Livres les plus populaires en France●Environnement

An objective, comprehensive, and accessible examination of today's most crucial problem: preserving the environment in the face of society's insatiable demand for energy. In Energy at the Crossroads , Vaclav Smil considers the twenty-first century's crucial question: how to reconcile the modern world's unceasing demand for energy with the absolute necessity to preserve the integrity of the biosphere. With this book he offers a comprehensive, accessible guide to today's complex energy issues—ho...

Date de sortie: 2003-10-10 24,99 €

Join sustainability enthusiast and climate activist Sam Bentley as he shares the hopeful developments combating climate change! Do you feel like climate change is just getting worse and there's nothing you can do to stop it? Good news-there are tons of efforts already underway to save our planet, and we'd love for you to join the fight. Good News, Planet Earth! is your go-to guide to learn all about the amazing sustainable developments that are happening worldwide to combat global warming, pollu...

Date de sortie: 2023-06-13 Genre:Science et nature 8,99 €

In this urgent, authoritative book, Bill Gates sets out a wide-ranging, practical - and accessible - plan for how the world can get to zero greenhouse gas emissions in time to avoid a climate catastrophe. Bill Gates has spent a decade investigating the causes and effects of climate change. With the help of experts in the fields of physics, chemistry, biology, engineering, political science, and finance, he has focused on what must be done in order to stop the planet's slide toward certain enviro...

Date de sortie: 2021-02-16 Genre:Science et nature 9,49 €

Le manuel d'écologie quotidienne simple pratique et à l'usage de tous ! Zero déchet est une priorité pour l'avenir de notre planète ! En plus de préserver les ressources, cette démarche éco citoyenne nous permet d'améliorer notre quotidien, d'avoir plus de temps pour nous, de faire des économies et de veiller à notre santé et à l'avenir de nos enfants ! Ce manuel d'écologie quotidienne est là pour nous accompagner dans ce processus, en nous attaquant ensemble à la source du probl...

Date de sortie: 2019-04-18 10,99 €

**SUNDAY TIMES AND THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** 'An epoch-defining book' Matt Haig 'If you read just one work of non-fiction this year, it should probably be this' David Sexton, Evening Standard Selected as a Book of the Year 2019 by the Sunday Times, Spectator and New Statesman A Waterstones Paperback of the Year and shortlisted for the Foyles Book of the Year 2019 Longlisted for the PEN / E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award It is worse, much worse, than you think. The slowness of cli...

Date de sortie: 2019-02-19 Genre:Science et nature 9,49 €

L’obsolescence programmée, c’est un processus stupéfiant qui, pour développer notre addiction à la consommation et donc nous rendre captif du système économique, fut conçu puis mis en application au milieu du xixe siècle aux États-Unis. Des trois formes d’obsolescence programmée, le recours aux techniques pour rendre un produit suranné, à la publicité pour nous convaincre d’acquérir de nouveaux biens dont nous n’avons nul besoin, le plus symptomatique et le plus pervers e...

Date de sortie: 2012-10-03 9,49 €

Mur végétal ou jardin vertical, rien de plus logique que d'opter pour une réalisation totalement naturelle ! Une protection du froid en extérieur ou bien la nature dans son salon. Toutes les raisons sont bonnes pour réintégrer les plantes à notre habitat ! Cependant, réaliser un mur végétal ne s'improvise pas totalement et mieux vaut avoir un bon mode d'emploi. Quant à l'entretenir et à le voir prospérer, rien de plus simple quand on est bien conseillé ! Cette deuxi...

Date de sortie: 2011-07-07 6,49 €

A new type of Cold War is emerging between China and the West. . The global order is being simultaneously shaken by climate change and the shale revolution in oil and gas - and now by the coronavirus. Controversial fracking technology has given America unprecedented leverage as the world's leading energy powerhouse, ahead of Saudi Arabia and Russia, upending the chessboard of global politics and changing the psychology of the global economy. Despite being weighed down by sanctions, Russia is piv...

