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EcoMasterplanning - $995

20 May, 2013 by rgonzalezr

In planning for a sustainable future for our planet, it is vital that we achieve a seamless and benign biointegration of all human interventions in the natural environment. Finding green design solutions for our built environment must start from the wider scale of regional and urban planning and must then be carried right through to infrastructural engineering, architecture and industrial design. Masterplanning affords the chance to redress current environmental imbalances and to reduce the consequences of our built systems on […]

Categories: Actualidad, Arquitectura, Ciudades, Clima, Climate, Diseño, Ecología, Energía, environment, Ilustrado, medio ambiente, Urbanismo • Tags: Design, Eco, Sustentabilidad, sostenibilidad, Wiley, arquitectura, urbanismo, 2009, Diseño, Green, Architecture, urbanism, Masterplan, Yeang

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All Natural: A Skeptic’s Quest to Discover If the Natural Approach to Diet, Childbirth, Healing, and the Environment Really Keeps Us Healthier and Happier – $360

8 February, 2013 by rgonzalezr

In this age of climate change, killer germs, and obesity, it’s easy to feel as if we’ve fallen out of synch with the global ecosystem. This ecological anxiety has polarized us: many are drawn to natural solutions and organic lifestyles, while others rally around high-tech development and industrial efficiencies. Johnson argues that both views, when taken to extremes, can be harmful, even deadly. Johnson, raised in the crunchy-granola epicenter of Nevada City, California, lovingly and rigorously scrutinizes his family’s all-natural […]

Categories: Actualidad, Ciencia, Climate, Ecología, environment, Nature, Salud, science • Tags: 2013, choices, Environment, Health, healthy, Medio Ambiente, Natural, nature, organic, Rodale Books, sostenibilidad, Sustentabilidad

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Holy Shit: Managing Manure To Save Mankind – $295

3 December, 2012 by rgonzalezr

In his insightful new book, Holy Shit: Managing Manure to Save Mankind, contrary farmer Gene Logsdon provides the inside story of manure-our greatest, yet most misunderstood, natural resource. He begins by lamenting a modern society that not only throws away both animal and human manure-worth billions of dollars in fertilizer value-but that spends a staggering amount of money to do so. This wastefulness makes even less sense as the supply of mined or chemically synthesized fertilizers dwindles and their cost […]

Categories: Actualidad, Agricultura, Earth, Ecología, environment, medio ambiente, Nature, Sustentabilidad • Tags: agriculture, Chelsea Green, compost, Farming, food science, gardening, Horticulture, manure, shit, Soil, sustainability, Sustentabilidad, waste management

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Earth Perfect? Nature, Utopia and the Garden – $785

19 November, 2012 by rgonzalezr

Earth Perfect? Nature, Utopia and the Garden is an eclectic, yet rigorous reflection on the relationship–historical, present and future–between humanity and the garden. Through the lens of Utopian Studies–the interdisciplinary field that encompasses fictions all the way through to actual political projects, and urban ideals; in a nutshell, addressing the human natural drive towards the ideal–Earth Perfect? brings together a selection of inspiring essays, each contributed by foremost writers from the fields of architecture, history of art, classics, cultural studies, […]

Categories: Arquitectura, Earth, Nature, Urbanismo • Tags: 2012, Architecture, garden, History, nature, sustainability, Sustentabilidad, Urban, urbanism, Utopía

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The One-Straw Revolution: An Introduction to Natural Farming – $265

30 October, 2012 by rgonzalezr

Call it “Zen and the Art of Farming” or a “Little Green Book,” Masanobu Fukuoka’s manifesto about farming, eating, and the limits of human knowledge presents a radical challenge to the global systems we rely on for our food. At the same time, it is a spiritual memoir of a man whose innovative system of cultivating the earth reflects a deep faith in the wholeness and balance of the natural world. As Wendell Berry writes in his preface, the book […]

Categories: Actualidad, Agricultura, Earth, Ecología, Nature, Zen • Tags: agricultura, Agruculture, Ambientalismo, eating, Farming, Food, Food production, Japan, Nyrb, Spiritual, Sustentabilidad, Sustentability, zen

