The Way We Eat Why Our Food Choices Matter
A thought provoking look at how what we eat profoundly affects all living things ? and how we can make more ethical food choices.
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Ecological Literacy – Educating our Children for a Sustainable World
Reorienting the way human beings live on the Earth and educating children to their highest capacities have much in common, say the thinkers and educators behind this groundbreaking book. Both endeavors must be viewed and pursued in the context of systems: familial, geographic, ecological, political. And our efforts to build sustainable communities cannot succeed unless future generations learn how to partner with natural systems to their mutual benefit. In other words, they must become “ecologically literate.”
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The Discovery of Global Warming
The Discovery of Global Warming, the book, is a compact 200-page summary of what I learned from my research for this Website, woven into a single narrative. It begins as a sort of detective story, describing how a few scientists got obsessed with the mysteries of climate change. By the end it has become an epic tale where entire governments, national publics, and communities of scientists press upon one another. Visit the web site…
City Stepping – Book Review: The Natural Step for Communities: How Cities and Towns can Change to Sustainable Practices
This book is aimed very clearly at municipal practitioners and will be of use to locally oriented sustainability activists as … Continue reading City Stepping – Book Review: The Natural Step for Communities: How Cities and Towns can Change to Sustainable Practices
Book Review: Hopes Edge
For many of us who came of age in the 1970’s, reading Frances Moore Lappe’s “Diet for a Small Planet” … Continue reading Book Review: Hopes Edge
Business Could – Down to Earth: Applying Business Principles to Environmental Management
Forest Reinhardt, an accomplished scholar and member of the Harvard Business School faculty, has authored an interesting volume that demonstrates, … Continue reading Business Could – Down to Earth: Applying Business Principles to Environmental Management
Phantom Parks : The Struggle To Save Canada’s National Parks
Riding Mountain National Park is an island of pine, aspen, spruce and bunchgrass prairie that sprawls along the edge of … Continue reading Phantom Parks : The Struggle To Save Canada’s National Parks
What Works: A Guide to Environmental Education and Communication Projects for Practitioners and Doners
Environmental education and communication projects are used in schools, communities, parks and wildlife preserves. This lively manual illustrates some of … Continue reading What Works: A Guide to Environmental Education and Communication Projects for Practitioners and Doners
Silent Spring
Silent Spring, released in 1962, offered the first shattering look at widespread ecological degradation and touched off an environmental awareness … Continue reading Silent Spring
The sacred balance: Rediscovering our place in nature
“Consume and compete!” The message of the economic treadmill is loud and constant. But in this seminal work, David Suzuki … Continue reading The sacred balance: Rediscovering our place in nature
Earthcare: Women and the Environment
Written by one of the leading thinkers in environmentalism, Earthcare brings together Merchant’s existing work on the topic of women … Continue reading Earthcare: Women and the Environment
Thinking like a mountain
Nature has been Robert Bateman’s inspiration ever since he began painting birds from his bedroom window as a young boy. … Continue reading Thinking like a mountain