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The Pipeline and the Paradigm: Keystone XL, Tar Sands, and the Battle to Defuse the Carbon Bomb

by Samuel Avery & Bill Mckibben

This thoroughly researched and wholly engaging book investigates the economic, ecological, political, and psychological issues behind the Keystone XL pipeline—a project so controversial it has inspired the...


Greening of the Self

by Joanna Macy

The premise of Greening of the Self is that we are not individuals separate from the world. Instead we are always “co-arising” or co-creating the world, and we cannot escape the consequence of what we do...


Through the Arc of the Rain Forest

by Karen Tei Yamashita

Through the Arc of the Rain Forest is a burlesque of comic-strip adventures and apocalyptic portents that stretches familiar truths to their logical extreme in a future world that is just recognizable enough...


Creative Habitat Restoration: Comprehensive Planning, Implementation, and Long-Term Management

by Larry Lodwick

Creative Habitat Restoration provides guidance on the processes of rehabilitating natural systems of plant and animal communities. This book is an extended communication to novices and entry and mid-level environmental...


Weather, Climate and Human Affairs (Routledge Revivals): A Book of Essays and Other Papers

by H. H. Lamb

First published in 1988, this is a reissue of a groundbreaking collection of essays written by Hubert Lamb, one of the world's foremost experts on weather and climate and a uniquely authoritative voice in...


Contested Waters: An Environmental History of the Colorado River

by April R. Summit

"To fully understand this river and its past, one must examine many separate pieces of history scattered throughout two nations--seven states within the United States and two within Mexico--and sort through...


Dead Snails Leave No Trails, Revised: Natural Pest Control for Home and Garden

by Janet Hogan Taylor & Loren Nancarrow

A practical guide to repelling indoor and outdoor pests using organic methods, updated with new information on getting rid of bedbugs and dust mites, plus includes updated online resources.

 

If you’ve ever...


Nature's Fortune: How Business and Society Thrive by Investing in Nature

by Mark R. Tercek & Jonathan S. Adams

A bold proposal to harness capitalism for the sake of environmentalism by a former investment banker and a conservation biologist


Green Cottaging

by Cottage Life

Swimming in clean water, hiking in the woods, and just breathing the fresh air--lakeside living gives cottagers a special appreciation for nature and a responsibility to maintain the cottage ecosystem for generations...


Cottage Trees & Plants

by Cottage Life

Over the years, Cottage Life magazine has received many questions about cottage-country flora, and we’ve found botanists, horticulturists, arborists, and other “ists” who can provide expert answers. Here...


Dirt Work: An Education in the Woods

by Christine Byl

A lively and lyrical account of one woman’s unlikely apprenticeship on a national-park trail crew and what she discovers about nature, gender, and the value of hard work

 

Christine Byl first encountered the...


Historical Dictionary of Environmentalism

by Peter Dauvergne

The Historical Dictionary of Environmentalism strategically skips across issues, concepts, time, organizations, and cultures, not with any pretense of producing a definitive dictionary but rather with the aim...


China's Disappearing Countryside: Towards Sustainable Land Governance for the Poor

by Yongjun Zhao

This book examines the linkages between land tenure, development and governance in the context of China's development transformation. Drawing on empirical studies, it advocates the exploration of innovative...


Sustainable Practices: Social Theory and Climate Change

by Elizabeth Shove & Nicola Spurling

Climate change is widely agreed to be one the greatest challenges facing society today. Mitigating and adapting to it is certain to require new ways of living. Thus far efforts to promote less resource-intensive...


The Agony of an American Wilderness: Loggers, Environmentalists, and the Struggle for Control of a Forgotten Forest

by Samuel A. MacDonald

What is a forest? What are forests for? Who should control them? These are familiar questions, but the Allegheny casts them in a new light. The national environmental movement has become less willing to compromise...


Community Biodiversity Management: Promoting resilience and the conservation of plant genetic resources

by Walter Simon de Boef, Abishkar Subedi & Nivaldo Peroni

The conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity are issues that have been high on the policy agenda since the first Earth Summit in Rio in 1992. As part of efforts to implement in situ conservation, a methodology...


Reinventing Eden: The Fate of Nature in Western Culture

by Carolyn Merchant

This revised edition of Carolyn's Merchant's classic Reinventing Eden has been updated with a new foreword and afterword.

Visionary quests to return to the Garden of Eden have shaped Western Culture. This book...


Mediating Nature

by Nils Lindahl Elliot

Mediating Nature provides a history of the present nature of mass mediation. It examines the ways in which a number of discourses, technologies and institutions have historically shaped the current ways of imagining...


Wetland Mitigation: Mitigation Banking and Other Strategies for Development and Compliance

by Mark Dennison

Regulations require that development projects in wetland areas restore or replace lost wetland functions and values. Completely updated to reflect recent legal developments, this practical reference explains...


Multiple Crises in Land and Resource Use

by Andreas Exner, Peter Fleissner & Lukas Kranzl

This book brings together geological, biological, radical economic, technological, historical and social perspectives on peak oil and other scarce resources. The contributors to this volume argue that these...