Alice Outwater
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Language
English
Description
Nature on the brink? Maybe not. With so much bad news in the world, we forget how much environmental progress has been made. In a narrative that reaches from Native American tribal practices to public health and commercial hunting, Wild at Heart shows how western attitudes towards nature have changed dramatically in the last five hundred years.
The Chinook gave thanks for King Salmon's gifts. The Puritans saw Nature as a frightening wilderness, full...
Author
Language
English
Description
An environmental engineer turned ecology writer relates the history of our waterways and her own growing understanding of what needs to be done to save this essential natural resource.
“Water: A Natural History” takes us back to the diaries of the first Western explorers; it moves from the reservoir to the modern toilet, from the grasslands of the Midwest to the Everglades of Florida, through the guts of a wastewater treatment plant and out to...
Author
Publisher
BasicBooks
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
Argues that the Clean Water Act of 1972 has done its job in limiting the number of industrial pollutants going into the country's waterways, but that approximately one-third of America's stream miles and lake areas are still polluted due to man's disruption of the natural water cycle.