Packed with practical tips to immediately reduce your environmental footprint
The toolkit you need to nurture yourself and the environment that nurtures you. Unless we look after ourselves, each other and the natural world in a balanced and harmonious manner we will continue to go from crisis to crisis. The tips in this book will help you to reduce your environmental footprint and enjoy a healthier and more satisfying life.
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.
Scientists' tales from the frontiers of climate change Foreword by Karl Kruszelnicki
These tales of adventure and research in remote and remarkable corners of the earth investigate a multitude of ways the world is changing and explain the science behind exactly what a couple of degrees of warming mean. Addressed are glacier melt, rising seas, extreme weather, ocean currents, changing ecosystems, bushfires, and dying forests.
Dinosaurs couldn’t adapt fast enough to changes in atmosphere and climate. This illustrated book looks at the speed of climate change, asking if Homo sapiens have time to cope better.
How Inequality, AI and Climate Will Usher in a New World Order
What is the impact of COVID-19 on world economies? If the cost of providing universal health care is lower than the cost of building a political movement to prevent it, would politicians still view it as socialism? In a world where algorithms and robots take the jobs of immigrants and citizens alike, are border controls an effective response? If ......
Deep Listening to Nature invites us to open our ears to the natural world, to not only learn about nature, but from nature, as we move toward a more ecological future.
Told from the flora and fauna’s point of view, Run Tree Run is the story of a simplified ecosystem threatened by mining. Run Tree Run was shortlisted in 2015 for the Wilderness Society’s Environmental Education Award.
Declarations through Images and Words for a Just and EcologicallySustainabile Peace
A collection of essays, artworks and poetry by a range of First Nations and religiously inspired peace and environmental activists. It represents a call to recognise the deep implication of cultures of war and climate crisis.
The surprising, fascinating, and remarkable ways that animals use creativity to thrive in their habitats Most of us view animals through a very narrow lens, seeing only bits and pieces of beings that seem mostly peripheral to our lives. However, whether animals are building a shelter, seducing a mate, or inventing a new game, animals' creative ......
Humanity in the twenty-first century is facing what might be described as its ultimate environmental catastrophe: the destruction of the climate that has nurtured human civilization and with it the basis of life on earth as we know it. All ecosystems on the planet are now in decline. Enormous rifts have been driven through the delicate fabric of ......
Told from the flora and fauna’s point of view, Run Tree Run is the story of a simplified ecosystem threatened by mining. Run Tree Run was shortlisted in 2015 for the Wilderness Society’s Environmental Education Award.
There is a growing consensus that the planet is heading toward environmental catastrophe: climate change, ocean acidification, ozone depletion, global freshwater use, loss of biodiversity, and chemical pollution all threaten our future unless we act.
Through narrative, verse, and art, Where the Grass Still Sings celebrates the many tiny creatures that play crucial roles in our ecosystems-as well as the people on the front lines of the fight to save them. Weaving art and science with inspiring stories of people doing their part to protect insects and the environment, author Heather Swan takes ......
Explores the question of what is life, and how invocations of life itself can join and divide, horrify and amaze, and may have the potential to inspire a future politics in a world beset by crises.
Explores the question of what is life, and how invocations of life itself can join and divide, horrify and amaze, and may have the potential to inspire a future politics in a world beset by crises.
Environment and Society connects the core themes of environmental studies to the urgent issues and debates of the twenty-first century. In an era marked by climate change, rapid urbanization, and resource scarcity, environmental studies has emerged as a crucial arena of study. Assembling canonical and contemporary texts, this volume ......
Environment and Society connects the core themes of environmental studies to the urgent issues and debates of the twenty-first century. In an era marked by climate change, rapid urbanization, and resource scarcity, environmental studies has emerged as a crucial arena of study. Assembling canonical and contemporary texts, this volume ......
Environmental Racism, Industrial Pollution, and Residential Mobility
Taking stock of the recent environmental justice scholarship, this book examines the connections among residential segregation, zoning, and exposure to environmental hazards. It focuses on the locations of hazardous facilities in low-income and minority communities and shows how they have been dumped on, contaminated and exposed.
Environmental Racism, Industrial Pollution, and Residential Mobility
Taking stock of the recent environmental justice scholarship, this book examines the connections among residential segregation, zoning, and exposure to environmental hazards.
Humanity in the twenty-first century is facing what might be described as its ultimate environmental catastrophe: the destruction of the climate that has nurtured human civilization and with it the basis of life on earth as we know it. All ecosystems on the planet are now in decline. Enormous rifts have been driven through the delicate fabric of ......
Praise for Foster and Magdoff's The Great Financial Crisis: In this timely and thorough analysis of the current financial crisis, Foster and Magdoff explore its roots and the radical changes that might be undertaken in response. . . . This book makes a valuable contribution to the ongoing examination of our current debt crisis, one that deserves ......
Julian Agyeman argues that environmental justice and the sustainable communities movement are compatible in practical ways. He explores the ideological differences between these two groups and shows how they can work together, using examples of potential model organizations that employ the types of strategies he advocates.
Julian Agyeman argues that environmental justice and the sustainable communities movement are compatible in practical ways. He explores the ideological differences between these two groups and shows how they can work together, using examples of potential model organizations that employ the types of strategies he advocates.
In recent years John Bellamy Foster has emerged as a leading theorist of the Marxist perspective on ecology. His seminal book Marx's Ecology (Monthly Review Press, 2000) discusses the place of ecological issues within the intellectual history of Marxism and on the philosophical foundations of a Marxist ecology, and has become a major point of ......
Environmental Racism and the Rise of the Environmental Justice Movement
Examines one of the fastest growing social movements in the United States, the movement for environmental justice. Tracing the movement's roots, this book provides case studies of communities across the US - towns like Kettleman City, California; Chester, Pennsylvania; and Dilkon, Arizona - and their struggles against corporate polluters.
Environmental Racism and the Rise of the Environmental Justice Movement
Examines one of the fastest growing social movements in the United States, the movement for environmental justice. Tracing the movement's roots, this book provides case studies of communities across the US - towns like Kettleman City, California; Chester, Pennsylvania; and Dilkon, Arizona - and their struggles against corporate polluters.
This text examines the struggle to achieve recognition of complaints and disabilities that many contend are related to manufactured environments. It explores the arising political, legal and medical conflicts and the relationship between illness and the modern environment.
In myriad ways, humans have gradually tailored their world to meet immediate material needs. In so doing, we have, in the minds of many, systematically altered a formerly hospitable environment into one more ambiguous in its effect on the human organism. Just as environments have adapted in response to human activity, so too is the human body now, ......
Often hours and days telescope as life seems to be flitting past, whilst at other times the minutes drag by. This work attempts to ascertain how phenomena such as suffering, violence, danger, boredom, exhilaration, concentration, shock and novelty influence the perception of time.
The Cultural Roots of the Current Environmental Crisis
Traces the development of cultural attitudes toward the environment and technology over the span of human civilization. This work explores the effects influential thinkers and movements have had on environmental attitudes.
Drawing from a Society for Applied Anthropology study on human rights and the environment, Who Pays the Price? provides a detailed look at the human experience of environmental crisis. The issues examined span the globe -- loss of land and access to critical resources; contamination of air, water and soil; exposure to radiation, toxic chemicals, ......
