Author : Barbara D. May
Publisher : National Garden Clubs
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 11,88 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Floral decorations
ISBN : 9780941994149
An introduction to floral arrangement and design using vases, containers, foam, and other accessories with designs for every week of the year.
Author : Brenda L. Marder
Publisher : Mercer University Press
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 33,2 MB
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9780865548497
Author : Adina Merenlender
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 22,37 MB
Release : 2021-09-07
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0520378946
Preface : united by nature, guided by science -- Extreme events, life in the new normal -- Big bay to tech town -- A changing harvest -- Keeping forests green and snow white -- Climate canaries -- Los Angeles plants itself -- Riding the California current.
Author : Thomas G. Smith
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 12,61 MB
Release : 2017-09-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0826357768
As a three-term member of Congress and as the secretary of the interior in the Kennedy and Johnson cabinets (1961–1969), Stewart L. Udall (1920–2010) was a distinguished public servant and one of the great environmental leaders in US history. This book, the first biography of Udall, introduces his work to a new generation of Americans concerned with the environment. The author traces the influences on Udall’s career, the evolution of his views on conservation, and his setbacks as well as his triumphs. In addition to his efforts to preserve wilderness areas and protect the planet, Udall advocated reforming the seniority system in Congress, limiting the production and testing of nuclear weapons, promoting coexistence with the Soviet Union, and helping oppressed peoples in emerging nations. A visionary leader, Udall was inspired by his pioneering Mormon forebears who helped settle the Arizona high plateau, where he first connected with the natural world.
Author : George Alfred Dean
Publisher :
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 44,68 MB
Release : 1851
Category : Agriculture
ISBN :
Author : Becky Michaels
Publisher : Winters
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 20,25 MB
Release : 2020-11-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781735140117
Elaina Walker has waited for her childhood sweetheart to return from the Napoleonic Wars for eight years. At five-and-twenty, the pressure to marry well is mounting, despite being unable to forget Will, the Duke of Blackmore's second son. Will Winter doesn't care much for his father's qualifications for a proper wife. When he returns to England and sees Elaina again, he knows he must have her, despite her meager dowry and precarious standing in society as the daughter of his family's land steward. As their attraction to one another intensifies, Elaina must make a decision: one that may further damage her reputation and Will's already delicate relationship with his family, or one that will leave her unfulfilled and wondering for the rest of her life.
Author : Sandra L. Richter
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 31,15 MB
Release : 2020-02-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0830849270
Sandra L. Richter cares about the Bible and the environment. Using her expertise in ancient Israelite society as well as in biblical theology, she walks readers through biblical passages and shares case studies that connect the biblical mandate to current issues. She then calls Christians to apply that message to today's environmental concerns.
Author : Charles Thompson, Jr.
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 39,59 MB
Release : 2019-10-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1603589139
Booklist Editors’ Choice “Best Books of 2019” An intimate portrait of the joys and hardships of rural life, as one man searches for community, equality, and tradition in Appalachia Charles D. Thompson, Jr. was born in southwestern Virginia into an extended family of small farmers. Yet as he came of age he witnessed the demise of every farm in his family. Over the course of his own life of farming, rural education, organizing, and activism, the stories of his home place have been his constant inspiration, helping him identify with the losses of others and to fight against injustices. In Going Over Home, Thompson shares revelations and reflections, from cattle auctions with his grandfather to community gardens in the coal camps of eastern Kentucky, racial disparities of white and Black landownership in the South to recent work with migrant farm workers from Latin America. In this heartfelt first-person narrative, Thompson unpacks our country’s agricultural myths and addresses the history of racism and wealth inequality and how they have come to bear on our nation’s rural places and their people.
Author : John Todd
Publisher : North Atlantic Books
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 23,43 MB
Release : 2019-01-29
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1623172985
A true pioneer and respected elder in ecological recovery and sustainability shares effective solutions he has designed and implemented. A stand-out from the sea of despairing messages about climate change, well-known sustainability elder John Todd, who has taught, mentored, and inspired such well-known names in the field as Janine Benyus, Bill McKibben, and Paul Hawken, chronicles the different ecological interventions he has created over the course of his career. Each chapter offers a workable engineering solution to an existing environmental problem: healing the aftermath of mountain-top removal and valley-fill coal mining in Appalachia, using windmills and injections of bacteria to restore the health of a polluted New England pond, working with community members in a South African village to protect an important river. A mix of both success stories and concrete suggestions for solutions to tackle as yet unresolved issues, Todd's narrative provides an important addition to the conversation about specific ways we can address the planetary crisis. Eighty-five color photos and images illustrate Todd's concepts. This is a refreshingly hopeful, proactive book and also a personal story that covers a known practitioner's groundbreaking career.
Author : Wendell Berry
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 37,66 MB
Release : 2018-09-05
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1640091696
The essays in The Gift of Good Land are as true today as when they were first published in 1981; the problems addressed here are still true and the solutions no nearer to hand. The insistent theme of this book is the interdependence, the wholeness, the oneness of people, land, weather, animals, and family. To touch one is to tamper with them all. We live in one functioning organism whose separate parts are artificially isolated by our culture. Here, Berry develops the compelling argument that the “gift” of good land has strings attached. We have it only on loan and only for as long as we practice good stewardship.
