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  • A Spell At The Seaside

    The Whitewood Witches of Fennelmoore

    by Agnes Lester Brown ...
    Series series The Whitewood Witches of Fennelmoore
    A DREAM SEASIDE HOLIDAY AWAITED LORI AND MATT IN SUNNY PLEASANTSIDE. OR SO THEY THOUGHT...From the moment feisty witch sleuth Lori Whitewood set foot in the plush penthouse at the Seaview Inn, she knew something was amiss. When two uninvited ghostly figures paid them a visit on their first night, it convinced Lori something sinister was going on in the sleep little village of Pleasantside. Soon ... Read more

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  • Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization (Substantially Revised)

    Mobilizing to Save Civilization

    by Lester R. Brown ...
    “[Brown’s] ability to make a complicated subject accessible to the general reader is remarkable.”—Katherine Salant, Washington PostAs fossil fuel prices rise, oil insecurity deepens, and concerns about climate change cast a shadow over the future of coal, a new energy economy is emerging. Wind, solar, and geothermal energy are replacing oil, coal, and natural gas, at a pace and on a scale we could ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Full Planet, Empty Plates: The New Geopolitics of Food Scarcity

    The New Geopolitics of Food Scarcity

    by Lester R. Brown ...
    With food supplies tightening, countries are competing for the land and water resources needed to feed their people.With food scarcity driven by falling water tables, eroding soils, and rising temperatures, control of arable land and water resources is moving to center stage in the global struggle for food security. “In this era of tightening world food supplies, the ability to grow food is fast ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • The Great Transition

    Shifting from Fossil Fuels to Solar and Wind Energy

    by Lester R. Brown ...
    The great energy transition from fossil fuels to renewable sources of energy is under way.As oil insecurity deepens, the extraction risks of fossil fuels rise, and concerns about climate instability cast a shadow over the future of coal, a new world energy economy is emerging. The old economy, fueled by oil, natural gas, and coal is being replaced with one powered by wind, solar, and geothermal ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization (Substantially Revised)

    by Lester R. Brown ...
    "How to build a more just world and save the planet....We should all heed Brown's advice."—Bill ClintonIn this updated edition of the landmark Plan B, Lester Brown outlines a survival strategy for our early twenty-first-century civilization. The world faces many environmental trends of disruption and decline, including rising temperatures and spreading water shortage. In addition to these looming ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Loving This Planet

    Leading Thinkers Talk About How to Make A Better World

    by Helen Caldicott, Maude Barlow, Bill McKibben, Lester Brown, Janette Sherman-Nevinger, Hugh Gusterson, Chris Hedges, Diane Curran, Vini Gautam Khurana, David Krieger, Carole Gallagher, Jonathan Schell, William Hartung, Michael T. Klare, Daniel Ellsberg, Antony Loewenstein, John Church, Rhett Butler, Martin Sheen, Arjun Makhijani, Lily Tomlin, Michael Madsen, Bob Herbert, Frances Fox Piven, Denis Hayes, Phil Radford ...
    Conversations on sustainability, renewable energy, and other pressing issues: "A level of intellectual discussion all too absent in our national discourse." — BooklistA co-founder of Physicians for Social Responsibility, named one of the most influential women of the twentieth century by the Smithsonian Institute, Helen Caldicott presents a valuable collection of her interviews with prominent ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Mushroom Mystery

    The Whitewood Witches of Fennelmoore, #1

    by Agnes Lester Brown ...
    Series Book 1 - The Whitewood Witches of Fennelmoore
    The town of Fennelmoore is in deep trouble. Mayor Riley has hatched a hare-brained scheme to turn the tranquil, picturesque village into an garish theme park, much to the disgust of the Whitewood Witches. Fortunately the Mushroom Convention arrives in town, buying them time to stop their crazy mayor. But then a famous mushroom expert is murdered at the convention, and it's up to feisty Lori ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Who Will Feed China?

    Wake-Up Call for a Small Planet

    by Lester Brown ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Originally published in 1995, but with enduring relevance in a time of global population growth and food insecurity, when it was first published, this book attracted much global attention, and criticism from Beijing. It argued that even as water becomes scarcer in a land where 80% of the grain crop is irrigated, as per-acre yield gains are erased by the loss of agricultural land to ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • Vital Signs 2000-2001

    The Environmental Trends That Are Shaping Our Future

    by Lester R. Brown, Michael Renner, Brian Halweil ...
    This ninth annual edition of Vital Signs takes the world's pulse by compiling a wide-ranging collection of trends that identify both problems and progress in the quest for a sustainable society. It highlights both alarming situations and encouraging developments. Part One is a comprehensive presentation of the key indicators in areas such as food, agriculture, energy, atmosphere, economics, ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • Beyond Malthus

    The Nineteen Dimensions of the Population Challenge

    by Lester R. Brown, Gary Gardner, Brian Halweil ...
    Series series The Worldwatch Environmental Alert Series
    On the bicentennial of Malthus' legendary essay on the tendency of population to grow more rapidly than the food supply, this book examines the impacts of population growth on 19 global resources and services, including food, fresh water, fisheries, jobs, education, income and health. Despite current hype of a 'birth dearth' in parts of Europe and Japan, the fact remains that human numbers are ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Vital Signs 1999-2000

    The Environmental Trends That Are Shaping Our Future

    by Lester R. Brown, Michael Renner ...
    This annual volume shows key trends that should be integrated into the planning of our global future. It enables readers to track key indicators that show social, economic and environmental progress, or the lack of it, into 45 vital signs of our time. Each trend is presented as an overview using both text and graphics. ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Eco-Economy

    Building an Economy for the Earth

    by Lester R. Brown ...
    In 1543, Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus challenged the view that the sun revolved around the earth, arguing instead that the earth revolved around the sun. His paper led to a revolution in thinking.In Lester Brown's brilliant and invigorating account of the industrial economy, he shows how a rethink of its fossil fuel-based, throwaway ethos is necessary to ensure that it works with, not ... Read more

    $77.99 USD