Date de sortie: 2020-09-15 Genre:Science et nature 11,99 €

Now a National Bestseller!  Climate change is real but it’s not the end of the world. It is not even our most serious environmental problem. Michael Shellenberger has been fighting for a greener planet for decades. He helped save the world’s last unprotected redwoods. He co-created the predecessor to today’s Green New Deal. And he led a successful effort by climate scientists and activists to keep nuclear plants operating, preventing a spike of emissions. But in 2019, as some claimed ...

Date de sortie: 2020-06-30 Genre:Science et nature 15,99 €

‘Nathaniel Rich’s account starts in Washington in the 1990s and tells the story of how climate change could have been stopped back then, if only the powerful had acted. But they didn’t want to.’ – Observer By 1979, we knew all that we know now about the science of climate change – what was happening, why it was happening, and how to stop it. Over the next ten years, we had the very real opportunity to stop it. Obviously, we failed. Nathaniel Rich tells the essential story of why and ...

Date de sortie: 2019-04-18 Genre:Science et nature 5,99 €

The world has changed in the seventeen years since the controversial initial publication of Paul Hawken's Ecology of Commerce, a stirring treatise about the perceived antagonism between ecology and business. Yet Hawken's impassioned argument—that business both causes the most egregious abuses of the environment and, crucially, holds the most potential for solving our sustainability problems—is more relevant and resonant than ever. Containing updated and revised material for a new audience, T...

Date de sortie: 2013-03-05 9,99 €

In the growing debate over eco-friendly living, it seems that everything is as bad as everything else. Do you do more harm by living in the country or the city? Is it better to drive a thousand miles or take an airplane? In NO IMPACT MAN, Colin Beavan tells the extraordinary story of his attempt to find some answers - by living for one year in New York City (with his wife and young daughter) without leaving any net impact on the environment. His family cut out all driving and flying, used no air...

Date de sortie: 2011-07-07 3,99 €

*A Times, Financial Times, Observer and Nature Book of the Year* We still have time to change the world. From Greta Thunberg, the world's leading climate activist, comes the essential handbook for making it happen. You might think it's an impossible task: secure a safe future for life on Earth, at a scale and speed never seen, against all the odds. There is hope - but only if we listen to the science before it's too late. In The Climate Book, Greta Thunberg has gathered the wisdom of over one hu...

Date de sortie: 2022-10-27 Genre:Science et nature 17,99 €

In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement. No One is Too Small to Make a Difference collects Greta Thunberg's history-making speeches, from addresses at climate rallies around the world audiences at the UN, the World Economic Forum, and the British Parliament. Over the past 75 years, a new canon has emerged. As life on Earth has become irrevocably altered by humans, visionary thinkers around the world have raised their voices to defend the planet, and a...

Date de sortie: 2019-05-30 Genre:Science et nature 4,99 €

Why are we drawn to the ocean each summer? Why does being near water set our minds and bodies at ease? In Blue Mind , Wallace J. Nichols revolutionizes how we think about these questions, revealing the remarkable truth about the benefits of being in, on, under, or simply near water. Grounded in cutting-edge studies in neurobiology, cognitive psychology, economics, and medicine, and made real by stories of innovative scientists, doctors, athletes, artists, environmentalists, businesspeople and lo...

Date de sortie: 2014-06-12 3,99 €

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER For the first time ever, an international coalition of leading researchers, scientists and policymakers has come together to offer a set of realistic and bold solutions to climate change. All of the techniques described here - some well-known, some you may have never heard of - are economically viable, and communities throughout the world are already enacting them. From revolutionizing how we produce and consume food to educating girls in lower-income countries, these a...

Date de sortie: 2018-02-22 Genre:Science et nature 12,99 €

Revised Edition with New Afterword from the Author Time #1 Nonfiction Book of the Year Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award Over 3 million copies sold in 35 Languages "On the day after humans disappear, nature takes over and immediately begins cleaning house - or houses, that is. Cleans them right off the face of the earth. They all go." What if mankind disappeared right now, forever... what would happen to the Earth in a week, a year, a millennium? Could the planet's climate ever...

