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Rooftop Revolution
Berrett-Koehler Publishers 2012; US$ 17.95We're at a tipping point in our global movement from dirty, big-industry electricity-- countries like Germany have 25% of their power grid on clean, local energy, yet the U.S is still under 1%. Solar pioneer Danny Kennedy has written this rallying cry for the solar industry and policy makers--the only obstacle to solar power is our ignorance. more...
Silent Spring at 50
Cato Institute 2012; US$ 12.99Widely credited with launching the modern environmental movement when published 50 years ago, Rachel Carson?s Silent Spring had a profound impact on our society. As an iconic work, the book has often been shielded from critical inquiry, but this landmark anniversary provides an excellent opportunity to reassess its legacy and influence. In ... more...
Ecology and Revolution
Palgrave Macmillan 2012; US$ 85.00Ecology and Revolution: Global Crisis and the Political Challenge is an in-depth exploration and analysis of the global ecological crisis. more...
OECD Green Growth Studies: Linking Renewable Energy to Rural Development
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development 2012; US$ 126.00In many OECD countries, governments have invested large amounts of public money to support renewable energy (RE) development and are requiring significant quantities of it to be sold by energy providers. But what are the economic impacts of these policies on the rural regions where deployment takes place? How can RE bring the greatest benefit to host... more...
The Myth of Progress
University Press of New England 2013; US$ 21.99A provocative critique of Western progress from a scientific perspective more...
Countdown
Little, Brown and Company 2013; US$ 14.99A powerful investigation into the chances for humanity's future from the author of the bestseller The World Without Us . In his bestselling book The World Without Us , Alan Weisman considered how the Earth could heal and even refill empty niches if relieved of humanity's constant pressures. Behind that groundbreaking thought experiment was his... more...
Greenprint
Center for Global Development 2013; US$ 14.99Beleaguered by mutual recrimination between rich and poor countries, squeezed by the zero-sum arithmetic of a shrinking global carbon budget, and overtaken by shifts in economic and hence bargaining power between these countries, international cooperation on climate change has floundered. Given these three factors?which Arvind Subramanian and Aaditya... more...
The Handbook of Global Climate and Environment Policy
Wiley 2013; US$ 195.00The Handbook of Global Climate and Environment Policy presents an authoritative and comprehensive overview of global policy on climate and the environment. It combines the strengths of an interdisciplinary team of experts from around the world to explore current debates and the latest thinking in the search for global environmental solutions. ... more...
Small Stories, Big Changes
New Society Publishers 2013; US$ 17.95Voices from the vanguard of environmental change. more...
Managing Water Conflict
Taylor and Francis 2004; US$ 190.00Countries are meeting increasing water demand by building reservoirs and by diverting water from one area to another. When the water belongs to an international river system, these measures lead to riparian conflicts. However, water scarcity not only brings conflict to these regions, but also plays its part in building cooperation. In several international... more...









