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  • I Don’t Believe in Asteroids
    Kevin Kite / Michelle McCauley
    Climate change, income inequality, modern parenting, greed, and materialism-the world is going to hell so you might as well laugh. In I Don’t Believe in Asteroids, Kite and McCauley show you the way. Their irreverent, on-point comics will have you cracking up and crying all at once. Kite’s art is brilliant and bright, even as the text is jarring and penetrating. This is a grea...
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    20,33 €

  • Tutu’s Rainbow World
    Joseph Kaifala
    Joseph Kaifala was born in Freetown. Now a Human Rights lawyer in the USA and author of “Free Slaves, Freetown and the Sierra Leonean Civil War” his poetry deals with Africa’s poverty, armed conflicts and the suffering of its child soldiers.   ...
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    11,99 €

  • Vegan Minded
    Christine Cook Mania
    According to readers, the stories in this book make being vegan accessible and demystify veganism for nonvegan readers. Anyone who is striving to make a positive difference in the world should read this book.After reading Eating Animals, a national bestseller, by Jonathan Safran Foer, Christine Mania was left frustrated. Foer told the critical story of animal agriculture and fa...
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    17,37 €

  • Future Imperfect
    Babette Gallard
    IT’S 2050, A CHANGED WORLD, and the River Rhone has flooded the town of Arles in France. Helen and Isha leave to join their daughter and eleven-month-old granddaughter, Ayo, in England.In Calais, Isha, who has Ugandan-Asian ancestry, is told that new rules mean she will be immediately deported if she crosses the Channel. Faced with a terrible dilemma, Helen chooses to stay with...
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    20,07 €

  • Shoreline of Infinity 36
    Tania Chen
    Climate Change SpecialGuest Editor: Lyndsey CroalNew Stories Gessica Sakamoto Martini - The Fox, the Hen, and the Green HillsRhiannon A Grist - A Change of DirectionAndrew Knighton - Shelter From the StormSara Kate Ellis - If Cooler HeadsChristopher R. Muscato - The Best Taco in San AntonioTania Chen - Pure White, Ocean GlassGreta Colombani - AmaranthineMarisca Pichette - The L...
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    9,52 €

  • Economic Migration and Climate Change
    Prof. Stephen William Bradeley BSc / Raven Gorewell
     In "Economic Migration and Climate Change: The Coming Invasion," Prof. Stephen William Bradeley BSc (Hons) delves into the intricate connection between climate change and the inevitable surge in human migration. Through rigorous analysis, backed by scientific research, this eye-opening book explores how the growing environmental crisis is compelling millions to leave their hom...
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    11,03 €

  • Reclaiming the Sacred
    Jeff Golden
    GRAND PRIZEWINNER -- 2023 Nautilus Book Award"This book is profound... A must-read... Five stars." --Reader’s Favorite'Masterful… uplifting…' –Self Publishing Review'Many books promise to change a person’s life. This one actually might.' –IndieReaderOne of the essential books of our time, Reclaiming the Sacred draws on the work of thousands of psychologists and economists, cosm...
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    19,02 €

  • Climate Change and Climate Finance
    Analyzing the role companies can play in tackling climate change, this book shows how they can set up effective environmental, social, and governance (ESG) frameworks and draft resilient strategies for sustainable activities and investment. It assesses the issue of climate justice, considers the impact of 'greenwashing,' and looks at ways investors can evaluate ESG consideratio...
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    45,93 €

  • God’s Earth
    Michael P. Wright
    This book is an ominous message for humanity to save our way of life on Earth. Let all of us work together to save the Earth. Time is of the essence right now. Everyone needs to be 'All In' to repair the damage of Climate Change and damage to the environment on our Earth. Never underestimate the backlash of nature. ...
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    12,94 €

  • Incorporating Climate Resilience in Urban Planning and Policy Making
    Asian Development Bank
    Providing high-level climate risk assessments for cities in Armenia, Georgia, and Uzbekistan, this report is designed to mainstream mitigation and adaptation into urban planning to help ensure climate resilient growth. For each country, it harnesses climate data, models, and projections. It offers a range of scenarios, assesses potential risks to key infrastructure, and sets ou...
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    41,85 €

