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An intelligent, inspiring audiobook about the author's quest to find purpose with profit for his company, helping readers with businesses of all sizes to see the value of ethical policies and "doing it right". Learn how to green your business from one of the UK's leading corporate activists. Can...

Antarctica is the coldest, windiest and most inaccessible part of our planet-and now one of the places most troubled by climate change. In this moving narrative, conservation scientist Louise K. Blight recounts her summer studying Ad�lie penguins. On isolated Ross Island, Louise K. Blight and...

A toolkit for understanding our emotional responses to climate change and how we can have meaningful conversations across dividing lines. Why is it so hard to talk about climate change? While scientists double down on the shocking figures, we still find ourselves unable to discuss climate change...

In 1991, eight people walked into a glass and steel structure in the Arizona desert and sealed the doors behind them. Their mission was unprecedented: to live for two years inside a completely self-contained world, growing their own food, breathing recycled air, and proving that humanity had the knowledge and the capability to survive beyond Earth.

Spend time in the company of giant pandas with this delightful collection of stories and first-person insights about their behavior, biology, and conservation from panda expert Dr. Brandie Smith, director of the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute. What is it about...

»Kein Kitsch, sondern das Ergebnis seriöser Forschung und langer Beobachtung.« Jens Jessen, DIE ZEIT Tiefe Einblicke in die Gefühlswelt der Tiere: Eichhörnchen, die sich aufopferungsvoll um ihren Nachwuchs kümmern. Kühe und Wale, die Werkzeuge gezielt einsetzen. Kolkraben, die...

For fans of Ada Limón and Kate Baer, Make Me Good Soil is a luminous, intimate new poetry collection from celebrated author Sophie Strand that explores personal love, loss, trauma healing, and illness through the lens of interspecies connection. Sophie Strand's poetry is attuned to the...

Over the past five hundred years, human exploration, settlement, and commerce have carried countless plants and animals far from their original homes, where they sometimes go on to transform familiar landscapes, cause large-scale agricultural damage, and endanger precious native species. But the...

A spellbinding guide to the entwined evolution of humans and flowers—and what they can teach us about life The love story between flowers and humans is millions of years old. Over millennia of ecological changes and challenges, flowers have inspired us, comforted us, and taught us some of our...

No futuro distópico apresentado em Não Verás País Nenhum, falta água, o calor é insuportável e as florestas desaparecem aos poucos. O clássico de Ignácio de Loyola Brandão, escrito em 1981, fala diretamente com a nossa realidade hoje e, consequentemente, sua narrativa se torna cada vez mais essencial e urgente. A nova edição conta com apresentação de Heloise M.

Michael McCarthy, one of Britain's leading writers on the environment, proposes this joy as a defence of a natural world which is ever more threatened, and which, he argues, is inadequately served by the two defences put forward hitherto: sustainable development and the recognition of ecosystem...

"At once lyrical and exacting, clear-sighted and deeply informed—a beautiful book." —Elizabeth Kolbert, author of Under a White Sky A profound and poetic reflection on the cyclical nature of life, what happens when we break that cycle, and how to repair it—told through the fate of...

In an era brimming with misleading headlines and polarized debates, take a deep dive into the unvarnished truth of climate change with this illuminating guide. Ever felt bombarded by the staggering numbers and statistics on climate disasters? Frustrated by the blame game and endless debates? Overwhelmed by conflicting information about the very real challenges the planet faces? You're not the only one. Navigating the complex landscape of climate change isn't just about understanding the science it's about cutting through the noise to find truth and meaningful action.

Esiste un cibo che è allo stesso tempo gentile con il corpo e con il pianeta. È un cibo intelligente, adatto all’Antropocene, l’epoca in cui viviamo e dove sono gli esseri umani a influenzare gli eventi della natura. Il cibo che ci salverà, il nuovo libro di Eliana Liotta, dimostra quanto sia indispensabile una svolta ecologica a tavola per aiutare la terra e la salute. Per salvare l’ambiente non basta più andare in giro in bici, comprare un’auto ibrida e ricordarsi di spegnere le luci. Non è sufficiente pensare solo a petrolio e carbone.

An award-winning natural-history writer opens the door to the nature that thrives in our yards, gardens, and parks We all live on nature’s doorstep, but we often overlook it. From backyards to local parks, the natural places we see the most may well be the ones we know the least. In Close to...

In this lyrical, radically expansive self-portrait, celebrated poet, author, and lecturer Sophie Strand explores—with searing insight and honesty—the intersecting spaces of her own chronic illness, the complex ecology of a changing world, and the very nature of the stories we tell ourselves...

Serendipity tells the story of James Estes’s life as a naturalist and the concepts that have driven his interest in researching the ecological role of top-level predators. Using the relationships between sea otters, kelp, and sea urchins as a touchstone, Estes retraces his investigations of numerous other species, ecosystems, and ecological processes in an attempt to discover why ecologists can learn so many details about the systems in which they work and yet understand so little about the broader processes that influence these systems.

The great auk is one of the most tragic and documented examples of extinction. A flightless bird that bred primarily on the remote islands of the North Atlantic, the last of its kind were killed in Iceland in 1844. Gisli Pálsson draws on firsthand accounts from the Icelanders who hunted the last great auks to bring to life a bygone age of Victorian scientific exploration while offering vital insights into the extinction of species.

Everywhere we look, we see signs that all is not right with our earth—extreme temperatures and weather patterns wreak havoc, pollutants sour soils and waterways, and fires and floods ravage land and communities. Climate change is just a symptom of a larger ecological crisis. If we want change, we must realize that the solutions to the problems we face cant come through the same systems that created those problems in the first place.

What you eat doesn’t just impact you – it shapes the world around you. Wonderfully enlightening and engagingly written. Dr Idz If you are looking at ways to combat the exploitation of the planet this book is for you. Rhiannon Lambert Well Fed is a vital tool in the ongoing battle against...