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  • Nineteen Reservoirs: On Their Creation and the Promise of Water for New York City

    by Lucy Sante ...
    **Without the nineteen upstate reservoirs that supply its water, New York City as we know it would not exist today.“[Sante] is an endlessly curious writer with a sharp wit and an elegant prose style . . . As a physical object, the book is a stunner, loaded with maps, archival stills of the construction process, vintage postcards, and ads warning New Yorkers to check their plumbing and ‘stop that ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Burn

    Igniting a New Carbon Drawdown Economy to End the Climate Crisis

    An 800-CEO-READ "Editor's Choice" March 2019How We Can Harness Carbon to Help Solve the Climate CrisisIn order to rescue ourselves from climate catastrophe, we need to radically alter how humans live on Earth. We have to go from spending carbon to banking it. We have to put back the trees, wetlands, and corals. We have to regrow the soil and turn back the desert. We have to save whales, wombats, ... Read more

    $17.99 USD $12.99 USD

  • Floodpath

    The Deadliest Man-Made Disaster of 20th-Century America and the Making of Modern Los Angeles

    by Jon Wilkman ...
    Amazon Book of the Year"Floodpath attempts to rescue the disaster from obscurity . . . The author captures many heartbreaking stories of survivors . . . The effect is powerful." --The Wall Street JournalA visionary and controversial search for water made Los Angeles possible. But the failure of the St. Francis Dam remains an urgent lesson about our human limits, all but forgotten today.Just before ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Cadillac Desert

    The American West and Its Disappearing Water, Revised Edition

    **“I’ve been thinking a lot about Cadillac Desert in the past few weeks, as the rain fell and fell and kept falling over California, much of which, despite the pouring heavens, seems likely to remain in the grip of a severe drought. Reisner anticipated this moment. He worried that the West’s success with irrigation could be a mirage — that it took water for granted and didn’t appreciate the ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Water

    The Epic Struggle for Wealth, Power, and Civilization

    “I read this wide-ranging and thoughtful book while sitting on the banks of the Ganges near Varanasi—it's a river already badly polluted, and now threatened by the melting of the loss of the glaciers at its source to global warming. Four hundred million people depend on it, and there's no backup plan. As Steven Solomon makes clear, the same is true the world over; this volume will give you the ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Garbology

    Our Dirty Love Affair with Trash

    by Edward Humes ...
    A Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist takes readers on a surprising tour of the world of garbage.Take a journey inside the secret world of our biggest export, our most prodigious product, and our greatest legacy: our trash. It’s the biggest thing we make: The average American is on track to produce a whopping 102 tons of garbage across a lifetime, $50 billion in squandered riches rolled to the curb ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Where the Water Goes

    Life and Death Along the Colorado River

    by David Owen ...
    **“Wonderfully written…Mr. Owen writes about water, but in these polarized times the lessons he shares spill into other arenas. The world of water rights and wrongs along the Colorado River offers hope for other problems.” —Wall Street JournalAn eye-opening account of where our water comes from and where it all goes.**The Colorado River is an essential resource for a surprisingly large part of the ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Junkyard Planet

    Travels in the Billion-Dollar Trash Trade

    by Adam Minter ...
    How can garbage turn into gold? What does recycling have to do with globalization? Where does all that stuff we throw away go, anyway?When you drop your Diet Coke can or yesterday's newspaper in the recycling bin, where does it go? Probably halfway around the world, to people and places that clean up what you don't want and turn it into something you can't wait to buy. In Junkyard Planet, Adam ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Inconspicuous Consumption

    The Environmental Impact You Don't Know You Have

    *First Place Winner of the Society of Environmental Journalists' Rachel Carson Environment Book Award*"If you're looking for something to cling to in what often feels like a hopeless conversation, Schlossberg's darkly humorous, knowledge-is-power, eyes-wide-open approach may be just the thing."--VogueFrom a former New York Times science writer, this urgent call to action will empower you to stand ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Gone Tomorrow

    The Hidden Life of Garbage

    “A galvanizing exposé” of America’s trash problem from plastic in the ocean to “wasteful packaging, bogus recycling, and flawed landfills and incinerators” (Booklist, starred review).Eat a take-out meal, buy a pair of shoes, or read a newspaper, and you’re soon faced with a bewildering amount of garbage. The United States is the planet’s number-one producer of trash. Each American throws out 4.5 ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Water

    The Fate of Our Most Precious Resource

    An award-winning, alarming account of “one of the central challenges facing civilization” (The Washington Post Book World).Offering ecological, historical, and cultural perspectives, this “well-researched and thought-provoking book” (Minneapolis Tribune) explains how we are using, misusing, and abusing our planet’s most vital resource.Reporting from hot spots as diverse as China, Las Vegas, and ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Living Off-Grid

    Do you want to break the shackles and stop giving your hard earned money to large multinational utility companies?What would you do if there was an extended blackout spanning a month or more? How would you feed yourself and your family if the shelves in your local supermarket were suddenly empty? By becoming self-sufficient you will never need to worry about these things.Don’t worry; there is no ... Read more

