Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Tuesday that greenhouse-gas targets in the federal government’s new environmental policy will be ?intensity-based,? a … Continue reading PM plans ‘intensity’ alternative to Kyoto
While most efforts at biodiversity conservation have focused primarily on protected areas and reserves, the unprotected lands surrounding those area?the “”matrix””?are equally important to preserving global biodiversity and maintaining forest health. In Conserving Forest Biodiversity, leading forest scientists David B. Lindenmayer and Jerry F. Franklin argue that the conservation of forest biodiversity requires a comprehensive and multiscaled approach that includes both reserve and nonreserve areas.
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Margaret Atwood’s classic novel The Handmaid’s Tale is about the future. Now, in Oryx and Crake, the future has changed.
Solving Sprawl shines a spotlight on American communities that are applying smart growth principles in successfully addressing the problem of sprawl. It offers examples that illustrate key concepts and tells the story of how this new approach to development has caught hold across America.
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This excellent new resource on understanding and managing environmental contamination problems in general, and contaminated sites in particular, represents a collection and synthesis of modern issues.
This book focuses on recent technological issues commercially available or in various stages of implementation.
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“This book provides an international perspective on rural planning in developing countries.”
Just Sustainabilities argues that social and environmental justice within and between nations should be an integral part of the policies and agreements that promote sustainable development. The book addresses the links between environmental quality and human equality and between sustainability and environmental justice.
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“‘A unique book…certainly the most detailed analysis of the numerous implications of the Convention on Biological Diversity ever to appear … Continue reading The Commercial Use of Biodiversity: Access to Genetic Resources and Benefit Sharing
Paul Hawken, the entrepreneur behind the Smith & Hawken gardening supplies empire, is no ordinary capitalist. Drawing as much on Baba Ram Dass and Vaclav Havel as he does on Peter Drucker and WalMart for his case studies, Hawken is on a one-man crusade to reform our economic system by demanding that First World businesses reduce their consumption of energy and resources by 80 percent in the next 50 years.
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In Natural Capitalism, three top strategists show how leading-edge companies are practicing “a new type of industrialism” that is more efficient and profitable while saving the environment and creating jobs.
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The global economy and the way of life it has created are based on the exploitation of fossil fuels ? coal, oil and, more recently, natural gas ? and fossil fuels will be the engine of the collapse of that economy. Without fundamental change, it has no future.