Date de sortie: 2012-08-31 Genre:Science et nature 10,99 €

For millennia, humankind has exploited the Earth without counting the cost. Now, as the world warms and weather patterns dramatically change, the Earth is beginning to fight back. James Lovelock, one of the giants of environmental thinking, argues passionately and poetically that, although global warming is now inevitable, we are not yet too late to save at least part of human civilization. This short book, written at the age of eighty-six after a lifetime engaged in the science of the earth, is...

Date de sortie: 2007-02-22 9,49 €

Cet ouvrage retrace les transformations économiques et politiques qui, depuis 1945, ont conduit à cette généralisation de pollutions chimiques devenues aujourd’hui irréversibles, contribuant à façonner des environnements durablement dangereux pour les populations qui y vivent.

Date de sortie: 2019-03-07 9,99 €

The year is 2393, and the world is almost unrecognizable. Clear warnings of climate catastrophe went ignored for decades, leading to soaring temperatures, rising sea levels, widespread drought and—finally—the disaster now known as the Great Collapse of 2093, when the disintegration of the West Antarctica Ice Sheet led to mass migration and a complete reshuffling of the global order. Writing from the Second People's Republic of China on the 300th anniversary of the Great Collapse, a senior sc...

Date de sortie: 2014-07-01 Genre:Science et nature 9,49 €

Sujet médiatique depuis vingt ans, le développement durable est enfin entré dans les programmes scolaires. Cet enseignement imposé, avec des thèmes qui n'entrent pas vraiment dans les disciplines telles que l'école les connaît, a bien du mal à prendre forme. Cet ouvrage reprend, explore et évalue les définitions habituelles reliant « environnement », « social » et « économique » dans un ensemble de cercles qui se recoupent. À partir de cette analyse, il met au jour les spécifi...

Date de sortie: 2011-04-07 9,99 €

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Provocative and illuminating essays from women at the forefront of the climate movement who are harnessing truth, courage, and solutions to lead humanity forward. “A powerful read that fills one with, dare I say . . . hope?”— The New York Times   NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE There is a renaissance blooming in the climate movement: leadership that is more characteristically feminine and more faithfully feminist, rooted in compa...

Date de sortie: 2020-09-22 Genre:Science et nature 10,99 €

'It is terrific. I can't remember the last time I read a book that was more fascinating and useful and enjoyable all at the same time.' Bill Bryson How Bad Are Bananas? was a groundbreaking book when first published in 2009, when most of us were hearing the phrase 'carbon footprint' for the first time. Mike Berners-Lee set out to inform us what was important (aviation, heating, swimming pools) and what made very little difference (bananas, naturally packaged, are good!). This new edition updates...

Date de sortie: 2020-09-03 5,99 €

A call to action from Jane Fonda, one of the most inspiring activists of our time, urging us to wake up to the looming disaster of climate change and equipping us with the tools we need to join her in protest This is the last possible moment in history when changing course can mean saving lives and species on an unimaginable scale. It's too late for moderation. Our climate is in a crisis. 2019 saw atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases hit the highest level ever recorded in human history...

Date de sortie: 2020-09-08 Genre:Science et nature 3,49 €

The author of the international bestseller The Sixth Extinction returns to humanity's transformative impact on the environment, now asking: after doing so much damage, can we change nature, this time to save it? Meet the biologists trying to save the world's rarest fish; the engineers who are turning carbon emissions to stone; the researchers trying to develop a 'super coral'; and the physicists contemplating shooting tiny diamonds into the stratosphere to cool the earth. Elizabeth Kolbert is on...

Date de sortie: 2021-03-04 9,49 €

Gaia, in which James Lovelock puts forward his inspirational and controversial idea that the Earth functions as a single organism, with life influencing planetary processes to form a self-regulating system aiding its own survival, is now a classic work that continues to provoke heated scientific debate.

