The Emmy Award–winning creator of GASLAND tells his intimate and damning, personal story of our world in crisis. With a foreword by Bill McKibben. The rules have changed. The water has c...
Staying Alive: Women, Ecology, and De...
Vandana ShivaInspired by women's struggles for the protection of nature as a condition for human survival, award-winning environmentalist Vandana Shiva shows how ecological destruction and the marginalization of women are not inevitable, economica...
Green Tyranny: Exposing the Totalitar...
Rupert Darwall’s Green Tyranny traces the alarming origins of the green agenda, revealing how environmental scares have been deployed by our global rivals as a political instrument to contest American power around the world. Drawin...
The Green New Deal and Beyond: The Ro...
A clear and urgent call for the national, social, and individual changes required to prevent catastrophic climate change. "An iconoclast of the best kind, Stan Cox has an all-too-rare commitment to following arguments wherever t...
The Red Deal: Indigenous Action to Sa...
When the Red Nation released their call for a Red Deal, it generated coverage in places from Teen Vogue to Jacobin to the New Republic, was endorsed by the DSA, and has galvanized organizing and action. Now, in response to popular dem...
Game Changers: Energy on the Move
Robert C. ArmstrongIt is becoming increasingly obvious that the United States needs reliable and inexpensive energy to propel our economy and protect our national security interests. Game Changers presents five research and development efforts from Amer...
Superman's Not Coming: Our National W...
Erin BrockovichFrom the environmental activist, consumer advocate, and renowned crusader—a stirring call to action that gives us the tools we need to take action ourselves, to make our voices heard, to ensure our water is safe, and to finally ...
The Plundered Planet: Why We Must--an...
Paul CollierPaul Collier's The Bottom Billion was greeted as groundbreaking when it appeared in 2007, winning the Estoril Distinguished Book Prize, the Arthur Ross Book Award, and the Lionel Gelber Prize. Now, in The Plundered Planet, Collier bui...
Now that Trump has turned the United States into a global climate outcast, will China take the lead in saving our planet from environmental catastrophe? Many signs point to yes. China, the world's largest carbon emitter, is leading a ...
Winning the Green New Deal: Why We Ca...
Guido GirgentiAn urgent and definitive collection of essays from leaders and experts championing the Green New Deal—and a detailed playbook for how we can win it—including contributions by leading activists and progressive writers like ...
Facing the Population Challenge: Wisd...
Marilyn HempelThis book is for all who have ever pondered the fate of humanity and the biosphere and asked, "What can I do?" Fifteen elders—giants in the field of human population and development—share their vision of a more just, pea...
A concise overview of carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS), a promising but overlooked climate change mitigation pathway.The burning of fossil fuels releases carbon dioxide (CO2), and these CO2 emissions are a major driver of clim...
This Land Is Our Land: How We Lost th...
Ken IlgunasPrivate property is everywhere. Almost anywhere you walk in the United States, you will spot “No Trespassing” and “Private Property” signs on trees and fence posts. In America, there are more than a billion acres of grassland ...
An overview of recycling as an activity and a process, following different materials through the waste stream.
Rooftop Revolution: Join the Fight to...
Danny KennedyThe Biggest Untold Economic Story of Our TimeHere is the truth that the powerful Dirty Energy public relations machine doesn't want you to know: the ascent of solar energy is upon us. The production of solar-generated electricity has ...
On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Gre...
Naomi Klein#1 New York Times and internationally bestselling author Naomi Klein makes the case for a Green New Deal in this “keenly argued, well-researched, and impassioned” manifesto (The Washington Post).\r\n\r\nAn instant bestsell...
Storming the Wall: Climate Change, Mi...
Todd Miller"A galvanizing forecast of global warming's endgame and a powerful indictment of America's current stance."—Kirkus ReviewsAs global warming accelerates, droughts last longer, floods rise higher, and super-storms become mor...
Powering Forward: What Every American...
Bill Ritter JrA historic energy revolution is underway in the United States. Wind, sunlight, and other sustainable resources are now the fastest growing sources of energy in the U.S. and worldwide. American families are installing power plants on t...
We're Doomed. Now What?: Essays on Wa...
Roy ScrantonAn American Orwell for the age of Trump, Roy Scranton faces the unpleasant facts of our day with fierce insight and honesty. We're Doomed. Now What? penetrates to the very heart of our time.Our moment is one of alarming and bewilderin...
Biopiracy: The Plunder of Nature and ...
Vandana ShivaGenetic engineering and the cloning of organisms are "the ultimate expression of the commercialization of science and the commodification of nature.… Life itself is being colonized," according to renowned environmentalist ...
Wildness was once integral to our ancestors\' lives as they struggled to survive in an unpredictable environment. Today, most of us live in relative stability insulated from the vicissitudes of nature. Wildness is over, right? Wrong,...
When a Billion Chinese Jump: How Chin...
Jonathan WattsWhen a Billion Chinese Jump is a road journey into the future of our species. Traveling from the mountains of Tibet to the deserts of Inner Mongolia via the Silk Road, tiger farms, cancer villages, weather-modifying bases, and eco-cit...
Countdown: Our Last, Best Hope for a ...
Alan WeismanA powerful investigation into the chances for humanity's future from the author of the bestseller The World Without Us.In his bestselling book The World Without Us, Alan Weisman considered how the Earth could heal and even refill empt...
Unprecedented Climate Mobilization: A...
Elizabeth WoodworthIt is now widely recognized that global warming poses an existential threat to the world as serious as nuclear war. And yet, despite the urgency, despite UN engagement, governments have not stepped up to the plate. The wo...