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Wildsam Field Guides: Vermont (Paperback)
Samantha Alviani; Edited by Taylor Bruce, Bill McKibben; Illustrated by Sarah Letteney
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The images in 'Industrial Scars' and the narrative that accompanies
them tell the story of the impact of the consumer life-style on the
natural systems that support life on the planet. These photographs,
mostly aerial and taken at locations around the world, are
masterworks of composition and colour, made with a nod to the great
abstract painters of modern art. This book is the result of
countless hours of research and careful planning by New York
photographer J. Henry Fair, who travels to the locations and
charters a small plane to photograph areas usually fenced off from
prying eyes so he can get a true view of our real footprint. This
is a new edition.
Climate Church, Climate World, originally published in 2018,
contends that climate change is the greatest moral challenge
humanity has ever faced. Hunger, refugees, poverty, inequality,
deadly viruses, war-climate change multiplies all forms of global
social injustice. Environmental advocate Rev. Jim Antal calls on
the church to meet this moral challenge, to embrace a new vocation
so that future generations might live in harmony with God's
creation. After illuminating how human beings are responsible for
the dangers our planet now faces, Antal proposes how people of
faith can embrace new approaches to worship, preaching, witnessing,
and other spiritual practices that honor creation and cultivate
hope. This revised and updated edition includes a new chapter on
political and policy shifts under the Trump and Biden
administrations; influence of Greta Thunberg and climate change
activists; and updated information on the current science of
climate change. Includes a foreword by environmental advocate Bill
McKibben, author of The End of Nature.
In The Comforting Whirlwind, acclaimed environmentalist and writer
Bill McKibben turns to the biblical book of Job and its awesome
depiction of creation to demonstrate our need to embrace a bold new
paradigm for living if we hope to reverse the current trend of
ecological destruction. With reference to the consequences of our
poorly considered and self-centered environmental practices global
warming, ozone degradation, deforestation McKibben combines modern
science and timeless biblical wisdom to make the case that growth
and economic progress are not only undesirable but deadly. If we
continue to accelerate the pace of development, we will inevitably
complete the decreation of our planet and everything on it,
including ourselves. In his signature lyrical prose, and using
Stephen Mitchell s powerful translation of Job, McKibben calls
readers to truly appreciate both the majesty of creation and
humanity s rightful and responsible place in it.
Passionate, succinct, chilling, closely argued, sometimes hilarious, touchingly well-intentioned, and essential.” —Margaret Atwood, The New York Review of Books
Nearly fifteen years ago, in The End of Nature, Bill McKibben demonstrated that humanity had begun to irrevocably alter and endanger our environment on a global scale. Now he turns his eye to an array of technologies that could change our relationship not with the rest of nature but with ourselves. He explores the frontiers of genetic engineering, robotics, and nanotechnology—all of which we are approaching with astonishing speed—and shows that each threatens to take us past a point of no return. We now stand, in Michael Pollan’s words, “on a moral and existential threshold,” poised between the human past and a post-human future. McKibben offers a celebration of what it means to be human, and a warning that we risk the loss of all meaning if we step across the threshold. Instantly acclaimed for its passion and insight, this wise and eloquent book argues that we cannot forever grow in reach and power—that we must at last learn how to say, “Enough.”
The 10th anniversary edition A Guardian Best Book about
Deforestation A New Scientist Best Book of the Year A Taipei Times
Best Book of the Year “A perfectly grounded account of what it is
like to live an indigenous life in communion with one’s personal
spirits. We are losing worlds upon worlds.” —Louise Erdrich,
New York Times Book Review “The Yanomami of the Amazon, like all
the indigenous peoples of the Americas and Australia, have
experienced the end of what was once their world. Yet they have
survived and somehow succeeded in making sense of a wounded
existence. They have a lot to teach us.” —Amitav Ghosh, The
Guardian “A literary treasure…a must for anyone who wants to
understand more of the diverse beauty and wonder of existence.”
