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Transformation: Turning Climate Crisis Into Jobs and Prosperity (Forthcoming, Spring 2020)

Many people now understand that climate change is a huge problem. As weather extremes become more common, a powerful financial storm also pounds Americans. Millions have lost their homes and jobs, communities struggle to fund their schools and their police and fire fighters, one in seven Americans…
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Climate Peril: The Intelligent Reader’s Guide to Understanding the Climate Crisis (Available Now, Northbrae Books, 2014)

The world is hurtling toward runaway global climate change beyond which no conceivable human action can stop the amplifying positive feedback processes inherent in the climate system. The central question of our time is whether we can slow climate change quickly enough to avert a global train wreck…

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Climate Myths: The Campaign Against Climate Science (Northbrae Books, 2013)

Climate Myths is both an authoritative primer on climate change and a definitive rebuttal of climate science skepticism and denial. Climate skeptics and their oil and coal industry sponsors have long tried to discredit climate science and thwart climate legislation and policy. Climate Myths…
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Forests Forever: Their Ecology, Restoration, and Protection (Forests Forever Foundation and Center for American Places at Columbia College Chicago, 2008)

Forests Forever provides a panoramic overview of critical issues in forest ecology, policy, and management, bringing together trenchant ideas from ecology, politics, sociology, economics and other fields. The book also provides a critical appraisal of the Bush administration’s forestry policies,…
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Beating the Heat: How and Why We Must Combat Global Warming (Berkeley Hills, 2000)

The temperature of the Earth is rising faster than at any time in recorded history, and may increase by up to ten degrees in the next century. The ominous consequences–famines, floods, droughts, fire storms, disease, rising sea levels, melting glaciers and ice polar caps, more violent hurricanes,…
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Charging Ahead: The Business of Renewable Energy and What It Means for America (University of California Press, 1998)

Charging Ahead foretells the world’s next great energy transformation: the shift to clean, renewable energy sources. It shows how renewable energy, energy efficiency, and electric vehicles, when used together, can give us back a clean environment and create a healthy, sustainable economy. In…
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Understanding Forests (Sierra Club Books, 1998)

Here is an indispensable primer for anyone interested in the survival of North America’s forests. Author John J. Berger provides an accessible introduction to these complex ecosystems, which protect soil and water resources, provide habitat for wildlife, and are essential to climatic stability and…
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Ecological Restoration in the San Francisco Bay (Restoring the Earth, 1990)

This directory is designed to facilitate the sharing of technical, managerial, and practical information about the restoration of salt and freshwater wetlands, creeks, lakes, watersheds, wildlife habitats, mined lands, forests, grasslands, as well as coastal and riparian areas. It is important that…

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Environmental Restoration (Island Press, 1990)

Environmental Restoration is the result of the ground-breaking Restoring the Earth conference held in 1988 at the University of California at Berkeley. It includes contributions on terrestrial restoration, aquatic restoration, environmental law, and planning, land acquisition, and conflict…

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Restoring the Earth (Alfred A. Knopf, 1985; Doubleday Anchor Press, 1987)

Restoring the Earth introduces us to dedicated individuals and groups who have worked, and are working—privately, voluntarily, and often successfully—to repair and restore those damaged natural resources that are so crucial to our present well-being and our future: our water, our land, our wildlife,…

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Nuclear Power: The Unviable Option (Ramparts Press, 1975; Dell Books, 1979)

Published three years before the Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant partial core melt in Pennsylvania in 1979 and long before the Chernobyl and Fukishima disasters, Nuclear Power: The Unviable Option, A Critical Look at Our Energy Alternatives warned of grave safety and economic problems at U.S….

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