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How to Think Seriously About the Planet: The Case for an Environmental Conservatism – $395

29 October, 2012 by rgonzalezr

The environment has long been the undisputed territory of the political Left, which casts international capitalism, consumerism, and the over-exploitation of natural resources as the principle threats to the planet, and sees top-down interventions as the most effective solution.In How to Think Seriously About the Planet, Roger Scruton rejects this view and offers a fresh approach to tackling the most important political problem of our time. The environmental movement, he contends, is philosophically confused and has unrealistic agendas. Its sights are […]

Categories: Actualidad, Ecología, environment • Tags: 2012, Conservatism, Environment, Environmentalism, Medio Ambiente, Oxford University Press, Roger Scruton, Sustentabilidad

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Farm Together Now – $250

22 October, 2012 by rgonzalezr

With interest in home gardening at an all-time high and concerns about food production and safety making headlines, Farm Together Now explores the current state of grassroots farming in the U.S. Part oral history and part treatise on food politics, this fascinating project is an introduction to the many individuals who are producing sustainable food, challenging public policy, and developing community organizing efforts. With hundreds of photographs and a foreword from New York Times columnist Mark Bittman, Farm Together Now will educate, inspire, and cultivate […]

Categories: Agricultura, Ecología, Sustentabilidad • Tags: 2010, Chronicle Books, ecology, Farming, Food, Food production, Green, Sustentabilidad

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Overfishing: What Everyone Needs to Know – $265

14 October, 2012 by rgonzalezr

Overfishing. Over the past twenty years considerable public attention has been focused on the decline of marine fisheries, the sustainability of world fish production, and the impacts of fishing on marine ecosystems. Many have voiced their concerns about marine conservation, as well as the sustainable and ethical consumption of fish. But are fisheries in danger of collapse? Will we soon need to find ways to replace this food system? Should we be worried that we could be fishing certain […]

Categories: Actualidad, Biología, Ecología • Tags: 2012, Ecología, ecology, fishes, marina, marine life, overfishing, Oxford University Press, pesca, sostenibilidad, Sustentabilidad

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Green Gone Wrong: How Our Economy Is Undermining the Environmental Revolution – $295

16 April, 2012 by rgonzalezr

In Green Gone Wrong environmental writer Heather Rogers blasts through the marketing buzz of big corporations and asks a simple question: Do today’s much-touted “green” products—carbon offsets, organic food, biofuels, and eco-friendly cars and homes—really work? Implicit in efforts to go green is the promise that global warming can be stopped by swapping out dirty goods for “clean” ones. But can earth-friendly products really save the planet? This far-reaching, riveting narrative explores how the most readily available solutions to environmental crisis may […]

Categories: Actualidad, Ecología, environment, Nature • Tags: Ambientalismo, cambio climático, Climate Change, Eco, Ecología, energías renovables, Green, Naturaleza, Sustentabilidad, Verso

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The Ecology of Commerce: A Declaration of Sustainability – $145

9 March, 2012 by rgonzalezr

NO DISPONIBLE – SOLO BAJO PEDIDO EN 4 SEMANAS Paul Hawken, the entrepreneur behind the Smith & Hawken gardening supplies empire, is no ordinary capitalist. Drawing as much on Baba Ram Dass and Vaclav Havel as he does on Peter Drucker and WalMart for his case studies, Hawken is on a one-man crusade to reform our economic system by demanding that First World businesses reduce their consumption of energy and resources by 80 percent in the next 50 years. As […]

Categories: Ecología, Negocios, Sustentabilidad • Tags: Ambientalismo, Comercio, Corporaciones, Ecología, sostenibilidad, Sustentabilidad

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The wisdom of sustainability – $195

28 January, 2012 by rgonzalezr

The Wisdom of Sustainability continues E. F. Schumacher s groundbreaking work on Buddhist economics in Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered. Emphasizing small-scale, indigenous, sustainable alternatives to globalization, Sulak offers hope and alternatives for restructuring our economies based on Buddhist principles and personal development. Sulak is one of the heroes of our time, offering deep wisdom and refreshingly sane alternatives to the earth-destroying religions of consumerism, greed, and exploitation. Sulak Sivaraksa is one of Asia s leading social […]

