Science, Technology & Environment

Smiling Bears: A Zookeeper Explores the Behavior and Emotional Life of Bears

Bears both frighten and intrigue us. Our complicated relationship with these wild beasts is reflected in the extensive selection of books about them, which variously consider bears as wildlife, spiritual creatures, trophies, tourist attractions, and ... Read More »

March 20, 2009 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Grizzlyville: Adventures in Bear Country

By Jake MacDonald

March 20, 2009 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Mom, Will This Chicken Give Me Man Boobs? My Confused, Guilt-Ridden, and Stressful Struggle to Raise a Green Family

By Robyn Harding

There are no solar panels on Robyn Harding’s roof. Her family is not bathing in collected rainwater. And yes, she enjoys the occasional distinctly un-green trip to Las Vegas. But underpinning her life is a ... Read More »

March 20, 2009 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

The Big Picture: Reflections on Science, Humanity, and a Quickly Changing Planet

By David Suzuki and David Robert Taylor

Science writers who focus on the environment have faced a new challenge since the appearance in 2006 of Al Gore’s über-popular book and film An Inconvenient Truth. Although it is no longer necessary to impress ... Read More »

March 20, 2009 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Terracide

By Hubert Reeves; Donald Winkler, trans.

March 20, 2009 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Sea Sick: The Hidden Ecological Crisis of the Global Ocean

By Alanna Mitchell

We call this planet “Earth,” although water covers about 75% of its surface. This discrepancy has undoubtedly influenced the way we have historically regarded the world’s oceans: as seemingly endless dumping grounds and inexhaustible sources ... Read More »

February 18, 2009 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

The Ego Boom: Why the World Really Does Revolve Around You

By Steve Maich and Lianne George

Member of Generation X or Y: get ready for some bad news. You may see yourself as community-minded, the sort of person who’d organize neighbourhood block parties and do volunteer work if you had the ... Read More »

January 26, 2009 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Death by Prescription: A Father Takes on His Daughter’s Killer – the Multi-Billion Dollar Pharmaceutical Companies

By Terence H. Young

On the afternoon of March 19, 2000, Vanessa Young, a 15-year-old girl from Oakville, Ontario, suffered a severe reaction to a common drug that she was taking to relieve the stomach discomfort and nausea she ... Read More »

January 19, 2009 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

The Dog by the Cradle, the Serpent Beneath: Some Paradoxes of Human-Animal Relationships

By Erika Ritter

Human nature is a mass of contradiction and ambiguity. We hurt what we profess to love, we kill with kindness, and we deny any culpability. Almost nothing exemplifies our contradictory nature like our relationship with ... Read More »

January 19, 2009 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Science, Technology & Environment

Right Relationship: Building a Whole Earth Economy

By Peter G. Brown and Geoffrey Garver

At a moment in history when longstanding capitalist beliefs about the ability of the free market to self-adjust are being cast into doubt, Montreal-based authors Peter G. Brown and Geoffrey Garver’s new book could not ... Read More »

January 12, 2009 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

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Smiling Bears: A Zookeeper Explores the Behavior and Emotional Life of Bears

Grizzlyville: Adventures in Bear Country

Mom, Will This Chicken Give Me Man Boobs? My Confused, Guilt-Ridden, and Stressful Struggle to Raise a Green Family

The Big Picture: Reflections on Science, Humanity, and a Quickly Changing Planet

Terracide

Sea Sick: The Hidden Ecological Crisis of the Global Ocean

The Ego Boom: Why the World Really Does Revolve Around You

Death by Prescription: A Father Takes on His Daughter’s Killer – the Multi-Billion Dollar Pharmaceutical Companies

The Dog by the Cradle, the Serpent Beneath: Some Paradoxes of Human-Animal Relationships

Right Relationship: Building a Whole Earth Economy

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