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Forces of Nature: Our Quest to Conquer the Planet
by Barry A. Vann
Amherst, New York: Prometheus Books, 2012
As long as the human species has existed, we have had to contend with the …

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The Race for What’s Left: The Global Scramble for the World’s Last Resources
by Michael T. Klare
New York: Metropolitan Books, 2012
The world is facing an unprecedented crisis of resource depletion — a …

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Food and the City: Urban Agriculture and the New Food Revolution
by Jennifer Cockrall-King
Amherst, New York: Prometheus Books, 2012
When you’re standing in the midst of a supermarket, it’s hard to imagine that …

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Cradle to Cradle: Re-Making the Way We Make Things
by Michael Braungart and William McDonough
London: Jonathan Cape, 2008
How can be avoid environmental disaster? Nowadays, in the home, most of us do our …

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The Third Industrial Revolution: How Lateral Power is Transforming Energy, the Economy, and the World
by Jeremy Rifkin
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011
The Industrial Revolution, powered by oil and other fossil fuels, is …

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Clean Energy Nation: Freeing America from the Tyranny of Fossil Fuels
by Jerry McNerney and Martin Cheek
New York: AMACOM, 2011
As we enter a new era in American politics, a stark threat is …

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How Bad Are Bananas? The Carbon Footprint of Everything
by Mike Berners-Lee
Vancouver, BC: Greystone Books, 2011
We may know that driving and flying leave a big carbon footprint, but what about sending a …

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The Dominant Animal: Human Evolution and the Environment
by Paul R. Ehrlich and Anne H. Ehrlich
Washington, DC: Shearwater Books, 2008
Over millions of years and through countless genetic twists and turns, humanity has …

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Hack the Planet: Science’s Best Hope — or Worst Nightmare — for Averting Climate Catastrophe
by Eli Kintisch
Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley and Sons, 2010
David Battisti had arrived in Cambridge, Massachusetts, expecting …

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Here on Earth: A Natural History of the Planet
by Tim Flannery
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2011
Credited with discovering more species than Darwin, praised for his ability to promote awareness of the …