The Aussie animals that share our backyards, our cities and our lives.
Australia is the most urbanised nation on earth and yet we share our built environment with a cavalcade of amazing native creatures. This book examines some of the issues around our complex relationship with nature.
Unstable Ground looks at the human impact of climate change and its potential to provoke some of the most troubling crimes against humanity-ethnic conflict, war, and genocide. Alex Alvarez provides an essential overview of what science has shown to be true about climate change and examines how our warming world will challenge and stress societies ......
Environmental Destruction and the Epic Fight to Save Onondaga Lake
The environmental history of "the most polluted lake in America." Native Americans have long regarded Onondaga Lake as one of the most sacred spaces in the continent, the place where peace between nations was achieved and the Haudenosaunee Confederacy was created. In the mid-twentieth century, however, it acquired a wholly different reputation ......
Environmental Destruction and the Epic Fight to Save Onondaga Lake
The environmental history of "the most polluted lake in America." Native Americans have long regarded Onondaga Lake as one of the most sacred spaces in the continent, the place where peace between nations was achieved and the Haudenosaunee Confederacy was created. In the mid-twentieth century, however, it acquired a wholly different reputation ......
The honeybee is an amazing creature, and an invaluable member of our life-sustaining ecosystem. Yet it is currently in danger, and recent health problems such as mites and diseases have plagued the bee population. This book presents a fascinating overview of all aspects of beekeeping which relate to the health of the bee.
Civilisation is a term used to describe a superior level of accomplishments of certain nations. We humans are the cause of hazards to our existence created by overpopulation and environmental degradation. We are the designers of an economy that favours the well-to-do to the detriment of the disadvantaged.
Walking with Our Children in the Age of Climate Collapse
Addressing parenting fears and anxieties concerning climate change, fellow parent and activist Lydia Wylie-Kellermann offers this beautiful and lyrical invitation, rooted in nature and spiritual writing, to shift our perspective toward joy and hope.
What does it mean to be a parent in the age of climate ......
How Gifford Pinchot, Frederick Law Olmsted, and a Band of Foresters Resc
This history emphasizes the men--among them Frederick Law Olmsted, Gifford Pinchot, and Theodore Roosevelt--who took up the cause to make public lands accessible to all. From Yosemite to the Wilderness Act, Jeffrey Ryan highlights the political and economic factors that contributed to the triumphs and pitfalls in the quest to protect public lands.
In this book, theologians and scholars of religion grapple with the political, philosophical, and ethical implications of a climate crisis provoked by one species, our own, serving its needs at the increasingly intolerable cost of all life on the planet.