New Books Received from Our Featured Sponsor
Requiem For A Species
Why We Resist the Truth About Climate Change
Clive Hamilton
Clive Hamilton offers a compelling description of a world transformed by climate change—and explains why we won’t stop climate change even though we know it will destroy us.
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How to Live a Low-Carbon Life
The Individual’s Guide to Stopping Climate Change
Chris Goodall
This book provides the first comprehensive, one-stop reference guide to calculating individual carbon emissions and it lays out clear plans for how individuals can reduce their emissions. Covering all aspects of modern life from transport to home heating to food sources and the vexing issue of vacations, the book provides easy-to-use tables for conducting a personal lifestyle carbon audit.
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Nature’s Spectacle
The World’s First National Parks and Protected Places
John Sheail
This book, based on original archival research, delves deeply into the character and significance of parks, and the larger context in which they first developed. The author identifies, describes and reflects upon what caused governments to intervene and establish, in that early modern period, what are today recognized to be national parks.
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The Power of Sustainable Thinking
How to Create a Positive Future for the Climate, the Planet, Your Organization and Your Life
Bob Doppelt
In this new book, renowned sustainability, business, and organizational change specialist Bob Doppelt provides both an easy to understand explanation and practical methods for transforming our climate-damaging, unsustainable ways into sustainable thinking and behaviors. Doppelt makes the case that global warming and today's other ecological and socioeconomic problems are not technical in nature, rather they represent a crisis of thought.
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Effective Ecological Monitoring
David Lindenmayer and Gene E. Likens
In this book, the authors outline some of the key pitfalls and deficiencies in ecological monitoring programs and long-term studies. They propose a new approach, which they call Adaptive Monitoring, to resolve some of these problems underlying poorly planned and unfocused monitoring programs.
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Rebels for the Soil
The Rise of the Global Organic Food and Farming Movement
Matthew Reed
This book investigates the emergence of organic food and farming as a social movement. Using the tools of political sociology, it analyzes and explains how both people and ideas have shaped a movement that from its inception aimed to change global agriculture.
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Sustainability Education
Perspectives and Practice Across Higher Education
Edited by Paula Jones, David Selby and Stephen Sterling
This book provides background on the current status of sustainability within higher education, including chapters discussing interdisciplinary, international perspectives and pedagogy. It features case studies from teachers and lecturers in diverse disciplines, describing what has worked, how and why - and what hasn't.
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The Placemaker’s Guide to Building Community
Nabeel Hamdi
From the author of Small Change comes this engaging guide to placemaking, packed with practical skills and tools that architects, planners, urban designers and other built environment specialists need in order to engage effectively with development work in any context. Drawing on four decades of practical and teaching experience, the author offers fresh insight into the complexities faced by practitioners when working to improve the communities, lives and livelihoods of people the world over.
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