Award-winning designer and author Lori Dennis proves interior design can be both stylish and environmentally sustainable in this easy-to-use, entertaining guide. Dennis discusses every aspect of interior design—furniture and accessories, window treatments, fabrics, surface materials, appliances, plants, and more—from a green perspective in terms of reducing waste and pollution and turning a home into a healthy, comfortable environment....

"By 1979, we knew nearly everything we understand today about climate change--including how to stop it. Over the next decade, a handful of scientists, politicians, and strategists, led by two unlikely heroes, risked their careers in a desperate, escalating campaign to convince the world to act before it was too late. [This] is their story"--

Our most powerful tool to reverse the global epidemic of chronic disease, heal the environment, reform politics, and revive economies is food. What we eat has tremendous implications not just for our waistlines, but also for the planet, society, and the global economy. What we do to our bodies, we do to the planet; and what we do to the planet, we do to our bodies. Bestselling author Mark Hyman explains how our food and agriculture policies are corrupted...

90% of the goods we consume in the West are manufactured in far-off lands and brought to us by ship. The cargo shipping industry is a key player in world economy and forms the basis of our very model of modern civilisation; without it, it would be impossible to fulfil the ever-increasing demands of our societies. Yet the functioning and regulations of this business remain largely obscure to many, and its hidden costs affect us all. Due to their size,...

The Ugly truth about plastic pollution. -- Here is an informative, hard hitting and educational film about the environmental problem of plastic pollution inside the Oceans rising to a dangerous level for human safety and its solution. The film busts the myth of a plastic island floating in the middle of the Pacific Ocean and unveils the accurate data that is worse.

The purpose of this Natural Resource Damage Assessment Plan is to document the State Trustees' basis for conducting a damage assessment, and to set forth the proposed approaches for quantifying harm to natural resources and calculating damages associated with those injuries. The Assessment Plan enables the Trustees to ensure that the Natural Resource Damage Assessment will be completed in a planned and systematic manner and at a reasonable cost....

The authors posit that "economic prosperity and a cleaner environment are the direct results of both population growth and humanity's increased use of fossil fuels, and [feel that] campaigns against the spread of fossil fuels will cause misery in the developing world, fuel poverty in advanced economies, and will inevitably wreak havoc on the natural world"--From publisher's description.

The founder of Ariel Arts, an interior design studio on a mission to make sustainable and affordable design accessible for everyone, provides the inspiration and tools needed to curate a space that fits you and your family's lifestyle and needs in no time.