TOP 10 BOOKS ON THE ENVIRONMENT
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Albatross: Their World, Their Ways |
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Tuie De Roy and others |
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In this magnificent book about a magnificent bird - the revered, now endangered albatross - wildlife photographer De Roy and contributing scientists cover all aspects of albatross beauty, biology, and conservation. |
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American Earth: Environmental Writing since Thoreau. |
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edited by Bill McKibben |
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The environmental movement has been guided by writing of clarity and power, including books by McKibben, who has created a defining and essential anthology featuring 100 pioneering, eco-minded writers. |
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Fruitless Fall : The Collapse of the Honeybee and the Coming Agricultural Crisis. |
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Rowan Jacobsen |
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Jacobsen celebrates the marvels of the honeybee, reveals the many ways we've endangered this essential pollinator, and calls for action to prevent a "fruitless fall." |
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Greasy Rider: Two Dudes, One Fry-Oil-Powered Car, and a Cross-Country Search for a Greener Future. |
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Greg Melville |
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Melville's larky tale of a coast-to-coast road trip in a car running on french-fry oil, including stops at a wind farm, a renewable energy lab, and a green home, is spendidly entertaining and educational. |
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Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution - and How It Can Renew America. |
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Thomas L. Friedman |
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Friedman makes the all-important connection between business and environmentalism in this call for a green revolution. |
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The Hudson: America's River |
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Frances F. Dunwell |
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The beautiful and historic Hudson River became "grossly polluted," a story with a happy and instructive ending brilliantly told by Dunwell, a key figure in the river's restoration. |
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Nature's Second Chance: Restoring the Ecology of Stone Prairie Farm |
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Steven I Apfelbaum |
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Ecologist Apfelbaum candidly chronicles the complex challenges he faced while restoring an 80-acre swath of woefully depleted and toxic southern Wisconsin farmland and turning back into a thriving prairie. |
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Smogtown: The Lung-Burning History of Pollution in Los Angeles |
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Chip Jacobs and William J. Kelly |
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A fun book about smog? Jacobs and Kelly capture the aura of 1950s sci-fi movies in this lively history of Los Angeles' monstrous smog. |
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Trespass: Living at the Edge of the Promised Land |
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Amy Irving |
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Drawing on her Mormon family history, Irvine revels in Utah's breathtaking beauty and protests its destructive exploitation. |
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Why I Came West: |
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Rick Bass |
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Bass tracks his ardor for the wild, especially his love for Montana's Yaak Valley, in this moving and instructive memoir of his life as a writer and wilderness activist. |
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