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Business
Ecology
EcoTourism
Environmental Conservation
Environmental Health
Home and Garden
Land Use
Natural Resources
Planning and Development and Public
Policy
Recycling and Sustainable Development
Miscellaneous
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The Digital Paper Trail: In Real
Estate Transactions - Forms, Letters, Clauses, and E-Mails (Book and
CD)
by Oliver E. Frascona, Katherine E.
Reece
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Market Environmentalism
by Terry L. Anderson
Synopsis: The original edition of
this seminal book, published in 1991, introduced the concept of
using markets and property rights to protect and improve
environmental quality.
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Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial
Revolution
by
Paul Hawken and
Amory Lovins and
L. Hunter Lovins
Synopsis:
This groundbreaking book
reveals how today's global businesses can be both
environmentally responsible and highly profitable.
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Growing a Business
by
Paul Hawken
Synopsis:
Using examples like Patagonia,
Ben & Jerry's Homemade Ice Cream, and University National Bank of
Palo Alto, California, Hawken shows that the successful business is
an expression of an individual person.
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Ecology |
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Earthcare: Women and the Environment
by
Carolyn Merchant
Synopsis:
Written by one of the leading
thinkers in environmentalism, Earthcare brings together
Merchant's existing work on the topic of women and the
environment as well as updated and new essays.
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Ecology of Place: Planning for Environment, Economy,
and Community (97 Edition)
by
Timothy Beatley
Synopsis:
Timothy Beatley and Kristy Manning
describe a world in which land is consumed sparingly, cities and
towns are vibrant and green, local economies thrive, and citizens
work together to create places of enduring value.
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In Service of the Wild: Restoring and
Reinhabiting Damaged Land (Concord Library)
by
Stephanie Mills
Synopsis:
In Service of the Wild is about
restoring the Earth, ecosystem by ecosystem, watershed by
watershed. It is about regaining a sense of how beautiful, how
stable, how hospitable to an abundance of life forms and human
cultures healthy ecosystems can be.
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The
Earth Manual: How to Work on Wild Land Without Taming It
by
Malcolm Margolin
Synopsis:
A guide for landowners,
conservationists, and youth group leaders on how to work with
(rather than against) the wildness of the land.
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Wetlands
Third Edition
by
William J. Mitsch
Synopsis:
Wetlands are ecosystems that help
the environment process toxins, thereby maintaining its relative
health. Mitsch and Gosselink's Wetlands is "the" professional
reference, a longstanding bestseller that continues to set the
standard for books on any type of ecosystem.
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EcoTourism |
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Ecotourism and Sustainable Development
by
Martha Honey
Synopsis: A practical overview of the
ecotourism industry.
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A Dictionary of Environmental Quotations
by
Barbara K. Rodes
Synopsis:
Some 3,700 quotations
cover 143 categories, including conservation, deforestation, the
greenhouse effect, nuclear energy, and recycling. Authors range
from a pre-Christian philosopher to a contemporary economist,
from poets to engineers.
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Beyond the Rangeland Conflict:
Towards a West that Works
by
Dan Dagget
Synopsis:
Dan Dagget profiles ten
rancher-conservationist partnerships that demonstrate positive
methods for creating sustainable ways of inhabiting the land.
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Communication Skills for Conservation Professionals
by
Susan K. Jacobson
Synopsis:
Communications Skills for
Conservation Professionals provides in-depth guidance on
achieving conservation goals through better communications.
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Saving America's Wildlife
by
Thomas R. Dunlap
Synopsis:
Through an account of evolving ideas
about wolves and coyotes, Thomas Dunlap shows how American attitudes
toward animals have changed.
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Environmental
Health |
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Cultivating Crisis: The Human Cost of Pesticides in Latin
America
by
Douglas L. Murray
Synopsis:
In this study, Douglas Murray draws
on ten years of field research to tell the stories of
international development strategies, pesticide problems, and
agrarian change in Latin America. Interwoven with his
considerations of the economic and geopolitical dimensions are
the human consequences for individual farmers and rural
communities.
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Encyclopedia of Environmental Pollution and Cleanup
by
Robert A. Meyers
Synopsis:
A concise up-to-date guide to all
aspects of environmental pollution and cleanup.
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Silent Scourge: Children, Pollution, and Why Scientists
Disagree
by
Colleen F. Moore
Synopsis:
Lead and the roots of environmental
controversies -- Mercury : not just a fish story -- PCBs:
another global pollutant -- Why organophosphorus and carbamate
pesticides should be studied -- Noise and children's development
-- It isn't fair: environmental pollution disasters and
community relocations -- The best science, values, and the
precautionary principle to protect children.
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Toxics A To Z: A Guide To Everyday Pollution Hazards (91 Edition)
by
John / Holdren, Cheryl / Schneider, Richard / Shirley, Christine
Harte
Synopsis:
"This well-organized book informs in
clear contexts what we, as consumers and we as citizens, can do for
a healthful environment from one's home to one's planet."--Ralph
Nader
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Home and Garden |
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Country Plumbing: Living with a Septic System
by
Gerry Hartigan
Synopsis:
You can keep your "country
plumbing" working day after day, year after year. Gerry Hartigan,
who has been installing and servicing septic tanks for
twenty-five years, says "I'm still amazed to find out how little
people actually know about their home sewage disposal systems."