  • Earth and Energy, Power and Pollution
    Patrick Simmons
    Freedom of choice is what brings health and happiness to all humankind. In freedom there is love, life and light. Love has in it, discipline or it is not true love. Life has to be moving in a direction of health or it is not true life. Light has to have peace, perfection, balance and harmony or it is not true light. Knowing the above will help the present generation to choose m...
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    13,33 €

  • Bodies on the Line
    Sue Parfitt
    Central London, October 2022: Sue Parfitt, an 80-year-old Anglican priest, is arrested for sitting in the road. It’s not her first time, nor the last; and she isn’t alone. Christians are waking up to the existential scale of the climate crisis. They are rediscovering the radical nature of Jesus’s teaching. They are asking what God needs them to do, and putting their bodies on t...
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    10,09 €

  • Climate Finance Landscape of Asia and the Pacific
    Asian Development Bank
    This report assesses climate finance in Asia and the Pacific and analyzes how it can be harnessed by developing member countries to expand climate action and spur low-carbon, resilient growth. Designed to help governments and development partners identify and address barriers, it offers a subregional breakdown and underscores the need for equitable access to funds to help count...
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    37,65 €

  • Solving the Climate Crisis - A Community Guide to Solving the Biggest Problem On the Planet
    Palmer Owyoung
    Some things you will learn in Solving the Climate Crisis: • Dozens of Ideas On Things You Can Do to Fight Climate Change (it goes beyond just your carbon footprint)• How to Save Our Oceans• How to Save Our Forests• How to Repair Our Soil• Does ESG Investing Work?• Who is Most Responsible For Climate Change• How to Pay for Climate Change• Why Carbon Offsets are Scams• Ways to Fi...
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    40,98 €

  • Financing Regions Toward Sustainability in the Midst of Climate Change Risks and Uncertainty
    Financing Regions Toward Sustainability in the Midst of Climate Change Risks and Uncertainty is a groundbreaking book edited by Beata Zofia Filipiak, Dominika Kordela, and Izabela Nawrolska from the University of Szczecin, Poland. The book provides a comprehensive guide to financing regions towards sustainability in the midst of climate change risks and uncertainty. With a focu...
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    222,86 €

  • New Zealand Weather Almanac 2024 (Paperback)
    Ken Ring
    Need to plan for the next La Nina?Need to know when floods are returning? Need to know when to rest and when to invest?Ken Ring’s weather predictions have been relied on by people around Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand for over 20 years, and his annual weather almanacs are always eagerly anticipated. The 2024 New Zealand Almanac allows you to calculate the weather for any d...
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    131,89 €

  • The Nonsense of Global Warming and Climate Change
    Dirk van Leenen
    The truth about the earth we live on. Everything we create, consume, build, manufacture and waste comes from the earth and returns to the earth, from dust to dust. Everything that happens on the earth, has a purpose. Man cannot change the earth’s nature! Even pollution, forest fires, floods, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions have a corrective purpose on the earth. ...
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    18,00 €

  • Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage Game Changers in Asia and the Pacific
    Asian Development Bank
    Analyzing the potential of carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) to secure a low-carbon environment for Asia and the Pacific, this Asian Development Bank (ADB) compendium features 11 CCUS technologies and tools.As ADB strives to facilitate this low-carbon future for the region within the next half of this century, the compendium explores how CCUS can enhance sustainab...
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    29,58 €

  • Carbon Pricing and Fossil Fuel Subsidy Rationalization Tool Kit
    Jacqueline Cottrell / Mikael Skou Andersen / Rachael Jonassen
    This tool kit explores some of the key attributes of potential and existing emission trading systems, carbon taxes, and fossil fuel subsidies rationalization programs in Asia and the Pacific and other emerging countries.It aims to guide policymakers in the Asian Development Bank’s developing member countries to effectively design, implement, and manage the interplay of carbon t...
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    34,20 €

