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“laura paskus”

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  • At the Precipice

    New Mexico's Changing Climate

    by Laura Paskus ...
    At the Precipice explores the question many of us have asked ourselves: What kind of world are we leaving to our children? The realities of climate change consume the media and keep us up at night worrying about the future. But in New Mexico and the larger Southwest, climate change has been silently wreaking havoc: average temperatures in the Upper Rio Grande Basin are increasing at double the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • New Mexico Water and the Environment in 2050

    by Laura Paskus, Adrian Oglesby ...
    The land, water, and air that make New Mexico a Land of Enchantment are facing increasing threats due to drought, climate change, and declining environmental quality protections. In this E-short edition from New Mexico 2050, noted environmental journalist Laura Paskus and Adrian Oglesby, a water law and water management expert, demonstrate how, in the face of such challenges, citizens can preserve ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

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  • More Good News

    Real Solutions to the Global Eco-Crisis

    by David Suzuki, Holly Dressel ...
    In this edition of their bestseller, the sequel to the best-selling Good News for a Change, authors David Suzuki and Holly Dressel provide the latest inspiring stories about individuals, groups, and businesses that are making real change in the world. More Good News features the most up-to-date information about critical subjects, such as energy and the economy, not covered in the previous edition ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • On the Move

    The Overheating Earth and the Uprooting of America

    by Abrahm Lustgarten ...
    A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice**A Finalist for the Helen Bernstein Book Award“On the Move explains how we got here and where we’re headed. It’s crucial guide to the world we are creating.” —Elizabeth Kolbert, author of Under a White Sky and The Sixth Extinction**A vivid, journalistic account of how climate change will make American life as we know it unfeasible.Humanity is on ... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Undermining

    A Wild Ride Through Land Use, Politics, and Art in the Changing West

    by Lucy R. Lippard ...
    "A marvelous slim book [that] weaves . . . ideas, facts, images, and histories into a whole about . . . the ecology of the manmade world." —Rebecca SolnitIn Undermining, the award-winning author, art historian and social critic Lucy R. Lippard delivers "another trademark work" that combines text and full-color images to explore "the intersection of art, the environment, geography and politics" ( ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Great Aridness

    Climate Change and the Future of the American Southwest

    by William deBuys ...
    With its soaring azure sky and stark landscapes, the American Southwest is one of the most hauntingly beautiful regions on earth. Yet staggering population growth, combined with the intensifying effects of climate change, is driving the oasis-based society close to the brink of a Dust-Bowl-scale catastrophe. In A Great Aridness, William deBuys paints a compelling picture of what the Southwest ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

  • Water in Plain Sight

    Hope for a Thirsty World

    by Judith D. Schwartz ...
    Water scarcity is on everyone's mind. Long taken for granted, water availability has entered the realm of economics, politics, and people's food and lifestyle choices. But as anxiety mounts - even as a swath of California farmland has been left fallow and extremist groups worldwide exploit the desperation of people losing livelihoods to desertification - many are finding new routes to water ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Running Out of Water

    The Looming Crisis and Solutions to Conserve Our Most Precious Resource

    by Peter Rogers, Susan Leal ...
    Series series MacSci
    Water is the world's life source and essential to all living creatures. Although we live on the blue planet, only 3 percent of all our water is drinkable. Yet we've grown accustomed to using it with abandon – individuals consume about 80 to 100 gallons per day adding up to the equivalent of an Olympic sized swimming pool every year. By this decade's end, when the world population is predicted to ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Treekeepers

    The Race for a Forested Future

    by Lauren E. Oakes ...
    **Silver medalist, Nautilus Book Awards“A frank, probing, but ultimately hopeful book” (Elizabeth Kolbert) that shows how the path from climate change to a habitable future winds through the world’s forests**In recent years, planting a tree has become a catchall to represent “doing something good for the planet.” Many companies commit to planting a tree with every purchase. But who plants those ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Unquenchable

    America's Water Crisis and What To Do About It

    by Robert Jerome Glennon, Dr. ...
    In the middle of the Mojave Desert, Las Vegas casinos use billions of gallons of water for fountains, pirate lagoons, wave machines, and indoor canals. Meanwhile, the town of Orme, Tennessee, must truck in water from Alabama because it has literally run out.Robert Glennon captures the irony—and tragedy—of America’s water crisis in a book that is both frightening and wickedly comical. From ... Read more

    $30.29 USD

  • Design with the Desert

    Conservation and Sustainable Development

    Edited by Richard Malloy, John Brock, Anthony Floyd, Margaret Livingston, Robert H. Webb ...
    Typical development in the American Southwest often resulted in scraping the desert lands of the ancient living landscape, to be replaced with one that is human-made and dependent on a large consumption of energy and natural resources. This transdisciplinary book explores the natural and built environment of this desert region and introduces development tools for shaping its future in a more ... Read more

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  • Water is for Fighting Over

    and Other Myths about Water in the West

    by John Fleck ...
    "Illuminating." —New York TimesWIRED's Required Science Reading 2016When we think of water in the West, we think of conflict and crisis. In recent years, newspaper headlines have screamed, “Scarce water and the death of California farms,” “The Dust Bowl returns,” “A ‘megadrought’ will grip U.S. in the coming decades.” Yet similar stories have been appearing for decades and the taps continue to ... Read more

    $23.09 USD