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Al Gore has been advocating on Earth's behalf for 25 years. In An Inconvenient Sequel, he recounts and contextualizes the critical issues and moments in the climate change movement since the release of An Inconvenient Truth more than 10 years ago and highlights the real solutions we have at hand to change the planet for the better.

Il ne suffit pas de parer aux dangers futurs. L'exigence du développement durable suppose aussi qu'on revienne sur le chemin accidenté que l'humanité vient de parcourir.

Imagine walking into a restaurant and finding chlorinated hydrocarbon pesticides, or neonicotinoid insecticides listed in the description of your entree. They may not be printed in the menu, but many are in your food.These are a few of the literally millions of pounds of approved synthetic substances dumped into the environment every day, not just in the US but around the world.

In this accessible guide to the meanings of sustainability, Kent Portney describes the evolution of the idea and examines its application in a variety of contemporary contexts - from economic growth and consumption to government policy and urban planning.

Eminent ecologist Jeremy B. C. Jackson and award-winning journalist Steve Chapple traveled the length of the Mississippi River interviewing farmers, fishermen, scientists, and policymakers to better understand the mounting environmental problems ravaging the United States. Along their journey, which quickly expanded to California, Florida, and New York, the pair uncovered surprising and profound connections between ecological systems and environmental crises across the country.

“A passionate and heartfelt call to care.” —Bruce Feiler, New York Times bestselling author of Walking the Bible and America’s Prophet In You Are Here, Thomas Kostigen, the New York Times bestselling co-author of The Green Book, takes us to the most extreme environmental areas on the...

In BOOM, prize-winning reporter Tony Horwitz takes a spirited road trip through the wild new frontier of energy in North America. His journey begins in subarctic Alberta, where thousands of miners labor in an industrial moonscape to extract the region's oil-rich tar sands. Horwitz then follows the route of the proposed Keystone XL Pipeline that may carry tar-sands oil from Canada across Montana, the Dakotas, and Nebraska en route to Gulf Coast refineries.

The big media have spoken on the question of global warming, and the debate is officially over. "Be afraid, be very afraid", warns Time magazine. But have Al Gore and his environmentalist allies really proven their case? Not even close, says Christopher C. Horner.

In 1980, the iconoclastic economist Julian Simon challenged celebrity biologist Paul Ehrlich to a bet. Their wager on the future prices of five metals captured the public’s imagination as a test of coming prosperity or doom. Ehrlich, author of the landmark book The Population Bomb, predicted that rising populations would cause overconsumption, resource scarcity, and famine—with apocalyptic consequences for humanity.

Chris Hedges’s profound and provocative examination of America in crisis is “an exceedingly…provocative book, certain to arouse controversy, but offering a point of view that needs to be heard” (Booklist), about how bitter hopelessness and malaise have resulted in a culture of sadism and...

Wagner and Martin Weitzman explore in lively, clear terms the likely repercussions of a hotter planet, drawing on and expanding from work previously unavailable to general audiences. They show that the longer we wait to act, the more likely an extreme event will happen. A city might go underwater.

Although it is widely understood that energy and water are the world’s two most critical resources, their vital interconnections and vulnerabilities are less often recognized. This farsighted audiobook offers a new, holistic way of thinking about energy and water - a big picture approach that reveals the interdependence of the two resources, identifies the seriousness of the challenges, and lays out an optimistic approach with an array of solutions to ensure continuing sustainability.

Mals, Italy, has long been known as the breadbasket of the Tyrol. But recently the tiny town became known for something else entirely. A Precautionary Tale tells us why, introducing readers to an unlikely group of activists and a forward-thinking mayor who came together to ban pesticides in Mals by a referendum vote, making it the first place on Earth to accomplish such a feat, and a model for other towns and regions to follow. For hundreds of years, the people of Mals had cherished their traditional foodways and kept their local agriculture organic. Their town had become a mecca for tourists drawn by the alpine landscape, the rural and historic character of the villages, and the fine breads, wines, cheeses, herbs, vegetables, and the other traditional foods they produced.

The most important book yet from the author of the international bestseller The Shock Doctrine, a brilliant explanation of why the climate crisis challenges us to abandon the core “free market” ideology of our time, restructure the global economy, and remake our political systems. In short...

Le sardine dalle piazze al congresso: Sardine, così è cambiata la vita di Mattia Santori, di Vincenzo Nigro; Dalle sardine ai ragazzi di Greta. Così nuotano nello stesso mare, di Concita De Gregorio; Non solo sardine, ora nascono storenzelli, di Stefano Benni; Dal laboratorio alla prova della politica. Le sardine a congresso, di Francesco Merlo.

Venti cicloni in un mese, tutta colpa dell’Islanda, di Elena Dusi; Il clima cambia, Venezia sprofonda: perché l’acqua alta oggi fa più paura, di Elena Dusi; Venezia sommersa riscopre lo scandalo Mose, eterna incompiuta: “Costato 5,5 miliardi e già obsoleto”, di Fabio Tonacci; Venezia come Notre-Dame, il mondo deve aiutarla, di Natalia Aspesi; Pellestrina, la rabbia dei pescatori: "Per salvare Venezia noi rimasti come vongole sul fondale", di Giampaolo Visetti; Venezia, vivere sott'acqua, di Paolo Berizzi.

Le sfide del nostro tempo: Al Gore: il clima è la battaglia del nostro tempo e possiamo vincerla, di Al Gore; Thomas Piketty: l'ideologia di mercato è fanatismo, di Anais Ginori; Facciamo pace con le Ong, di Gad Lerner; Le dee dell'acqua senza più ghiaccio, di Paolo Cognetti.

La guerra di Greta: La profezia di Greta, di Luca Fraioli; Bill Gates: "Il mondo migliora, ma nuovi rischi dal clima che cambia", di Klaus Geiger; Perché Greta smuove il mondo, di Luca Fraioli; "Basta buttare i cellulari rotti. Dateci il diritto di aggiustarli", di Riccardo Luna; Il clima è la battaglia del nostro tempo. E possiamo vincerla, di Al Gore; Impegno sul clima dai grandi del mondo. Ma Greta li sgrida, di Arturo Zampaglione.

Svolta verde con digressione letteraria: La svolta verde: fonti rinnovabili e meno risorse consumate, l'Istat a sorpresa mostra una nuova Italia, di Corrado Zunino; I verdi così tanti così soli, di Sergio Rizzo; Renzo Piano sui dati dell'Istat: "L'ecologia fa bene anche al business", di Federico Rampini; Don Winslow: confesso, sono il Bardo dei narcos, di Antonello Guerrera.

Clima, l'Italia che affonda. Il maltempo in Italia in cinque articoli di Repubblica: Se l'Italia scopre di avere un clima tropicale, di Carlo Petrini; Maltempo a Venezia, il Mose e l'ultimo danno della grande incompiuta, di Sergio Rizzo; Maltempo, piste da sci devastate nelle Dolomiti: "Turismo a rischio, per noi è la catastrofe", di Giampaolo Visetti; Tragedia in Sicilia. Demolizione bloccata e fondi per il fiume perduti, i sindaci accusati di inerzia, di Salvo Palazzolo; Chi protegge il nostro territorio?, di Giacomo Talignani e Corrado Zunino.