—New Scientist A now classic account of the life and thought of
Davi Kopenawa, shaman and spokesman for the Yanomami, The Falling
Sky paints an unforgettable picture of an indigenous culture living
in harmony with the Amazon forest and its creatures, and its
devastating encounter with the global mining industry. In richly
evocative language, Kopenawa recounts his initiation as a shaman
and first experience of outsiders: missionaries, cattle ranchers,
government officials, and gold prospectors seeking to extract the
riches of the Amazon. A coming-of-age story entwined with a rare
first-person articulation of shamanic philosophy, this impassioned
plea to respect indigenous peoples’ rights is a powerful rebuke
to the accelerating depredation of the Amazon and other natural
treasures threatened by climate change and development.
Climate Church, Climate World, originally published in 2018,
contends that climate change is the greatest moral challenge
humanity has ever faced. Hunger, refugees, poverty, inequality,
deadly viruses, war-climate change multiplies all forms of global
social injustice. Environmental advocate Rev. Jim Antal calls on
the church to meet this moral challenge, to embrace a new vocation
so that future generations might live in harmony with God's
creation. After illuminating how human beings are responsible for
the dangers our planet now faces, Antal proposes how people of
faith can embrace new approaches to worship, preaching, witnessing,
and other spiritual practices that honor creation and cultivate
hope. This revised and updated edition includes a new chapter on
political and policy shifts under the Trump and Biden
administrations; influence of Greta Thunberg and climate change
activists; and updated information on the current science of
climate change. Includes a foreword by environmental advocate Bill
McKibben, author of The End of Nature.
We know that eating animals is bad for the planet and bad for our
health, and yet we do it anyway. We've all heard the statistics:
animal agriculture is responsible for at least 18 percent of all
greenhouse gas emissions; we need to drop our meat consumption by
50 percent simply to feed the world's estimated 10 billion people
in 2050; a full third of the Earth's arable land is devoted to
growing crops for livestock; approximately 80 percent of deforested
land in the Amazon is used solely for rearing livestock. Ask anyone
in the plant-based movement and the solution seems obvious: Stop
eating meat. But for many people, that stark solution is neither
appealing nor practical. In Meat Me Halfway, author and founder of
the reducetarian movement Brian Kateman puts forth a realistic and
balanced goal: mindfully reduce your meat consumption. It might
seem strange for a leader of the plant-based movement to say, but
meat is here to stay. The question is not how to ween society off
meat, but how to make meat more healthy, more humane, and more
sustainable. In this book, Kateman answers the question that has
plagued vegans for years: why are we so resistant to changing the
way we eat, and what can we do about it? Exploring our historical
relationship with meat, from the domestication of animals, to the
early industrialization of meatpacking, to the advent of the
one-stop grocery store, the science of taste, and the laws that
impact our access to food, Meat Me Halfway reveals how humans have
evolved as meat eaters. Featuring interviews with pioneers in the
science of meat alternatives, investigations into new types of
farming designed to lessen environmental impact, and innovations in
ethical and sustainable agriculture, this down-to-Earth book shows
that we all can change the way we create and consume food.
We tend to think of silence as the absence of sound, but it is
actually the void where we can hear the sublime notes of nature.
Here, photographer Pete McBride reveals the wonders of these hushed
places in spectacular imagery from the thin-air flanks of Mount
Everest to the depths of the Grand Canyon, from the high-altitude
vistas of the Atacama to the African savannah, and from the
Antarctic Peninsula to the flowing waters of the Ganges and Nile.
These places remind us of the magic of being truly away and how
such places are vanishing. Often showing beauty from vantages where
no other photographer has ever stood, this is a seven-continent
visual tour of global quietude and the power in nature s own sounds
that will both inspire and calm.
While Glaciers Slept weaves together the parallel stories of what
happens when the climates of a family and a planet change. Dr. M
Jackson reveals how these events are deeply intertwined, and how
the deterioration of her parents’ health was as devastating as
the inexorable changing of Earth’s climate.
