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Bird Brains

Bird Brains

The Intelligence of Crows, Ravens, Magpies, and Jays
by Candace Savage
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Internationally celebrated nature writer Candace Savage presents the Corvid family— surprisingly bright, brassy, and colorful birds—in a remarkable collection of full-color, close-up photographs by some of the world’s best wildlife photographers.

Birds have long been viewed as the archetypal featherbrains—beautiful but dumb. But according t …

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The Vegetarian's Guide to Eating Meat

The Vegetarian's Guide to Eating Meat

A Young Woman's Search for Ethical Food
by Marissa Landrigan
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Growing up in a household of food-loving Italian-Americans, Marissa Landrigan was always a black sheep—she barely knew how to boil water for pasta. But at college, she thought she’d discovered her purpose. Buoyed by animal rights activism and a feminist urge to avoid the kitchen, she transformed into a hardcore vegan activist, complete with sha …

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The Nordic Guide to Living 10 Years Longer

The Nordic Guide to Living 10 Years Longer

10 Easy Tips For a Happier, Healthier Life
by Bertil Marklund, MD, PhD.
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The CliffNotes to living well, the Scandinavian way.

 

Diet and lifestyle guides are all the rage, but they tend to be too prescriptive and difficult to follow. And most self-help books are too long. Who has time to read 300+ pages or the discipline for a total lifestyle change overnight? Cue The Nordic Guide to Living 10 Years Longer. With this prag …

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Big Fit Girl

Big Fit Girl

Embrace the Body You Have
by Louise Green, foreword by Jess Weiner
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In Big Fit Girl, Louise Green describes how the fitness industry fails to meet the needs of plus-size women and thus prevents them from improving their health and fitness. By telling her own story of how she stopped dieting, got off the couch, and unleashed her inner athlete—as well as showcasing similar stories from other women—Green inspires …

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Vancouver in the Seventies

Vancouver in the Seventies

Photos from a Decade that Changed the City
by Kate Bird, introduction by Shelley Fralic, foreword by Douglas Coupland
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Fresh out of the freewheeling sixties, the seventies was a decade of immense change for Vancouver—a time of protest, political upheaval, economic boom, and cultural evolution. Through it all, the Vancouver Sun's award-winning photographers chronicled the city’s metamorphosis. Shooting more than 4,500 photo assignments each year, they covered new …

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Addicted

Addicted

Notes from the Belly of the Beast
edited by Lorna Crozier; Patrick Lane, contributions by Susan Cheever; Tom Bissell & Molly Jong-Fast
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Is addiction a disease, a sin, a sign of hypersensitivity, a personal failing, or a unique resource for the creative mind? However it is defined, addiction can have devastating consequences, often shattering lives, sundering families, causing impoverishment, and even triggering suicide. Yet it can also be a source of inspiration. In these frank ess …

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More than Honey

More than Honey

The Survival of Bees and The Future of Our World
by Markus Imhoof & Claus-Peter Lieckfeld
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A wonderfully thorough immersion in the world of bees and beekeeping. More Than Honey leaves one with reverence for this six-legged miracle, and profound concern about the future it faces." — Rowan Jacobsen, author of Fruitless Fall

 

A fascinating look at the increasingly perilous world of the honeybee—based on an award-winning documentary

 

The s …

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Beyond Fair Trade

Beyond Fair Trade

How One Small Coffee Company Helped Transform a Hillside Village in Thailand
by Mark Pendergrast
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tagged : sustainable development, agriculture & food, philanthropy & charity, food industry

“A rich and resonantly detailed account of an unlikely partnership that enabled the hard-working tribespeople of a remote coffee-growing village in Thailand to emerge from poverty and obscurity to success in the refined new world of fine coffee.” —Coffee Review

 

A multi-faceted, inspiring narrative of a coffee company whose practices have rede …

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On the Edge

On the Edge

The State and Fate of the World's Rainforests
by Claude Martin, foreword by Thomas E. Lovejoy
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The definitive assessment of the single most important factor in the future of Earth’s biodiversity.,/b>—Edward O. Wilson, university research professor emeritus, Harvard University.Approximately half of the world’s tropical rainforests remain intact. Will our actions over the next decades conserve or destroy what’s left? The most important …

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On The Edge

On The Edge

The State and Fate Of the World's Tropical Rainforests
by Claude Martin, foreword by Thomas E. Lovejoy
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The definitive assessment of the single most important factor in the future of Earth’s biodiversity.,/b>—Edward O. Wilson, university research professor emeritus, Harvard University.Approximately half of the world’s tropical rainforests remain intact. Will our actions over the next decades conserve or destroy what’s left? The most important …

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The End of Pain

The End of Pain

How Nutrition and Diet Can Fight Chronic Inflammatory Disease
by Jacqueline Lagacé, foreword by Bryce Wylde
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For years Jacqueline Lagacé suffered from debilitating chronic arthritis pain in her hands, spine, and knees. Conventional medicine failed to provide any relief, and Lagacé, a medical researcher, began searching for alternatives. That search brought her to the work of Dr. Jean Seignalet, an expert in nutrition therapy, who used targeted nutrition …

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Feeding Frenzy

Feeding Frenzy

land grabs, price spikes and the world food crisis
by Paul McMahon
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Feeding Frenzy traces the history of the global food system and reveals the underlying causes of recent turmoil in food markets. Supplies are running short, prices keep spiking, and the media is full of talk of a “world food crisis.”

