books about: environmentalist

books about: environmentalist

books:

Environmentalist

Edward Abbey

Touchstone, 1990

Not just desert love
Sure, this book may speak strongly for the respect and preservation of the desert southwest, and for that, it deserves proper credit. But for me, it has had a much deeper impact. This is a lot more than just an argument that we should protect our wilderness, ...

The Long Descent: A User's Guide to the End of the Industrial Age

John Michael Greer

New Society Publishers, 2008

Quite Possibly the Most Lucid Treatise on Peak Oil
From start to finish, this book is both practical and inspirational. He begins with a clear explanation of our energy predicament, and makes the novel claim that this is not a problem to solve - it is a situation that we must adapt to. Cheap, abundant energy is ...

Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture

Toby Hemenway

Chelsea Green, 2001

Gaia's Garden
An excellent book and resource. At the time I purchased this book, I also purchased Bill Mollison's seminal work on permaculture. I intended to read Mollison's book first and Gaia's Garden second. After reading the first few pages of Mollison's book, I set it aside ...

Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming (Vintage)

Bjorn Lomborg

Vintage, 2008

Government is the solution !
With the financial system collapsing due to deregulation, greed and irrational hubris, this short book is the latest fad for all who believe government is a problem, not the solution. Granted, Lomberg admits, "humanity has caused a substantial rise in atmospheric ...

The Really Inconvenient Truths: Seven Environmental Catastrophes Liberals Don't Want You to Know ...

Iain Murray

Regnery Publishing, 2008

the really inconvenient truths
The Author makes very sound arguments as to the underlying reasons liberals have such an intense disdain for anything that is contrary to their position. When real truth is held up and given a fair stage onto which to expound its arguments, honest logic prevails. ...

Gorgeously Green: 8 Simple Steps to an Earth-Friendly Life

Sophie Uliano

Collins Living, 2008

Go GREEN!
This is a great book with lots of fab advice that can help anyone on their journey to greendom. She has a lot of listings to great products and services and good recipes and such. Sophie is awesome.

Heirloom: Notes from an Accidental Tomato Farmer

Tim Stark

Broadway, 2008

Delicious Read
Being interested in one day changing careers from financial industry to the vegetable industry, I could identify with the author. This is really a "How To" book on starting an Heirloom vegetable business, only written in a storytelling fashion. Every chapter exudes ...

Peak Everything: Waking Up to the Century of Declines (New Society Publishers)

Richard Heinberg

New Society Publishers, 2007

Peak Everything, Waking Up to a Century of Decline
Excellent summation of the ecological problems facing us, not only as a people but a nation and world. Pulls it all together in one book. Excellent.

The Last American Man

Elizabeth Gilbert

Penguin (Non-Classics), 2003

Thought Provoking
This book really made me think. It wasn't the best written book. I liked her other book, Eat Pray Love better, however even though I'm not thrilled with her style of writing I love the content she presents and what she writes about. This book has seriously made me look ...

Easy Green Living: The Ultimate Guide to Simple, Eco-Friendly Choices for You and Your Home

Renee Loux

Rodale Books, 2008

A Must-Have for Green Living
I have recommended this book to the Richardson Public Library. It is packed with lists of eco-friendly products one can buy, and even has recipes for making one's own cleaning items. I thought I was fairly green, but believe me, there was ample room for improvement, ...

The Consumer's Guide to Effective Environmental Choices: Practical Advice from the Union of Concerned ...

Michael Brower, Warren Leon

Three Rivers Press, 1999

EVERYONE should read this book
Impeccably researched, well-referenced, and very convincing. This book will convince the shrewdest skeptics. It focuses on high-impact habits, and doesn't harp on the little tiny details that don't make a big difference. A fantastic book; true to its title!

A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir
Donald Worster

Oxford University Press, USA, 2008

"I am hopelessly and forever a mountaineer," John Muir wrote. "Civilization and fever and all the morbidness that has been hooted at me has not dimmed my glacial eye, and I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature's loveliness. My own special self is nothing." In Donald Worster's magisterial biography, John Muir's "special self" ...

Wine Politics: How Governments, Environmentalists, Mobsters, and Critics Influence the Wines We Drink

Tyler Colman

University of California Press, 2008

An Important New Book
I finally had a chance to give serious face time to Tyler (Dr. Vino) Colman's newest book: WINE POLITICS: How Governments, Environmentalists, Mobsters, and Critics Influence the Wines We Drink. A book of this sort is so long overdue and I had been looking forward to it ...

Ecotopia

Ernest Callenbach

Bantam, 1990

A Great Concept
After reading "Utopias on Puget Sound," I was hooked on the history and all things utopia. I would bet that most people in Washington state and British Columbia would love to form a new country, but alas, we can dream about what life might be like if the west coast ...

Getting a Grip: Clarity, Creativity, and Courage in a World Gone Mad

Frances Moore Lappe

Small Planet Media, 2007

Yes We Can
It feels like now is the time in history for the People to stand up and shake off the fear and loss of control and believe that they can and will change things for the better. Frances Moore Lappe in this book helps us out of our chairs and pushes us out the door with ...