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62 produkter
Seeing Silence
The Beauty of the World’s Most Quiet Places
Av Pete McBride, Bill McKibben
Inbunden, 2021
270 kr
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In a world ever more congested and polluted with both toxins and noise, award-winning photographer Pete McBride takes readers on a once-in-a-lifetime escape to find places of peace and quiet—a pole-to-pole, continent-by-continent quest for the soul.We tend to think of silence as the absence of …
Idea Can Go Extinct
Häftad, 2021
64 kr
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In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.An Idea Can Go Extinct is Bill McKibben's impassioned, groundbreaking account of how, by changing the earth's entire atmosphere, the weather and the most basic forces around us, 'we are ending nature.'Over the past …
Here Comes the Sun
A Last Chance for the Climate and a Fresh Chance for Civilization
Inbunden, 2025
272 kr
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Every eighteen hours, the world puts up a nuclear power plant’s–worth of solar panels. At the same time, combustion continues to melt the poles, poison our bodies and drive global inequality. It is no longer necessary: For the first time in 700,000 years, we know how to catch the sun’s rays and …
Wandering Home
Häftad, 2014
151 kr
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In one of his most personal books, Bill McKibben invites readers to join him on a hike from his current home in Vermont to his former home in the Adirondacks. Here he reveals that the motivation for his impassioned environmental activism is not high-minded or abstract, but as tangible as the lakes …
Democracy in a Hotter Time
Climate Change and Democratic Transformation
Av David W. Orr, Bill McKibben m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
255 kr
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The first major book to deal with the dual crises of democracy and climate change as one interrelated threat to the human future and to identify a path forward.Democracy in a Hotter Time calls for reforming democratic institutions as a prerequisite for avoiding climate chaos and adapting governance …
Best American Science and Nature Writing 2024
Av Bill McKibben, Jaime Green m. fl.
Häftad, 2024
175 kr
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Award-winning environmentalist, author, and journalist Bill McKibben selects twenty science and nature essays that represent the best examples of the form published in the previous year.“This was the most anomalous year (so far) in human history,” guest editor Bill McKibben writes, “the year in …
Idea Can Go Extinct
E-bok, 2021
57 kr
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In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.An Idea Can Go Extinct is Bill McKibben's impassioned, groundbreaking account of how, by changing the earth's entire atmosphere, the weather and the most basic forces around us, 'we are ending nature.'Over the past …
End of Nature
E-bok, 2022
108 kr
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One of the earliest warnings about climate change and one of environmentalism's lodestars'Nature, we believe, takes forever. It moves with infinite slowness,' begins the first book to bring climate change to public attention.Interweaving lyrical observations from his life in the Adirondack …
The Global Warming Reader: A Century of Writing About Climate Change
Häftad, 2012
394 kr
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End of Nature
Häftad, 2022
133 kr
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One of the earliest warnings about climate change and one of environmentalism's lodestars'Nature, we believe, takes forever. It moves with infinite slowness,' begins the first book to bring climate change to public attention.Interweaving lyrical observations from his life in the Adirondack …
Radio Free Vermont
A Fable of Resistance
E-bok, 2017
234 kr
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“I hope no one secedes, but I also hope that Americans figure out creative ways to resist injustice and create communities where everybody counts. We''ve got a long history of resistance in Vermont and this book is testimony to that fact.” –Bernie Sanders A book that''s also the beginning of a …
End of Nature
Häftad, 2003
180 kr
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A stunning, passionately argued look at what we are doing to damage nature and what this will mean for our collective futures____________________‘McKibben was one of the first to write clearly about global warming ... his plea for us to adopt a simple life is still profound' - Independent‘A kind of …
Introducing Evangelical Ecotheology – Foundations in Scripture, Theology, History, and Praxis
Av Daniel L. Brunner, Jennifer L. Butler m. fl.
Häftad, 2014
293 kr
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Today's church finds itself in a new world, one in which climate change and ecological degradation are front-page news. In the eyes of many, the evangelical community has been slow to take up a call to creation care. How do Christians address this issue in a faithful way?This evangelically centered …
Age of Missing Information
E-bok, 2014
142 kr
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“Highly personal and original . . . McKibben goes beyond Marshall McLuhan’s theory that the medium is the message.” —— The New York Times Imagine watching an entire day’s worth of television on every single channel. Acclaimed environmental writer and culture critic Bill McKibben subjected himself …
End of Nature
E-bok, 2014
126 kr
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Reissued on the tenth anniversary of its publication, this classic work on our environmental crisis features a new introduction by the author, reviewing both the progress and ground lost in the fight to save the earth. This impassioned plea for radical and life-renewing change is today still …
Fight Global Warming Now
The Handbook for Taking Action in Your Community
Häftad, 2007
177 kr
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Hurricane Katrina. A rapidly disappearing Arctic. The warmest winter on the American East Coast in recorded history. The leading scientist at NASA warns that we have only ten years to reverse climate change; the British government's report on global warming estimates that the financial impact will …
Oil and Honey
The Education of an Unlikely Activist
E-bok, 2013
199 kr
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Bestselling author and environmental activist Bill McKibben recounts the personal and global story of the fight to build and preserve a sustainable planet Bill McKibben is not a person you''d expect to find handcuffed and behind bars, but that''s where he found himself in the summer of 2011 after …
Building a Healthy Economy from the Bottom Up
Harnessing Real-World Experience for Transformative Change
Av Anthony Flaccavento, Bill McKibben
Inbunden, 2016
1613 kr
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The global economy has witnessed important changes in recent years. In the United States, enterprising communities have transitioned from tobacco farming to growing organic produce, from extractive fishing to vertical farming, from nonrenewable energy consumption to the implementation of solar …
Building a Healthy Economy from the Bottom Up
Harnessing Real-World Experience for Transformative Change
Av Anthony Flaccavento, Bill McKibben
Häftad, 2016
517 kr
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The global economy has witnessed important changes in recent years. In the United States, enterprising communities have transitioned from tobacco farming to growing organic produce, from extractive fishing to vertical farming, from nonrenewable energy consumption to the implementation of solar …
Making Peace with the Land – God`s Call to Reconcile with Creation
Av Fred Bahnson, Norman Wirzba m. fl.
Häftad, 2012
277 kr
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God is reconciling all things in heaven and on earth.We are alienated not only from one another, but also from the land that sustains us. Our ecosystems are increasingly damaged, and human bodies are likewise degraded. Most of us have little understanding of how our energy is derived or our food is …
25 Bicycle Tours in the Adirondacks
Road Adventures in the East's Largest Wilderness
Av Sue Halpern, Mitchell Hay m. fl.
Häftad, 1995
277 kr
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The Adirondack State Park is larger than Yellowstone, Yosemite, the Grand Canyon, and Glacier National Parks combined. The park's 6 million acres offer plenty of diverse and scenic terrain for bicycling. In addition to tours in the famed and rugged High Peaks region, where New York State's tallest …
Global Warming Reader
A Century of Writing About Climate Change
E-bok, 2012
115 kr
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Van Jones, Al Gore, Elizabeth Kolbert, Naomi Klein, and other essential voices on global warming, from its 19th-century discovery to the present, in a volume edited by Bill McKibben, o ur most widely respected environmental writer With the rise of extreme weather events worldwide--witness the …
Oil and Honey
Häftad, 2014
276 kr
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With the Arctic melting, the Midwest in drought, and Irene scouring the Atlantic, McKibben recognized that action was needed if solutions were to be found. Some of those would come at the local level, where McKibben joins forces with a Vermont beekeeper raising his hives as part of the growing …
