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  • The Orphaned Land

    New Mexico's Environment Since the Manhattan Project

    by V. B. Price, Nell Farrell ...
    Although most people prefer not to think about them, hazardous wastes, munitions testing, radioactive emissions, and a variety of other issues affect the quality of land, water, and air in the Land of Enchantment, as they do all over the world.In this book, veteran New Mexico journalist V. B. Price assembles a vast amount of information on more than fifty years of deterioration of the state's ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

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  • The Wizard and the Prophet

    Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow's World

    by Charles C. Mann ...
    **From the bestselling, award-winning author of 1491 and 1493—an incisive portrait of the two little-known twentieth-century scientists, Norman Borlaug and William Vogt, whose diametrically opposed views shaped our ideas about the environment, laying the groundwork for how people in the twenty-first century will choose to live in tomorrow's world.In forty years, Earth's population will reach ten ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • Tar Sands

    Dirty Oil and the Future of a Continent, Revised and Updated Edition

    by Andrew Nikiforuk ...
    Tar Sands critically examines the frenzied development in the Canadian tar sands and the far-reaching implications for all of North America. Bitumen, the sticky stuff that ancients used to glue the Tower of Babel together, is the world’s most expensive hydrocarbon. This difficult-to-find resource has made Canada the number-one supplier of oil to the United States, and every major oil company now ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Whole Earth Discipline

    Why Dense Cities, Nuclear Power, Transgenic Crops, RestoredWildlands, and Geoengineering Are Necessary

    by Stewart Brand ...
    An icon of the environmental movement outlines a provocative approach for reclaiming our planetAccording to Stewart Brand, a lifelong environmentalist who sees everything in terms of solvable design problems, three profound transformations are under way on Earth right now. Climate change is real and is pushing us toward managing the planet as a whole. Urbanization?half the world?s population now ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Bright Green Lies

    How the Environmental Movement Lost Its Way and What We Can Do About It

    by Derrick Jensen, Lierre Keith, Max Wilbert ...
    Series series Politics of the Living
    “This disturbing but very important book makes clear we must dig deeper than the normal solutions we are offered.”—Yvon Chouinard, founder of Patagonia Works"Bright Green Lies exposes the hypocrisy and bankruptcy of leading environmental groups and their most prominent cheerleaders. The best-known environmentalists are not in the business of speaking truth, or even holding up rational solutions to ... Read more

    $20.89 CAD

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  • The Ripple Effect

    The Fate of Fresh Water in the Twenty-First Century

    by Alex Prud'homme ...
    AS ALEX PRUD’HOMME and his great-aunt Julia Child were completing their collaboration on her memoir, My Life in France, they began to talk about the French obsession with bottled water, which had finally spread to America. From this spark of interest, Prud’homme began what would become an ambitious quest to understand the evolving story of freshwater. What he found was shocking: as the climate ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Ten Billion

    Facing Our Future

    by Stephen Emmott ...
    Earth is home to millions of species. Yet just one dominates it. Us.Our cleverness, inventiveness, and activities have modified almost every part of our planet, impacting it profoundly. Indeed, our cleverness, inventiveness, and activities are now the drivers of every global problem we face. And every one of these problems is accelerating as we continue to grow towards a global population of ten ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • How To Change Everything

    The Young Human's Guide to Protecting the Planet and Each Other

    by Naomi Klein, Rebecca Stefoff ...
    A long-awaited guide to climate action and justice for young readers by bestselling, award-winning, internationally acclaimed writer and climate activist Naomi Klein.Temperatures are rising all over the world, leading to wildfires, droughts, animal extinctions and ferocious storms -- climate change is real. But how did we get to this state, and what can we do next? What if we could work to protect ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Extraction

    The Frontiers of Green Capitalism

    by Thea Riofrancos ...
    **"Dazzling in the bold questions it asks.…An immense contribution." —Naomi KleinAn in-depth investigation into the growing industry of green technologies and the environmental, social, and political consequences of the mining it requires.**Lithium, a crucial input in the batteries powering electric vehicles, has the potential to save the world from climate change. But even green solutions come at ... Read more

    $30.39 CAD

  • The Biochar Solution

    Carbon Farming and Climate Change

    by Albert K. Bates ...
    How the dirt below our feet can save us from extinction.Conventional agriculture destroys our soils, pollutes our water and is a major contributor to climate change. What if our agricultural practices could stabilize, or even reverse these trends?The Biochar Solution explores the dual function of biochar as a carbon-negative energy source and a potent soil-builder. Created by burning biomass in ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Undermining

    A Wild Ride Through Land Use, Politics, and Art in the Changing West

    by Lucy R. Lippard ...
    "A marvelous slim book [that] weaves . . . ideas, facts, images, and histories into a whole about . . . the ecology of the manmade world." —Rebecca SolnitIn Undermining, the award-winning author, art historian and social critic Lucy R. Lippard delivers "another trademark work" that combines text and full-color images to explore "the intersection of art, the environment, geography and politics" ( ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Just Cool It!

    The Climate Crisis and What We Can Do - A Post-Paris Agreement Game Plan

    by David Suzuki, Ian Hanington ...
    Climate change is the most important crisis humanity has faced, but we still confront huge barriers to resolving it. So, what do we do, and is there hope for humanity? The problem itself is complex, and there’s no single solution. But by understanding the barriers to resolving global warming and by employing a wide range of solutions-from shifting to clean energy to planting trees to reforming ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus