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Clearance
Sale
Censoring
Science: Inside the Political Attack on Dr.
James Hansen and the Truth of Global Warming
By Mark Bowen. Tells the true story of the Bush
administration's censorship of the world's preeminent
climatologist, and the science behind global
warming that they do not want you to know. More…
Cities
in Our Future
Edited by Robert Geddes. Urban planners, architects,
urban designers, and other experts from across
North America examine the impact of growth and
form on the ability of a city to achieve and
maintain social equity and environmental health.
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Climatic
Change at High Elevation Sites
By Raymond
Bradley. Provides a unique, in-depth
view of past, present and potential future climatic
change in mountain regions, and in particular
on the mechanisms which are responsible for
this change. More…
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Climate
Change and Society
By Raymond
Bradley. Good short text to introduce
climate change. A geographer and paleoclimatologist
with extensive field experience, Bradley verifies
human induced climate change and explains the
science that drives his work. More…
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Complete
Guide to Environmental Careers in the 21st Century
By the Environmental Careers Organization. Organized
for ease of use and fully updated, it is the
most comprehensive and reliable resource available
for information about environmental career opportunities.
More…
Discover
Nature in the Weather: Things to Know and Things
to Do
By Tim
Herd. Explores the Earth's weather and
explains the various phenomena associated with
it, from the continuous movement of water in
the hydrologic cycle to dangerous funnel clouds
that appear during a storm. Provides a practical
and entertaining guide to understanding. More...
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Feeling
the Heat: Dispatches from the Frontlines of
Climate Change
By Jim
Motavalli. From the thawing Arctic to
the rising shoreline of Manhattan, people are
feeling the effects of global warming in ways
hardly imagined just a few years ago. Feeling
the Heat takes readers to the hot spots where
global warming is not just a scientific debate
but a matter of survival. More...
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Fighting
for Love in the Century of Extinction: How Passion
and Politics Can Stop Global Warming
By Eban
Goodstein. Focuses attention on our
spiritual connections with all forms of life.
It encourages us to engage in the rough and
tumble realities of American politics, and it
is packed with anecdotes, statistics, and most
of all insight. More...
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Goodstein EcoSpeakers Info >>
Forward Drive: The Race to Build "Clean" Cars for the Future
By Jim
Motavalli. Covers the effort to build
lower emission and zero emission cars. Detailed
information about electric cars and fuel cell
powered vehicles. More...
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Motavalli EcoSpeakers Info >>
Gasp!
The Swift and Terrible Beauty of Air
By Joe
Sherman. Science of the atmosphere from
Aristotle to Nobel laureate Paul Crutzen. Why
over the last two centuries air has transformed
from something marvelous into something menacing.
Sherman blends the history and myths of air,
together with its environmental and physiological
effects, into a rich and sometimes troubling
account of what gives us our life force. More...
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Sherman EcoSpeakers Info >>
Green
Urbanism
By Timothy Beatley. Explains what planners and
local officials in the United States can learn
from the sustainable city movement in Europe.
Examines the progress and policies of twenty-five
of the most innovative cities. More…
The
Greenhouse Trap: What We're Doing to the Atmosphere
and How We Can Slow Global Warming
By Francesca
Lyman. Excellent primer what we're doing
to the atmosphere and what we can do about it.
Explains some of the technical issues. More...
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Lyman EcoSpeakers Info >>
The
Hadley Circulation: Present, Past and Future
By Raymond
Bradley. The Hadley and Walker Circulations
are fundamental regulators of the Earth's energy
budget. This book reviews current knowledge
of Hadley and Walker circulation dynamics and
their interactions with the major global monsoon
systems, and it evaluates paleoclimatic records
that shed light on variability of climate over
time. More…
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Kaleidoscope
Sky
By Tim
Herd. A magical, illustrated tour of
nature's wondrous, almost supernatural skyscapes,
Kaleidoscope Sky reveals both the beauty of
and the science behind Earth's rarest, most
unusual celestial phenomena. More...
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Herd EcoSpeakers Info >>
Making
a Living While Making a Difference
By Melissa
Everett. As business and society continue
to place greater emphasis on social and environmental
responsibility, opportunities for career-seekers
with a conscience have never been better. More…
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Everett EcoSpeakers Info >>
The
Natural House: A Complete Guide to Healthy,
Energy-Efficient, Environmental Homes
By Dan
Chiras. An overview of the pros and
cons of fourteen natural building methods. Includes
straw bale, rammed earth, cob, cordwood, adobe,
earthbags, papercrete, and more. The common
goal is to create a house that is economical,
energy efficient, nontoxic, and pleasing. This
comprehensive sourcebook offers in-depth information
that will guide your choice of the materials
and methods for building a sustainable natural
home. More…
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Ocean's
End
By Colin Woodard. In this call to action, Woodard
confronts one of our major environmental problems:
the fate of the oceans. A comprehensive, eyewitness
view of how and why the oceans are in trouble.
More…
Paleoclimate,
Global Change and the Future
By Raymond
Bradley. Provides a synthesis of the
past decade of research into global changes
that occurred in the earth system in the past.
The concentration is on those changes in the
Earth's past environment that best inform our
evaluation of current and future global changes
and their consequences for human populations.
More…
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Paleoclimatology:
Reconstructing Climates of the Quaternary
By Raymond
Bradley. A thorough, well referenced
text indispensable to anyone involved in the
study of past and current climate change and
modeling. More…
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Safe
Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth
from the Global Warming Meltdown
By David
Steinman. Draws the connection between
personal health and a healthy environment and
argues both that global warming is a greater
threat to national security than terrorism and
that a "sound environmental policy"
will enhance our standing in the world and strengthen
our economy. More…
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Steinman EcoSpeakers Info >>
Saving
Cities Saving Money
By John Hart. Cities and towns, large and small,
can extend resources, improve environmental
quality, and save money all at the same time.
More…
Thin
Ice: Unlocking the Secrets of Climate in the
World's Highest Mountains
By Mark Bowen. Describes drilling ice at high
altitudes and explains the science that points
to a steady rise in global temperature as a
result of human activities. That science shows
that most of the warming observed over the last
50 years is attributable to human activities.
More…
Toward
Sustainable Communities
By Mark Roseland. Offers suggestions and innovative
solutions to municipal and community problems.
Covers air quality, transportation, energy,
land use, housing, and economic and community
development. More…
Voluntary
Simplicity
By Duane
Elgin. When Voluntary Simplicity
was first published in 1981, it quickly became
recognized as a powerful and visionary work
in the emerging dialogue over sustainable ways
of living. More…
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Wild
Weather
By Reese
Halter. Weather can be wild and it is
getting wilder. Global warming has been linked
to myriad natural catastrophes, and 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. More...
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Halter EcoSpeakers Info >>
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