Patch's Library: Environment

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On Good Land: The Autobiography of an Urban Farm [1]

Author: Ableman, Michael
Publisher: Chronicle Press (1998)

Agroecology: The Science of Sustainable Agriculture [2]

Author: Altieri, Miguel A.
Publisher: Westview Press (1995)

The Greening of U.S. Foreign Policy [3]

Author: Anderson, Terry L.
Publisher: Hoover Institution Press (2001)

Composting and Related Studies in Schools

Author: Aschl, Hedwig
Publisher: Pennewang Elementary School - Griesbirchen, Austria (2000)

Reaping the Wind: How Mechanical Wizards, Visionaries, & Profiteers Helped Shape Our Energy Future [4]

Author: Asmus, Peter
Publisher: Island Press (2000)

Vanishing Eden: The Plight of the Tropical Rain Forest [5]

Author: Atkins, Edward G., William Reilly, Rita Kimber, and Robert Kimber, eds.
Publisher: Barrons Educational Series Inc; North American edition (1991)

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Blue Gold: The Fight to Stop the Corporate Theft of the World's Water [6]

Author: Barlow, Maude and Tony Clark
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company (2003)

Your Body's Many Cries for Water [7]

Author: Batmanghlidj, F.
Publisher: Global Health Solutions; 2nd edition (1992)

Global Spin: The Corporate Assault on Environmentalism [8]

Author: Beder, Sharon
Publisher: Aatec Publications; Revised edition (2002)

The Great Work: Our Way into the Future [9]

Author: Berry, Thomas
Publisher: Harmony/Bell Tower; 1st edition (2000)

Nature's Keepers: The Remarkable Story of How the Nature Conservancy Became the Largest Environmental Group In the World [10]

Author: Birchard, Bill
Publisher: Jossey-Bass (2005)

America's Environmental Report Card: Are We Making the Grade? [11]

Author: Blatt, Harvey
Publisher: MIT Press (2004)

Changing Consciousness: Exploring the Hidden Source of the Social, Political and Environmental Crises Facing Our World [12]

Author: Bohm, David and Mark Edwards
Publisher: Harper (1991)

Air In Danger [13]

Author: Breuer, Georg
Publisher: Cambridge University Press; Rev. English edition (1980)

Macrocosm USA: Possibilities for a New Progressive Era: An Environmental, Political, and Social Solutions Handbook With Directories [14]

Author: Brockway, Sandi
Publisher: Macrocosm USA, Inc. (1992)

Let the Mountains Talk, Let the Rivers Run: A Call to Those Who Would Save the Earth [15]

Author: Brower, David and Steve Chapple
Publisher: Harpercollins; 1st ed edition (1995)

Plan B: Rescuing a Planet under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble [16]

Author: Brown, Lester R.
Publisher: Norton Press (2003)

Laying Waste: The Poisoning of America by Toxic Chemicals [17]

Author: Brown, Michael
Publisher: Random House; 1st edition (1983)

From Apocalypse to Way of Life: Environmental Crisis in the American Century [18]

Author: Buell, Frederick
Publisher: Routledge Press (2003)

The Forgotten Pollinators [19]

Author: Buchmann, Stephen, and Gary Paul Nabham
Publisher: Island Press (1997)

Out of Eden: An Odyssey of Ecological Invasion [20]

Author: Burdick, Alan
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2005)

The Art of Seeing Things [21]

Author: Burroughs, John and Charlotte Zoe Walker
Publisher: Syracuse University Press (2001)

Pilgrimage Through a Burning World: Spiritual Practice and Nonviolent Protest at the Nevada Test Site [22]

Author: Butigan, Ken
Publisher: SUNY Press (2003)

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Nuclear Madness: What You Can Do [23]

Author: Caldicott, Helen, M.D.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company; Revised edition (1994)

The New Nuclear Danger: George W. Bush's Military-Industrial Complex, Revised and Updated Edition [24]

Author: Caldicott, Helen, M.D.
Publisher: The New Press; Rev edition (2004)

The Philosopher Fish: Sturgeon, Caviar, and the Geography of Desire [25]

