“Human-induced global warming is affecting all life on the planet. We must work together to stop this global catastrophe.” Weather can be wild and it is getting wilder. Global warming has been linked to myriad natural catastrophes and the race is on to change the way we interact with our planet. In the next decade we will experience the greatest technological advancements ever witnessed as we move beyond our reliance on fossil fuels and harvest the sun. Join Dr. Reese Halter, an award winning conservation biologist and television host, as he delves into the causes of wild weather and global warming. People are fascinated by weather, and rightfully so. It affects every aspect of our daily lives from what we eat to where we travel. It controls where we live and the fresh water supply upon which we depend for survival. Weather is always on our minds. An entire television station is dedicated to it.

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Organic Earth Magazine is an environmental and natural living publication. Founded in 2003 out of an individual?s need for detailed … Continue reading Good for the Planet, Good for You

By the early 1990s, the U.S. national park system reached an average of 250 million visitors per year with no sign of decline. The increased public interest in the national park system was worthy of celebration, but according to professor and author Robert E. Manning, the visits also presented a serious threat to the integrity of the parks. ?The quality of the visitor experience was being threatened through crowding and congestion, conflicting uses, and the aesthetic consequences of resource degradation,? Manning states in the introduction to Parks and Carrying Capacity: Commons Without Tragedy (Island Press, February 9, Cloth: $70.00, ISBN: 978-1-55963-104-4; Paper: $35.00, ISBN: 978-1-55963-105-1). Parks are intended to be protected as well as used, which raises the most fundamental question in environmental thought: how much can we use the environment without spoiling it?

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The first book in North America to provide a detailed carbon accounting of a family’s carbon emissions and how to … Continue reading The Carbon Buster’s Home Energy Handbook

Most of the world’s population now lives in cities. So if we are to address the problems of environmental deterioration and peak oil adequately, the city has to be a major focus of attention.
EcoCities is about re-building cities and towns based on ecological principles for the long term sustainability, cultural vitality and health of the Earth’s biosphere. Unique in the literature is the book’s insight that the form of the city really matters – and that it is within our ability to change it, and crucial that we do. Further, that the ecocity within its bioregion is comprehensible and do-able, and can produce a healthy and potentially happy future.

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Compelling evidence links the chemicals in household products to cancer, asthma, allergies, multiple chemical sensitivity syndrome — also known as environmental illness — hormonal disruption, reproductive and developmental disorders, and other conditions. Yet cleaning products are exempt from the full ingredient disclosure on product labels as required for food and personal care products and enter the marketplace with little or no testing for potential health risks.
Naturally Clean explains the dangers of traditional cleaners and provides illuminating statistics that illustrate how the chemicals found in almost every home are known or likely to cause a host of serious health problems. The book’s easy-to-understand introduction discusses basic household chemistry, concepts of toxicity and types of toxic exposure, and the difference between natural, organic, and synthetic chemicals.

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The decline of cheap oil is inspiring increasing numbers of North Americans to achieve some measure of backyard food self-sufficiency. … Continue reading Gardening When It Counts: Growing Food in Hard Times

The Solar Food Dryer describes how to use solar energy to dry your food instead of costly electricity. With your own solar-powered food dryer, you can quickly and efficiently dry all your extra garden veggies, fruits and herbs to preserve their goodness all year long – with free sunshine!

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Sanders, a sage of the Midwest, uses autobiography as a vehicle for far-reaching reflections on nature and humankind.

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