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An Idea Can Go Extinct by Bill McKibben
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Green Ideas
This is Bill McKibben's impassioned, groundbreaking account of how, by irrevocably altering our environment, our atmosphere and the most basic forces around us, 'we are ending nature.'
Blue Highways: A Journey Into America by William Least Heat-Moon; Bill McKibben (Foreword by)
Category: Travel
Hailed as a masterpiece of American travel writing, Blue Highways is an unforgettable journey along our nation's backroads.William Least Heat-Moon set out with little more than the need to put home behind him and a sense of curiosity about "those little towns that get on the map-if they get on at all-on ...Show more
Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet by McKibben, Bill
Category: Non-Fiction
The bestselling author of Deep Economy shows that we're living on a fundamentally altered planet -- and opens our eyes to the kind of change we'll need in order to make our civilization endure. Twenty years ago, with The End of Nature, Bill McKibben offered one of the earliest warnings about global war ...Show more
Falter - Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out? by Bill McKibben
Category: Nature
'This is Bill McKibben at his glorious best. Wise and warning, with everything on the line. Do not miss it' Naomi Klein, author of This Changes Everything and The Shock Doctrine Thirty years ago, Bill McKibben wrote The End of Nature, the first book that alerted us to the dangers of climate change. Falt ...Show more
Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out by Bill McKibben
Category: Nature
Thirty years ago Bill McKibben offered one of the earliest warnings about climate change. Now he broadens the warning: the entire human game, he suggests, has begun to play itself out. Bill McKibben's groundbreaking book The End of Nature - issued in dozens of languages and long regarded as a classic - ...Show more
Green Ideas Slipcase by Greta Thunberg; Robin Wall Kimmerer; Dai Qing; Wangari Maathai; Jared Diamond; Wendell Berry; Edward O. Wilson; James Lovelock; Masanobu Fukuoka; Arne Næss; Rachel Carson; Naomi Klein; Aldo Leopold; Timothy Morton; George Monbiot; Bill McKibben; Amitav Ghosh; Tim Flannery; Terry Tempest Williams; Michael Pollan
Category: Philosophy
In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement - now in one complete setOver the past 75 years, a new canon has emerged. As humans have driven the living planet to the brink of collapse, visionary thinkers around the world have raised their voices to defend it. Thei ...Show more
Oil and Honey: The Education of an Unlikely Activist by Bill McKibben
Category: Nature
Bestselling author and environmental activist Bill McKibben recounts the personal and global story of the fight to build and preserve a sustainable planetBill 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 leading t ...Show more
Oil and Honey - The Education of an Unlikely Activist by Bill McKibben
Category: Non-Fiction
Oil and Honey is McKibben's account of these two necessary and mutually reinforcing sides of the global climate fight - from the absolute centre of the maelstrom and from the growing hive of small-scale local answers to the climate crisis. Bestselling author and environmental activist Bill McKibben re ...Show more
Radio Free Vermont - A Fable of Resistance by Bill McKibben
Category: Fiction
As the host of Radio Free Vermont - 'underground, underpowered, and underfoot' - seventy-two-year-old Vern Barclay is currently broadcasting from an 'undisclosed and double-secret location.' With the help of a young computer prodigy named Perry Alterson, Vern uses his radio show to advocate for a simple ...Show more
Radio Free Vermont["A Fable of Resistance"] by Bill McKibben
Category: Fiction
"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 As the host of Radio Free Vermont--"underground, ...Show more
Seeing Silence - The Beauty of the World's Most Quiet Places by Pete McBride; Bill McKibben (Foreword by); Erik Weihenmayer (Prologue by)
Category: Photography
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 sou ...Show more
The End of Nature by Bill McKibben
Category: Nature
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 Mountains wit ...Show more