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Author
Publisher
Seven Stories Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
349 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
In this impassioned polemic, radical environmental philosopher Derrick Jensen debunks the near-universal belief in a hierarchy of nature and the superiority of humans. Vast and underappreciated complexities of nonhuman life are explored in detail — from the cultures of pigs and prairie dogs, to the creative use of tools by elephants and fish, to the acumen of caterpillars and fungi. The paralysis of the scientific establishment on moral and ethical...
Author
Publisher
Trinity University Press
Pub. Date
2016
Physical Desc
xvi, 228 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Coming of Age at the End of Nature explores a new kind of environmental writing. This powerful anthology gathers the passionate voices of young writers who have grown up in an environmentally damaged and compromised world. Each contributor has come of age since Bill McKibben foretold the doom of humanity’s ancient relationship with a pristine earth in his prescient 1988 warning of climate change, The End of Nature. What happens to individuals and...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
vii, 306 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Dunn argues in A Natural History of the Future, nature has its own set of rules, and no amount of human tampering can rewrite them. We might think that we can meet the challenges of global warming by manipulating nature with our technology--and even that we can live without non-human life--but as Dunn shows, we can't. We not only rely on the natural world for food, but we need its microbes to carry out the most basic bodily functions. Surviving or...
Author
Publisher
Monthly Review Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
277 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Science tells us that a new and dangerous stage in planetary evolution has begun — the Anthropocene, a time of rising temperatures, extreme weather, rising oceans, and mass species extinctions. Humanity faces not just more pollution or warmer weather, but a crisis of the Earth System. If business as usual continues, this century will be marked by rapid deterioration of our physical, social, and economic environment. Large parts of Earth will become...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (174 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Takes viewers around the globe and highlights the issues that are threatening the world's environment. Filmed in 13 countries, uncovering places where environmental change is not a theory or a future forecast but a crisis happening in real time. Brings the stories behind the statistics and focuses on today's environmental threats and their impact on tomorrow.
Author
Publisher
H. Holt
Pub. Date
1995
Physical Desc
xii, 400 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Collection of essays, travel pieces, and fictions, arranged chronologically to reveal the life of conservationist Edward Abbey, from his birth in the Allegheny mountains, to his death in Tuscon in 1989.
Author
Publisher
University of Nevada Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
x, 219 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Have you ever wondered about society’s desire to cultivate the perfect lawn, why we view some animals as “good” and some as “bad,” or even thought about the bits of nature inside everyday items -– toothbrushes, cell phones, and coffee mugs? In this fresh and introspective collection of essays, Julia Corbett examines nature in our lives with all of its ironies and contradictions by seamlessly integrating personal narratives with morsels...
Author
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Pub. Date
2018, c2016.
Physical Desc
xii, 191 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Timothy Morton argues that ecological awareness in the present Anthropocene era takes the form of a strange loop or Möbius strip, twisted to have only one side. Deckard travels this Oedipal path in Blade Runner (1982) when he learns that he might be the enemy he has been ordered to pursue. Ecological awareness has this form because ecological phenomena have a loop form that is also fundamental to the structure of how things are. The logistics of...
49) No impact man
Publisher
Oscilloscope Pictures
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Colin Beavan is a New York City writer and self-proclaimed liberal. He has big plans for his new book. He decides on a grand experiment: to live one year with as little impact on the environment as possible. The problem is, the project requires his wife Michelle, an espresso-guzzling, Prada-worshipping business writer, and their young daughter to be fully on board. The family embarks on a year of no electricity, television, cars, toilet paper, elevators,...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The average American spends ninety percent of their time indoors, and children are no exception. Today, kids can spend up to seven hours per day looking at screens. Not only does this phenomenon have consequences for our kids' physical and mental health, it calls into question their ability to understand and engage with anything beyond the built environment. We can talk about environmental stewardship, but until more people make meaningful contact...
Author
Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
xxii, 362 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"For many years Isabella Tree and Charlie Burrell struggled to make a go as farmers, doing everything they could to make the heavy clay soils of their farm at Knepp in West Sussex as productive as possible, while rarely succeeding in making a profit. By 2000, facing bankruptcy, the couple decided they would try something new. They would restore their 3,500 acres, farmed for centuries, even millennia, to the form that they had had before human intervention....
Author
Publisher
City Lights Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
142 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
Coming home from the war in Iraq, US Army private Roy Scranton thought he'd left the world of strife behind. Then he watched as new calamities struck America, heralding a threat far more dangerous than ISIS or Al Qaeda: Hurricane Katrina, Superstorm Sandy, megadrought -- the shock and awe of global warming. Our world is changing. Rising seas, spiking temperatures, and extreme weather imperil global infrastructure, crops, and water supplies. Conflict,...
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
viii, 407, 16 p. : ill., maps ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
We human beings share 98 percent of our genes with chimpanzees. Yet humans are the dominant species on the planet -- having founded civilizations and religions, developed intricate and diverse forms of communication, learned science, built cities, and created breathtaking works of art -- while chimps remain animals concerned primarily with the basic necessities of survival. What is it about that two percent difference in DNA that has created such...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
xii, 265 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
The discovery of the Americas around 1500 AD was an extraordinary watershed in human experience. It gave rise to the modern period of human ecology, a phenomenon global in scope that set in motion profound changes in almost every society on earth. This new period, which saw the depletion of the lands of the New World, proved tragic for some, triumphant for others, and powerfully affecting for all. In this work, acclaimed environmental historian Donald...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sixth Extinction returns to humanity's transformative impact on the environment, now asking: After doing so much damage, can we change nature, this time to save it? That man should have dominion "over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth" is a prophecy that has hardened into fact. So pervasive are human impacts on the planet that it's said we live in a new geological epoch:...
Author
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
318 pages : illustrations, maps, portrait ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The American people sees itself advance across the wilderness, draining swamps, straightening rivers, peopling the solitude, and subduing nature," wrote Alexis de Tocqueville in 1835. That's largely how we still think of nineteenth-century America today: a country expanding unstoppably, bending the continent's natural bounty to the national will, heedless of consequence. A country of slavery and of Indian wars. There's much truth in that vision....
Author
Publisher
Seven Stories Press
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
xii, 493 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
The author, who in earlier books like The Culture of Make Believe discussed his experience of violence and abuse as a child, calls now for determined and even violent resistance to environmental degradation. Jensen comes across in volume I as a provocative but personable philosopher-activist who in lyrical and witty writing bemoans species extinction, sullied air quality, shrinking icecaps, expanding deserts and vanishing forests wrought by humans....
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
208 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Explains why an awareness of Earth's temporal rhythms is critical to planetary survival and offers suggestions for how to create a more time-literate society. Few of us have any conception of the enormous timescales in our planet’s long history, and this narrow perspective underlies many of the environmental problems we are creating for ourselves. The passage of nine days, which is how long a drop of water typically stays in Earth’s atmosphere,...
Author
Publisher
University of Washington Press
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
xii, 584 p. : ill., plans ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the dramatic narratives that comprise The Republic of Nature, Mark Fiege reframes the canonical account of American history based on the simple but radical premise that nothing in the nation's past can be considered apart from the natural circumstances in which it occurred. Revisiting historical icons so familiar that schoolchildren learn to take them for granted, he makes surprising connections that enable readers to see old stories in a new light....
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