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Deep Economy
The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future
by Bill Mckibben
Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 2008 by St. Martin's Griffin
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ISBN-13: 978-0-8050-8722-2, ISBN: 0-8050-8722-2

"“Masterfully crafted, deeply thoughtful and mind-expanding.”—Los Angeles Times In this powerful and provocative manifesto, Bill McKibben offers the biggest challenge in a generation to the prevailing view of our economy. Deep Economy makes the compelling case for moving beyond “growth” as the paramount economic ideal and pursuing prosperity in a more local direction, with regions producing more of their own food, generating more of thei ..."

Eaarth(1st Edition)
Making a Life on a Tough New Planet
by Bill Mckibben
Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2011 by St. Martin's Griffin
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ISBN-13: 978-0-312-54119-4, ISBN: 0-312-54119-8

"Amazon Best Books of the Month, April 2010: Since he first heralded our era of environmental collapse in 1989's The End of Nature, Bill McKibben has raised a series of eloquent alarms. In Eaarth, he leads readers to the devastatingly comprehensive conclusion that we no longer inhabit the world in which we've flourished for most of human history: we've passed the tipping point for dramatic climate change, and even if we could stop emissi ..."

Long Distance
Testing the Limits of Body and Spirit in a Year of Living Strenuously
by Bill Mckibben
Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2010 by Rodale Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-60529-124-6, ISBN: 1-60529-124-2

"At the age of 37, bestselling author and journalist Bill McKibben stepped out of the ordinary routine of his life to spend a year in "real training" as a cross-country skier. With the help of a trainer-slash-guru, McKibben took on a regimen equivalent to that of an Olympic endurance athlete's, running and skiing for hours every day in preparation for a series of grueling long-distance ski races. What prompted this successful write ..."

Falter(Reprint)
by Bill Mckibben
Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 2020 by Holt Paperbacks
ISBN-13: 978-1-250-25685-0, ISBN: 1-250-25685-2

"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 -- was the first book to alert us to global warming. But the danger is broader than that: even as climate change shrinks the space where o ..."

Fight Global Warming Now(1st Edition)
The Handbook for Taking Action in Your Community
by Bill Mckibben
Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2007 by St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN-13: 978-0-8050-8704-8, ISBN: 0-8050-8704-4

"Bestselling author Bill McKibben turns activist in the first hands-on guidebook to stopping climate change, the world's greatest threatHurricane Katrina. A rapidly disappearing Arctic. The warmest winter on the East Coast in recorded history. The leading scientist at NASA warns that we have only ten years to reverse climate change; the British government's report on global warming estimates that the financial impact will be greater than ..."

Wandering Home(Reprint)
A Long Walk Across America's Most Hopeful Landscape
by Bill Mckibben
Paperback, 176 Pages, Published 2014 by St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN-13: 978-1-62779-020-8, ISBN: 1-62779-020-9

""[McKibben is] a marvelous writer who has thought deeply about the environment, loves this part of the country, and knows how to be a first-class traveling companion."--Entertainment WeeklyIn Wandering Home, one of his most personal books, Bill McKibben invites readers to join him on a hike from his current home in Vermont to his former home in the Adirondacks. Here he reveals that the motivation for his impassioned environmental activi ..."

This Borrowed Earth(1st Edition)
Lessons from the Fifteen Worst Environmental Disasters around the World (Macmillan Science)
by Robert Emmet Hernan, Graham Nash, Bill Mckibben, This Borrowed Earth
Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2010 by St. Martin's Griffin
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ISBN-13: 978-0-230-61983-8, ISBN: 0-230-61983-5

"For thousands of years, humanity has considered itself the earth's custodian. With our vast potential we are capable of preserving the earth for future generations or causing irreparable harm. For the first time here, environmental lawyer and activist Robert Emmet Hernan provides a comprehensive, up-to-date treatment of what happened at fifteen environmental disasters in ten countries across the globe. This Borrowed Earth is a remarkabl ..."

