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Eco-heroes profiles twelve activists from around the world who prove that environment victories are possible and that they begin within ourselves and in our own backyards. All of these eco-heroes are winners of the Godman Environmental Prize, the preeminent prize awarded annually for grassroots efforts to preserve and enhance the environment. These are absorbing and inspirational stories of courageous, determined, resourceful individuals who serve...
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Considers future of civilization in the light of what we know about climate change and related threats. David Orr, an award-winning, internationally recognized leader in the field of sustainability and environmental education, pulls no punches: even with the Paris Agreement of 2015, Earth systems will not reach a new equilibrium for centuries. Earth is becoming a different planet, more threadbare and less biologically diverse, with more acidic oceans...
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"Jennifer Seymour Whitaker takes on one of America's most crucial problems - the massive buildup of waste in our land and water - and shows what can be done about it. Exploring the clear and present dangers of massive fallout from production and consumption, she dramatizes how the American infatuation with commerce and progress has brought more people more goods than any other society in history - and how all that plenty threatens to make our world...
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Over the course of nearly thirty years, the environmental justice movement has changed the politics of environmental activism and influenced environmental policy. In the process, it has turned the attention of environmental activists and regulatory agencies to issues of pollution, toxics, and human health as they affect ordinary people, especially people of color. This book argues that the environmental justice movement has also begun to transform...
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Publisher's description: In the last two decades, people in a growing number of localities in the United States have developed grassroots ecosystem management (GREM) as a means to resolve policy problems affecting their environment, economy, and communities. Ad hoc and voluntary groups of environmentalists, developers, businesspeople, federal and state resource managers, farmers, loggers, local citizens, and those representing recreation interests...
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