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Cities in the Wilderness: A New Vision of Land Use in America
by Bruce Babbitt
Published by Island Press (August 26, 2005)The Enigmas of Easter Island: Island on the Edge
by Paul Bahn
Published by Oxford University Press, April 1, 2003To Cook a Continent: Destructive Extraction and Climate Crisis in Africa [Paperback]
Paperback
by Nnimmo Bassey (Author)
Publisher: Pambazuka Press (February 1, 2012)The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating
[Deckle Edge] [Hardcover]
by Elisabeth Tova Bailey
Published by Algonquin Books; 1 edition (August 24, 2010)Tough Choices: Facing the Challenge of Food Scarcity
(The Worldwatch Environmental Alert Series)
by Lester R. Brown
Published by W W Norton & Co, September 1, 1996World on the Edge: How to Prevent Environmental and Economic Collapse [Paperback]
The Ecology of Freedom: The Emergence and Dissolution of Hierarchy
by Lester R. Brown
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company (January 6, 2011)
by Murray Bookchin
Published by AK Press (July 1, 2005)Remaking Society
by Murray Bookchin
Published by Black Rose Books (December 1989)Our Synthetic Environment
by Murray Bookchin
Published by Harper & Row; Rev. ed edition (1974)
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Silent Spring
by Rachel Carson
Published by Houghton Mifflin Co, September 1, 1994Topsoil and Civilization
by Vernon Gill. Carter
Published by Univ of Oklahoma Pr (Txt), January 1975Overshoot
by William Catton
Published by Univ of Illinois Pr (Pro Ref), July 1982Been Brown so Long, It Looked Like Green to Me: The Politics of Nature
by Jeffrey St. Clair
Published by Common Courage Press (October 1, 2003)The Fates of Nations
by Paul A. Colinvaux
Out of PrintThe Decade of Destruction : The Crusade to Save the Amazon Rain Forest
Changes in the Land Indians Colonists and the Ecology of New England
by Adrian Cowell
Published by Doubleday, October 1991
by William Cronon
Published by Farrar Straus & Giroux (Txt), June 1, 1984
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Beyond Growth: The Economics of Sustainable Development
by Herman E. Daly
Paperback, 264 pages
Published by Beacon Pr, September 1997From So Simple a Beginning: Darwin's Four Great Books
by Charles Darwin
Published by W. W. Norton (November 7, 2005)
Hubbert's Peak : The Impending World Oil Shortage
by Kenneth S. Deffeyes
Published by Princeton Univ Pr; August 11, 2003Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
by Jared Diamond
Published by unknown
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The River Runs Black: The Environmental Challenge to China's Future
by Elizabeth C. Economy
Published by Cornell Univ Pr; May 2004The Population Explosion
by Paul R. Ehrlich, Anne H. Ehrlich
Published by Touchstone Books, April 1, 1991Betrayal of Science and Reason : How Anti-Environmental Rhetoric Threatens Our Future
by Paul R. Ehrlich, Anne H. Ehrlich
Published by Island Pr, January 1997One With Nineveh: Politics, Consumption, and the Human Future
by Paul R. Ehrlich, Anne H. Ehrlich
Published by Shearwater Books; May 2004Human Natures: Genes, Cultures, and the Human Prospect
by Paul R. Ehrlich
Published by Penguin USA
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The Long Summer: How Climate Changed Civilization
by Basic Books; December 23, 2003
Published by Basic Books; December 23, 2003 The Here on Earth: A Natural History of the Planet [Hardcover]
by Tim Flannery (Author)
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press (April 5, 2011)The Weather Makers : How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth
by Tim Flannery
Published by Atlantic Monthly Press (February 28, 2006)The Big Outside : A Descriptive Inventory of the Big Wilderness Areas of the United States
by Dave Foreman, Howie Wolke
Published by Harmony Books, June 1, 1992
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The Big Necessity: The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why It Matters Paperback
by Rose George (Author)
Publisher: Holt Paperbacks; 1 Reprint edition (July 7, 2009)The Lugano Report : On Preserving Capitalism in the Twenty-First Century
by Susan George
Published by Pluto Pr, September 1999Stung!: On Jellyfish Blooms and the Future of the Ocean Hardcover
by Lisa-ann Gershwin (Author), Sylvia Earle (Foreword)
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press (May 7, 2013)Big Coal: The Dirty Secret Behind America's Energy Future
by Jeff Goodell
Published by Houghton Mifflin, (June 8, 2006)Elephants in the Volkswagen : Facing the Tough Questions About Our Overcrowded Country
by Lindsey Grant
Paperback, 272 pages
Published by W H Freeman & Co., April 1992The Juggernaut: Growth on a Finite Planet
by Lindsey Grant
Published by Seven Locks Pr, August 1996The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos
by Brian Greene
Knopf (January 25, 2011)Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food
by Paul Greenberg
Penguin Press HC, The (July 15, 2010)The Swamp : The Everglades, Florida, and the Politics of Paradise
by Michael Grunwald
Published by Simon & Schuster (February 28, 2006)
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Managing the Commons
by Garrett Hardin (Editor)
Published by W H Freeman & Co., May 1977Promethean Ethics : Living With Death, Competition, and Triage
by Garrett James Hardin
