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Henry David Thoreau is revered for his contributions to the American
environmental movement, but his influence on business is less well known.
The central argument of Uncommon Cents is that Thoreau was a
uniquely synthetic thinker whose ideas about the nature of business
are useful, perhaps even vital, for contemporary students and business
leaders. 
. This collection of essays and speeches blends business advice, autobiographical reflection, and poetic meditation to explain why companies have a responsibility to protect the environment. Drawing on examples from economics, environmental studies, history, and popular culture, the discussions show that humans like to elevate themselves and do good for others—ideals that transcend the importance of profit and loss. 
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Divorcing your car can take many forms, from simply using it less to
not owning one at all. This practical guide shows how divorcing a car
can be fun, healthy, money saving, and helpful to the planet. 
. This humorous 200-page introduction to microeconomics makes economics relevant to today’s world and today’s students. It integrates the really cool stuff into an overview of the entire discipline of microeconomics, from decision trees to game trees to taxes and thinking at the margin. 
. Suggests that we tax the things we want to discourage, such as carbon in fuels and pollution from industry and farms, and reduce taxes on the things we want to encourage, such as work. Evaluates existing taxes in the U.S. and Canadian Pacific Northwest and suggests a tax shift to align tax incentives with our goals. 
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A portrait of an organization that preserves genetic material and uniquely
functioning ecosystems. It describes the inner workings of a remarkable
organization. It is a gripping story about groups and people who make
a difference against all odds. 
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Describes how companies are moving beyond a profits only orientation
and are now often "counting" other measures of value, such
as how the company is viewed by a variety of stakeholders. 
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This moving, evocative memoir, woven with lyrical descriptions of the
sights and smells of vineyard life, tells the inspirational story of
one woman's journey to success in an industry run mostly by men. She
shares some special accomplishments: how she instituted values of environmental
sustainability and social responsibility at the vineyard, integrated
family and business life, and successfully brought the second generation
on board. 
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Blum's story of achieving the first ascent of the world's 10th highest
mountain by an American and by a woman. Annapurna is for Blum a metaphor
for difficult and important goals. Chosen by National Geographic Adventure
magazine as one of the 100 best adventure books of all time. 
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Memoir follows the pioneering mountaineer and scientist from her childhood
in Chicago to the summits of some of the world's most challenging peaks.
"Breaking trail" describes her role as a climber but also
as a scientist doing innovative, groundbreaking work in the chemistry
laboratory. 
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Explains the history, technology, and even the sociology of renewable
fuels in a fashion that can be appreciated by expert and novice alike.
Offers countless hands-on technical solutions ranging from home stills
to for-profit manufacturing strategies. 
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A comprehensive guide to creating a toxin-free, environmentally friendly
home with an eye toward bringing health and harmony to those living
there and those living on the earth as a whole. 
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Offers more than 800 simple and practical alternatives to common household
toxins, covering everything from skin care to gardening. 
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The result of years of experimentation. Not only an encyclopedia for
environmental cleanliness, but also a laundry list of solutions for
everyday. 
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Practical guide answers dozens of questions environmentally conscientious
and curious cooks have wondered about for years, such as the geographic
origin of common healthful foods, their processing or production, and
what makes them healthful. 
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Provides a comprehensive overview of the anatomical and physical nature
of wood and the relationship of these characteristics to its use as
an industrial raw material. Includes updated research findings and expanded
discussions that reflect the changing face of the forest products industry.
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Good short text to introduce climate change. A geographer and paleoclimatologist
with extensive field experience, Bradley verifies human induced climate
change and explains the science that drives his work. 
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A thorough, well referenced text indispensable to anyone involved in
the study of past and current climate change and modeling. 
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Provides a synthesis of the past decade of research into global changes
that occurred in the earth system in the past. The concentration is
on those changes in the Earth's past environment that best inform our
evaluation of current and future global changes and their consequences
for human populations. 
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The Hadley and Walker Circulations are fundamental regulators of the
Earth's energy budget. This book reviews current knowledge of Hadley
and Walker circulation dynamics and their interactions with the major
global monsoon systems, and it evaluates paleoclimatic records that
shed light on variability of climate over time. 
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Provides a unique, in-depth view of past, present and potential future
climatic change in mountain regions, and in particular on the mechanisms
which are responsible for this change. 
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Shows readers how to find and prepare more than five hundred different
plants for nutrition and better health. More than 260 line drawings
help readers identify the wide range of plants readily available underfoot
and waiting to be harvested and used either as food or as a potential
therapeutic. Both a field guide to nature's bounty and a source of intriguing
information about the plants that surround us. 
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Cooking found and gathered produce. Includes dozens of recipes using
wild foods, and explains "what makes wild food special." For
the vegetarian who is both health and environmentally conscious. 
. As fossil fuel prices rise, oil insecurity deepens, and concerns about climate change cast a shadow over the future of coal, a new energy economy is emerging. Wind, solar, and geothermal energy are replacing oil, coal, and natural gas, at a pace and on a scale we could not have imagined even a year ago. For the first time since the Industrial Revolution, we have begun investing in energy sources that can last. Plan B 4.0 explores both the nature of this transition and how it will affect our daily lives. 
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In this updated edition of the landmark Plan B, Brown outlines a survival
strategy for our early twenty-first-century civilization. The scale
and complexity of issues facing our fast-forward world have no precedent.
With Plan A, business as usual, we have neglected these issues. In Plan
B 3.0, Brown warns that the only effective response now is a World War
II-type mobilization like that in the United States after the attack
on Pearl Harbor. 
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Sustaining our early twenty-first century global civilization now depends
on shifting to a renewable energy-based, reuse/recycle economy with
a diversified transport system. Plan B has three components: (1) a restructuring
of the global economy so that it can sustain civilization; (2) an all-out
effort to eradicate poverty, stabilize population, and restore hope
in order to elicit participation of the developing countries; and (3)
a systematic effort to restore natural systems. 
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Our current economic model depletes forests, oil, farmland, topsoil,
water, atmosphere and species beyond a sustainable level. The goal is
to design a profitable economy that accurately reflects the cost of
abuse of resources. Brown suggests shifting taxes from income to environmentally
destructive activities, such as carbon emissions. 
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A comprehensive, persuasive guide to achieving a sustainable economy
based on energy efficiency and reuse, rather than waste, of resources.
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After examining the stakes involved in potentially adding another 3.3
billion people to the world population over the next fifty years, Brown
and his co-authors call for expansion of international family planning
assistance and new investment in educating young people - especially
women - to promote a shift to smaller families. 
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This book explains why food scarcity will be the defining issue of the
new era now unfolding, much as ideological conflict was the defining
issue of the historical era that recently ended. 
China's industrialization will lead to massive grain imports. Brown
writes that the major world challenge in the future is not military
aggression but, rather, food scarcity. 
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Charts progress in building the eco-economy, an economy that is compatible
with the earth's ecosystem. Bringing together in one volume the essential
Eco-Economy Updates that are distributed worldwide over the Internet
and published in the world's leading newspapers, this volume monitors
the shift from the old economy to the new. 
