Animals don't exist in order to teach us things, but that is what they have always done, and most of what they teach us is what we think we know about ourselves. From the bestselling author of H is for Hawk comes Vesper Flights, a...
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Author:Weisman, AlanSummary:Most books about the environment build on dire threats warning of the possible extinction of humanity. Alan Weisman avoids frightening off readers by disarmingly wiping out our species in the first few pages of this remarkable book. He...
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Just outside the town of Gaviota, California, a small commune suddenly appears out of nowhere. It is a group of fanatically religious people who want to go back to Nature, and save the earth from the woes and problems Mankind has caused...
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Author:Lilburn, TimSummary:This volume, the final in Tim Lilburn’s decades-long meditation on philosophy and environmental consequences, traces a relationship between mystic traditions and the political world. Struck by the realization that he did not know how to...
- Author:Goodall, JaneSummary:
In a world that seems so troubled, how do we hold on to hope? This program is read by the authors and includes a bonus PDF. Looking at the headlines-the worsening climate crisis, a global pandemic, loss of biodiversity, political...
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Author:Sandford, Robert W.Summary:An important and timely book that addresses the new reality of the Anthropocene and what we should be doing about it. In what is now being heralded as the Second Copernican Revolution, Earth scientists have discovered that our self-...
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Author:McNeill, J.R.Summary:In the course of the twentieth century the human race, without intending anything of the sort, has undertaken a giant, uncontrolled experiment on the earth. In time, according to J.R. McNeill in his startling new book, the environmental...
- Author:Kolbert, ElizabethSummary:
Over the last half a billion years, there have been five mass extinctions, when the diversity of life on Earth suddenly and dramatically contracted. Scientists around the world are currently monitoring the sixth extinction, predicted to...
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Author:Parr, JoySummary:Our bodies are archives of sensory knowledge that shape how we understand the world. If our environment changes at an unsettling pace, how will we make sense of a world that is no longer familiar? One of Canada's premier historians...
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The climate changes experts predict a drying of 20 to 30 % of the water available in the Great Lakes area in the next century, a forecast already in progress. Environment Canada predicts a 24% flow decreasing. the levels of Lake Huron...
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Author:Sandford, Robert WilliamSummary:Robert William Sandford’s latest RMB manifesto invites the reader to separate the hype from the hope with respect to the outcomes of the 2015 Paris climate conference and in relation to humanity’s dangerous new era — the Anthropocene....
- Author:Larochelle, SamuelSummary:
Florent, un garçon de dix ans, surprend une conversation entre ses mamans : devant l'état de la planète, elles se demandent si elles veulent avoir un deuxième enfant. À travers une série de mots impossibles à comprendre, il retient l’...
- Author:Kolbert, ElizabethSummary:
À travers l’histoire, notre planète a connu cinq grandes extinctions de masse. Les scientifiques estiment aujourd’hui que nous nous dirigeons vers la sixième et la plus dévastatrice des extinctions depuis la disparition des dinosaures...
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Author:Herriot, TrevorSummary:The Genesis story of Jacob, the patriarch of the Judeo-Christian tradition, wrestling with a spirit has been interpreted in a multitude of ways, but never more persuasively than by Trevor Herriot in Jacob’s Wound. He sees it as a...
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In the light of humane nature : human values, nature, the green economy, and environmental salvationAuthor:Weissman, Arthur B.Summary:In the Light of Humane Nature describes the underlying, causal roots of our environmental problems and offers a conceptual solution to them. It argues that what causes these problems and stymies resolution ultimately relates to human...
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Author:Rogel, Jean-Pierre, Spencer, NigelSummary:With all the attention to creationism in the news these days, Jean-Pierre Rogel decided it was time to show how Darwin's concept of natural selection can be seen in everyday situations — from a summer cottage near a lake — with examples...
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Author:Suzuki, DavidSummary:In this compilation of David Suzuki's latest thoughts and writings, the renowned scientist, author, and broadcaster explores the myriad environmental challenges the world faces and their interconnected causes. In doing so, Suzuki shows...
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Author:Ferguson, RobSummary:When Rob Ferguson went off to the five former Soviet ’Stans of Central Asia to work on a project to save the rapidly disappearing Aral Sea, he expected to have challenges and adventures, but he didn’t anticipate ending up a suspect in a...
- Author:Martin, NastassjaSummary:
L'anthropologue raconte comment elle a été attaquée par un ours dans les montagnes du Kamtchatka. Défigurée, elle subit de nombreuses opérations, en Russie et en France. Malgré les épreuves, elle présente cet événement comme...
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Author:Kimmerer, Robin WallSummary:As a botanist and professor of plant ecology, Robin Wall Kimmerer has spent a career learning how to ask questions of nature using the tools of science. As a Potawatomi woman, she learned from elders, family, and history that the...
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