I AM COYOTE: Readings for the Wild is an anthology of the great wilderness writings. The collection contains works written by mountaineers, paddlers, and backcountry travelers; poets, novelists, and environmental advocates. In these writings, we see nature's admirers thirsting for adventure and truth on land, river, sea, and ice. I AM COYOTE includes writings from Muir, Kerouac, Emerson, Roosevelt, Whitman, Twain, Shackleton, Berry and many more. A portion of the proceeds go towards the scholarship fund for the National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS) "In pulling together writings from Muir, Roosevelt, Thoreau, London, and just about every other outdoor heavyweight you can think of, I AM COYOTE makes a strong bid to be the ultimate campfire anthology." --Backpacker Magazine "Put this book in your rucksack and head for the mountains. Read it tired at the end of a long day, by the light of a campfire. Forget what our culture insists: feeling small is actually feeling good." --Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature "I AM COYOTE is a reader replete with revelations that arise when human beings encounter what human thought cannot create: wilderness. It is only when we get away from the human-made world that we discover what it truly means to have become a human being." --Paul Hawken, author of Natural Capitalism

I AM COYOTE: Readings for the Wild

bill-mckibben

Kimbrough Knight Publishing LLC

THE END OF NATURE

Science & Math

Biological Sciences

VIKING

"The father of a single child himself, McKibben maintains that bringing one, and no more than one, child into this world will hurt neither your family nor our nation - indeed, it can be an optimistic step toward the future. Maybe One is not just an environmental argument but a highly personal and philosophical one. McKibben cites new and extensive research about the developmental strengths of only children; he finds that single kids are not spoiled, weird, selfish, or asocial, but pretty much the same as everyone else." "McKibben recognizes that the transition to a stable population size won't be easy or painfree but ultimately is inevitable. Maybe One provides the basis for provocative, powerful thought and discussion that will influence our thinking for decades to come."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Maybe One: An Argument for Single-Child Families in the Millennium

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Villard Books

Radio Free Vermont: A Fable of Resistance

Blue Rider Press

What McKibben says is as relevant now as it was when "The End of Nature" was first published in 1989. More than simply a handbook for survival or a doomsday catalogue of scientific prediction, "The End of Nature" is a ground-breaking plea for radical and life-renewing change. McKibben argues that our view of nature, its role in our lives and consciousness, has irretrievably altered. "The End of Nature" argues passionately that if the world is to survive, we have to rethink this relationship. For this new edition, Bill McKibben has updated all the statistical information and written a new introduction which sets out how much has changed - both for better and for worse - in the last fourteen years.

The End of Nature

Business & Money

Economics

Bloomsbury Paperbacks

Enough: Genetic Engineering and the End of Human Nature

Philosophy

BLOOMSBURY

Sometime in the next few years, scientists may reprogramme a human egg or sperm cell, make a change in the genetic instructions carried by that cell, a change that will be passed on down into eternity. The scientific expertise exists to do this, as does the motivation: to erase the chance of inheriting a disease, to improve the intelligence or the stamina or the beauty of a child. On the brink of an era that may be defined by genetic engineering, McKibben asks: should this happen? He argues that genetic engineering and the technologies that lie beyond it will launch us free of our past, of our humanity, of meaning. We are sleepwalking towards a future that will take us far away from all we have known: Enough is our wake-up call.

Enough : Genetic Engineering and the End of Human Nature

Bestselling author and environmental activist Bill McKibben recounts the personal and global story of the fight to build and preserve a sustainable planetBill McKibben is not a person you'd expect to find handcuffed and behind bars, but that's where he found himself in the summer of 2011 after leading the largest civil disobedience in thirty years, protesting the Keystone XL pipeline in front of the White House.With the Arctic melting, the Midwest in drought, and Irene scouring the Atlantic, McKibben recognized that action was needed if solutions were to be found. Some of those would come at the local level, where McKibben joins forces with a Vermont beekeeper raising his hives as part of the growing trend toward local food. Other solutions would come from a much larger fight against the fossil-fuel industry as a whole.Oil and Honey is McKibben's account of these two necessary and mutually reinforcing sides of the global climate fight―from the center of the maelstrom and from the growing hive of small-scale local answers to climate change. With empathy and passion he makes the case for a renewed commitment on both levels of the fight to stop global warming, telling the story of raising one year's honey crop and building a social movement that's still cresting.

Oil and Honey: The Education of an Unlikely Activist

Times Books

Five years in the making, A People's Curriculum for the Earth is a collection of articles, role plays, simulations, stories, poems, and graphics to help breathe life into teaching about the environmental crisis. The book features some of the best articles from Rethinking Schools magazine alongside classroom-friendly readings on climate change, energy, water, food, and pollution--as well as on people who are working to make things better. At a time when it's becoming increasingly obvious that life on Earth is at risk, here is a resource that helps students see what's wrong and imagine solutions. Chapter 1: The Whole Thing Is Connected We can continue the enclosure of the commons, begun so long ago the privatization and commodification of nature or we can recognize the fundamental truth that we are all connected and that there is nothing private about how we treat the Earth, or each other. Chapter 2: Grounding Our Teaching Grounding our students in their communities doesn t just connect them to nature; it also connects them to the ways their communities have been battered by powerful interests, and how race and class have shaped those communities. Chapter 3: Facing Climate Chaos Articles in this chapter will help students recognize the significance of the climate crisis and see that the people being hit the hardest are the ones least responsible. Through various activities students consider root causes of the crisis in order to critically think about the deep social changes we will need to respond fairly and decisively. Chapter 4: Burning the Future Burning the Future has a metaphorical ring, but it s no metaphor it s literally true: We are burning the future. This chapter deals with the overall issue of fossil fuels and then is divided into three sections: coal, oil, and natural gas and fracking. Yes, we are burning the future. But nothing is inevitable. This is a key lesson from history, and from the activities included in this chapter. Chapter 5: Teaching in a Toxic World Articles in this chapter describe how toxic trespass happens in far too many ways in our lives here and around the world. Because of the intimate nature of the toxic trespass, students first reaction may be self-protection or individual consumer choices, rather than collective action. This chapter provides abundant evidence that people are taking collective action. Chapter 6: Food, Farming, and the Earth Food embodies many of the ecological problems and social injustices highlighted throughout the book. And similarly, it calls out for activism that recognizes the interconnectedness of these issues.

A People's Curriculum for the Earth: Teaching About the Environmental Crisis

Linda Christensen

David Suzuki

Winona LaDuke

Bill Bigelow

Ann Pelo

Bob Peterson

Larry Miller

Tim Swinehart

Van Jones

Vandana Shiva

Amy Lindahl

Hardy Thames

Jeff Goodell

Robert Kunzig

Sandra Steingraber

Tony Marks-Block

Earth Sciences

Rethinking Schools

OIL AND HONEY read by Kevin T. Collins

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