Author: Carey, Richard Adams
Publisher: Counterpoint Press (2005)

How To Make Your Own Alcohol Fuels [26]

Author: Carley, Larry
Publisher: Tab Books, Inc. (1981)

Silent Spring [27]

Author: Carson, Rachel
Publisher: Mariner Books; 40th Annv edition (2002)

Been Brown So Long, It Looks Like Green to Me: The Politics of Nature [28]

Author: St. Clair, Jeffrey
Publisher: Common Courage Press (2003)

Our Stolen Future: How We Are Threatening Our Fertility, Intelligence and Survival [29]

Author: Colborn, Theo, Dianne Dumanoski and John Peterson Myers
Publisher: Plume-Penguin Group (1997)

Environmental Conservation

Author: Cook, Steve, ed.
Publisher: Pearson Custom Publishers (1999)

Carfree Cities [30]

Author: Crawford, J. H.
Publisher: International Books (2002)

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Stormy Weather [31]

Author: Dauncey, Guy and Patrick Mazza
Publisher: New Society Publishers (2001)

Deep Ecology [32]

Author: Devall, Bill and George Sessions
Publisher: Gibbs Smith Publishers (1985)

Clearcut: The Tragedy of Industrial Forestry [33]

Author: Devall, Bill
Publisher: Random House, Inc. (1994)

Creating A Global Agenda: Assessments, Solutions, and Action Plans [34]

Author: Didsbury, Howard F., Jr., ed.
Publisher: World Future Society (1984)

Nontoxic and Natural

Author: Dodd, Debra Lynn
Publisher: Jeremy P. Tarcher, Inc. (1984)

Tree Huggers: Victory, Defeat and Renewal in the Northwest Ancient Forest Campaign [35]

Author: Durbin, Kathie
Publisher: The Mountaineers (1996)

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The River Runs Black: The Environmental Challenge to China's Future [36]

Author: Economy, Elizabeth C.
Publisher: Cornell University Press (2004)

The Historical Ecology Handbook: A Restorationist's Guide to Reference Ecosystems [37]

Author: Egan, Dave and Evalyn Howell, eds.
Publisher: Island Press (2001)

One with Nineveh: Politics, Consumption, and the Human Future [38]

Author: Ehrlich, Paul R. and Anne H. Ehrlich
Publisher: Island Press (2004)

The Ecology of Invasions By Animals and Plants [39]

Author: Elton, Charles S.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press (2000)

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Encyclopedia of the Biosphere, 11 Volumes

Author: Folch, Ramon, project director
Publisher: The Gale Group (2000)

And It Came To Pass--Not To Stay [40]

Author: Fuller, R. Buckminster
Publisher: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc. (1976)

Operating Manual For Spaceship Earth [41]

Author: Fuller, R. Buckminster
Publisher: Amereon Limited (1978)

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For the Forests

Author: Gee, Helen, ed.
Publisher: The Wilderness Society (2001)

The Heat Is On: The Climate Crisis, The Cover Up, the Prescription [42]

Author: Gelbspan, Ross
Publisher: Perseus Books (1998)

Cities People Planet: Liveable Cities for a Sustainable World [43]

Author: Girardet, Herbert
Publisher: Academy Press (2004)

Water Follies: Groundwater Pumping and the Fate of America's Freshwaters [44]

Author: Glennon, Robert
Publisher: Island Press (2002)

Irrevy: An Irreverent, Illustrated View of Nuclear Power: A Collection of Talks, from Blunderland to Seabrook IV [45]

Author: Gofman, John
Publisher: Committee for Nuclear Responsibility (1979)

Radiation and Human Health [46]

Author: Gofman, John W.
Publisher: Pantheon; updated and abridged edition (1983)

The Permaculture Teachers Handbook [47]

Author: Goldring, Andrew, ed.
Publisher: World Wildlife Federation, U.K. Permanent Publishers (2000)

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The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight: Waking Up to Personal and Global Transformation [48]

Author: Hartmann, Thom
Publisher: Three Rivers Press (1999)

Hiroshima [49]

Author: Hersey, John
Publisher: Vintage; Reprint edition (1989)