Published by Univ of Washington Pr, May 1980Naked Emperors : Essays of a Taboo-Stalker
by Garrett James Hardin
Published by William Kaufmann, October 1982Filters Against Folly:
How to Survive Despite Economists, Ecologists, and the Merely Eloquent
by Garrett Hardin
Published by Viking Pr, July 1, 1986Living Within Limits : Ecology, Economics, and Population Taboos
by Garrett Hardin
Published by Oxford Univ Pr (Trade), April 1995The Ostrich Factor : Our Population Myopia
by Garrett Hardin
Published by Oxford Univ Press, February 1999Cows, Pigs, Wars & Witches : The Riddles of Culture
by Marvin Harris
Published by Vintage Books, December 1989Cannibals and Kings : The Origins of Cultures
by Marvin Harris
Published by Vintage Books, June 1991The Third Revolution : Population, Environment, and a Sustainable World
by Paul Harrison
Published by Penguin USA, September 1993The Party's Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies
by Richard Heinberg
New Society Pub, April 2003Saved By the Sea: A Love Story with Fish
by David Helvarg
Thomas Dunne Books (May 11, 2010)50 Ways to Save the Ocean (Inner Ocean Action Guide)
by David Helvarg
New World Library (March 22, 2006)Feeling the Heat: Dispatches from the Frontlines of Climate Change
by David Helvarg
Published by Routledge, March 1, 2004Blue Frontier: Dispatches from America's Ocean Wilderness
by David Helvarg
Published by Helvarg; 2 edition (April 20, 2010)The War Against the Greens : The 'Wise-Use' Movement, the New Right, and Anti-Environmental Violence
by David Helvarg
Published by Sierra Club Books, June 1997Hot: Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth
by Mark Hertsgaard
Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; 1 edition (January 19, 2011)The End of Fossil Energy: And a Plan for Sustainability
by John Howe
Published by NDE Publishing, September 2004Garbology: Our Dirty Love Affair with Trash Paperback
by Edward Humes (Author)
Publisher: Avery Trade; Reprint edition (March 5, 2013)
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Waste of the West : Public Lands Ranching
by Lynn Jacobs
Published by Lynn Jacobs, January 1992
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Crimes Against Nature : How George W. Bush and His Corporate Pals Are Plundering the Country and Hijacking Our Democracy
by Robert F. Kennedy
Published by HarperCollins, August 3, 2004Animal Factory: The Looming Threat of Industrial Pig, Dairy, and Poultry Farms to Humans and the Environment
by David Kirby
St. Martin's Press; First Edition edition (March 2, 2010)Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet: The New Geopolitics of Energy
by Michael T. Klare
Published by Metropolitan Books (April 15, 2008)
Beauty Junkies: Inside Our $15 Billion Obsession With Cosmetic Surgery
by Alex Kuczynski
Published by Doubleday (October 17, 2006)
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The Meat Racket: The Secret Takeover of America's Food Business Hardcover
by Christopher Leonard (Author)
Publisher: Simon & Schuster (February 18, 2014)The Future in Plain Sight : Nine Clues to the Coming Instability
by Eugene Linden
Published by Simon and Schuster, August 1998The Revenge of Gaia: Earth's Climate Crisis and the Fate of Humanity
by James Lovelock
Published by Basic Books (July 3, 2006)High Tide : The Truth About Our Climate Crisis
by Mark Lynas
Published by Picador USA; June 1, 2004
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Sparing Nature: The Conflict Between Human Population Growth And Earth's Biodiversity
by Jeffrey K. McKee
Published by Rutgers University Press; (March 25, 2005)The Human Condition : An Ecological and Historical View
by William Hardy McNeill
(Out of Print)An Essay on the Principle of Population (Penguin English Library)
by Thomas Robert Malthus
Published by Penguin USA, May 1, 1985An Essay on the Principle of Population (The World's Classics)
by Geoffrey Gilbert (Editor), Thomas Robert Malthus
Published by Oxford Univ Pr, December 1, 1993Beyond the Limits : Confronting Global Collapse, Envisioning a Sustainable Future
by Donella H. Meadows, Dennis L. Meadows, Jorgen Randers
Published by Chelsea Green Pub Co, August 1993Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Global Update
by Dennis Meadows, Jorgen Randers, Donella Meadows
Published by Chelsea Green Publishing Company; June 2004Limits to Growth: A Report for the Club of Rome's Project on the Predicament of Mankind
by Donella H. Meadows
Published by New American Library; (reissue) October 1977The Spirit in the Gene : Humanity's Proud Illusion and the Laws of Nature
by Reg Morrison, Lynn Margulis
Published by Comstock Pub Assoc, June, 1999Sea of Slaughter
by Farley Mowat
Published by Chapters Pub Ltd, September 1, 1996The Life & Death of Nssm 200 : How the Destruction of Political Will Doomed a U. S. Population Policy
by Stephen D. Mumford
Published October, 1996
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365 Ways To Change the World: How to Make a Difference-- One Day at a Time
by Michael Norton
Published by Free Press (January 2, 2007)Terra: Our 100-Million-Year-Old Ecosystem--and the Threats That Now Put It at Risk
by Michael Novacek
Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux; First Edition edition (November 11, 2008)
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Our Crowded Planet : Essays on the Pressures of Population
by Fairfield Osborn
Published by Greenwood Pub Group, May 1983Our Plundered Planet.
