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Echo Loba, Loba Echo

Par (auteur) Sonja Swift
Avant-propos de Winona LaDuke
Catégories: Anthropologie sociale et culturelle

A unique look at the cultural, environmental, historical, literary, metaphorical, and political role of the wolf.

 

Echo Loba, Loba Echo is a story about the metaphor of the wolf and how this is echoed ...

Medicinal Perennials to Know and Grow

Par (auteur) Dan Jason & Rupert Adams
Illustré par Lyn Alice
Catégories: Flore sauvage

Growing your own medicine is empowering—learn how with plant activists Dan Jason and Rupert Adams.

Many common, easy-to-grow plants can energize or soothe, stimulate the immune system, aid in sleep or ...

Escape from Overshoot

Par (auteur) Peter A. Victor
Catégories: Économies en développement

An excellent primer on key insights and questions in ecological economics from a celebrated pioneer of the field.
—Jason Hickel, author, Less is More

Earth is in overshoot. The juggernaut of economic ...

Solved

Par (auteur) David Miller
Avant-propos de Bill McKibben
Postface de Anne Hidalgo
Catégories: Collectivités urbaines

If our planet is going to survive the climate crisis, we need to act rapidly.

Taking cues from progressive cities around the world, including Los Angeles, New York, Toronto, Oslo, Shenzhen, and Sydney, ...

Against the Seas

Par (auteur) Mary Soderstrom
Catégories: Changements climatiques

An incredible read.… While unflinching in her analysis, Soderstrom nevertheless gifts us with a message of hope and resilience. — MAUDE BARLOW, activist and author of Still Hopeful: Lessons from ...

Born with a Copper Spoon

Over the past two centuries, industrial societies hungry for copper – essential for light, power, and communication – have demanded ever-increasing quantities of the metal. Born with a Copper Spoon ...

In the Name of Wild

Par (auteur) Phillip Vannini & April Vannini
Avec Autumn Vannini
Catégories: La Terre

Five continents. Ten countries. Twenty Natural World Heritage sites in five years. In the Name of Wild is the story of what happened when one family set out to learn what wildness means to people around ...

Nature's Wild Ideas

Par (auteur) Kristy Hamilton
Catégories: Mécanique newtonienne

A lively and endlessly fascinating deep-dive into nature and the many groundbreaking human inventions inspired by the wild.

"Delightful."—The Guardian

"Fans of Helen Scales won't want to miss this."— ...

Dark Days at Noon

Par (auteur) Edward Struzik
Catégories: Catastrophes naturelles

The catastrophic runaway wildfires advancing through North America and other parts of the world are not unprecedented. Fires loomed large once human activity began to warm the climate in the 1820s, leading ...

Pacific Salmon Field Guide

Par (auteur) Sean Godwin & Martin Krkosek
Catégories: Poissons (ichtyologie)

Pacific salmon are of immense cultural, ecological and economic importance to the west coast of North America. They are the most commonly seen fish on the western side of North America but identifying ...