Nagasaki 1945 [50]

Author: Honeycombe, Gordon
Publisher: Quartet Books (1982)

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Becoming Native To The Place [51]

Author: Jackson, Wes
Publisher: Counterpoint (1996)

Positive Impact Forestry: A Sustainable Approach to Managing Woodlands [52]

Author: James, Senator Jeffords
Publisher: Island Press (2004)

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Thinking About the Unthinkable in the 1980s [53]

Author: Kahn, Herman
Publisher: Simon & Schuster; Revised edition (1984)

Water From Heaven [54]

Author: Kandel, Robert
Publisher: Columbia University (2003)

Building Without Borders: Sustainable Construction for the Global Village [55]

Author: Kennedy, Joseph F.
Publisher: New Society Publishers (2004)

Crimes Against Nature: How George Bush and His Corporate Pals Are Plundering the Country and Hijacking Our Democracy [56]

Author: Kennedy, Robert F., Jr.
Publisher: Harper Collins (2004)

Water Fit To Drink: A guide to the hidden hazards of drinking water and what you can do to ensure a safe, good-tasting supply for the home [57]

Author: Keough, Carol
Publisher: Rodale Press (1980)

Dams and Development: Transnational Struggles for Water and Power [58]

Author: Khagram, Sanjeev
Publisher: Cornell University Press (2004)

Fatal Harvest: The Tragedy of Industrial Agriculture [59]

Author: Kimbrell, Andrew
Publisher: Foundation for Deep Ecology (2002)

The Corporate Reapers: The Book of Agribusiness [60]

Author: Krebs, A.V.
Publisher: Essential Books (1992)

Forests of Hope: Stories of Regeneration [61]

Author: Kuchli, Christian
Publisher: New Society Publishers (1997)

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Five Past Midnight In Bhopal: The Epic Story of the World's Deadliest Industrial Disaster [62]

Author: Lapierre, Dominique and Javier Moro
Publisher: Warner Books (2003)

World Hunger: Twelve Myths [63]

Author: Lappe, Frances Moore, et. al.
Publisher: Grove Press (1998)

Hunting for Habitat: A practical guide to state-landowner partnerships [64]

Author: Leal, Donald
Publisher: Political Economy Research Center (1999)

Aldo Leopold's Wilderness [65]

Author: Leopold, Aldo, David E. Brown, and Neil B. Carmony
Publisher: Stackpole Books (1990)

For the Health of the Land: Previously Unpublished Essays and Other Writings [66]

Author: Leopold, Aldo, J. Baird Callicott, and Eric T. Freyfogle
Publisher: Shearwater Books (2001)

Diamond: A Struggle for Environmental Justice in Louisiana's Chemical Corridor [67]

Author: Lerner, Steve
Publisher: MIT Press (2004)

Eco-Pioneers: Practical Visionaries Solving Today's Environmental Problems [68]

Author: Lerner, Steve
Publisher: MIT Press (1998)

The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World [69]

Author: Lomborg, Bjorn
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (2001)

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Deceit and Denial: The Deadly Politics of Industrial Pollution [70]

Author: Markowitz, Gerald and David Rosner
Publisher: University of California Press (2003)

Chemical Sensitivity: A Guide to Coping With Hypersensitivity Syndrome, Sick Building Syndrome and Other Environmental Illnesses [71]

Author: Matthews, Bonnye L.
Publisher: McFarland & Co., Inc. (1992)

Life Support: The Environment and Human Health [72]

Author: McCally, Michael
Publisher: M.I.T. Press (2002)

The End of Nature: 10th anniversary edition [73]

Author: McKibben, Bill
Publisher: Anchor; 10th Anniv edition (1997)

Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World [74]

Author: McNeill, J. R., John Robert McNeill, and Paul Kennedy
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Co. (2001)

GreenPeace III: Journey Into the Bomb [75]

Author: McTaggart, David and Robert Hunter
Publisher: William Collins & Co., Ltd. (1978)

Limits to Growth: The 30 Year Update [76]

Author: Meadows, Donella, and Jorgen Randers, Dennis Meadows
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishers (2004)

