Environmental Science and Sustainability

Updated July 29, 2024
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Desert Solitaire A Season in the Wilderness
Abbey, Edward
Ebook
When Desert Solitaire was first published in 1968, it became the focus of a nationwide cult. Rude and sensitive. Thought-provoking and mystical. Angry and loving. Both Abbey and this book are all of these and more. Here, the legendary author of The Monkey Wrench Gang, Abbey's Road, and many other...
Silent Spring
Carson, Rachel
Ebook
What has nature ever done for us? how money really does grow on trees
Juniper, Tony
Ebook
From Indian vultures to Chinese bees, Nature provides the 'natural services' that keep the economy going. From the recycling miracles in the soil; an army of predators ridding us of unwanted pests; an abundance of life creating a genetic codebook that underpins our food, pharmaceutical industries...
The omnivore's dilemma : the search for a perfect meal in a fast-food world
Pollan, Michael.
Ebook
What shall we have for dinner? Such a simple question has grown to have a very complicated answer. We can eat almost anything nature has to offer, but deciding what we should eat stirs anxiety. Should we choose the organic apple or the conventional? If organic, local or imported?...
The song of the dodo : island biogeography in an age of extinctions
Quammen, David
Paper Book
"Compulsively readable--a masterpiece, maybe the masterpiece of science journalism." --Bill McKibben, Audubon A brilliant, stirring work, breathtaking in its scope and far-reaching in its message, The Song of the Dodo is a crucial book in precarious times....
Water : the epic struggle for wealth, power, and civilization
Solomon, Steven.
Paper Book
Far more than oil, the control of water wealth throughout history has been pivotal to the rise and fall of great powers, the achievements of civilization, the transformations of society's vital habitats, and the quality of ordinary daily lives. In Water, Steven Solomon offers the...
Where the wild things were life, death, and ecological wreckage in a land of vanishing predators
Stolzenburg, William.
Paper Book
A provocative look at how the disappearance of the world's great predators has upset the delicate balance of the environment, and what their disappearance portends for the future, by an acclaimed science journalist. It wasn't so long ago that wolves and great cats, monstrous fish and...

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