    $3.36 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Unraveled

    The Life and Death of a Garment

    by Maxine Bedat ...
    Longlisted for the FT/McKinsey Business Book of the Year AwardA groundbreaking chronicle of the birth--and death--of a pair of jeans, that exposes the fractures in our global supply chains, and our relationships to each other, ourselves, and the planetTake a look at your favorite pair of jeans. Maybe you bought them on Amazon or the Gap; maybe the tag says "Made in Bangladesh" or "Made in Sri ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Let There Be Water

    Israel's Solution for a Water-Starved World

    New York Times and Los Angeles Times Bestseller!As every day brings urgent reports of growing water shortages around the world, there is no time to lose in the search for solutions.The U.S. government predicts that forty of our fifty states-and 60 percent of the earth's land surface-will soon face alarming gaps between available water and the growing demand for it. Without action, food prices will ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Fire on the Horizon

    The Untold Story of the Gulf Oil Disaster

    "A phenomenal feat of journalism. . . . I tore through it like a novel but with the queasy knowledge that the whole damn thing is true." —Sebastian Junger, author of The Perfect Storm and WarBlending exclusive first-person interviews and penetrating investigative reporting, oil rig captain John Konrad and veteran Washington Post writer Tom Shroder give the definitive, white-knuckled account of the ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Climate Restoration

    The Only Future That Will Sustain the Human Race

    People around the world recognize the dire threat posed by climate change. Governments, businesses, and individuals are making commitments to shift to renewable energy sources, trim consumption, and otherwise reduce their carbon footprints.But what if these steps are woefully inadequate to ensure the future health-or even the survival-of the human race? What if the most popular goal being pursued ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • How Reverse Osmosis Works: A Look at Industrial RO

    Reverse osmosis (RO) is a water treatment process that uses pressure to force water molecules through a semi-permeable membrane. It is called “reverse” osmosis because the pressure causes the water to flow in the opposite direction of what occur under natural osmotic pressure. A reverse osmosis membrane allow the water to pass, but traps any ionized salts, colloids, organic molecules or other ... Read more

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  • The Great Plant-Based Con

    Why eating a plants-only diet won't improve your health or save the planet

    by Jayne Buxton ...
    WINNER OF THE INVESTIGATIVE FOOD WORK AWARD AT THE GUILD OF FOOD WRITERS AWARDS 2023**'The most incredible book' Delia Smith'Persuasive, entertaining and well researched' Sunday Times**Plant-based is best for health, go vegan to help save the planet, eat less meat... Almost every day we are bombarded with the seemingly incontrovertible message that we must reduce our consumption of meat and dairy ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Plastic-Free

    How I Kicked the Plastic Habit and How You Can Too

    by Beth Terry ...
    Guides readers toward the road less consumptive, offering practical advice and moral support while making a convincing case that individual actions . . . do matter.” -Elizabeth Royte, author, Garbage Land and BottlemaniaLike many people, Beth Terry didn’t think an individual could have much impact on the environment. But while laid up after surgery, she read an article about the staggering amount ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Blue Future

    Protecting Water for People and the Planet Forever

    by Maude Barlow ...
    Water is a human right: “A rousing case for what will be one of the key environmental challenges of the twenty-first century.” —BooklistThe United Nations has recognized access to water as a basic human right—but there is still much work to be done to stem this growing environmental crisis. In this book, water activist Maude Barlow draws on her extensive experience to lay out a set of key ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Trashed

    by Derf Backderf ...
    Every week we pile our garbage on the curb and it disappears—like magic! The reality is anything but, of course. Trashed, Derf Backderf’s follow-up to the critically acclaimed, award-winning international bestseller My Friend Dahmer, is an ode to the crap job of all crap jobs—garbage collector. Anyone who has ever been trapped in a soul-sucking gig will relate to this tale. Trashed follows the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Water 4.0

    The Past, Present, and Future of the World's Most Vital Resource

    by David Sedlak ...
    The history behind our growing water crisis: “A gem . . . An erudite romp through two millennia of water and sanitation practice and technology.” —NatureTurn on the faucet, and water pours out. Pull out the drain plug, and the dirty water disappears. Most of us give little thought to the hidden systems that bring us water and take it away when we’re done with it. But these underappreciated marvels ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Net Zero: How We Stop Causing Climate Change

    by Dieter Helm ...
    What can we really do about the climate emergency?The inconvenient truth is that we are causing the climate crisis with our carbon intensive lifestyles and that fixing – or even just slowing – it will affect all of us. But it can be done.In Net Zero the economist Professor Dieter Helm addresses the action we would all need to take, whether personal, local, national or global, if we really wanted ... Read more

    $7.99 USD $6.49 USD

  • Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond: Guiding Principles to Welcome Rain Into Your Life and Landscape

    Turn water scarcity into water abundance; as you enable your home, yard, school, place of worship, and/or neighborhood to generate more resources and life! Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, Volume 1, 3rd Edition, is the best-selling, award-winning guide on how to conceptualize, design, and implement a diverse array of highly effective and inexpensive strategies, which harvest and ... Read more

    $29.99 USD