Dancing At the Dead Sea: Tracking the World's Environmental Hotspots [77]

Author: Mitchell, Alanna
Publisher: University of Chicago Press (2005)

Permaculture: A Designers' Manual [78]

Author: Mollison, Bill
Publisher: Tagari Publishers (1992)

Earth User's Guide to Permaculture [79]

Author: Morrow, Rosemary
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Australia (2000)

Gaia: An Atlas of Planet Management [80]

Author: Myers, Norman
Publisher: Anchor; Rev edition (1993

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The Menace of Atomic Energy [81]

Author: Nader, Ralph and John Abbots
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Co. (1979)

Intelligence In Nature: An Inquiry Into Knowledge [82]

Author: Narby, Jeremy
Publisher: Jeremy Tarcher (2005)

Alternative Agriculture: Committee on the Role of Alternative Farming Methods in Modern Production Agriculture [83]

Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academy Press (1989)

Ancient Futures: Learning From Ladakh [84]

Author: Norberg-Hodge, Helene
Publisher: Sierra Club Books (1991)

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!Cochabamba! Water War in Bolivia [85]

Author: Olivera, Oscar and Tom Lewis
Publisher: South End Press (2004)

Ogallala: Water for a Dry Land [86]

Author: Opie, John
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press; 2nd edition (2000)

Earth In Mind: On Education, Environment and the Human Prospect [87]

Author: Orr, David W.
Publisher: Island Press (1994)

The Last Refuge: Patriotism, Politics, and the Environment in an Age of Terror [88]

Author: Orr, David W.
Publisher: Island Press (2004)

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Garbage Wars: The Struggle for Environmental Justice in Chicago [89]

Author: Pellow, David Naguib
Publisher: MIT Press (2002)

The Skin of the Earth A Life Story of Environmental Stewardship [90]

Author: Philippe, Pierre and Peter Benner
Publisher: Escart Press (1994)

Pillar of Sand: Can the Irrigation Miracle Last? [91]

Author: Postel, Sandra
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Co. (1999)

Last Oasis: Facing Water Scarcity [92]

Author: Postel, Sandra
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Co. (1997)

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Trust Us, We're Experts: How Industry Manipulates Science and Gambles with Your Future [93]

Author: Rampton, Sheldon, John Staufer and Jeremy P. Tarcher
Publisher: Penguin Putnam (2002)

Words That Come Before All Else: Environmental Philosophies of the Haudenosaunee

Author: Ransom, J. W., ed.
Publisher: Haudenosaunee Environmental Task Force (2000)

The Biology of Doom: The History of America's Secret Germ Warfare Project [94]

Author: Regis, Ed
Publisher: Owl Books (2000)

Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water [95]

Author: Reisner, Marc
Publisher: Penguin Books; Revised edition (1993)

The Hydrogen Economy [96]

Author: Rifkin, Jeremy
Publisher: Tarcher (2003)

Restoring Streams in Cities: A Guide for Planners, Policymakers, and Citizens [97]

Author: Riley, Ann
Publisher: Island Press (1998)

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The Once and Future Forest: A Guide to Forest Restoration Strategies [98]

Author: Sauer, Leslie Jones
Publisher: Island Press (1998)

What's Nature Worth?: Narrative Expressions of Environmental Values [99]

Author: Satterfield, Terre and Scott Slovic, eds.
Publisher: University of Utah Press (2004)

Nature In Focus: Rapid Ecological Assessment [100]

Author: Sayre, Roger, et al.
Publisher: Island Press (2000)

Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered [101]

Author: Schumacher, E. F.
Publisher: Perennial (1989)

GASP! The Swift and Terrible Beauty of Air [102]

Author: Sherman, Joe
Publisher: Shoemaker & Hoard (2004)

Water Wars: Privatization, Pollution and Profit [103]

Author: Shiva, Vandana
Publisher: South End Press (2002)

Photovoltaics: Design and Installation Manual [104]

Author: Solar Energy International
Publisher: New Society Publishers (2004)

Toxic Sludge Is Good For You [105]

Author: Stauber, John and Sheldon Rampton
Publisher: Common Courage Press (1995)