Date de sortie: 2000-09-28 11,99 €

“A history of the human brain from the big bang, fifteen billion years ago, to the day before yesterday . . . It's a delight.”— The New York Times Dr. Carl Sagan takes us on a great reading adventure, offering his vivid and startling insight into the brain of man and beast, the origin of human intelligence, the function of our most haunting legends—and their amazing links to recent discoveries.  “How can I persuade every intelligent person to read this important and elegant book? ...

Date de sortie: 1977-04-12 6,99 €

A NEW SCIENTIST BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A true hero' Greta Thunberg A legendary conservationist. A lifetime spent fighting for nature. An indispensable message of hope. In a world that seems so troubled, how do we hold on to hope? Looking at the headlines?the worsening climate crisis, loss of biodiversity, political upheaval?it can be hard to feel optimistic. And yet hope has never been more desperately needed. In this urgent book, Jane Goodall, the world's most famous living naturalist, and Douglas A...

Date de sortie: 2021-10-21 Genre:Science et nature 9,49 €

In the tradition of Silent Spring and The Sixth Extinction , an urgent, “disturbing, empowering, and essential” ( Kirkus Reviews , starred review) book about the ways in which chemicals in the modern environment are changing—and endangering—human sexuality and fertility on the grandest scale, from renowned epidemiologist Shanna Swan. In 2017, author Shanna Swan and her team of researchers completed a major study. They found that over the past four decades, sperm levels among men in Weste...

Date de sortie: 2021-02-23 13,99 €

Bjorn Lomborg argues that many of the elaborate and staggeringly expensive actions now being considered to meet the challenges of global warming ultimately will have little impact on the world’s temperature. He suggests that rather than focusing on ineffective solutions that will cost us trillions of dollars over the coming decades, we should be looking for smarter, more cost-effective approaches (such as massively increasing our commitment to green energy R&D) that will allow us to deal n...

Date de sortie: 2007-09-04 5,99 €

Sepp Holzer farms steep mountainsides in Austria, 1,500 metres above sea level. His farm is an intricate network of terraces, raised beds, ponds, waterways and tracks, well covered with productive fruit trees and other vegetation, with the farmhouse neatly nestling amongst them. This is in dramatic contrast to his neighbours' spruce monocultures. In this book, Sepp shares the skill and knowledge acquired over his lifetime. He covers every aspect of his farming methods, not just how to create a h...

Date de sortie: 2011-03-22 13,99 €

From the best-selling, award-winning author of 1491 and 1493 --an incisive portrait of the two little-known twentieth-century scientists, Norman Borlaug and William Vogt, whose diametrically opposed views shaped our ideas about the environment, laying the groundwork for how people in the twenty-first century will choose to live in tomorrow's world. In forty years, Earth's population will reach ten billion. Can our world support that? What kind of world will it be? Those answering these questions...

Date de sortie: 2018-01-23 9,99 €

Nous les côtoyons au quotidien, de notre cuisine jusqu’aux bords des routes... et même dans les médias. Que l’on nous parle de la nécessité de trier-recycler, de trafics transfrontaliers, ou de déchets dangereux. Mais savons-nous ce que sont réellement les déchets ? Savons-nous que même les étoiles en produisent ? Que la vie est impossible sans eux ? Bien avant nous, certains animaux sociaux géraient soigneusement leurs déchets. Érigés en monument par les hommes il y a 5 000 an...

Date de sortie: 2015-11-10 13,99 €

Une chose est sûre, le climat change ! Mais comment le changement climatique va-t-il influencer notre quotidien ? De nombreux spécialistes, coordonnés par un scientifique expert du GIEC, se sont associés à une journaliste pour nous donner un aperçu de ce que sera notre vie dans quelques dizaines d’années. Vins plus alcoolisés, assiettes plus vertes et moins protéinées, petites bêtes au menu, davantage de poissons d’élevage dans notre Caddie, de nouvelles destinations touristiques...

