"Bringing together classic readings from a wide variety of sources, this key book investigates how our cities and towns can become more sustainable.Thirty-eight selections span issues such as land use planning, urban design, transportation, ecological restoration, economic development, resource use and equity planning. Section introductions outline the major themes, whilst the editors' introductions to the individual writings explain the ..."
Sand County Almanac(1stEdition) by AldoLeopold Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 1971 by Ballantine Import ISBN-13: 978-0-345-02007-9, ISBN: 0-345-02007-3
"Published in 1949, shortly after the author's death, A Sand County Almanac is a classic of nature writing, widely cited as one of the most influential nature books ever published. Writing from the vantage of his summer shack along the banks of the Wisconsin River, Leopold mixes essay, polemic, and memoir in his book's pages. In one famous episode, he writes of killing a female wolf early in his career as a forest ranger, coming upon his ..."
"The American conservation movement owes much of its spirit and no small amount of its focus to Aldo Leopold. We remember Aldo Leopold as a man who showed us the earth in ways we had never seen it before and who compelled us, with a strength belied by his eloquent and gentle words, to accept Nature on her own terms.
But there is another Leopold, a younger man, one who was still grappling with the idea of ecology. Leopold started out no ..."
"This special edition of the highly acclaimed A Sand County Almanac commemorates the one-hundredth anniversary of the birth of Aldo Leopold, one of the foremost conservationists of our century. First published in 1949 and praised in The New York Times Book Review as "full of beauty and vigor and bite," A Sand County Almanac combines some of the finest nature writing since Thoreau with an outspoken and highly ethical regard for America's ..."
"Democracy in Print captures many of the most influential voices from a century of United States history who have spoken out on the struggle to make real the promise of democracy for all Americans, railed against abuses of corporate power, renounced American empire, championed environmental causes, opposed war, and waged peace. It chronicles voices of the women s rights movement, the civil rights movement, the labor movement, and the gay ..."
"Humans and nature are all deeply interconnected. Spiritual Ecology reminds us to cherish and foster this unbreakable bond as we address our planet's environmental challenges. The Earth Is My Witness wall calendar features breathtaking photography from Art Wolfe's 40-year career paired with insightful quotes that illuminate the sacred balance between humanity and the earth. A year of Art Wolfe's incredible nature photography on your wal ..."
"To those who know the grace of Aldo Leopold's writing in A Sand County Almanac, this posthumous collection from his journals and essays will be a new delight. These daily journal entries on hunting, fishing and exploring, written in camp during his many field trips in lower California, New Mexico, Canada, and Wisconsin, indicate the source of Leopold's ideas on land ethics found in his longer essays. The excerpts from these journals - m ..."
"Jim Harrison, outdoorsman, poet, novelist, screen writer, and outspoken essayist,
is the author of seven novels and four novella collections, most recently The
Beast God Forgot to Invent (Atlantic Monthly Press) , the essay collection Just
Before ..."
"THE GREAT BEAR is a gathering of some of the finest writings on the grizzly over the past 40 years. Collectively, these essays offer provocative insights into the status of the grizzly in north America and our duties as responsible stewards of this magnificent animal."
A Sand County almanac,(1stEdition) And Sketches here and there; by AldoLeopold, Alfons Reckermann Hardcover, 226 Pages, Published 1960 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-299-66885-0, ISBN: 1-299-66885-2
"Pp. 226, illustrated by Missouri conservationist and artist, Charles Schwartz. Teal cloth with silver lettering on the front board and spine, DJ, 8vo. Points: 1949 is on title page and copyright page, the dust jacket is the first state with the $3.50 price on the front flap but no mention of Round River on the rear flap."
" For the first time, the most important quotations of the great conservationist Aldo Leopold, author of A Sand County Almanac, are gathered in one volume. From conservation education to wildlife ecology, from wilderness protection to soil and water conservation, the writings of Aldo Leopold continue to have profound influence on those seeking to understand the earth and its care. Leopold biographer Curt Meine and noted conservation b ..."
"Dust jacket notes: "When student first met teacher, the latter already had set a standard and the very foundation for a new science. He also had written what was then and remains today the classic reference for a fledgling profession. The student knew none of this. In the days, months and decades that followed, the student became aware of the teacher's profound wisdom. He discovered and experienced the man's greatness. And he found in t ..."
"From the Introduction: "Aldo Leopold first came to the sand counties of central Wisconsin on a hunting trip in 1925. A decade later he bought a derelict farm there, and he died nearby in 1948, shortly after consigning his sand country essays to publication. The few years of weekends and occasional longer retreats at his sand county shack, transmuted into A Sand County Almanac, were as intimate a collaboration between and man and a la ..."
"These fifty-nine essays by the author of the environmental classic A Sand County Almanac range from "A Tramp in November", penned in 1904 when Leopold was a seventeen-year-old schoolboy, to "The Ecological Conscience", written in 1947, the year before his death."
"Martin D. Yaffe's Judaism and Environmental Ethics: A Reader is a well-conceived exploration of three interrelated questions: Does the Hebrew Bible, or subsequent Jewish tradition, teach environmental responsibility or not? What Jewish teachings, if any, appropriately address today's environmental crisis? Do ecology, Judaism, and philosophy work together, or are they at odds with each other in confronting the current crisis? Yaffe's ext ..."