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Author
Publisher
Atria Books/Beyond Words
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Step outside your door and reconnect with nature. From the author of Writing and the Spiritual Life comes a guide that will replenish your connection to the earth and inspire you to develop and strengthen your imagination. The natural world has inspired artists, seekers, and thinkers for millennia, but in recent times, as the pace of life has sped up, its demands have moved us indoors. Yet nature's capacity to lead us to important truths, to invigorate...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Thirty years ago Bill McKibben offered one of the earliest warnings about climate change. Now he broadens the warning: the entire human game, he suggests, has begun to play itself out. Bill McKibben's groundbreaking book The End of Nature -- issued in dozens of languages and long regarded as a classic -- was the first book to alert us to global warming. But the danger is broader than that: even as climate change shrinks the space where our civilization...
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
A startling exploration of our human entanglement with the rest of nature. As the climate veers toward catastrophe, the innumerable losses cascading through the biosphere make vividly evident the need for a metamorphosis in our relation to the living land. For too long we've inured ourselves to the wild intelligence of our flesh, taking our primary truths from technologies that hold the living world at a distance. This book subverts that distance,...
Publisher
Bioneers
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Video recording of the 23rd annual National Bioneers Conference held in San Rafael, Calif., from Oct. 19-21, 2012. The conference, presented annually by Collective Heritage Institute (CHI), brings together leading scientific and social visionaries with practical solutions for restoring people and the planet.
Author
Publisher
Torrey House Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Kathryn Wilder's powerful story of grief, motherhood, and return to the desert entwines with the story of America's mustangs as Wilder makes a home on the Colorado Plateau, her property bordering a mustang herd. Desert Chrome illuminates these controversial creatures--their complex history in the Americas, their powerful presence on the landscape, and ways to help both horses and habitats stay wild in the arid West--and celebrates the animal nature...
Author
Publisher
Franciscan Media
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"The writings, homilies, prayers, talks, and even tweets of Pope Francis in this book gather his ... words about our shared responsibility to protect, nurture, and care for 'our common home.' The planet is in peril, the pope is telling us, along with the well-being of the poor who depend on the earth's natural resources"--Dust jacket flap.
70) Arctic mission
Publisher
National Film Board of Canada
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
"The Arctic mission: a scientific and filmmaking expedition through the fragile but treacherous Arctic ice. This breathtakingly beautiful environment has become the first victim of global warming. Like other coastal populations around the world, the people and animals of the North have had to adapt. But at what price?"--Container.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Describes how the first settlers in California changed the brown landscape there by creating groves, wooded suburbs and landscaped cities through planting eucalypts in the lowlands, citrus colonies in the south and palms in Los Angeles.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"A groundbreaking exploration of the relationship between humans and the natural world where two great economic ideologies converge. Along the Bering Strait, through the territories of the Inupiat and Yupik in Alaska, and the Yupik and Chukchi in Russia, Bathsheba Demuth explores an ecosystem that has long sustained human beings. Yet when Americans and Europeans arrived with self-serving ideas of human progress, the Chukchi and Seward Peninsulas and...
Author
Publisher
Greystone Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"When you walk in the woods, do you use all five senses to explore your surroundings? For most of us, the answer is no--but when we do engage all our senses, a walk in the woods can go from pleasant to immersive and restorative. Forest Walking teaches you how to get the most out of your next adventure by becoming a forest detective, decoding nature's signs and awakening to the ancient past and thrilling present of the ecosystem around you. What can...
Author
Publisher
Dorling Kindersley Limited
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
"Basado en las últimas investigaciones científicas y con el apoyo de imágenes y gráficos, el ecologista Tony Juniper nos ayuda a comprender cómo nos afecta el calenta miento global y nos ofrece soluciones para tratar de revertir esta tendencia."--Back cover.
Publisher
University of Alabama Press
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Description
John Steinbeck, intellectual soulmate of pioneering ecologist Edward F. Ricketts, developed a literary vision unique for its biological holism. From his exploration of the environmental disaster in the Dust Bowl region described in The Grapes of Wrath to his voyage of scientific and spiritual discovery among near-pristine marine ecosystems recounted in Log from the Sea of Cortez, Steinbeck's entire canon probes the multiple and interlocked dimensions...
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