist Rod Taylor interviews ten outstanding Australians who have – and are – doing something to confront the perilous state of the environment. This book tells their stories. Featuring: The Activist: Simon Sheikh The Solar Pioneer: Professor Andrew Blakers The Maggot Farmer: Olympia Yarger The Accidental Activist: Charlie Prell The Thoughtful Salesman: Leonard Cohen The Politician: Susan Jeanes The Climate Game Changer: Inez Harker-Schuch The Advocate: Professor Kate Auty The Lady with a Laser: Monica Oliphant A Question of Hope: Dr Siwan Lovett 'The ten case studies, showing what dedicated people can achieve, give us hope for the future. This is an important book.' - Dr Mark Diesendorf 'With the massive bushfires fresh in our minds, we need a remarkable turnaround in policies and actions. The remarkable people who contributed to this book provide us with a wide range of ideas and actions to get us on the right track toward a sustainable future.' -Professor Will Steffen 'Since Homer the world has needed its heroes – people whose deeds and words inspire us, galvanise us, uplift us, afford us glimpses of a better future. In Ten Journeys and a Fragile Planet, Rod Taylor summons ten heroes for our time, the most perilous time that human beings have ever faced: real people, facing real challenges and setbacks, passionate, driven, courageous, wise, unbowed. If there is hope for humanity, he has distilled its essence.' - Julian Cribb, author of Surviving the 21st Century
Author : Dana Desonie
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Atmosphere
ISBN : 9781438105628
Air pollution obscures vistas, damages ecosystems, and compromises human health. While some pollutants are regulated, as population grows and industries expand, intensive solutions are needed to deal with air pollution and its consequences. This book tackles these issues and shows readers what they can do to help conserve our planet's atmosphere.
Author : Dana Desonie
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biodiversity conservation
ISBN : 9781438105635
Earth's astonishing diversity of life - in coral reefs, Arctic tundra, tropical rainforests, deep-sea hot springs, and many others - is amazing for its beauty and for the ecosystem services it provides. This book discusses how ecosystems must be set aside, habitats restored, and global warming thwarted.
Author : Dana Desonie
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Earth sciences
ISBN : 9781438105673
Earth is the water planet, but only a fraction of the planet's water is usable, and water pollution has become a monumental dilemma as we enter the 21st century. This book explains how society needs to adopt a precautionary principle in water matters by better understanding the consequences of their actions before, not after, those actions occur.
Author : Jenny E. Tesar
Publisher : New York, NY : Facts on File
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0816024944
Summary: Explores the vital importance of ocean ecosystems and resources and focuses on how fishing, dumping, oil spills, and other human influences endanger the marine environment.
Author : Jenny Tesar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2001-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0816047391