Date de sortie: 2015-09-21 3,99 €

A fantastic voyage through 15,000 years of history that laid the foundations for civilisation as we know it by award-winning science writer Steven Mithen. Twenty thousand years ago Earth was in the midst of an ice age. Then global warming arrived, leading to massive floods, the spread of forests and the retreat of the deserts. By 5,000 BC a radically different human world had appeared. In place of hunters and gatherers there were farmers; in place of transient campsites there were towns. The fou...

Date de sortie: 2011-12-08 Genre:Science et nature 0,99 €

'Do not miss this book' NAOMI KLEIN, author of This Changes Everything The history of the nutmeg is one of conquest and exploitation - of both human life and the natural environment - and the origin of our contemporary climate crisis. Tracing the threats to our future to the discovery of the New World and the sea route to the Indian Ocean, The Nutmeg's Curse argues that the dynamics of climate change are rooted in a centuries-old geopolitical order constructed by Western colonialism. The story o...

Date de sortie: 2021-10-14 0,99 €

United Nations Champion of the Earth, climate scientist, and evangelical Christian Katharine Hayhoe changes the debate on how we can save our future in this nationally bestselling “optimistic view on why collective action is still possible—and how it can be realized” ( The New York Times ). Called “one of the nation’s most effective communicators on climate change” by The New York Times , Katharine Hayhoe knows how to navigate all sides of the conversation on our changing planet. A C...

Date de sortie: 2021-09-21 Genre:Science et nature 13,99 €

With a new afterword, Why You Are Here: A speech on the opening of the COP26 climate summit As a young man, I felt I was out there in the wild, experiencing the untouched natural world - but it was an illusion. The tragedy of our time has been happening all around us, barely noticeable from day to day - the loss of our planet's wild places, its biodiversity. I have been witness to this decline. A Life on Our Planet contains my witness statement, and my vision for the future - the story of how we...

Date de sortie: 2020-10-01 Genre:Science et nature 9,49 €

L’image d’une énergie propre capable de remplacer le nucléaire et utile dans la lutte contre le réchauffement climatique, entretenue par les partisans de l’éolien, est un mythe qui justifie de coloniser le territoire français sans aucun encadrement public. Les aérogénérateurs investissent dorénavant tout le pays avec des machines monstrueuses de plus de 200 mètres de hauteur, dénaturant les plus beaux territoires et dégradant le cadre de vie de milliers de personnes. L’État ...

Date de sortie: 2020-04-08 5,99 €

'Naomi Klein's work has always moved and guided me. She is the great chronicler of our age of climate emergency, an inspirer of generations' - Greta Thunberg For more than twenty years Naomi Klein's books have defined our era, chronicling the exploitation of people and the planet and demanding justice. On Fire gathers for the first time more than a decade of her impassioned writing from the frontline of climate breakdown, and pairs it with new material on the staggeringly high stakes of what we ...

Date de sortie: 2019-09-17 Genre:Science et nature 9,49 €

A penetrating, page-turning tour of a post-human Earth In The World Without Us, Alan Weisman offers an utterly original approach to questions of humanity's impact on the planet: he asks us to envision our Earth, without us.In this far-reaching narrative, Weisman explains how our massive infrastructure would collapse and finally vanish without human presence; which everyday items may become immortalized as fossils; how copper pipes and wiring would be crushed into mere seams of reddish rock; why ...

Date de sortie: 2007-07-10 11,99 €

L’histoire du climat démontre des changements bien éloignés de la seule teneur en CO2 de l’atmosphère et de l’activité humaine. Actuellement, nous sommes en période interglaciaire, ce qui explique un réchauffement normal, en dépit de phénomènes météorologiques parfois violents et inattendus. Cependant, des facteurs non maîtrisables, tels que le volcanisme, peuvent remettre en question cette évolution comme cela a déjà été le cas autrefois. Le présent essai apporte des cl...

