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"Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks, while mostly noted for grizzly bears, elk, moose, and other large mammals, also host a high species diversity of butterflies, owing to the ecosystem's vast area of pristine habitat. Many of the nearly 120 butterflies described can also be found elsewhere in the Northern Rockies, making the book useful beyond the artificial borders of the public lands. Illustrated with color plates of each species, A Field...
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"Julian Rose presents a penetrating series of essays calling for urgent action to overcome the perilous state of our planet, at the local as well as global level. He both guides and challenges his readers to share with him a journey through the matrix-maze, and to come out at the other end a more aware and more self-assured human being. Drawing upon his life experiences as a farmer, campaigner, artist and social entrepreneur, Julian brings to our...
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Why was gin and tonic the cocktail of choice for British colonists in India and Africa? What does Starbucks have to thank for its global domination? What has protected the lives of popes for millennia? Why did Scotland surrender its sovereignty to England? What was George Washington's secret weapon during the American Revolution? The answer to all these questions, and many more, is the mosquito. Across our planet since the dawn of humankind, this...
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Discover this beloved masterpiece of nature writing that is a hymn to creation and the power of the individual to do their bit to change the world for the better.In 1910, while hiking through the wild lavender in a wind-swept, desolate valley in Provence, a man comes across a shepherd called Elzéard Bouffier. Staying with him, he watches Elzéard sorting and then planting hundreds of acorns as he walks through the wilderness.Ten years later, after...
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We tend to think of cities as a realm apart, somehow separate from nature, but nothing could be further from the truth. In Feral Cities Tristan Donovan digs below the urban gloss to uncover the wildlife that we share our streets and homes with. Along the way readers will meet the wall-eating snails that are invading Miami, the wild boars that roam Berlin, and the monkey gangs of Cape Town. From carpet-hungry bugs to coyotes hanging out in sandwich...
6) Ishmael
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Ishmael trilogy volume 1
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A man and a great ape conduct a series of philosophical conversations in a work that presents a new vision of evolution and humankind and asks the question: does the Earth belong to humans, or do humans belong to the Earth?
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A guide to building green homes and passive solar design, growing edible plant communities and forest gardens, using no-till and natural farming methods, creating microclimates for extended growing seasons, raising livestock with ecological foraging techniques, and transforming urban backyards into food-abundant oases.
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"[A] deeply felt essay collection focusing upon a vivid series of desert icons--a sheet of virga over Monument Valley, white seashells in a dry desert sand, boulders impossibly balanced. Writer and adventurer Craig Childs delves into the primacy of our starkest landscapes and the profound nature of the more-than-human."--Back cover.
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Wildlife conservation has both monetary and non-monetary benefits, and the success of conservation projects depends on a mix of economic and biological factors. In Tanzania, the economic benefits of conservation projects have positively impacted the conservation attitudes of local people around the Selous Game Reserve. Option value is a useful tool to measure the potential benefits of wildlife conservation, and expressed preference or contingent valuation...
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Todays environment is full of Pollution, and, people are either not aware of its dangers, or even if they know, they simply disregard them, just like an Ostrich who buries its head in sand when a storm comes, thinking that the storm will pass it unharmed. But, if we allow the pollution to go on uncontrolled, it could be the end of the world as we know it. Number of technical books have been written on this topic, (and the present author too could...
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Back to the city, or back to nature? Seattle author David Williams shows us how we can get the best of both. Botany and bugs, geology and geese, and creeks and crows; living in a major city doesn't have to separate us from the natural world. Stepping away from a guidebook format, Williams presents the reader with a series of essays and maps that weave personal musings, bits of humor, natural history observations, and scientific data into a multi-textured...
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview:
#1 We all have stories about how we became vegan or plant-based. They all start the same: we stopped knowing, and we didn't realize it until we woke up. We willingly choose to know and change, despite the comfort of ignorance.
#2 We turn away from the reality of what we do to animals for our gustatory pleasure, and we play a game of pretend like the child who covers...
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Thorough, detailed, and scientifically up-to-date, Prairies: A Natural History provides a comprehensive nontechnical guide to the biology and ecology of the prairies, or the Great Plains grasslands of North America, offering a view of the past, a vision for the future, and a clear focus on the present. With a total area of more than 3.5 million square kilometers (500,000 in Canada and the remainder in the United States), the prairies occupy the heartland...
14) Divergence
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Who have we become since evolving from our hunter-gatherer ancestors? While we may be under the impression that our lives have been made more manageable due to the myriad conveniences at home and in the work place, they're actually more complicated, stressful and dangerous. The First Peoples, however, have remained largely unchanged over the past several thousand years. As such, they want no part of our world. They are not seduced by our conveniences...
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If you love nature and being outdoors - hiking, smelling the fresh air, and feeling the warm sun on your skin - you will love this book! This little book is filled with activities to increase your enjoyment and understanding of the natural world. Not only will you understand nature at a deeper level, you will start to understand that you are a part of the natural world and it is part of you!
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Poised atop the high Himalayas is a frightening daisy chain of fragile glacial lakes, all produced by glacial melting as a result of climate change. When the lakes burst, the torrents of water sweep entire populations in their wake. In A Deluge of Consequences, intrepid journalist Jacques Leslie takes us along on a mythic, spell-binding trip to the bucolic kingdom of Bhutan, where the planet's next environmental disaster is set to unfold. Bhutan's...
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El planeta Tierra, nuestra morada, está en peligro. ¿Qué podemos hacer para salvarlo?
Con una retórica incisiva, el autor aborda este interrogante. Nos invita a recorrer el pensamiento ecológico y político contemporáneo de América Latina mediante el estudio territorial de los extractivismos y las resistencias en el valle de Punilla; en especial el conflicto por la Autovía de Montaña o "Punillazo". Sus estudios combinan un abordaje teórico...
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Hay un montón de cosas que puedes hacer con el fin de vivir en un hogar respetuoso con el medio ambiente y tener un estilo de vida más verde.
Aparte de la adopción del principio 'Reduce, reutiliza y recicla", en realidad se pueden adoptar diversas prácticas de ahorro energético. En realidad, hay un montón de aparatos y prácticas energéticas eficientes que puedes adoptar con el fin de hacer que tu hogar haga un uso más eficiente de la energía...
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Aunque el desarrollo tecnológico y la vida en las grandes urbes nos han alejado de la Naturaleza, poco a poco estamos retornando a ella. El objetivo de este ensayo es que este retorno a la Naturaleza no solo sirva para evitar que esta pierda sus formas de vida y ambientes frágiles y especiales, sino también para que nosotros mismos evolucionemos como especie hacia un mundo más armónico en todo sentido.
Esta evolución implica que nos conozcamos...
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El ecologismo de los pobres tiene la intención explícita de contribuir a consolidar dos áreas de estudio recientes, la ecología política y la economía ecológica, al tiempo que analiza las relaciones entre ambas. El libro analiza diversas manifestaciones del creciente 'movimiento por la justicia ecológica', así como el 'ecologismo popular' y el 'ecologismo de los pobres', que en las próximas décadas se convertirán en fuerzas motrices para...
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