Confessions of an Eco-Warrior
10 best books like Confessions of an Eco-Warrior (Dave Foreman): Sleeping Naked is Green: How an Eco-Cynic Unplugged Her Fridge, Sold Her Car, and Found Love in 366 Days, Terrorism: Theirs & Ours, Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit, Grizzly Years: In Search of the American Wilderness, Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast, For the Love of Animals: The Rise of the Animal Protection Movement, Blue Desert, Rivers of Empire: Water, Aridity, and the Growth of the American West, Biopiracy: The Plunder of Nature and Knowledge, Long Distance
Author | Vanessa Farquharson |
ISBN | 0547073283 |
No one likes listening to smug hippies bragging about how they don't use toilet paper, or worse yet, lecturing about the evils of plastic bags and SUVs. But most of us do want to lessen our ecological footprint. With this in mind, Farquharson takes on the intense personal challenge of making one green...
Author | Eqbal Ahmad |
ISBN | 1583224904 |
In 1985, President Ronald Reagan received a group of bearded turban-wearing men who looked like they came from another century. After receiving them in the White House, Reagan spoke to the press, referring to his foreign guests as "freedom fighters." These were the Afghan mujahideen. In August 1998,...
Author | Al Gore |
ISBN | 1594866376 |
Re-released on the heels of Al Gores #1 New York Times bestseller, An Inconvenient Truth, comes the paperback edition of his classic bestseller, Earth in the Balance. First published in 1992, it helped place the environment on the national agenda; now, as environmental issues move front-and-center...
Author | Doug Peacock |
ISBN | 0805045430 |
For nearly twenty years, alone and unarmed, author Doug Peacock traversed the rugged mountains of Montana and Wyoming tracking the magnificent grizzly. His thrilling narrative takes us into the bear's habitat, where we observe directly this majestic animal's behavior, from hunting strategies,...
Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast
Author | Edward Abbey |
ISBN | 1571312846 |
“But hell, I do like to write letters. Much easier than writing books.” And write letters Ed Abbey did. In his famous — or infamous — 45-year career, Abbey’s cards and letters became as legendary as his books for their wit, vitriol, and ability to speak truth to power. Published here for the...
Author | Kathryn Shevelow |
ISBN | 0805080902 |
The engaging story of how an unlikely group of extraordinary people laid the foundation for the legal protection of animals
In eighteenth-century England—where cockfighting and bullbaiting drew large crowds, and the abuse of animals was routine—the idea of animal protection was...
Author | Charles Bowden |
ISBN | 0816510814 |
In the promised land of the Sunbelt, people come by the thousands to escape the crush of Eastern cities and end up duplicating the very world they have fled. Can the land remain unchanged?
In Blue Desert, Charles Bowden presents a view of the Southwest that seeks to measure how rapid growth has...
Author | Donald Worster |
ISBN | 0195078063 |
When Henry David Thoreau went for his daily walk, he would consult his instincts on which direction to follow. More often than not his inner compass pointed west or southwest. "The future lies that way to me," he explained, "and the earth seems more unexhausted and richer on that side." In his own imaginative...
Author | Vandana Shiva |
ISBN | 0896085554 |
In this intelligently argued and principled book, internationally renowned Third World environmentalist Vandana Shiva exposes the latest frontier of the North's ongoing assault against the South's biological and other resources. Since the land, the forests, the oceans, and the atmosphere have...
Author | Bill McKibben |
ISBN | 0452282705 |
My review published in the San Francisco Chronicle in 2001:
A Zig-Zag Path to Enlightenment
Reviewed by Steve Kettmann
LONG DISTANCE
A Year of Living Strenuously By Bill McKibben Simon & Schuster; 191 pages; $23 It's an idea that many of us have considered,...
Author | Rick Bass |
ISBN | 0618263020 |
One of Rick Bass's most widely respected works of natural history, The Ninemile Wolves follows the fate of a modern wolf pack, the first known group of wolves to attempt to settle in Montana outside protected national park territory. The wolf inspires hatred, affection, myth, fear, and pity; its return...
Author | Ingrid Newkirk |
ISBN | 1930051220 |
This is the true story of how the animal liberation underground started in the US. Every character - including each of the wonderful animals you will come to know - is real flesh and blood. Because the federal government retains an abiding interest in locking up anyone involved in illegally removing...
Author | Ann Fisher-wirth |
ISBN | 1595341463 |
Definitive and daring,
The Ecopoetry Anthology
is the authoritative collection of contemporary American poetry about nature and the environment--in all its glory and challenge. From praise to lament, the work covers the range of human response to an increasingly complex and often disturbing...
Listening to the Land: Conversations about Nature, Culture and Eros
Author | Derrick Jensen |
ISBN | 1931498563 |
In this far-ranging and heartening collection, Derrick Jensen gathers conversations with environmentalists, theologians, Native Americans, psychologists, and feminists, engaging some of our best minds in an exploration of more peaceful ways to live on Earth. Included here is Dave Foreman on...
Author | David Gessner |
ISBN | 1571313249 |
In My Green Manifesto, David Gessner embarks on a rough-and-tumble journey down Boston’s Charles River, searching for the soul of a new environmentalism. With a tragically leaky canoe, a broken cell phone, a cooler of beer, and the environmental planner Dan Driscoll in tow, Gessner grapples with...
Author | Clive Ponting |
ISBN | 0140176608 |
A study of world civilizations, from Sumeria to Ancient Egypt to the Roman Empire of pre-Columbian North America and tiny Easter Island, that argues that over and over again, human beings have built societies that have grown and prospered by exploiting the Earth's resources, only to expand to the point...
Author | Alice Outwater |
ISBN | 0465037801 |
An environmental engineer turned ecology writer relates the history of our waterways and her own growing understanding of what needs to be done to save this essential natural resource.
Water: A Natural History takes us back to the diaries of the first Western explorers; it moves from the...
Deep Ecology: Living as if Nature Mattered
Author | Bill Devall |
ISBN | 0879052473 |
Practicing is simple. Nothing forced, nothing violent, just settling into our place. "Deep ecology," a term originated in 1972 by Norwegian philosopher Arne Naess, is emerging as a way to develop harmony between individuals, communities and nature. DEEP ECOLOGY--the term and the book--unfolds...