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Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Co
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
401 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A conservationist explores various global regions to investigate examples of environmental degradation and renewal while identifying a link between environmental dangers and human rights issues.
Author
Language
English
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Description
As a botanist and professor of plant ecology, Robin Wall Kimmerer has spent a career learning how to ask questions of nature using the tools of science. As a Potawatomi woman, she learned from elders, family, and history that the Potawatomi, as well as a majority of other cultures indigenous to this land, consider plants and animals to be our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowing together to reveal what...
10) The last hours of ancient sunlight: the fate of the world and what we can do before it's too late
Author
Publisher
Three Rivers Press
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
Revised and updated edition.
Physical Desc
xx, 378 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Prometheus Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
396 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
An environmental scholar exposes the unintended harms to our environment, providing a new understanding of the precarious modern human-nature relationship, and offers ways that we can reconnect to and support the nature that sustains us.
"A revolutionary new understanding of the precarious modern human-nature relationship and a path to a healthier, more sustainable world. Amidst all the wondrous luxuries of the modern world--smartphones, fast intercontinental...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
232 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"An award-winning ecology writer goes looking for the wilderness we've forgotten. Many people believe that only an ecological catastrophe will change humanity's troubled relationship with the natural world. In fact, as J.B. MacKinnon argues in this unorthodox look at the disappearing wilderness, we are living in the midst of a disaster thousands of years in the making--and we hardly notice it. We have forgotten what nature can be and adapted to a...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
"In Rooted, cutting-edge science supports a truth that poets, artists, mystics, and earth-based cultures across the world have proclaimed over millennia: life on this planet is radically interconnected. Our bodies, thoughts, minds, and spirits are affected by the whole of nature, and they affect this whole in return. In this time of crisis, how can we best live upon our imperiled, beloved earth?" -- Amazon.com
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