Ignition
What You Can Do to Fight Global Warming and Spark a Movement
by Jonathan T. Isham, Sissel Waage, Bill Mckibben, Eileen Claussen, Ted Nordhaus, John Passacantando, Michael Shellenberger, Mary Lou Finley, Susanne Moser, Rebecca Gould, Bob Musil, Bill Shutkin, Julia West, Ben Gore, Eban Goodstein, Harriet Bulkeley, Aditya Nochur, Bob Doppelt, William Chaloupka, Kenton De Kirby, Pamela Morgan, Christopher Mcgregory Klyza, David J. Sousa, Barry Rabe, Jared Duval, Nathan Wyeth, Associate Professor Julian Agyeman, William Mckibben, Robert Musil, William A. Shutkin, Gus Speth, Island Press
Paperback, 285 Pages, Published 2007 by Island Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-59726-156-2, ISBN: 1-59726-156-4

"The evidence is irrefutable: global warming is real. While the debate continues about just how much damage spiking temperatures will wreak, we know the threat to our homes, health, and even way of life is dire. So why isn't America doing anything? Where is the national campaign to stop this catastrophe? It may lie between the covers of this book. "Ignition" brings together some of the world's finest thinkers and advocates to jump start ..."

Hope, Human and Wild(1st Edition)
True Stories of Living Lightly on the Earth (The World As Home)
by Bill Mckibben
Paperback, 232 Pages, Published 2007 by Milkweed Editions
ISBN-13: 978-1-57131-300-3, ISBN: 1-57131-300-1

"Divided into three sections, Hope, Human and Wild profiles the efforts of three caring communities to preserve wilderness and reverse environmental devastation. They include the reforestation of McKibbenâs home territory, New Yorkâs Adirondack Mountains; solving traffic and pollution problems in the densely populated Curitiba, Brazil; and how the citizens of Kerala, India have demonstrated that quality of life doesnât depend on ov ..."

The End of Nature(Reprint)
by Bill Mckibben
Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2006 by Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN-13: 978-0-8129-7608-3, ISBN: 0-8129-7608-8

"Reissued on the tenth anniversary of its publication, this classic work on our environmental crisis features a new introduction by the author, reviewing both the progress and ground lost in the fight to save the earth.This impassioned plea for radical and life-renewing change is today still considered a groundbreaking work in environmental studies. McKibben's argument that the survival of the globe is dependent on a fundamental, philoso ..."

The Adirondacks(1st Edition)
Wild Island of Hope (Creating the North American Landscape (Paperback))
by Gary A. Randorf, Bill Mckibbon, Bill Mckibben
Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2002 by Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8018-6953-2, ISBN: 0-8018-6953-6

""Here is the first lesson about the Adirondacks, captured in Gary Randorf's magnificent photos. It is not only alpine granite-in fact, of the park's six million acres, only about eighty-five, scattered on top of the tallest mountains, are that gorgeous pseudo-Arctic. Aside from the touristed High Peaks, the Adirondacks comprise millions upon millions of acres of Low Peaks, of beavery draws and bearish woods, of hills and hills and hills ..."

Wrenched from the Land
Activists Inspired by Edward Abbey (Paperback)
by Ml Lincoln, Diane Sward Rapaport, Bill Mckibben, Charles Bowden, Dave Foreman, Katie Lee, Ken Sleight, Doug Peacock, Ken Sanders, Tim Dechristopher, Terry Tempest Williams, Et Al.
Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2020 by University Of New Mexico Press, United States
ISBN-13: 978-0-8263-6152-3, ISBN: 0-8263-6152-8

"The activists featured in this book are inspired by the late Edward Abbey, one of America's uncompromising and irascible defenders of wilderness."

My First Summer in the Sierra and Selected Essays
(Library of America Paperback Classics)
by John Muir, Bill Mckibben
Paperback, 400 Pages, Published 2011 by Library Of America
ISBN-13: 978-1-59853-111-4, ISBN: 1-59853-111-5

"John Muir, a young Scottish immigrant, had not yet become the famed conservationist whom he liked to call "John o' the Mountains" when he first trekked into the foothills of the Sierra Nevada not long after the end of the Civil War. Having caught a glimpse of such magical places as Tuolumne Meadows and El Capitan, Muir ached to return, and in the summer of 1869 he signed on with a crew of shepherds and drove a flock of 2,500 woolly crit ..."