 

This raises some big questions. Can we feed a population that will grow to 9 billion by 2050? Are we running ou …

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Little Ship of Fools

Little Ship of Fools

Sixteen Rowers, One Improbable Boat, Seven Tumultuous Weeks on the Atlantic
by Charles Wilkins
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The dramatic and hilarious story of risk and survival, as well as the importance of our connections to the planet, on a human-powered journey across the ocean

It was to be an expedition like no other—a run across the Atlantic from Morocco to Barbados aboard an experimental rowboat. There would be no support vessel, no stored water, no sails or mot …

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Everything Under the Sun

Everything Under the Sun

Toward a Brighter Future on a Small Blue Planet
by David Suzuki & Ian Hanington
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In this compilation of David Suzuki's latest thoughts and writings, the renowned scientist, author, and broadcaster explores the myriad environmental challenges the world faces and their interconnected causes. In doing so, Suzuki shows that understanding the causes—and recognizing that everything in nature, including us, is interconnected—is cruc …

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In Pursuit of Garlic

In Pursuit of Garlic

An Intimate Look at the Divinely Odorous Bulb
by Liz Primeau
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Garlic has been used throughout history as a nourishing food and a magical medicine, healing everything from toothaches to dysentery. For much of this past century many dismissed its medicinal qualities as folk remedies more efficiently replaced by modern drugs — but today garlic is undergoing a renaissance. Not only are more people cooking with g …

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Are You Ready?

Are You Ready?

How to Prepare for an Earthquake
by Maggie Mooney
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According to the US Geological Survey, there is a 100 percent chance of an earthquake today — Are you ready for the big one?

As earthquakes have struck around the world with alarming frequency, millions have realized they are unprepared for similar catastrophes close to home. Online disaster plans and older books—heavy with seismic science and a s …

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Cow

Cow

A Bovine Biography
by Florian Werner, translated by Doris Ecker, foreword by Temple Grandin
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The cow is everywhere: as a vehicle for both farmers and advertisers, as a subject for scientists and poets, or simply as a tasty sandwich meat. Yet after more than ten thousand years living alongside humans, the female of the bovine species remains a beguiling mystery. Combining entertaining anecdotes and illuminating discoveries, Florian Werner p …

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Who Killed Mom

Who Killed Mom

A Delinquent Son's Meditation on Family, Mortality, and Very Tacky Candles
by Steve Burgess
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""A touching -- if decidedly and deliberately offbeat -- family memoir...Expect to encounter laughs and tugs on the heartstrings in pretty much equal amounts."" -- Booklist

""Burgess has written not only the funniest book published this year, but one of the most moving memoirs Canada's prairies have offered up."" -- The Tyee

One of Canada's funniest …

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How Bad are Bananas?

How Bad are Bananas?

by Mike Berners-Lee
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A smart, practical, and accessible guide to measuring (and reducing) our carbon footprint, from internationally recognized expert, Mike Berners-Lee.

Part green-lifestyle guide, part popular science, How Bad Are Bananas? is the first book to provide the information we need to make carbon-savvy purchases and informed lifestyle choices and to build ca …

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Trauma Farm

Trauma Farm

A Rebel History of Rural Life
by Brian Brett
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Beginning naked in the darkness Brian Brett takes us on a journey through a summer’s day that also tells the story of his affectionately named Trauma Farm—exploring the garden, orchards, fields, the mysteries of live-stock and poultry, and the social intricacies of rural communities.

Both a memoir and a natural history of the small mixed farm, th …

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How Bad Are Bananas?

How Bad Are Bananas?

The Carbon Footprint of Everything
by Mike Berners-Lee
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A smart, practical, and accessible guide to measuring (and reducing) our carbon footprint, from internationally recognized expert, Mike Berners-Lee.