Nonetheless, the book shows that even in the darkest of times
we cannot lose hope.Dr. Jackson guides us to solar, wind, and
geothermal solutions, bringing us along on her expeditions to
research climate change and to educate people about how to stop it.
Scientists are continually looking for better ways to translate
hard science into human language and that is precisely what this
book does. Climate change, she convinces us, is not just about
science—it is also about the audacity of human courage and
imagination.
For more than a century, America's national forests have proved an
environmental gift and cultural treasure, our spectacular backyard.
Under the management of the U.S. Forest Service, this system of
public lands encompasses 193 million acres of mountains, prairies,
rivers, and canyons-much of it undiscovered, but accessible for
hiking, kayaking, fishing, and winter sports. Officially published
with the U.S. Forest Service, this book features the thirty most
notable national forests- while also celebrating more than one
hundred different national forests in forty-four states-from the
White Mountains of New Hampshire to the Olympics of Washington.
Unlike the national parks, Americans can use these lands for all
manner of recreation, truly earning these tremendous resources the
moniker of America's backyard. This book is a treasure for all
readers who use and cherish these lands.
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Green Ideas Slipcase (Paperback)
Greta Thunberg, Naomi Klein, Timothy Morton, George Monbiot, Bill McKibben, …
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In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the
environmental movement - now in one complete set Over the past 75
years, a new canon has emerged. As humans have driven the living
planet to the brink of collapse, visionary thinkers around the
world have raised their voices to defend it. Their words have
endured, becoming the classics that define the environmental
movement today. From art, literature, food and gardening, to
technology, economics, politics and ethics, each of these short
books deepens our sense of our place in nature; each is a seed from
which a bold activism can grow. Together, they show the richness of
environmental thought, and point the way to a fairer, saner,
greener world.
"The Sacred Balance has a beautiful spirit."-E.O. Wilson With a new
foreword from Robin Wall Kimmerer, New York Times-bestselling
author of Braiding Sweetgrass-and an afterword from Bill
McKibben-this special 25th anniversary edition of a beloved
bestseller invites readers to see ourselves as part of nature, not
separate. The world is changing at a relentless pace. How can we
slow down and act from a place of respect for all living things?
The Sacred Balance shows us how. In this extensively updated new
edition, David Suzuki reflects on the increasingly radical changes
in science and nature-from the climate crisis to peak oil and the
rise in clean energy-and examines what they mean for humankind. He
also reflects on what we have learned by listening to Indigenous
leaders, whose knowledge of the natural world is profound, and
whose peoples are on the frontlines of protecting land and water
around the world. Drawing on his own experiences and those of
others who have put their beliefs into action, The Sacred Balance
combines science, philosophy, spirituality, and Indigenous
knowledge to offer concrete suggestions for creating an
ecologically sustainable future by rediscovering and addressing
humanity's basic needs. Published in Partnership with the David
Suzuki Institute
The Wisdom of John Muir marries the best aspects of a Muir
anthology with the best aspects of a Muir biography. The fact that
it is neither, and yet it is both, distinguishes this book from the
many extant books on John Muir. Building on her lifelong passion
for the work and philosophy of John Muir, author Anne Rowthorn has
created this entirely new treatment for showcasing the great
naturalist's philosophy and writings. By pairing carefully selected
material from various stages of Muir's life, Rowthorn's book
provides a view into the experiences, places, and people that
inspired and informed Muir's words and beliefs. The reader feels
able to join in with Muir's own discoveries and transformations
over the arc of his life. Rowthorn is careful not to overstep her
role: she stands back and lets Muir's words speak for themselves.
The Wisdom of John Muir marries the best aspects of a Muir
anthology with the best aspects of a Muir biography. The fact that
it is neither, and yet it is both, distinguishes this book from the
many extant books on John Muir. Building on her lifelong passion
for the work and philosophy of John Muir, author Anne Rowthorn has
created this entirely new treatment for showcasing the great
naturalist's philosophy and writings. By pairing carefully selected
material from various stages of Muir's life, Rowthorn's book
provides a view into the experiences, places, and people that
inspired and informed Muir's words and beliefs. The reader feels
able to join in with Muir's own discoveries and transformations
over the arc of his life. Rowthorn is careful not to overstep her
role: she stands back and lets Muir's words speak for themselves.