Living Downstream: A Scientist's Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment [106]

Author: Steingraber, Sandra
Publisher: Vintage Books (1998)

Energy Future [107]

Author: Stobaugh, Robert and Daniely Yergin, eds.
Publisher: Ballantine Books (1981)

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Ecological Use of the Land

Author: Taylor, Hope
Publisher: The School of Living (1982)

Assembly Rules and Restoration Ecology: Bridging the Gap Between Theory and Practice [108]

Author: Temperton, Vicky, et al.
Publisher: Island Press (2004)

Environmental Quality 1980: The 11th Annual Report of the Council on Environmental Quality

Author: The Council on Environmental Quality
Publisher: U.S. Government Printing Office (1980)

Bringing the Biosphere Home: Learning to Perceive Global Environmental Change [109]

Author: Thomashow, Mitchel
Publisher: M.I.T. Press (2003)

Pandora's Poison: Chlorine, Health, and a New Environmental Strategy [110]

Author: Thornton, Joe
Publisher: M.I.T. Press (2001)

A Safe and Sustainable World: The Promise of Ecological Design [111]

Author: Todd, Nancy J.
Publisher: Island Press (2005)

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Mediated Modeling: A System Dynamics Approach to Environmental Consensus Building [112]

Author: Van den Belt, Marjan
Publisher: Island Press (2004)

Handbook of Water Use and Conservation: Homes, Landscapes, Industries, Businesses, Farms [113]

Author: Vickers, Amy
Publisher: Water Plow Press (2001)

Water: The Fate of Our Most Precious Resource [114]

Author: Villiers, Marq de
Publisher: Mariner Books (2001)

Rooted In the Land: Essays on Community and Place [115]

Author: Vitek, William and Wes Jackson, eds.
Publisher: Yale University Press (1996)

The Myth of the Family Farm: Agribusiness Dominance of U.S. Agriculture [116]

Author: Vogeler, Ingolf
Publisher: Westview Press (1981)

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Excreta Disposal for Rural Areas and Small Communities

Author: Wagner, E. G. and J. N. Lamoix
Publisher: World Health Organization (1958)

Water Supply For Rural Areas abnd Small Communities

Author: Wagner, E. G. and J.N. Lamoix
Publisher: World Health Organization (1969)

Water Can Undermine Your Health [117]

Author: Walker, N. W.
Publisher: Norwalk Press (1974)

The Conquest of Bread: 150 Years of Agribusiness in California [118]

Author: Walker, Richard
Publisher: The New Press (2004)

Water Wars [119]

Author: Ward, Diane Raines
Publisher: Riverhead Books (2003)

The Discovery of Global Warming: (New Histories of Science, Technology and Medicine [120]

Author: Weart, Spencer R.
Publisher: Harvard University Press (2004)

Bringing Society Back In: Grassroots Ecosystem Management, Accountability, and Sustainable Communities [121]

Author: Weber, Edward P.
Publisher: MIT Press (2003)

Act Now, Apologize Later [122]

Author: Werbach, Adam
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers (1997)

GreenPeace: How a Group of Ecologists, Journalists and Visionaries Changed the World [123]

Author: Weyler, Rex
Publisher: Rodale Books (2004)

The Natural History of Selborne [124]

Author: White, Gilbert
Publisher: Shepheard-Walwyn (1977)

The Pendulum and the Toxic Cloud: The Course of Dioxin Contamination [125]

Author: Whiteside, Thomas
Publisher: Yale University Press (1979)

Deforesting the Earth: From Prehistory to Global Crisis [126]

Author: Williams, Michael
Publisher: University of Chicago Press (2002)

Wild Knowledge: Science, Language, and Social Life in a Fragile Environment [127]

Author: Wright, Will
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press (1992)

Welfare Ranching: The Subsidized Destruction of the American West [128]

Author: Wuerthner, George, and Mollie Yoneko Matteson, eds.
Publisher: Island Press (2002)

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Regulation by Litigation: The Diesel Engine Episode [129]

Author: Yandle, Bruce, Andrew P. Morriss and Lea-Rachel Kosnik
Publisher: PERC (2002)