This thoughtful collection exposes the gap between rhetoric and performance in Canada?s response to environmental challenges. Canadians, despite their national penchant for environmental discussion, have fallen behind their G-8 peers in both domestic commitments and international actions.
Continue reading “The Integrity Gap: Canada’s Environmental Policy and Institutions”
The book ties together existing research into the interaction of chemicals, hormones and electromagnetic fields and provides a method for creating a home environment that supports our protective mechanisms. Worksheets help the average reader to identify the dangers in their homes, and understand how toxins get into our bodies, what they do when they get there, how our bodies try to protect us and how we can optimize that protection.
Continue reading “The Sick House Survival Guide: Simple Steps to Healthier Homes”
Storm Warning illustrates the dire consequences of delay and inaction on both the personal and political fronts. In the climate change game the stakes are disturbingly high — with the very future of life on our planet at risk.
Continue reading “Storm Warning: Gambling With the Climate of Our Planet”
Global warming, acid rain, the depletion of forests, the polluting of our atmosphere and oceans–the threats to our environment are numerous, raising justifiable concern among most of us and genuine alarm in some. But as scientist Daniel Botkin argues in this provocative book, our ability to solve these problems is limited–not by our scientific knowledge–but by the age-old myths and metaphors that shape our perception of the natural world. Indeed, our beliefs about nature have fallen well behind our knowledge.
Continue reading “Discordant Harmonies: A New Ecology for the Twenty-First Century”
Landscape ecology has emerged in the past decade as an important and useful tool for land-use planners and landscape architects. While professionals and scholars have begun to incorporate aspects of this new field into their work, there remains a need for a summary of key principles and how they might be applied in design and planning. This volume fills that need.
Continue reading “Landscape Ecology Principles in Landscape Architecture and Land-Use Planning”
Conserving Living Natural Resources is an introductory textbook for students of conservation biology and resource management.
This collection provides a timely look at park management and planning in Canada by bringing together scholars from the fields of geography and recreation studies as well as officials in Canada’s public service and non-governmental organizations.
Continue reading “Parks and Protected Areas in Canada: Planning and Management”
In The Art of the Long View, now for the first time in paperback and with the addition of an all-new User’s Guide, Peter Schwartz outlines the “scenaric” approach, giving you the tools for developing a strategic vision within your business.
A highly original look at the connection between economy and nature by one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century.
The only complete book on ISO 14000 written as a practical teaching resource and how-to guide, this text provides a step-by-step model for understanding the ISO 14000 standard. Filling the void for a text related to environmental protection and management, it effectively translates the often-confusing requirements into language the user can understand and act upon.
Industrial ecology is a new way of looking at economic and environmental interactions. This is the first textbook available to those interested in learning how to put into practice the idea of performing industrial activities while keeping environmental consequences in check.
This illuminating new book presents a series of in-depth case studies from around the world based on numerous personal interviews with organisational leaders and focusing on their journey towards sustainability.
