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  • The Great Lakes Water Wars

    par Peter Annin ...
    The Great Lakes are the largest system of freshwater lakes in the world and America’s greatest freshwater resource. For over a century they have been the target of controversial diversion schemes designed to sell, send, or ship water to thirsty communities, sometimes far from the source. In part to protect the Great Lakes from overzealous entrepreneurship, the Great Lakes Compact was signed in ... En savoir plus

    $49.49 CAD

  • Purified

    How Recycled Sewage Is Transforming Our Water

    par Peter Annin ...
    In 2000, a transformative climate-driven “megadrought” swept over the Colorado River watershed. By the early 2020s, levels on the river’s two largest reservoirs were hitting record lows and threatening the water supply for forty million people. Outside the West, water stocks are stressed even in states with bountiful rainfall such as Florida. From coast to coast, conventional measures to sustain ... En savoir plus

    $31.89 CAD

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    Purified

    How Recycled Sewage Is Transforming Our Water

    par Peter Annin ...
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    In Purified, veteran journalist Peter Annin shows that wastewater has become a surprising weapon in America's war against water scarcity. Annin probes deep into the water reuse movement in five water-strapped states—California, Texas, Virginia, Nevada, and Florida. He drinks beer made from purified sewage, visits communities where purified sewage came to the rescue, and examines how one of the ... En savoir plus

    $27.99 CAD

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  • A River Lost: The Life and Death of the Columbia (Revised and Updated)

    The Life and Death of the Columbia

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    "Superbly reported and written with clarity, insight, and great skill." —Washington Post Book WorldAfter two decades, Washington Post journalist Blaine Harden returned to his small-town birthplace in the Pacific Northwest to follow the rise and fall of the West’s most thoroughly conquered river. To explore the Columbia River and befriend those who collaborated in its destruction, he traveled on a ... En savoir plus

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  • Dust Bowl

    The Southern Plains in the 1930s

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    In the mid 1930s, North America's Great Plains faced one of the worst man-made environmental disasters in world history. Donald Worster's classic chronicle of the devastating years between 1929 and 1939 tells the story of the Dust Bowl in ecological as well as human terms. Now, twenty-five years after his book helped to define the new field of environmental history, Worster shares his more recent ... En savoir plus

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  • We Gambled Everything

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    We Gambled Everything is the autobiography of Canadian petroleum leader Arne Nielsen. A key figure in the genesis and evolution of the oil and gas industry in Canada, Nielson dispassionately locates his life and career in farseeing historical, geological, corporate, and political contexts. His memoir illuminates a canny world inhabited by premiers, prime ministers, corporate chairmen, and chief ... En savoir plus

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  • Recovering the Sacred

    The Power of Naming and Claiming

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    "Through the voices of ordinary Native Americans . . . LaDuke is able to transform highly complex issues into stories that touch the heart." —Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, author of An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United StatesThe indigenous imperative to honor nature is undermined by federal laws approving resource extraction through mining and drilling. Formal protections exist for Native American ... En savoir plus

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    New York Times bestselling author and acclaimed presidential historian Douglas Brinkley chronicles the rise of the modern environmental movement during the Long Sixties (1960-1973), telling the story of an indomitable generation that saved the natural world under the leadership of John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and Richard Nixon.With the detonation of the Trinity explosion in the New Mexico ... En savoir plus

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  • One Family's Journey

    Canfor and the Transformation of British Columbia's Forest Industry

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  • Blue Revolution

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