Earth Day 2010
Every April 22 is Earth Day –the largest and most celebrated environmental event worldwide. But what does it means to be environmental in today’s world and how do you go beyond reduce, reuse, and recycle? From food security to climate change to guerrilla gardening, BC publishers have the green information you need to be an eco contender any day of the year.
Celebrate the 40th anniversary of Earth Day with BC Books.
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Bothered by My Green Conscience: How an SUV-driving, imported-strawberry-eating urban dweller can go green
by Franke James, ISBN 978-0-86571-646-9, $16.95 CAD
Artist Franke James chronicles her true-life adventures in going green in a series of visual essays, using her signature style of lively drawings, photos and hand drawn text. “Wowzers! This is FANTASTIC. Franke’s visual essays clearly articulate the risks of NOT acting.” —Eli vander Giessen, David Suzuki Foundation
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Cascadia: The Elusive Utopia: Exploring the Spirit of the Pacific Northwest
by Douglas Todd, ISBN 978-1-55380-060-6, $21.95 CDN
This collection of essays shows how the Pacific Northwest’s spectacular landscape is nurturing a unique culture and spirituality in its residents — a “spirituality of place,” which could become a model for the planet.
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The Climate Challenge: 101 Solutions to Global Warming
by Guy Dauncey, ISBN 978-0-86571-589-9, $24.95 CAD
The Climate Challenge lays out the world’s best solutions for tackling climate change. “What an amazingly (insanely!) comprehensive and useful book. Guy Dauncey gets it. This is a joyous, hope-filled manual for facing the greatest crisis humanity has ever encountered.” —Bill McKibben, 350.org
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Declaration of Interdependence: A Pledge for Planet Earth
by Dr. Tara Cullis & Dr. David Suzuki, ISBN 978-1-55365-546-6, $16.00 CAD
Calling all people to become stewards of the earth, this exquisite edition is a heartfelt plea for the planet’s preservation.
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Dodging the Toxic Bullet: How to Protect Yourself from Everyday Environmental Health Hazards
by David R. Boyd, ISBN 978-1-55365-454-4, $21.95 CAD
Practical and empowering strategies for identifying and avoiding health hazards, from the co-author of David Suzuki’s Green Guide.
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Energy-Wise Landscape Design: A New Approach for Your Home and Garden
by Sue Reed, ISBN 978-0-86571-653-7, $29.95 CAD
This book presents hundreds of practical ways everyone can save money, time and effort while making their landscapes more beautiful. “Sue Reed’s landscaping guidelines serve as an excellent garden design primer, better than most books with that sole purpose. She also gives water conservation and management of runoff an important emphasis which is essential in a time of changing climate.” —Leslie Jones Sauer, author of The Once and Future Forest
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Sensing Changes: Technologies, Environments, and the Everyday, 1953-2003
by Joy Parr, ISBN 978-0-7748-1724-0, $32.95 CAD
In this stunningly creative book, Joy Parr asks how twentieth-century ‘mega-projects’ – dams, power plants, canals, military bases – have transformed local people’s most intimate experience of themselves and their environments…this is a must-read for anyone who wants to understand how our modern technology builds our very bodies. – Conevery Bolton Valencius, The Health of the Country.
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Thriving Beyond Sustainability: Pathways to a Resilient Society
by Andrés R. Edwards, ISBN 978-0-86571-641-4, $17.95 CAD
Drawing on a collective map of individuals, organizations and communities from around the world that are committed to building an alternative future, the projects and initiatives profiled are meeting the challenges of the day with optimism, hope and positive results. “Edwards’s latest book is chock-full of examples of real solutions, advanced by real people all over the globe – solutions that can build a lasting path towards sustainability.” —Annie Leonard, The Story of Stuff
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