Helen Plum Library

What do you need to know to prosper as a people for at least 65,000 years? The First Knowledges series provides a deeper understanding of the expertise and ingenuity of Indigenous Australians. For millennia, Indigenous Australians harvested this continent in ways that can offer contemporary environmental and economic solutions. Bill Gammage and Bruce Pascoe demonstrate how Aboriginal people cultivated the land through manipulation of water flows,...

Esta guía-el tercer producto de una colección de materiales para favorecer prácticas formativas, impulsada por la maestría en Educación Ambiental de la Universidad de Guadalajara-ofrece herramientas prácticas para enriquecer la planificación de talleres educativos sobre educación ambiental. Tanto para principiantes como para expertos, esta guía promueve el desarrollo de competencias clave en los participantes, que van desde la responsabilidad...

The author engages and inspires readers and offers ideas and opportunities for acting locally, to save the places they love.

A tribute to an extraordinary landscape now under severe threat. The exquisite photographs reveal the mountain ash forests of central Victoria to be one of Australia's great natural treasures. The city of Melbourne lies on the edge of a vast plain surrounded by a green and blue mountainous rim, whose hills and peaks are home to the magnificent Mountain Ash, the tallest flowering plant on the planet. The Mountain Ash forests were 20 million years...

Pulse is not about dance music, not about heart rates-and not about electromagnetic fields. What it does describe is a sea change in human affairs, a vast and fundamental shift that is about to transform every aspect of our lives. Written in lively prose for lay readers, Pulse shows how ideas that have shaped Western science, industry, and culture for centuries are being displaced by the rapid and dramatic rise of a "new biology"-by human systems...

The mountain chain known as the Blue Ridge traces a 550-mile arc through Pennsylvania, Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, South Carolina, and Georgia. Along the way, it encompasses Shenandoah National Park, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, the Blue Ridge Parkway, seven national forests, numerous federal wilderness areas and state parks, and parts of the Appalachian Trail. It is the largest concentration of public lands east of the Mississippi...

An eye-opening and vital account of the future of our earth and our civilization if current rates of global warming persist, by the highly acclaimed author of 'High Tide'. Picture yourself a few decades from now, in a world in which average temperatures are three degrees higher than they are now. On the edge of Greenland, rivers ten times the size of the Amazon are gushing off the ice sheet into the north Atlantic. Displaced victims of North Africa's...

Rewilding is restoring natural processes and species, then stepping back so that nature can express its own will. In essence, rewilding means giving the land back to wildlife and wildlife back to the land. Recalling the late great Wild Earth journal, this provocative anthology showcases, the most notable original articles and art published by Rewilding Earth (rewilding.org) in 2018. Rewilding Earth Unplugged is an inspiring, informative, and user-friendly...

Comment analyser un projet à caractère touristique ? est-il écologiquement soutenable ? socialement viable ? économiquement durable ? À quelles conditions l'écotourisme peut-il créer une richesse collective, une plus-value sociale Pour réfléchir à ces questions, nous avons privilégié : des trajectoires plurielles, en provenance de la France, des Caraïbes, de l'Australie, du Costa Rica, du Nunavut et du Québec, tantt sous l'angle économique,...

It's Not About Politics. It's About Caring--And What Every Family Can Do! Written by a passionately concerned couple--David Seligman is an active duty U.S. serviceman and Melissa is a devoted stay-at-home mom--this is the first book about going green that won't scare you with statistics, overwhelm you with science, or make you feel guilty about your SUV. Instead, this indispensable guide will help families everywhere to take simple, practical steps,...