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Topic Eco/Green : 255 results | page 1 of 26 pages
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Mountain Justice: Homegrown Resistance to Mountaintop Removal, For the Future of Us All - Tricia Shapiro
Available in early October! Preorder your copy today and get 25% off the $17.95 list price!
Mountaintop removal (MTR) does exactly what it says: A mountaintop is stripped of trees, blown to bits with explosives, then pushed aside by giant equipment?all to expose a layer of coal to be mined. In recent years, local people fighting against MTR's destruction of their homes in West Virginia, Tennessee, ...
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Stuffed & Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System - Raj Patel
It's a perverse fact of modern life: There are more starving people in the world than ever before (800 million) while there are also more people overweight (1 billion).

To find out how we got to this point and what we can do about it, Raj Patel launched a comprehensive investigation into the global food network. It took him from the colossal supermarkets of California to India's wrecked paddy-fields a...
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Las Guerras del Agua: Privatización, Contaminación y Lucro - Vandana Shiva
En Las guerras del agua, Vandana Shiva utiliza sus notables conocimientos sobre ciencia y sociedad para hacer un análisis histórico del deterioro de los derechos comunitarios sobre el agua. Al estudiar el comercio internacional del agua, la construcción de presas, la minería y la acuicultura, Shiva expone la destrucción de la tierra y la privación del derecho ...
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Biopirateria: El Saqueo de la Naturaleza Y Del Conocimiento - Vandana Shiva
Biopiratería nos muestra porque sólo se reconocen los derechos de propiedad intelectual cuando el conocimiento y la innovación producen ganancias, no cuando responden al bien común —la creatividad sólo se pone al servicio de la obtención de beneficios y la acumulación de capital— y cómo se apropia el Norte de la riqueza de conocimient...
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The Urban Homestead: Your Guide to Self-Sufficient Living in the Heart of the City (Updated and Expanded Edition) - Kelly Coyne and Erik Knutzen
The Urban Homestead is the essential handbook for a fast-growing new movement: urbanites are becoming gardeners and farmers. By growing their own food and harnessing natural energy, they are planting seeds for the future of our cities.

If you would like to harvest your own vegetables, make homemade jam or bread, raise chickens or convert to solar energy, this practical, hands-on book is full of...
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Sparking A Worldwide Energy Revolution: Social Struggles in the Transition to a Post-petrol World - Kolya Abramsky (Editor)
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The world's energy system is on the verge of far reaching change, and its future is up for grabs.

A worldwide struggle over who controls the sector, and for what purposes, is intensifying. "Green capitalism" is the word of the hour, and we're being told that it's finally time to "save the planet" in o...
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First Earth: Uncompromising Ecological Architecture - David Sheen (Director)
A manifesto filmed over four years and four continents, this proposal contends that earthen homes—those made from cob, straw, clay, adobe bricks, and rammed earth—are the healthiest and best houses in the world. Also posing that suburban sprawl should be transformed into eco-villages, this discussion provides evidence of the benefits of this lifestyle in every cultural and socioeconomic context, ...
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The World According to Monsanto: Pollution, Corruption, and the Control of our Food Supply - Marie-Monique Robin
The result of a remarkable three-year-long investigation that took award-winning journalist and documentary filmmaker Marie-Monique Robin across four continents (North and South America, Europe, and Asia), The World According to Monsanto tells the little-known yet shocking story of this agribusiness giant—the world's leading producer of GMOs (genetically modified organisms)—and how its new...
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We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For: Inner Light In A Time Of Darkness - Alice Walker
Author of the perennially bestselling novel The Color Purple, Alice Walker has long been a force for sanity in a chaotic world. In We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For she draws on her deep spiritual grounding, her political conviction and experience, and her literary gifts to offer a series of meditations filled with wisdom, hope, encouragement, and, at times, serenity to a world in need o...
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Dry Run: Preventing the Next Urban Water Crisis - Jerry Yudelson
In the Age of Scarcity now upon us, fresh water shortages are an increasingly serious global problem. With water restrictions emerging in many developed countries and water diversions for industrial, urban, and environmental reasons stirring up oceans of controversy, there is a growing thirst for innovative approaches to reducing our water footprint.

Dry Run shows the best ways to manage scarce...
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