This book "takes an unflinching look at where we are at this unprecedented moment in history. It reveals that a clear and present environmental danger is staring us in the face - but there is good news. We still have time to avoid...
Nature
- Author:Suzuki, David T.Summary:
- Author:Li, QingSummary:
The definitive guide to the therapeutic Japanese practice of shinrin-yoku, or the art and science of how trees can promote health and happiness Notice how a tree sways in the wind. Run your hands over its bark. Take in its citrusy scent...
- Author:Gierach, JohnSummary:
If John Gierach is living in a fool's paradise, then it's a paradise that his regular readers will recognize and new fans will delight in discovering. Laced with the inimitable blend of wit and wisdom that have made him fly-...
- Author:Koch, MaryjoSummary:
* "The world is your birdbath." * "Great ideas need landing gear as well as wings." * "Success can take a long time to hatch." * Distinguished naturalist painter Maryjo Koch offers a bird's-eye view...
- Author:Holmes, NancySummary:
How do we learn to be where we live? How can a 21st-century mind, saturated with the culture and metaphors of contemporary life, connect to the natural world that surrounds us? In Nancy Holmes’ new book of poetry, these questions are...
- Author:Christianson, Amy Cardinal, McGee, Tara K.Summary:
Nearly one third of wildfire evacuations in Canada involve Indigenous communities. While evacuations are carried out to protect people from smoke and flames, deciding to leave brings its own challenges.This evacuation guide is based on...
- Author:Humphreys, HelenSummary:
'[A] delightful mix of memoir and field study.' — Publishers Weekly STARRED review Award-winning and beloved author Helen Humphreys discovers her local herbarium and realizes we need to look for beauty in whatever nature we have left —...
- Author:Dumont, BertrandSummary:
Saviez-vous que les tomates étaient des lianes tropicales dont les fruits n'ont pas toujours été rouges? Que les choux poussaient en buisson? Que les haricots étaient jadis toxiques? Explorer l'histoire des plantes que nous...
- Author:Walsh, BryanSummary:
What is going to cause our doom? How can we save ourselves from it? Bryan Walsh explores a multitude of apocalyptic situations and explains how we can decide our fate.
- Author:Tison, Marc, Fontaines, HugoSummary:
L'or était là. Des milliards de dollars d'or enfoui, invisible, en pleine taïga, 200 kilomètres à l'est de la baie James. Un complexe minier grand comme un village s'y dresse aujourd'hui, construit au coût de...
- Author:Beyers, Bert, Wackernagel, MathisSummary:
Ecological Footprint accounting, first introduced in the 1990s and continuously developed, continues to be the only metric that compares overall human demand on nature with what our planet can renew--its biocapacity--and distils this...
- Author:Grubbs, Jennifer D.Summary:
Ecoliberation is a captivating and creative glimpse into the world of direct action, animal and earth liberation, and political repression. In stories that are simultaneously heartbreaking, riddled with tension and contradiction, and...
- Author:Magnason, Andri SnaerSummary:
Un appel à la mobilisation endossé par les Mères au front. À partir des plus récentes données scientifiques mais aussi d'entrevues, entre autres avec le dalaï-lama, Magnason présente la réalité des changements climatiques comme...
- Author:Atwood, MargaretSummary:
The collection of a lifetime from the bestselling novelist and poet. By turns moving, playful and wise, the poems gathered in Dearly are about absences and endings, ageing and retrospection, but also about gifts and renewals. They...
- Author:CollectifSummary:
« Attrapez-le, le fil... Le fil de l'histoire... et lacez-en solidement vos souliers parce qu'il y a bien des chances que je vous fasse marcher. » Inventifs, émouvants ou drôles, ces dix contes démontrent un engouement...
- Author:Hall, PhilSummary:
I am sitting outside at dawn on Otty Lake, where I live, in the woods. The light is coming over the trees, and each morning the poem is written as if right while it is being read.A rough immediacy. Gap & Hum. Caesura. Syllables as...
- Author:Germaine, MarySummary:
In her debut collection, Congratulations, Rhododendrons, award-winning poet Mary Germaine offers love poems to an insistently unlovely world.Through poems that speak to plastic bags and drones as much as they admire roses and the moon,...
- Author:Rose, GeorgeSummary:
The devastation of the North Atlantic cod stocks, particularly the tremendous stocks of Newfoundland and Labrador and the Grand Banks, has become an icon for the unsustainable relation between human exploitation and Nature. Here, George...
- Author:Hird, Myra J.Summary:
"Canada's Waste Flowsis one of the first attempts not just to discuss the challenges posed by waste in a municipal or national framework, but to connect these municipal and national politics to global events. Hird examines Canada's...
- Author:Beck, CarolynSummary:
Wend your way through Buttercup's lovely day. This edition combines both written and spoken words.