Date de sortie: 2022-12-06 Genre:Science et nature 7,99 €

'An inspirational manifesto for change' Caroline Lucas, former leader of The Green Party 'A remarkable and important book' Steve Backshall, Naturalist, Broadcaster, and Author 'Astute, erudite and crystalline, Bella writes with visionary clarity and passion [...] It's a wonderful book' Dara McAnulty, award-winning author of Diary of a Young Naturalist ____________________________ Across the planet, the futures of young people hang in the balance as they face the harsh realities of the environmen...

Date de sortie: 2022-06-30 9,49 €

The NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A radically new understanding of and practical approach to climate change by noted environmentalist and creator of Drawdown, Paul Hawken The dangers of climate change and a warming world have been in the public eye for fifty years. For three decades, scientists and the United Nations have urged us to address future existential threats. In Regeneration Paul Hawken has flipped the narrative, bringing people back into the conversation by demonstrating that addressing c...

Date de sortie: 2021-09-21 Genre:Science et nature 14,99 €

En este libro tan necesario y riguroso, Bill Gates expone un plan amplio, funcional y, sobre todo, asequible, para reducir a cero las emisiones de los gases causantes del efecto invernadero y evitar a tiempo una catástrofe medioambiental. Bill Gates ha dedicado una década a investigar el cambio climático. Con la orientación de expertos en física, química, biología, ingeniería, ciencias políticas y finanzas, se ha centrado en determinar qué medidas debemos tomar para detener la carrera ...

Date de sortie: 2021-02-16 Genre:Science et nature 10,99 €

Through 140 drawings, thought experiments, recipes, activist instructions, gardening ideas, insurgences and personal revolutions, artists who spend their lives thinking outside the box guide you to a new worldview; where you and the planet are one. Everything here is new. We invite you to rip out pages, to hang them up at home, to draw and scribble, to cook, to meditate, to take the book to your nearest green space. Featuring Olafur Eliasson, Etel Adnan, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Jane Fonda & Sw...

Date de sortie: 2021-06-03 Genre:Science et nature 8,49 €

'Punchy and to the point. No beating around the bush. This brilliant book contains all the information we need to have in our back pocket in order to move forward' Christiana Figueres, Former Executive Secretary UN Climate Change Convention 'Amazing book' Chris Evans, Virgin Radio Breakfast Show 'Everyone should have this book' Rick Edwards, BBC Radio 5 Live 'A timely and important book, not only laying out the facts...but suggesting real solutions to the challenges facing us' Professor Alice Ro...

Date de sortie: 2021-05-06 Genre:Science et nature 8,49 €

Sans vagues, les lacs, les mers, les océans ne perdraient-ils pas de leur pouvoir d’attraction ? Mais p arfois, leurs ondulations deviennent monstrueuses, féroces, assassines : scélérates. Comment naissent, vivent et meurent ces ogresses que sont les vagues scélérates ? Sortent-elles de nulle part ? Les navires sont-ils capables de les affronter ? Voici quelques réflexions sur ces géantes, agrémentées d’anecdotes et d’explications scientifiques à la portée de tous, illustrées ...

Date de sortie: 2019-03-21 15,99 €

This is the first book to explore how to use permaculture design and principles for people, to restore personal, social and planetary well-being. People and Permaculture widens the definition of permaculture from being mostly about land based systems to taking it right into the heart of our own lives, relationships and society. It is for anyone who thought permaculture wasn't for them because they didn't have a garden. It is for anyone who wants to improve their ability to care for themselves, t...

Date de sortie: 2012-04-03 16,99 €

Enough plastic is thrown away every year to circle the world 4 times More than 8 million tonnes of plastic enter the oceans each year 300 million tonnes of new plastic is produced every year An estimated 15-51 trillion pieces of plastic now litter the world's oceans 38.5 million plastic bottles are used every day in the UK A million plastic bottles are used per minute around the world 500 million plastic straws are used per year Without big action, at the current rate, pieces of plastic will out...

Date de sortie: 2018-07-26 3,99 €