Thoreau Country: Photographs and Text Selections from the Works of H. D. Thoreau
Examines the agriculture policies of the United States government and argues that present programs could lead to food shortages
A collection of evocative personal essays about the practical, emotional, and spiritual aspects of gardening, including gardening tips, recipes, and ideas. With warmth, wit, and wisdom, author Joyce McGreevy looks...
Covering the coast from the Florida Keys to Yucatan, this guide provides information on landscape and hotel and restaurant accommodations
Once feared throughout North America, wolves have been poisoned, brutally trapped, and strafed from airplanes. Environmentalists have achieved a hard-won and highly publicized reassessment of this eradication policy, and reintroduction...
Easy Access to National Parks enables those with physical disabilities to enjoy our national parks -- from Olympic National Park in Washington State to Everglades National Park in Florida and...
The coastal regions of the Carolinas and Georgia feature an abundance of superb beaches, lagoons, barrier islands, estuaries, bays, sounds, marshes, forests, and more. Bowen focuses on recreational opportunities and...
In the face of skyrocketing gas prices and mind-numbing traffic, commuters' frustrations are at an all-time high. Addressing our nation's seemingly overwhelming transportation woes, Breaking Gridlock looks at the present...
The Electric War: The Fight Over Nuclear Power
Newly revised and updated, The Deserts of the Southwest is a comprehensive field companion to the plants, animals, geology, topography, climate, and ecology of the American Southwest. A perennial classic,...
Well Body, Well Earth: The Sierra Club Environmental Health Sourcebook
Birds have long been considered the archetypal featherheads, beautiful but dumb. But one group of birds - the corvids, or members of the crow family - appears to have powers...
Wasting Away
More than 100 exquisite, full-color photographs highlight this handbook on creating handsome, imaginative gardens to attract butterflies, help conserve them, and acknowledge their importance as indicators of environmental health. Full-color...
The Sierra Club Desert Reader is the inaugural volume in a new series of literary celebrations of the Earth's biomes -- the major ecological communities that have shaped the collective...
Rating more than 2,000 consumer products in 17 industries, this popular reference guide is a must for every informed shopper. It analyzes the performances and policies of over 200 companies...
Photographs of ice climbers in action augment complete instructions in the techniques of ice climbing, dangers, and safety measures
Based on years of practical experience and research, and informed by the California Center for Wildlife's commitment to humane treatment of animals,Living with Wildlifetraces the evolution of attitudes toward wildlife...
Identifies and describes the distinctive features, characteristics, behavior, distribution, habitat, and population of the diverse whale and dolphin species.
Consider your way of life and the effect that you have on the planet, and ask yourself the following question: If everyone on Earth lived like you, what would the...