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| Green Remodeling: Your Start toward an Eco-Friendly Home (The Green House) |
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 John D. Wagner
The Ultimate Guide to Green Remodeling shows homeowners how they can take part in the green-home revolution through remodeling using green, nontoxic building materials and techniques. Topics covered include reducing home energy use, selecting nontoxic products, saving water, and supporting a clean environment through the use of products that employ responsible manufacturing techniques and the sustainable harvesting of natural resources. |
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| Carbon Shift: How Peak Oil and the Climate Crisis Will Change Canada (and Our Lives) |
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 Thomas Homer-Dixon
Thomas Homer-Dixon, author of The Ingenuity Gap and The Upside of Down, argues that the two problems are really one: a carbon problem. We depend on carbon energy to fuel our complex economies and societies, and at the same time this very carbon is fatally contaminating our atmosphere. To solve one of these problems will require solving the other at the same time. In other words, we still have a chance to tackle two monumental challenges with one innovative solution: clean, low-carbon energy. |
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| The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity, and the Renewal of Civilization |
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 Thomas F. Homer-Dixon
Peak oil is upon us, we have ever-worsening environmental degradation, and we face a deepening global financial crisis. We at GP also feel frustration at the seeming impossibility of solving our problems within the iron envelope of today's reigning free-market plutocracy. Thus it should be no surprise that we were pleased to see a book explained how reframe this troubled situation and strategize to take advantage of any coming chaos. |
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| Green: Your Place in the New Energy Revolution |
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 Jane S. Hoffman
Green explores the gamut of issues associated with renewable energy, cutting through the hype and polemics surrounding ecologically friendly technologies to present the unvarnished truth. It will guide the reader through the misinformation and confusion over global warming, and demonstrate the degree to which renewable energy can be part of the solution. |
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 Michael Shnayerson
In southern West Virginia, coal companies are blasting the mountains -- decapitating them for coal. The forested ridge tops and valley streams of Appalachia are being destroyed, along with towns and communities. Most Americans have no idea it's happening. Coal River chronicles the laudable efforts of locals to fight the odious practice of mountaintop removal in the courts and through grassroots activism. |
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| The Unhealthy Truth: How Our Food Is Making Us Sick - And What We Can Do About It |
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 Robyn O'Brien
Robyn O'Brien, an MBA mother of four, did not give much thought to issues like chemicals in food, until the day her youngest daughter had a violent allergic reaction to eggs. Then everything changed. In reviewing research conducted in Europe, O'Brien traced the relationship between Big Food and Big Money in the United States, a relationship that results in hidden toxins in our food---chemicals that can be blamed for the alarming increases in allergies, ADHD, cancer, and asthma among our children. The Unhealthy Truth is the story of how O'Brien chose to take on the system, and it's a call to action that shows how each of us can do our part and keep our own families safe. |
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