50 Ways to Save the Ocean
50 Ways to Save the Ocean

Author: David Helvarg

Publisher: New World Library

Published: 2010-09-24

Total Pages: 207

ISBN-13: 1577317033

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The oceans, and the challenges they face, are so vast that it’s easy to feel powerless to protect them. 50 Ways to Save the Ocean, written by veteran environmental journalist David Helvarg, focuses on practical, easily-implemented actions everyone can take to protect and conserve this vital resource. Well-researched, personal, and sometimes whimsical, the book addresses daily choices that affect the ocean's health: what fish should and should not be eaten; how and where to vacation; storm drains and driveway run-off; protecting local water tables; proper diving, surfing, and tide pool etiquette; and supporting local marine education. Helvarg also looks at what can be done to stir the waters of seemingly daunting issues such as toxic pollutant runoff; protecting wetlands and sanctuaries; keeping oil rigs off shore; saving reef environments; and replenishing fish reserves.

50 Ways to Help Save the Earth, Revised Edition
50 Ways to Help Save the Earth, Revised Edition

Author: Rebecca Barnes

Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press

Published: 2016-06-01

Total Pages: 130

ISBN-13: 1611646677

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Rebecca Barnes outlines fifty ways in which you, your congregation, and your local community can help fight global warming and enjoy participation in a vital part of Christian discipleship. In 50 Ways to Help Save the Earth, Revised Edition, she makes a clear connection, in a practical and unintimidating way, between stewardship of the earth and living one's faith. This easy-to-follow book consists of seven chapters on topics related to global climate change: "Energy," "Food and Agriculture," "Transportation," "Water," "People," "Other Species," and "Wilderness and Land." Each chapter begins with a statement on how the content relates to global warming, followed by action items ranging from individual efforts to activities that encourage the involvement of the congregation and wider communities.

Top 50 Reasons to Care About Marine Turtles
Top 50 Reasons to Care About Marine Turtles

Author: Sara Cohen Christopherson

Publisher: Enslow Publishing, LLC

Published: 2010-01-01

Total Pages: 108

ISBN-13: 9780766034556

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Discusses the marine turtles, their life cycles, diets, young, habitats, and reasons why they are endangered animals.

Going Blue
Going Blue

Author: Cathryn Berger Kaye

Publisher: Free Spirit Publishing

Published: 2023-08-22

Total Pages: 170

ISBN-13: 163198747X

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Encourage teens to learn about the water crisis and take action to protect and restore local waterways. Whether it’s in a drinking glass, flowing downstream, or miles underground, water is everywhere. And it’s essential for life on Earth. But our water planet is in crisis. Going Blue educates teens about our water crisis and gives them tools and inspiration to transform their ideas into action. With color photos and illustrations, along with practical suggestions and activities, readers follow stories of young people around the world addressing water concerns and learn about issues such as clean water access, coral reef damage, runoff pollution, trash islands, factory fishing, and bottled water. The second edition of Going Blue includes: current statistics and updated facts new stories about real teens a focus on restoration and sustainability COVID’s impact on ocean trash information about setting up a hydration station at school updates on the restoration efforts ten years after the Gulf oil spill and on the Flint water crisis Teens are helping our environment by going green, and they can help rescue our ocean and waterways by going blue.

Mathematics for the Environment
Mathematics for the Environment

Author: Martin Walter

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2011-01-18

Total Pages: 679

ISBN-13: 1439884595

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Mathematics for the Environment shows how to employ simple mathematical tools, such as arithmetic, to uncover fundamental conflicts between the logic of human civilization and the logic of Nature. These tools can then be used to understand and effectively deal with economic, environmental, and social issues. With elementary mathematics, the book se