There is no planet B. Activists share how we must inform and
organize ourselves to save the future. “Act as though
your house is on fire. Because it is.” Following Greta Thunberg,
millions of young climate activists have been taking to the streets
around the globe as part of the Fridays For Future movement. They
demand that we “unite behind the science,” as, for too long,
climate scientists have been ringing the alarm bells about rising
temperatures, tipping points, and the devastating consequences of
extreme weather—but politicians do nothing. So how do you
begin to end the climate crisis? Luisa Neubauer and Alexander
Repenning begin by telling stories. Neubauer cofounded the youth
climate activist group in Germany and has become its most prominent
voice. In this book she and Repenning weave in personal accounts of
their evolution as climate activists with a thorough analysis of
how climate change impacts their generation, and what every one of
us can and must do about it. The young and old in the United States
and around the world can learn valuable lessons from their European
counterparts.
Rosalie Edge (1877-1962) was the first American woman to achieve
national renown as a conservationist. Dyana Z. Furmansky draws on
Edge's personal papers and on interviews with family members and
associates to portray an implacable, indomitable personality whose
activism earned her the names "Joan of Arc" and "hellcat." A
progressive New York socialite and veteran suffragist, Edge did not
join the conservation movement until her early fifties.
Nonetheless, her legacy of achievements called "widespread and
monumental" by the New Yorker forms a crucial link between the eras
defined by John Muir and Rachel Carson. An early voice against the
indiscriminate use of toxins and pesticides, Edge reported evidence
about the dangers of DDT fourteen years before Carson's Silent
Spring was published. Today, Edge is most widely remembered for
establishing Hawk Mountain Sanctuary, the world's first refuge for
birds of prey. Founded in 1934 and located in eastern Pennsylvania,
Hawk Mountain was cited in Silent Spring as an "especially
significant" source of data. In 1930, Edge formed the militant
Emergency Conservation Committee, which not only railed against the
complacency of the Bureau of Biological Survey, Audubon Society,
U.S. Forest Service, and other stewardship organizations but also
exposed the complicity of some in the squandering of our natural
heritage. Edge played key roles in the establishment of Olympic and
Kings Canyon National Parks and the expansion of Yosemite and
Sequoia National Parks. Filled with new insights into a tumultuous
period in American conservation, this is the life story of an
unforgettable individual whose work influenced the first generation
of environmentalists, including the founders of the Wilderness
Society, Nature Conservancy, and Environmental Defense Fund.
One of the earliest warnings about climate change and one of
environmentalism's lodestars 'Nature, we believe, takes forever. It
moves with infinite slowness,' begins the first book to bring
climate change to public attention. Interweaving lyrical
observations from his life in the Adirondack Mountains with
insights from the emerging science, Bill McKibben sets out the
central developments not only of the environmental crisis now
facing us but also the terms of our response, from policy to the
fundamental, philosophical shift in our relationship with the
natural world which, he argues, could save us. A moving elegy to
nature in its pristine, pre-human wildness, The End of Nature is
both a milestone in environmental thought, indispensable to
understanding how we arrived here.
Caleb Kenna's vertiginous views of Vermont invite a new way of
looking at the Green Mountain State. These stunningly abstract
drone images reveal hidden patterns and are rich with detail,
color, shadow, and mood. Tractor tracks on a field in Weybridge;
fresh snowfall on an apple orchard in Cornwall; the swirling
Nulhegan River in Brunswick. The 130 color photographs, most of
them taken around the Champlain Valley, were inspired by Alfred
Stieglitz's Equivalent series and the work of his protege, Minor
White. They invite us on a journey of excitement and discovery, one
that Kenna has described as a daily practice and a form of
meditation.
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