Product Description: Nuclear power is not clean, cheap, or safe. With Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, and Fukushima, the nuclear industry's record of catastrophic failures now averages one major disaster every decade. After three US-designed plants exploded in Japan, many countries moved to abandon reactors for renewables...read more

Product Description: Offering essential environmental wisdom for the twenty-first century, this lively, compact book explains more than sixty basic ecological concepts in an easy-to-use A-to-Z format. From Air and Biodiversity to Restoration and Zoos, Ecology: A Pocket Guide forms a dynamic web of ideas that can be entered at any point or read straight through...read more

Product Description: With a new epilogueThough the Plains have been in economic and population decline since the twenties, they are actually within closer reach of vibrant ecological sustainability than any other region of the country. This visionary book offers a constructive alternative to the decline of cattle ranching, depletion of underground water, and dependency on outside energy sources...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This fun and practical guide offers a huge variety of tips on living for less "with grace, humor, [and] imagination." The author covers a wide range of topics including food, housing, transportation, clothes, and entertainment. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The challenge of the '90s is to create sustainable societies in which business and government can satisfy our current needs without diminishing the prospects for future generations. Business managers today are seeking guidance in the new ways of thinking that are called for to meet this challenge...read more

Practical ideas for improving the quality of life while spending less on it include advice on food, housing, travel, legal and financial affairs, children, health, safety, and employment

Product Description: A novel both timely and prophetic, Ernest Callenbach’s Ecotopia is a hopeful antidote to the environmental concerns of today, set in an ecologically sound future society. Hailed by the Los Angeles Times as the “newest name after Wells, Verne, Huxley, and Orwell,” Callenbach offers a visionary blueprint for the survival of our planet ...read more

Investigative reporter William Weston crosses the Sierra Nevada mountains and enters Ecotopia, the first American to do so since the Ecotopian secession from the U.S. in 1980

Conversations between Jim, a professor of literature and philosophy, and Michelle, a favorite student, reveal secrets of the world of publishing

Conversations between Jim, a professor of literature and philosophy, and Michelle, a favorite student, reveal secrets of the world of publishing

Recounts how a young humpback whale entered the San Francisco Bay in 1985 and swam seventy miles inland before being led back to the sea by people concerned for his welfare.

In 1986 in the Pacific Northwest a new political party organizes a secession from the United States in order to implement their ecological policies