The Greening Book
Title | The Greening Book PDF eBook |
Author | Ellen Sabin |
Publisher | Watering Can Press |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9780975986875 |
The Greening Book inspires children to appreciate the earth's gifts, learn about its needs, and discover their power to protect and care for our Planet. This award-winning and empowering book combines educational narrative, conversation starters, and fun learning activities to help children consider why and how they can "be a friend" to the planet by taking care of it and keeping it healthy.
Green Earth
Title | Green Earth PDF eBook |
Author | Kim Stanley Robinson |
Publisher | Del Rey |
Pages | 1090 |
Release | 2015-11-03 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1101964839 |
The landmark trilogy of cutting-edge science, international politics, and the real-life ramifications of climate change—updated and abridged into a single novel More than a decade ago, bestselling author Kim Stanley Robinson began a groundbreaking series of near-future eco-thrillers—Forty Signs of Rain, Fifty Degrees Below, and Sixty Days and Counting—that grew increasingly urgent and vital as global warming continued unchecked. Now, condensed into one volume and updated with the latest research, this sweeping trilogy gains new life as Green Earth, a chillingly realistic novel that plunges readers into great floods, a modern Ice Age, and the political fight for all our lives. The Arctic ice pack averaged thirty feet thick in midwinter when it was first measured in the 1950s. By the end of the century it was down to fifteen. One August the ice broke. The next year the breakup started in July. The third year it began in May. That was last year. It’s a muggy summer in Washington, D.C., as Senate environmental staffer Charlie Quibler and his scientist wife, Anna, work to call attention to the growing crisis of global warming. But as they fight to align the extraordinary march of modern technology with the awesome forces of nature, fate puts an unusual twist on their efforts—one that will pit science against politics in the heart of the coming storm. Praise for the Science in the Capital trilogy “Perhaps it’s no coincidence that one of our most visionary hard sci-fi writers is also a profoundly good nature writer—all the better to tell us what it is we have to lose.”—Los Angeles Times “An unforgettable demonstration of what can go wrong when an ecological balance is upset.”—The New York Times Book Review “Absorbing and convincing.”—Nature
Greening Death
Title | Greening Death PDF eBook |
Author | Suzanne Kelly |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 215 |
Release | 2015-09-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1442241578 |
We once disposed of our dead in earth-friendly ways—no chemicals, biodegradable containers, dust to dust. But over the last 150 years death care has become a toxic, polluting, and alienating industry in the United States. Today, people are slowly waking up to the possibility of more sustainable and less disaffecting death care, reclaiming old practices in new ways, in a new age. Greening Death traces the philosophical and historical backstory to this awakening, captures the passionate on-the-ground work of the Green Burial Movement, and explores the obstacles and other challenges getting in the way of more robust mobilization. As the movement lays claim to greener, simpler, and more cost-efficient practices, something even more promising is being offered up—a tangible way of restoring our relationship to nature.
The Green Marble
Title | The Green Marble PDF eBook |
Author | David Turner |
Publisher | Columbia University Press |
Pages | 311 |
Release | 2018-05-15 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 0231542844 |
Humans have difficulty thinking at the global scale. Yet as we come to understand our planet as a single, interconnected, complex system and encounter compelling evidence of human impact on Earth’s climate and biosphere, the need for a truly global effort is increasingly urgent. In this concise and accessible text, David P. Turner presents an overview of global environmental change and a synthesis of research and ideas from the rapidly evolving fields of earth system science and sustainability science that is suitable for anyone interested in humanity’s current predicaments and what we can do about them. The Green Marble examines Earth’s past, contemporary human disruption, and the prospects for global environmental governance. Turner emphasizes the functioning of the biosphere—the totality of life on Earth—including its influence on geologic history, its sensitivity to human impacts, and its possible role in ameliorating climate change. Relying on models of the earth system that synthesize vast amounts of monitoring information and recent research on biophysical processes, The Green Marble describes a range of scenarios for our planetary home, exploring the effects of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions and factors such as economic globalization. Turner juxtaposes cutting-edge ideas from both the geosciences and the social sciences to illustrate how humanity has arrived upon its current dangerous trajectory, and how we might pull back from the brink of civilization-challenging environmental change. Growing out of the author’s popular course on global environmental change, The Green Marble is accessible to non-science majors and provides a framework for understanding the complex relationship of humanity to the global environment.
Saving God's Green Earth
Title | Saving God's Green Earth PDF eBook |
Author | Tri Robinson |
Publisher | Ampelon Publishing |
Pages | 156 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Environmental ethics |
ISBN | 0981770592 |
The Creator has called us to care for life, his creation. Unfortunately, many evangelical Christians have decided that value has too much political baggage attached to it and has forsaken caring for God's creation. In this book, pastor and author Tri Robinson clearly shows the biblical mandate for environmental stewardship?and how doing so will change the world around us. Through biblical examples, everyday stories, and practical know-how Robinson delivers a powerful message that cannot be ignored. His insights into how to move people from the idea of stewarding God's creation to actually participating will clearly show leaders in the evangelical Christian community how to raise this value.
Go Green, Save Green
Title | Go Green, Save Green PDF eBook |
Author | Nancy Sleeth |
Publisher | Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. |
Pages | 431 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Human ecology |
ISBN | 141432698X |
Sleeth divulges hundreds of practical, easy-to-implement steps that create substantial money savings while protecting the Earth. She also demonstrates how going green helps people live more God-centered lives by becoming better stewards.
Greening the Earth with Trees
Title | Greening the Earth with Trees PDF eBook |
Author | Cathleen A Fogel |
Publisher | |
Pages | 974 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Climatic changes |
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