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Noah's Garden: Restoring the Ecology of Our Own Backyards
by
Sara Stein
Synopsis:
This book shows us how our landscape
style of neat yards and gardens has devastated suburban ecology,
wiping out entire communities of plants and animals. When Stein
realized what her intensive efforts at making a garden had done, she
set out to "ungarden". Her book interweaves an account of her
efforts with an explanation of the ecology of gardens.
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Wells & Septic Systems 2ND Edition
by
Max Alth
Synopsis: Here's all the information you need
to build a well or septic system yourself - and save a lot of
time, money, and frustration. S. Blackwell Duncan has thoroughly
revised and updated this second edition of "Wells and Septic
Systems to conform to current codes and requirements. He also
has expanded this national bestseller to include new material on
well and septic installation, water storage and distribution,
water treatment, ecological considerations, and septic systems
for problem building sites.
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The Home Buyer's Organizer: A
Step-By-Step Guide to Paving the Way to Your New Home
by Todd Thornton
Synopsis:
This must-have interactive
resource guides readers through the complicated process of
buying a home and helps them stay organized as they make one of
the biggest financial commitments of their lives.
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Land Use |
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Conservancy: The Land Trust Movement in America
by
Richard Brewer
Synopsis:
Land trusts, or conservancies,
protect land by owning it. Although many people are aware of a
few large land trusts--The Nature Conservancy and the Trust for
Public Land, for instance--there are now close to 1,300 local
trusts, with more coming into being each month. Although land
trusts are 5the fastest growing and most vital part of the land
conservation movement today, this model of saving land by
private action has become dominant only in the past two decades.
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The
Land We Share: Private Property and the Common Good
by
Eric T Freyfogle
Synopsis:
Drawing upon ideas from Thomas
Jefferson, Henry George, and Aldo Leopold and interweaving engaging
accounts of actual disputes over land-use issues, Freyfogle develops
a powerful vision of what private ownership in America could
mean--an ownership system, fair to owners and taxpayers alike, that
fosters healthy land and healthy economies.
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Urban Land Use Planning (4TH 95 Edition)
by
Edward J Kaiser
Synopsis: This fourth edition of the book
considered by many to be the closest thing to an urban planning
'bible' has been updated and extensively rewritten. Still the
definitive work in its field, the volume now includes sections
on new technology and evolving planning theory as well as new
illustrations.
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Natural Resources |
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Encyclopedia of Water
by
David E Newton
Synopsis:
Containing 236 entries, the
Encyclopedia of Water is an A-Z overview of the many important
roles water has played in human society and the natural world
over the centuries.
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World
Water Vision: Making Water Everybody's Business with CDROM
by
William J. Cosgrove
Synopsis:
More than a billion people cannot get
safe drinking water. Half the world's population does not have
adequate sanitation. Within a generation, over 3 billion will be
suffering from water stress if we carry on as before.
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Planning and Development and Public Policy |
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Balancing Nature and Commerce in Gateway Communities
by
Jim Howe
Synopsis:
Balancing Nature and Commerce in
Gateway Communities provides lessons in how to preserve the
character and integrity of communities and landscapes without
sacrificing local economic well-being. The authors describe
economic development strategies, land-use planning processes,
and conservation tools that communities from all over the
country have found effective.
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Element of Risk: The Politics of Radon
by
Leonard A Cole
Synopsis:
Questioning the US government's
handling of the radon issue, this study explores the US
Environmental Protection Agency's risk-cost assessment of radon
levels in language that is easily accessible to the lay person. The
author's own solutions to the problem of radon are then detailed.
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Recycling and Sustainable Development |
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Taking Out the Trash: A No-Nonsense Guide to Recycling
by
Jennifer Carless
Synopsis:
Taking Out the Trash is a thorough
guide to recycling as both concept and practical endeavor,
providing readers with a valuable understanding of the nature
and importance of the process. Jennifer Carless surveys the
field--past, present, and future--analyzing the advantages and
disadvantages of other methods of waste disposal (landfills,
incineration) before considering the basics of recycling.
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Ethics and Sustainability: Sustainable Development and the Moral
Life (Basic Ethics in Action)
by
Lisa Newton
Synopsis:
This straightforward book is the only
one of its kind to join the literature of environmental ethics to
the literature of applied ethics -- to describe a life lived in
harmony with itself, with society, and with the natural world. Its
three chapters focus on morality, technology, and stewardship while
encouraging readers to explore a single virtue that will encompass
all the requirements of the ethical life and save the environment at
the same time.
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Miscellaneous |
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Turning Numbers Into Knowledge: Mastering the Art
of Problem Solving
by Jon Koomey
Synopsis:
Mastering the art of
problem solving takes more than proficiency with basic
calculations; it requires understanding how people use
information, recognizing the importance of ideology, learning
the art of storytelling, and acknowledging the important
distinction between facts and values.
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