Part green-lifestyle guide, part popular science, How Bad Are Bananas? is the first book to provide the information we need to make carbon-savvy purchases and informed lifestyle choices and to build car …

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City Farmer

City Farmer

Adventures in Urban Food Growing
by Lorraine Johnson
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City Farmer celebrates the new ways that urban dwellers across North America are reimagining cities as places of food production. From homeowners planting their front yards with vegetables to guerilla gardeners scattering seeds in neglected urban corners, gardening guru Lorraine Johnson chronicles the increasing popularity of innovative urban food …

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There's a Barnyard in My Bedroom

There's a Barnyard in My Bedroom

by David Suzuki, illustrated by Eugenie Fernandes
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Grade: p to 3
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This fun and engaging story makes an engrossing — but not overwhelming — introduction to environmental issues for young readers. With the help of their parents and their own imaginations, Jamie and Megan discover that natural magic is all around them, even in their own home. Sheets and pillows, fruits and furniture — they all come from nature. W …

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The Way of a Gardener

The Way of a Gardener

A Life's Journey
by Des Kennedy
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A personal and revealing exploration of a life lived close to the earth, from one of Canada's best-loved gardeners.

Called ""a green-thumb rogue"" (Star Tribune, Minneapolis), accomplished novelist, satirist, and garden writer Des Kennedy describes his life journey from a childhood of strict Irish Catholicism in Britain to a charmed existence amid …

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Dodging the Toxic Bullet

Dodging the Toxic Bullet

How to Protect Yourself from Everyday Environmental Health Hazards
by David R. Boyd, foreword by David Suzuki
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Dodging the Toxic Bullet presents workable strategies that show how we can live longer, healthier lives by breathing clean air, eating healthy food, drinking safe water, and using non-toxic products. Author David R. Boyd provides accessible background on a range of hazards including mercury in fish, carcinogens in cleaning products, lead in toys, a …

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War in the Country

War in the Country

How the Fight to Save Rural Life Will Shape Our Future
by Thomas Pawlick
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An award-winning writer's provocative look at rural communities and a passionate call to arms to save them.

Rural life in North America has changed dramatically over the past fifty years. The few remaining family farms now struggle to survive. They have been replaced by corporate-backed factory farms, mining interests, and large-scale tourism devel …

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The War in the Country

The War in the Country

How the Fight to Save Rural Life Will Shape Our Future
by Thomas F. Pawlick
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Rural life in North America has changed dramatically since the days of the family farm, when people worked the same land for generations, let their cows graze in pastures and their chickens scratch in dirt, and sold their produce locally. The few remaining small farmers now struggle to survive, strangled by debt and a rash of complex regulations de …

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The Big Picture

The Big Picture

Reflections on Science, Humanity, and a Quickly Changing Planet
by David Suzuki
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"We've got lots of nuts-and-bolts accounts of our environmental predicament -- leave it to David Suzuki and Dave Robert Taylor to back up and give us the big view that puts things in perspective. A necessary book!" -- Bill McKibben

"Suzuki asks us to think beyond just swapping cloth bags for plastic, and instead consider and change the state of not …

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The Chickens Fight Back

The Chickens Fight Back

Pandemic Panics and Deadly Diseases that Jump From Animals to Humans - See more
by David Waltner-Toews
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""David Waltner-Toews is a rare flower, a poet, philosopher and scientist with ancient Scheherazade’s talents at storytelling and a scholar’s knowledge of myth and history...How wonderful to be entertained by literature like this while being educated on a critical issue at the same time."" -- Globe and Mail

Emerging diseases like mad cow, SARS, …

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A Good Catch

A Good Catch

Sustainable Seafood Recipes from Canada's Top Chefs
by Jill Lambert, foreword by David Suzuki
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Eating responsibly may mean including new and different foods in one’s diet, but it doesn't mean having to forgo flavor. A Good Catch incorporates the most responsible and delicious seafood choices into more than 90 mouthwatering recipes from celebrity chefs across Canada. The book begins with a brief introduction that explains what questions con …

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Mom, WIll This Chicken Give Me Man Boobs?

Mom, WIll This Chicken Give Me Man Boobs?

My Confused, Guilt-Ridden, and Stressful Struggle to Raise a Green FamilyGreen F
by Robyn Harding
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"P class=""book_description"">A lighthearted look at one woman's struggle to raise a family, be kind to the planet, and maintain her sanity.

As Robyn Harding's family moves from Calgary to Australia to Vancouver -- settling in one of the world's greenest neighborhoods -- she tries valiantly to decrease the size of their carbon footprint. But will e …

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David Suzuki's Green Guide

David Suzuki's Green Guide

by David Suzuki & David R. Boyd
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Everyone knows that the planet is in trouble, but is there a solution? This timely book identifies the most effective ways individuals can be more green in four key areas: home, travel, food, and consumerism. It also describes how citizens can ensure that governments take the actions necessary to make sustainable lifestyles the norm instead of the …

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An Ecology of Enchantment

An Ecology of Enchantment

A Year in the Life of a Garden
by Des Kennedy
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For the past 36 years, Des Kennedy and his family have lived largely outside their hand-built house in intimate contact with the Earth — its creatures, its changing seasons, and its weather patterns. In this charming book’s 52 chapters, Kennedy brings readers deep into his garden, week by week, from winter’s dormancy to summer’s splendor. Wi …

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