Vandana Shiva
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
"With Soil Not Oil, Vandana Shiva reveals what connects humanity's most urgent crises - food insecurity, peak oil, and climate change and why any attempt to solve one without addressing the others will get us nowhere." "Condemning industrial biofuels and agriculture as recipes for ecological and economic disaster, Shiva champions the small independent farm instead. With millions hungry and the earth's future at peril. only sustainable, biologically...
Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Few things on Earth are as miraculous and vital as seeds, worshipped and treasured since the dawn of humankind. Seed: The Untold Story follows passionate seed keepers protecting our 12,000 year-old food legacy. In the last century, 94 percent of our seed varieties have disappeared. As biotech chemical companies control the majority of our seeds, farmers, scientists, lawyers, and indigenous seed keepers fight a David and Goliath battle to defend the...
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Chemical poisons have infiltrated all facets of our lives; housing, agriculture, work places, sidewalks, subways, schools, parks, even the air we breathe. More than half a century since Rachel Carson issued Silent Spring; her call-to-arms against the poisoning of our drinking water, food, animals, air, and the natural environment ... The Fight Against Monsanto's Roundup takes a fresh look at the politics underlying the mass use of pesticides and...
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Journey through the catastrophic disappearance of bees and the mysterious world of the beehive. Includes the heartfelt struggles of beekeepers, scientists, and philosophers from around the world. Together they reveal both the problems and the solutions in renewing a culture in balance with nature.
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