  • Eye of the Storm
    Terry LePage
    When Things Fall Apart, You Don’t Have ToCalm is contagious. And courage is contagious. The tools in this book can help you to find calm, purpose, and even joy in hard times. Climate chaos is accelerating, democracy is in peril, species and ecosystems are disappearing, and economic inequality is soaring. These are interconnected parts of a complex and devastating predicament. B...
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    13,72 €

  • From Handwriting to Footprinting
    Anne Baillot
    How do we currently preserve and access texts, and will our current methods be sustainable in the future?In From Handwriting to Footprinting, Anne Baillot seeks to answer this question by offering a detailed analysis of the methods that enable access to textual materials, in particular, access to books of literary significance. Baillot marshals her considerable expertise in the...
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    27,57 €

  • Calentamiento global, codicia y necesidades humanas
    Ian Gough
    «Una intervención profundamente original en el debate en curso sobre el cambio climático. Una característica particularmente interesante del libro es la forma en que el autor aporta su experiencia en bienestar para influir en la política climática. El bienestar sostenible es su principio rector.» Anthony Giddens, Miembro de la Cámara de Lores y exdirector de la LSE«Ian Gough ha...
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    23,40 €

  • Guidelines for Net Zero Carbon Villages of India
    Alok Panday
    Evidence shows that our planet has been getting hotter. The warmest 20 years on record have been in the last 22 years according to the World Meteorological Organization and the warmest four were all very recent: 2015 to 2020. Global average temperatures are now 1.2°C (2.16°F) higher than in the pre-industrial era. A degree doesn’t sound like a lot, but the reality is that this ...
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    8,77 €

  • The Age of Adaptation How Climate Change is Reshaping Our World and Our Minds
    David Collins
    As our planet continues its relentless journey through climate change, we stand on the precipice of an era unlike any other.'The Age of Adaptation: How Climate Change is Reshaping Our World and Our Minds,' is a compelling book that offers a profound examination of the ways in which climate change is not just transforming our physical world, but also the complex landscape of hum...
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    14,05 €

  • Eco Africa
    Eco Africa: An Anthology of Poems is a magnificent collection of poems from across the African continent (Eastern, Western, Central, and Southern Africa) with various contributions from some African poets in the Diaspora. There are poems on nature such as its beauty and clean air, on potential consequences of climate change, notably global warming, and the potentially devastati...
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    33,28 €

  • Taking on Climate Change Through Green Taxation
    Since environmental issues entered the global agenda, governments have directing businesses towards sustainability. The term 'sustainability' is commonly associated with a firm’s environmental attentiveness, although there are two other areas in which companies should be sustainable: social, to achieve an adequate relationship and fluid communication with their stakeholders, an...
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    216,52 €

  • Gateway Framework
    Asian Development Bank
    For tackling complex global challenges, this publication advises how a Gateway Process (GP) can help the Asian Development Bank’s developing member countries channel scarce public resources into viable, sustainable, efficient infrastructure investments.Supporting ministries of finance and related agencies, the publication explains how GPs can enhance the preparation, procuremen...
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    25,95 €

  • Green Finance for Asian State-Owned Enterprises
    Asian Development Bank
    This report reveals how state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in Asia’s emerging economies can play a key role in helping to tackle climate change and biodiversity loss, by using green bonds to upgrade their economic activities from polluting to green. The report explores how SOEs can develop and deploy sustainable financial instruments, in particular green bonds, to help finance thei...
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    27,94 €

  • A Day of Darkness
    LaFAMCALL Endtime Ministries / Lambert Eze Okafor
    All is not well with the planet. Earth!Unusual events now happening all over the world are eloquent signs - for those who would heed them.Scientists - ancient and modern - all agree that something terrible is due to happen, and that man hasn’t got much time left. The world may come to an end soon - they have said. The period they point to would definitely frighten anyone.Space ...
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    22,54 €

  • Cultivating Change
    Caro Feely
    What will it take to change? Can we revive our relationship with the earth? And with each other?’There are two perfect shady spots where I stop to talk about biodiversity on our organic farm visits. The oak trees there seem to know me. When I touch their leaves, it feels different to how it feels with other oaks.’But along with the joy and magic of working with nature come the ...
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    12,36 €


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