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Powerdown: Options and actions for a post-carbon world by Richard Heinberg (Clairview Books, 2004)
Gives an overview of the likely impacts of oil and natural gas depletion and outlines four options for industrial societies during the next decades. The book then explores how the power elites, the 'activist' movements and ordinary people are likely to respond to these options. Get this book.
Gives an overview of the likely impacts of oil and natural gas depletion and outlines four options for industrial societies during the next decades. The book then explores how the power elites, the 'activist' movements and ordinary people are likely to respond to these options. Get this book.
Red Sky at Morning: America and the crisis of the global environment by James Gustave Speth (Yale University Press, 2004)
Explains why current approaches to climate change, biodiversity loss, deterioration of marine environments, deforestation, water shortages and others don't work and sets forth eight specific steps to a sustainable future. Get this book.
Explains why current approaches to climate change, biodiversity loss, deterioration of marine environments, deforestation, water shortages and others don't work and sets forth eight specific steps to a sustainable future. Get this book.
The Skeptical Environmentalist by Bjorn Lomborg (Cambridge University Press, 2001)
A former member of Greenpeace criticises the way in which many environmental organisations make selective and misleading use of the scientific evidence by offering a non-partisan stocktaking exercise that serves as a corrective to the more alarmist accounts. Get this book.
A former member of Greenpeace criticises the way in which many environmental organisations make selective and misleading use of the scientific evidence by offering a non-partisan stocktaking exercise that serves as a corrective to the more alarmist accounts. Get this book.
Gaia: A new look at life on Earth by James Lovelock (Oxford Paperbacks, 2000)
Lovelock explores the hypothesis that the earth's living matter air, ocean, and land surfaces forms a complex system that has the capacity to keep the Earth a fit place for life.
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Lovelock explores the hypothesis that the earth's living matter air, ocean, and land surfaces forms a complex system that has the capacity to keep the Earth a fit place for life.
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The Good Shopping Guide edited by Charlotte Mulvey (The Ethical Marketing Group, 2004)
Reveals the ethical records of hundreds of glossy consumer brands and the companies behind them — it also ranks them exactly according to environmental, animal welfare and human rights records.
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Reveals the ethical records of hundreds of glossy consumer brands and the companies behind them — it also ranks them exactly according to environmental, animal welfare and human rights records.
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