Why are These Trees Dying?
Title | Why are These Trees Dying? PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 8 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Dixie National Forest (Utah) |
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How Trees Die
Title | How Trees Die PDF eBook |
Author | Jeff Gillman |
Publisher | Westholme Publishing |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Nature |
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Explains how trees age and the various ways they die, i.e. at the hands of humans or by foreign insects and diseases. Explores the future of trees as well.
Design as Politics
Title | Design as Politics PDF eBook |
Author | Tony Fry |
Publisher | Berg |
Pages | 268 |
Release | 2010-11-01 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 1847887066 |
Design as Politics confronts the inadequacy of contemporary politics to deal with unsustainability. Current 'solutions' to unsustainability are analysed as utterly insufficient for dealing with the problems but, further than this, the book questions the very ability of democracy to deliver a sustainable future. Design as Politics argues that finding solutions to this problem, of which climate change is only one part, demands original and radical thinking. Rather than reverting to failed political ideologies, the book proposes a post-democratic politics. In this, Design occupies a major role, not as it is but as it could be if transformed into a powerful agent of change, a force to create and extend freedom. The book does no less than position Design as a vital form of political action.
The Dying of the Trees
Title | The Dying of the Trees PDF eBook |
Author | Charles E. Little |
Publisher | Viking Adult |
Pages | 296 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Nature |
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From the sugarbush of Vermont and the dogwoods of Maryland to the hollows in Appalachia and the mountainsides of the West, a whole range of human-caused maladies--acid rain, ultraviolet rays, and other eco-hazards--has been the cause of major forest decline. Little explores the phenomenon with scientists and government officials, and recounts their respondes to this threat to global ecological balance.
The Plant Contract
Title | The Plant Contract PDF eBook |
Author | Prudence Gibson |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 191 |
Release | 2018-02-12 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 9004360549 |
The Plant Contract argues that visual and performance art can help change our perception of the vegetal world, and can return us to nature and thought. Via an investigation into the wasteland, robotany, feminist plants, and nature rights, this phytology-love story investigates how contemporary art is mediating the effects of plant-blindness, caused by human disassociation from the natural world. It is also a gesture of respect for the genius of vegetal life, where new science proves plants can learn, communicate, remember, make decisions, and associate. Art is a litmus test for how climate change affects human perception. This book responds to that test by expressing plant-philosophy to a wider public, through an interrogation of plant-art.
The Dying of the Trees
Title | The Dying of the Trees PDF eBook |
Author | Charles E. Little |
Publisher | Penguin Group |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Forest declines |
ISBN | 9780140158724 |
All over America, a range of human-caused maladiesfatal ozone depletion, ultraviolet rays, acid rain, and the disastrous aftermath of clear-cuttinghas brought tree death and forest decline in its wake. Veteran environmentalist Charles Little explores the phenomenon and concerned response (or lack thereof) . What emerges is a sobering account of the implications for the future of ourplanet.
In Search of the Canary Tree
Title | In Search of the Canary Tree PDF eBook |
Author | Lauren E. Oakes |
Publisher | Basic Books |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 2018-11-27 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1541617428 |
The surprisingly hopeful story of one woman's search for resiliency in a warming world Several years ago, ecologist Lauren E. Oakes set out from California for Alaska's old-growth forests to hunt for a dying tree: the yellow-cedar. With climate change as the culprit, the death of this species meant loss for many Alaskans. Oakes and her research team wanted to chronicle how plants and people could cope with their rapidly changing world. Amidst the standing dead, she discovered the resiliency of forgotten forests, flourishing again in the wake of destruction, and a diverse community of people who persevered to create new relationships with the emerging environment. Eloquent, insightful, and deeply heartening, In Search of the Canary Tree is a case for hope in a warming world.