Categories: Budismo, Sustentabilidad • Tags: Budismo, crecimiento sustentable, economía, sostenibilidad, Sulak Sivaraksa, Sustentabilidad

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Critical Path – $250

14 September, 2011 by rgonzalezr

Critical Path is a book written by US author and inventor R. Buckminster Fuller with the assistance of Kiyoshi Kuromiya. First published in 1981, it is alongside Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth one of Fuller’s best-known works. Vast in its scope, it describes Fuller’s own vision of the development of human civilization, economic history, and his highly original economic ideology based, amongst other things, on his detailed description of why scarcity of resources need no longer be a decisive factor […]

Categories: Arquitectura, Diseño, Sustentabilidad • Tags: Buckminster Fuller, economic history, economic ideology, human civilization, Ingenieria, scarcity, Sustentabilidad, vision of development

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The Only World We’ve Got: A Paul Shepard Reader – $250

13 September, 2011 by rgonzalezr

Philosopher and essayist Paul Shepard (1925–1996) brought to the environmental literature of the 1960s and ’70s the political passion of the time, but a passion matched with a demand for scholarly precision. This anthology from his work, which Shepard himself assembled not long before his death, addresses themes touched on in many of his books. Many of these themes deal in one way or another with the disastrous consequences of humankind’s increasing detachment from the natural world as a by-product […]

Categories: Animals, Ciencia, Ecología, Ensayo, environment, medio ambiente, Nature, Sustentabilidad • Tags: animales, Biología, caring, ciencia, Environment, Medio Ambiente, Naturaleza, nature, Science, sostenibilidad, Sustentabilidad, World

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Off The Grid Homes: Case Studies for Sunstainable Living – $245

12 September, 2011 by rgonzalezr

Off the Grid Homes looks at six contemporary architectural projects that integrate alternative technologies for generating and conserving energy. Being off the grid can refer to many different aspects of energy and resource independence, from rainwater collection, to photovoltaic (PV) systems, to gray-water systems and more. Diagrams and clear explanations of technologies and their appropriate applications are provided alongside the case studies that explain just how the technologies work and how they may best be applied to each individual situation. […]

Categories: Arquitectura, Ecología, Sustentabilidad • Tags: Architecture, Casas, ecology, Energía, Energy, sostenibilidad, Sustentabilidad, Sustentability

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Cómo los ricos destruyen el planeta – $230

6 August, 2011 by rgonzalezr

Nos encontramos en un momento de la historia que plantea un desafio radicalmente nuevo a la especie humana: por primera vez, su dinamismo prodigioso colisiona con los limites de la biosfera y pone en peligro su porvenir. Vivir este momento significa que debemos encontrar colectivamente los medios de reorientar esta energia humana y esta voluntad de progreso. Es un desafio a la vez magnifico y temible. Para el autor de este libro incisivo y bien informado, no se resolverá la […]

Categories: Ecología, medio ambiente, Sociología, Sustentabilidad • Tags: climate, Crisis, Kempf, Naturaleza, Planeta, sostenibilidad, Sustentabilidad

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All Natural: A Skeptic’s Quest to Discover If the Natural Approach to Diet, Childbirth, Healing, and the Environment Really Keeps Us Healthier and Happier – $360

Holy Shit: Managing Manure To Save Mankind – $295

Earth Perfect? Nature, Utopia and the Garden – $785

The One-Straw Revolution: An Introduction to Natural Farming – $265

How to Think Seriously About the Planet: The Case for an Environmental Conservatism – $395

Farm Together Now – $250

Overfishing: What Everyone Needs to Know – $265

Green Gone Wrong: How Our Economy Is Undermining the Environmental Revolution – $295

The Ecology of Commerce: A Declaration of Sustainability – $145

The wisdom of sustainability – $195

Critical Path – $250

The Only World We’ve Got: A Paul Shepard Reader – $250

Off The Grid Homes: Case Studies for Sunstainable Living – $245

Cómo los ricos destruyen el planeta – $230

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