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| The Great Disruption: Why the Climate Crisis Will Bring On the End of Shopping and the Birth of a New World |
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 Paul Gilding
Gilding, former director of Greenpeace International and now on the faculty at Cambridge University?s Program for Sustainable Leadership, proposes that global warming is just one piece of an impending planetary collapse caused by our overuse of resources. According to the Global Footprint Network, we surpassed Earth?s capacity in 1988, and by 2009, we needed the resources of 1.4 planets to sustain our economy?and any increases in efficiencies that some claim will solve the problem are likely only to encourage us to use more. Gilding argues that, like addicts who need to hit bottom, we energy users will deny our problem until we ?face head-on the risk of collapse,? but when we do, we will address the emergency with the commitment of our response to WWII and begin a real transformation to a sustainable economy built on equality, quality of life, and harmony with the ecosystem.
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| The Ripple Effect: The Fate of Fresh Water in the Twenty-First Century |
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 Alex Prud'homme
Like Daniel Yergin?s classic The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power, Prud?homme?s The Ripple Effect is a masterwork of investigation and dramatic narrative. With striking instincts for a revelatory story, Prud?homme introduces readers to an array of colorful, obsessive, brilliant?and sometimes shadowy?characters through whom these issues come alive. Prud?homme traversed the country, and he takes readers into the heart of the daily dramas that will determine the future of this essential resource?from the alleged murder of a water scientist in a New Jersey purification plant, to the epic confrontation between salmon fishermen and copper miners in Alaska, to the poisoning of Wisconsin wells, to the epidemic of intersex fish in the Chesapeake Bay, to the wars over fracking for natural gas. Michael Pollan has changed the way we think about the food we eat; Alex Prud?homme will change the way we think about the water we drink. |
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| The Joy of Less, A Minimalist Living Guide: How to Declutter, Organize, and Simplify Your Life |
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 Francine Jay
The Joy of Less is a fun, lighthearted guide to minimalist living. Part One provides an inspirational pep talk on the joys and rewards of paring down. Part Two presents the STREAMLINE method: ten easy steps to rid your house of clutter. Part Three goes room by room, outlining specific ways to tackle each one. Part Four helps you trim your to-do list and free up your time, and explains how saving space in your closets can save the planet. |
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| The Big Thirst: The Secret Life and Turbulent Future of Water |
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 Charles Fishman
For the past 100 years, the developed world has enjoyed a cheap, safe, and abundant water supply, but Fishman (The Wal-Mart Effect) warns that everything about water is about to change?how we use it, how we share it, and how we value it. In an engrossing, globe-trotting narrative, he introduces the reader to people already grappling with water shortages?Patricia Mulroy, Las Vegas's no-nonsense water czar known as the best water manager in the country; the inhabitants of a neighborhood in Delhi who line up twice a day for water they must carry home. Since water cannot be created or destroyed, the challenge we face is not so much about water scarcity but rather how we can use it more equitably and protect i |
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| Force of Nature: The Unlikely Story of Wal-Mart's Green Revolution |
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 Edward Humes
What happens when a renowned river guide teams up with the CEO of one of the largest--and least Earth-friendly--corporations in the world? Nothing less than a green business revolution reveals Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author Edward Humes in his arresting new book, FORCE OF NATURE: The Unlikely Story of Wal-Mart's Green Revolution. |
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| Energy: Use Less-Save More: 100 Energy-Saving Tips for the Home |
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 Jon Clift
Did you know that lowering the temperature of your thermostat by a mere 2 degrees Fahrenheit could reduce your energy bill by 10 percent? Or that energy-efficient light bulbs last about 12 times longer than ordinary bulbs and consume one-fifth the energy? This is just the beginning of what you?ll learn in this handy book, containing more than one hundred ideas for saving energy. These tips will save you money, and help you take your first steps in the fight against global warming. |
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