The Small-Mart Revolution(2nd Edition)
How Local Businesses Are Beating the Global Competition (BK Currents (Paperback))
by Michael H. Shuman, Bill Mckibben
Paperback, 285 Pages, Published 2007 by Berrett-Koehler Publishers
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ISBN-13: 978-1-57675-466-5, ISBN: 1-57675-466-9

"Paperback. Pub the Date: July. 2007 Pages: 285 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Defenders of globalization. Free in markets and free in trade specific adjective 1 [only before noun] there's the no alternative to mega-stores like Wal-Mart - Michael Shuman begs to differ. In of The Small- Mart Revolution. Shuman makes a compelling case for his alternative business model. one in which communities reap the benefits of going local in four key spending ..."

Falter Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out
by Bill Mckibben
Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 2020 by Wildfire
ISBN-13: 978-1-4722-6651-4, ISBN: 1-4722-6651-X

Eaarth
Making a Life on a Tough New Planet
by Bill Mckibben
Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2011 by Vintage Canada
International Edition
ISBN-13: 978-0-307-39919-9, ISBN: 0-307-39919-2

"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 warming. Those warnings went mostly unheeded; now, he insists, we need to acknowledge that we’ve waited too long, and that massive change is ..."

How to Shit in the Woods,(4th Edition)
An Environmentally Sound Approach to a Lost Art
by Kathleen Meyer, Bill Mckibben
Paperback, 128 Pages, Published 2020 by Ten Speed Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-984857-13-2, ISBN: 1-984857-13-4

"The definitive guide to eco-friendly outdoor defecation--fully revised with a new introduction by renowned author and environmental activist Bill McKibben.More than thirty years since its first publication, Kathleen Meyer delivers an update to the beloved guide to relieving yourself responsibly. Meyer's delightfully shameless discussion of a once-secretive activity examines the environmental impact of too much crap (organic and otherwis ..."

Worldchanging, Revised and Edition(Updated)
A User's Guide for the 21st Century
by Alex Steffen, Sagmeister Inc., Bill Mckibben, Van Jones, Carissa Bluestone
Paperback, 600 Pages, Published 2011 by Abrams
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ISBN-13: 978-0-8109-9746-2, ISBN: 0-8109-9746-0

"Antoine de Saint-Exupéry first published The Little Prince in 1943, only a year before his Lockheed P-38 vanished over the Mediterranean during a reconnaissance mission. More than a half century later, this fable of love and loneliness has lost none of its power. The narrator is a downed pilot in the Sahara Desert, frantically trying to repair his wrecked plane. His efforts are interrupted one day by the apparition of a little, wel ..."

Diet for a Hot Planet(Reprint)
The Climate Crisis at the End of Your Fork and What You Can Do about It
by Anna Lappe, Bill Mckibben
Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 2011 by Bloomsbury Usa
ISBN-13: 978-1-60819-465-0, ISBN: 1-60819-465-5

"Nearly four decades after her mother, Frances Moore Lappe, published "Diet for a Small Planet," sparking a revolution in our thinking about the social and environmental impact of our food choices, Anna Lappe picks up the conversation, examining another hidden cost of our food system: the climate crisis. From raising cattle in industrial-scale feedlots to razing rainforests to make palm oil for Pop-Tarts, the choices we make about how we ..."

Prosperity without Growth(Reprint)
Economics for a Finite Planet
by Tim Jackson, Bill Mckibben, Herman Daly, Mary Robinson, Pavan Sukhdev
Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2011 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-1-84971-323-8, ISBN: 1-84971-323-5

"Prosperity without Growth challenges the embedded, unquestioned assumptions of the global policy of growth and shows that it is necessary—and possible—to have increased and widespread prosperity without economic growth.The modern economy is reliant on economic growth for stability. When growth falters, politicians panic, businesses fail, people lose jobs, and recession looms. Tim Jackson argues, however, that continual growth is just no ..."