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  • The Road to Love Canal

    Managing Industrial Waste before EPA

    The toxic legacy of Love Canal vividly brought the crisis in industrial waste disposal to public awareness across the United States and led to the passage of the Superfund legislation in 1980. To discover why disasters like Love Canal have occurred and whether they could have been averted with knowledge available to waste managers of the time, this book examines industrial waste disposal before ... En savoir plus

    $23.99 CAD

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  • Inconspicuous Consumption

    The Environmental Impact You Don't Know You Have

    *First Place Winner of the Society of Environmental Journalists' Rachel Carson Environment Book Award*"If you're looking for something to cling to in what often feels like a hopeless conversation, Schlossberg's darkly humorous, knowledge-is-power, eyes-wide-open approach may be just the thing."--VogueFrom a former New York Times science writer, this urgent call to action will empower you to stand ... En savoir plus

    $15.99 CAD

  • Water 4.0

    The Past, Present, and Future of the World's Most Vital Resource

    par David Sedlak ...
    The history behind our growing water crisis: "A gem . . . An erudite romp through two millennia of water and sanitation practice and technology." — NatureTurn on the faucet, and water pours out. Pull out the drain plug, and the dirty water disappears. Most of us give little thought to the hidden systems that bring us water and take it away when we're done with it. But these underappreciated ... En savoir plus

    $17.59 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Gone Tomorrow

    The Hidden Life of Garbage

    par Heather Rogers ...
    "A galvanizing exposé" of America's trash problem from plastic in the ocean to "wasteful packaging, bogus recycling, and flawed landfills and incinerators" ( Booklist, starred review).Eat a take-out meal, buy a pair of shoes, or read a newspaper, and you're soon faced with a bewildering amount of garbage. The United States is the planet's number-one producer of trash. Each American throws out 4.5 ... En savoir plus

    $12.79 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • The Polluters

    The Making of Our Chemically Altered Environment

    The chemical pollution that irrevocably damages today's environment is, although many would like us to believe otherwise, the legacy of conscious choices made long ago. During the years before and just after World War II, discoveries like leaded gasoline and DDT came to market, creating new hazards even as the expansion and mechanization of industry exacerbated old ones. Dangers still felt today- ... En savoir plus

    $28.79 CAD

  • Superman's Not Coming

    Our National Water Crisis and What We the People Can Do About It

    par Erin Brockovich ...
    From the environmental activist, consumer advocate, and renowned crusader comes a riveting book that is "part memoir, part non-fiction report, and part call-to-action—a plea to readers to engage with the water crisis in America because no one else is going to do the work for you" (InStyle Magazine).Clean water is as basic to life on planet Earth as hydrogen or oxygen. In her long-awaited book—her ... En savoir plus

    $14.99 CAD

  • Status of the World's Soil Resources. Technical Summary

    par FAOoftheUN ...
    This document presents a summary of the first Status of the World's Soil Resources report, the goal of which is to make clear the essential connections between human well-being and the soil. The report provides a benchmark against which our collective progress to conserve this essential resource can be measured. The report synthesizes the work of some 200 soil scientists from 60 countries. It ... En savoir plus

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  • Food Tyrants

    Fight for Your Right to Healthy Food in a Toxic World

    par Nicole Faires ...
    When author and homesteader Nicole Faires decided to retrofit an old school bus and tour America’s small farms with her husband and two small children, she expected to learn a lot, be inspired, and have some fun. But what she fou ... En savoir plus

    $15.99 CAD

  • Troubled Water

    What's Wrong with What We Drink

    par Seth M. Siegel ...
    New York Times bestselling author Seth M. Siegel shows how our drinking water got contaminated, what it may be doing to us, and what we must do to make it safe.If you thought America’s drinking water problems started and ended in Flint, Michigan, think again. From big cities and suburbs to the rural heartland, chemicals linked to cancer, heart disease, obesity, birth defects, and lowered IQ ... En savoir plus

    $12.99 CAD

  • Poison Spring

    The Secret History of Pollution and the EPA

    Imagine walking into a restaurant and finding chlorinated hydrocarbon pesticides, or neonicotinoid insecticides listed in the description of your entree. They may not be printed in the menu, but many are in your food.These are a few of the literally millions of pounds of approved synthetic substances dumped into the environment every day, not just in the US but around the world. They seep into our ... En savoir plus

    $12.99 CAD

  • A Revolution Down on the Farm

    The Transformation of American Agriculture since 1929

    par Paul K. Conkin ...
    At a time when food is becoming increasingly scarce in many parts of the world and food prices are skyrocketing, no industry is more important than agriculture. Humans have been farming for thousands of years, and yet agriculture has undergone more fundamental changes in the past 80 years than in the previous several centuries. In 1900, 30 million American farmers tilled the soil or tended ... En savoir plus

    $30.79 CAD

  • DDT, Silent Spring, and the Rise of Environmentalism

    Classic Texts

    par Thomas Dunlap ...
    Collections series Weyerhaeuser Environmental Classics
    No single event played a greater role in the birth of modern environmentalism than the publication of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring and its assault on insecticides. The documents collected by Thomas Dunlap trace shifting attitudes toward DDT and pesticides in general through a variety of sources: excerpts from scientific studies and government reports, advertisements from industry journals, ... En savoir plus

    $21.99 CAD