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Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution -- and How It Can Renew America Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution -- and How It Can Renew America
by Thomas L. Friedman

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Friedman doesn't just have the world's greatest moustache — he's also a sharp writer and keen thinker. The world needs this book — and we can consider ourselves fortunate that someone as clever as Friedman has written it. Recommended by Rico,... (read more)

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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (P.S.) Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (P.S.)
by Barbara Kingsolver and Steven L. Hopp and Camille Kingsolver

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After 25 years in the Arizona desert, in 2004, Kentucky-bred Barbara Kingsolver moved back to the Appalachians, to a Virginia farm just hours from her childhood home. Family called. "Returning," she explains in Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, "would allow my... (read more)

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The World without Us The World without Us
by Alan Weisman

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"Let us try a creative experiment," Alan Weisman proposes on page three: If humans disappeared from earth, what would happen? To your home, for example. To our cities, farms, and oceans. To the animals that remain. Or to the billion tons of plastic we'd... (read more)

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Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Social Movement in History Is Restoring Grace, Justice, and Beauty to the World Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Social Movement in History Is Restoring Grace, Justice, and Beauty to the World
by Paul Hawken

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Feeling crushed beneath the weight of ominous news, borderline-apocalyptic statistics, and global warming alerts that offer no recourse but panic? Paul Hawken's Blessed Unrest is the book you've been waiting for. Here is a call to arms with concrete... (read more)

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The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century
by James Howard Kunstler

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In his previous books, James Kunstler focused on the shortsighted vision of suburban planning; now he expands that view to the country's urban growth challenges and the need to drastically change our current course of auto and oil dependency. The Long... (read more)

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An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It
by Al Gore

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Published to tie in to a documentary film of the same name, "An Inconvenient Truth" is Gore's battle cry about what needs to be done about global warming. 75 illustrations. (Environmental Studies)... (read more)

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The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight: Revised and Updated: The Fate of the World and What We Can Do Before It's Too Late The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight: Revised and Updated: The Fate of the World and What We Can Do Before It's Too Late
by Thom Hartmann

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In this passionate and visionary call to enlightened consciousness, Hartmann combines spirituality and ecology to point the way to a luminous future for the planet.... (read more)

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The Weather Makers: How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth The Weather Makers: How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth
by Tim Flannery

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Not only is paleontologist Flannery's urgent call to arms about global climate change fascinating and terrifying, it is also the most accessible book on the topic around. Flannery writes beautifully, clearly examining every angle of the debate... (read more)

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Ecology of Commerce (93 Edition) Ecology of Commerce (93 Edition)
by Paul Hawken

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A visionary new program that businesses can follow to help restore the planet.... (read more)

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The Live Earth Global Warming Survival Handbook: 77 Essential Skills to Stop Climate Change—Or Live Through It The Live Earth Global Warming Survival Handbook: 77 Essential Skills to Stop Climate Change—Or Live Through It
by David De Rothschild

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On July 7, 2007, audiences will experience 24 hours of nonstop concerts broadcast worldwide in order to raise awareness for environmental issues. The companion volume to Live Earth, this handbook presents 77 skills, ideas, and resources for the eco... (read more)

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Better Off: Flipping the Switch on Technology (P.S.) Better Off: Flipping the Switch on Technology (P.S.)
by Eric Brende

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What is the least we need to achieve the most? With this question in mind, MIT graduate Eric Brende flipped the switch on technology. He and his wife, Mary, ditched their car, electric stove, refrigerator, running water, and everything else motorized or "... (read more)

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The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed
by John Vaillant

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The felling of a celebrated giant golden spruce tree in British Columbia's Queen Charlotte Islands takes on a potent symbolism in this probing study of an unprecedented act of eco-vandalism. Vaillant profiles the culprit, an ex-logger turned messianic... (read more)

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Spell of the Sensuous : Perception and Language in a More-than-human World (96 Edition) Spell of the Sensuous : Perception and Language in a More-than-human World (96 Edition)
by David Abram

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David Abram draws on sources as diverse as the philosophy of Merleau-Ponty, Balinese shamanism, Apache storytelling, and his own experience as an accomplished sleight-of-hand magician to reveal the subtle dependence of human cognition on the natural... (read more)

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The Good Life: Helen and Scott Nearing's Sixty Years of Self-Sufficient Living The Good Life: Helen and Scott Nearing's Sixty Years of Self-Sufficient Living
by Helen Nearing

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This one volume edition of Living the Good Life and Continuing the Good Life brings these classics on rural homesteading together. This couple abandoned the city for a rural life with minimal cash and the knowledge of self reliance and good health.... (read more)

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A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There
by Aldo Leopold

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First published in 1949 and praised in The New York Times Book Review as "a trenchant book, full of vigor and bite," A Sand County Almanac combines some of the finest nature writing since Thoreau with an outspoken and highly ethical regard for America's... (read more)

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Legacy of Luna: The Story of a Tree, a Woman and the Struggle to Save the Redwoods Legacy of Luna: The Story of a Tree, a Woman and the Struggle to Save the Redwoods
by Julia Butterfly Hill

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On December 18, 1999, Julia Butterfly Hill's feet touched the ground for the first time in over two years, as she descended from "Luna," a thousandyear-old redwood in Humboldt County, California. Hill had climbed 180 feet up into the tree high on a... (read more)

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Foxfire #02: Foxfire 2 Foxfire #02: Foxfire 2
by Eliot Wigginton

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This second Foxfire volume includes topics such as ghost stories, spinning and weaving, wagon making, midwifing, corn shuckin', and more.... (read more)

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Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet
by Mark Lynas

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Possibly the most graphic treatment of global warming that has yet been published, Six Degrees is what readers of Al Gore's best-selling An Inconvenient Truth or Ross Gelbspan's Boiling Point will turn to next. Written by the acclaimed author of High... (read more)

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Break Through: From the Death of Environmentalism to the Politics of Possibility Break Through: From the Death of Environmentalism to the Politics of Possibility
by Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger

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Current tactics can't solve today's complex global crises. The "bad boys of environmentalism" call for a bold and empowering new vision. Environmental insiders Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus triggered a firestorm of controversy with their... (read more)

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Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming
by Bjorn Lomborg

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A startling book that reshapes the debate about global warming and offers a moderate approach to meeting its challenges. Bjorn Lomborg argues that many of the elaborate and expensive actions now being considered—the Kyoto Protocol, for example... (read more)

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