Conservation of Tropical Coral Reefs
Conservation of Tropical Coral Reefs

Author: Brian Joseph McFarland

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2020-12-16

Total Pages: 771

ISBN-13: 3030570126

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This book critically engages with how the conservation of tropical coral reefs is financed. Beginning with the context of tropical coral reef degradation and loss, alongside an overview of tropical ecology, global environmental policy and finance, the book reviews several conservation financing instruments. These include ecotourism, debt-for-nature swaps, impact investments, and government domestic budgetary expenditures. From the Great Barrier Reef, to the Coral Triangle, to the Mesoamerican Reef, tropical coral reef degradation and loss are serious global environmental issues, contributing to loss revenue and food insecurity for coastal communities, and species extinction. Yet, many leading companies, individuals, and governments are making a positive impact on tropical coral reef conservation through the use of conservation finance. Conservation of Tropical Coral Reefs, using 30 case studies which span 23 countries and 6 continents, tells the history of international conservation finance and provides a variety of options for individuals, businesses, and governments to support conservation financing projects.

Saved by the Sea
Saved by the Sea

Author: David Helvarg

Publisher: New World Library

Published: 2015-03-24

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 160868329X

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Acclaimed as “the premier chronicler of America’s complex relationship with our oceans” (Honolulu Weekly), David Helvarg has also been a war correspondent, investigative journalist, documentary producer, and private investigator. The one constant in his adventurous life has been love for the sea. His personal story of love, loss, and redemption, Saved by the Sea is also a profound, startling, and sometimes funny reflection on the state of our seas and the intimate ways in which our lives are linked to the natural world around us. “Amazing and often heartrending adventures in and around the ocean...A great read from an outstanding writer.” — Philippe Cousteau, ocean explorer “Read Saved by the Sea for pleasure, read it for adventure, read it because it conveys the gift of being allowed to slip into David Helvarg’s world and view the ocean, and humankind, with profound new understanding. But beware: This book has the power to change the way you think about the world, about yourself, and about the future of humankind.” — Sylvia Earle, ocean explorer and author of The World Is Blue

A Passion for This Earth
A Passion for This Earth

Author: Michelle Benjamin

Publisher: Greystone Books

Published: 2009-07-01

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1926685059

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David Suzuki's lifelong work as an environmentalist, naturalist, and scientist have influenced countless others in their fight to save the planet, 20 such devotees of them have contributed to this inspiring collection. These journalists, scientists, writers and environmentalists have taken their enthusiasm for Suzuki's philosophy and funneled it into their own personal recollections, manifestos, and essays: Rick Bass describes his love for the Yaak Valley in Montana; Richard Mabey takes readers to a moonlit May evening in Suffolk; David Helvarg tells us of a stirring seaside memory from his childhood. No matter what journey these writers take us on, the unifying theme of their work is always the same: a deep and abiding love of nature — inspired and shared by David Suzuki.

50 Simple Things Kids Can Do to Save the Earth
50 Simple Things Kids Can Do to Save the Earth

Author: Earth Works Group (U.S.)

Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13: 9780836223019

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Explains how specific things in a child's environment are connected to the rest of the world, how using them affects the planet, and how the individual can develop habits and projects that are environmentally sound.

The Discourses of Environmental Collapse
The Discourses of Environmental Collapse

Author: Alison E. Vogelaar

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-03-22

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 131544142X

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In recent years, ‘environmental collapse’ has become an important way of framing and imagining environmental change and destruction, referencing issues such as climate change, species extinction and deteriorating ecosystems. Given its pervasiveness across disciplines and spheres, this edited volume articulates environmental collapse as a discursive phenomenon worthy of sustained critical attention. Building upon contemporary conversations in the fields of archaeology and the natural sciences, this volume coalesces, explores and critically evaluates the diverse array of literatures and imaginaries that constitute environmental collapse. The volume is divided into three sections— Doc- Collapse, Pop Collapse and Craft Collapse —that independently explore distinct modes of representing, and implicit attitudes toward, environmental collapse from the lenses of diverse fields of study including climate science and policy, cinema and photo journalism. Bringing together a broad range of topics and authors, this volume will be of great interest to scholars of environmental communication and environmental humanities.