by Fairfield, Osborn
Published by Little Brown & Company, January 1948
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Endangered Rivers and the Conservation Movement
by Tim Palmer
Published by Univ California Press, April 1, 1988When the Rivers Run Dry : Water--The Defining Crisis of the Twenty-First Century
by Fred Pearce
Published by Beacon Press (March 9, 2006)Forest Journey : The Role of Wood in the Development of Civilization
by John Perlin
Published by Harvard Univ Pr, March 1, 1991Road Runs Through It: Reviving Wild Places
by Thomas Reed Petersen (ed)
Published by Johnson Books (June 2006)
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
by Michael Pollan
Published by Penguin (Non-Classics) (April 28, 2009)
by Michael Pollan
Published by Penguin Press HC, (April 11, 2006)Amusing Ourselves to Death : Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
by Neil Postman
Published by Viking Press, November 1986Toxic Talk: How the Radical Right Has Poisoned America's Airwaves
by Bill Press
Thomas Dunne Books; 1 edition (May 25, 2010)The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring
by Richard Preston
Published by Random House Trade Paperbacks; Reprint edition (February 12, 2008)
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Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic [Paperback]
The River Dragon Has Come!: The Three Gorges Dam and the Fate of China's Yangtze River and Its People
by David Quammen (Author)
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition (September 9, 2013)
by Dai Qing, John G. Thibodeau
Published by M.E. Sharpe, (September 1998)
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Lost Mountain: A Year in the Vanishing Wilderness Radical Strip Mining and the Devastation ofAppalachia
by Erik Reece
Published by Riverhead Trade; (February 6, 2007)Cadillac Desert : The American West and Its Disappearing Water
The Burning Season: The Murder of Chico Mendes and the Fight for the Amazon Rain Forest
by Mark Reisner, Marc Reisner
Published by Penguin USA, June 1, 1993
by Andrew Revkin
Published by Island Press (September 30, 2004)A Bicentennial Malthusian Essay:
Conservation, Population and the Indifference to Limits
by John F. Rohe
Published by Rhodes & Easton, July 1, 1997Hell and High Water: Global Warming--the Solution and the Politics--and What We Should Do
by Joseph Romm
Published by William Morrow (December 26, 2006)
The Malthus Factor : Population, Poverty and Politics in Capitalist Development
by Eric B. Ross
Published by Zed Book, January, 1999
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Deserts on the March (Conservation Classics)
by Paul Bigelow Sears
Published by Island Press, February 1989Deep Ecology for the Twenty-First Century
by George Sessions (Editor)
Published by Shambhala Pubns, November 1994Why Darwin Matters: The Case Against Intelligent Design
by Michael Shermer
Published by Times Books, (August 8, 2006)The Ultimate Resource 2
by Julian L. Simon
Published by Princeton Univ Pr, November 1, 1996Blue Planet Run: The Race to Provide Safe Drinking Water to the World
by Rick Smolan (Creator), Jennifer Erwitt (Creator), Robert Redford (Foreword)
Published by Earth Aware Editions (November 28, 2007)
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Sacred Sea: A Journey to Lake Baikal
by Peter Thomson
Hardcover
Published by Oxford University Press, USA (August 8, 2007)
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The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival
by John Vaillant
Published by Knopf; First Edition, First Printing. edition (August 24, 2010)
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Rare Earth: Why Complex Life is Uncommon in the Universe [Paperback]
by Peter D. Ward (Author), Donald Brownlee (Author)
Publisher: Copernicus (January 16, 2004)The World Without Us
by Allan Wiseman
Published by Thomas Dunne Books (July 10, 2007)Countdown: Our Last, Best Hope for a Future on Earth? Paperback
by Alan Weisman (Author)
Publisher: Back Bay Books (May 6, 2014)Deadly Monopolies: The Shocking Corporate Takeover of Life Itself--And the Consequences for Your Health and Our Medical Future. Hardcover
by arriet A. Washington (Author)
Publisher: Doubleday; 1 edition (October 4, 2011)
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Questioning Technology : A Critical Anthology
by John Zerzan, Alice Carnes
Published by Left Bank Books, June 1998
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