One of the leading environmentalists in the country explores a wide range of issues, including globalization, greed, and political cowardice, while warning against blind faith in technology, economics, and politics. Original.
Inspiration My (drb) two-year-old daughter Meredith reminds me every day of the importance of connecting with nature. Ever since she was a baby, Meredith has always loved being outside. Whether we walk to the beach, splash in mud ...
In 1958, Stanley Rogers was studying Shope papilloma virus, which induces skin lesions in rabbits. He found that infected cells had high levels of the enzyme arginase, which was postulated to be a product of a viral gene.
An article in the Atlantic Monthly by Robert D. Kaplan has galvanized both fear and denial. Entitled “The Coming Anarchy,” the report paints a horrifying picture of the future for humanity. Kaplan suggests that the ...
Mike Johnson, an entomologist on contract to the tribe, is working with the tribal forest managers to deal with the problem by using Integrated Pest Management techniques (see chapter five). Johnson, a thin, boyishly enthusiastic ...
Its thirty-nine companies include Nike, Johnson & Johnson, Coca-Cola, and Lafarge Concrete. “We're still the smallest,” he says proudly, going on to describe the biofilters they put on their motors and their use of surplus biomass (what ...
Ten years after this important book was first published, David Suzuki re-examines our place in teh natural world in light of the recent sweeping environmental changes and advances in scientific knowledge.
Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Birth -- Taking root -- Growth -- Maturity -- Death.
I was reminded of how acutely our values affect our abil- ity to see things when I accompanied ethnobotanist Wade Davis to a remote village at the foot of a large mountain in Peru. Wade told me that the villagers regard that mountain as ...
Few Westerners have written more lucidly on this subject than French anthropologist Claude Lévi - Strauss . In his book The Savage Mind , his classic study of this topic , Lévi - Strauss completely sidesteps Western society's long ...
An Introduction to Genetic Analysis
energy, zero carbon buildings, zero emission vehicles, cradle-to-cradle products, and local, organic foods. 7. ... making priorities of public transit, cycling, and walking, and protecting green space, natural beauty, and farmland.
The first volume of David Suzuki' s autobiography, "Metamorphosis," looked back at his life from 1986, when he was 50. In this eagerly awaited second installment, Suzuki, now 70, reflects on his entire life and on his hopes for the future.
Offers the author's thoughts about the destructive relationship that now exists between humans and nature, and a proposition to adopt a holistic worldview in order to save the planet.
Full-color photographs capture whales breaching, playing, hunting, and caring for their young. The book also discusses the ethics of captivity and the environmental threats to whale populations.
In this compilation of David Suzuki's latest thoughts and writings, the renowned scientist, author, and broadcaster explores the myriad environmental challenges the world faces and their interconnected causes.
In this book, he offers a comprehensive look at the current state of climate science and knowledge and the many ways to resolve the climate crisis, imploring us to do what’s necessary to live in a better, cleaner future.
The book begins by presenting the concept of people as creatures of the Earth who depend on its gifts of air, water, soil, and sun energy.
In this revised and updated edition of From Naked Ape to Superspecies, David Suzuki and Holly Dressel lucidly describe how we have evolved beyond our needs, trampling other species, believing that we can make the Earth work the way we want ...
In this inspiring series of letters to his grandchildren, David Suzuki offers grandfatherly advice mixed with stories from his own remarkable life and explores what makes life meaningful.