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The Great Gulf: Fishermen, Scientists, and the Struggle to Revive the World's Greatest Fishery 1 review
David Dobbs
Island Press, 2000
GOOD READING ON FISH ECOLOGY
This is an interesting, and very readable study of the problems that have caused major declines within the New England groundfishing industry, and how 2 seperate, but equally interested parties can view a subject so ...
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Finding Nemo (Two-Disc Collector's Edition) 992 reviews
Eric Bana, Nicholas Bird (II)
Walt Disney Video, 2003
Second best by Pixar
+ Classic!
+ Go Nemo!
+ Great movie
+ One of my favorites!
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The Whale Warriors: The Battle at the Bottom of the World to Save the Planet's Largest Mammals 12 reviews
Peter Heller
Free Press, 2007
Ahab Against the Whalers
+ The Whale Warriors
+ Best Read of my life...
+ Page-turning adventure and high quality information
+ An Arresting Eco-Adventure
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Earth First! - the Radical Environmental Journal1 review
Earth First
ALF and ELF are back and stronger than ever!!
This magazine is a god-send for those who are sick and tired of the Bush administartion and the government in general when it comes to dealing with animals and the earth. Earth First! has a new, fresh design, and is better than ever. The articles are intersting and they speak to those who care ...
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Greenpeace: How a Group of Ecologists, Journalists, and Visionaries Changed the World5 reviews
Rex Weyler
Rodale Books, 2004
Superb
+ Lively and Entertaining
+ Great, Wonderful, Spectacular
+ No trees were cut down for this book!
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Marine Protected Areas for Whales, Dolphins and Porpoises: A World Handbook for Cetacean Habitat Conservation2 reviews
Erich Hoyt
Earthscan Publications Ltd., 2004
Recommended reading
+ My Bible for MPA for cetacean management!
In this excellent and definitive book, the author makes clear that Marine Protected Areas, even in the earliest stages of full evaluation, offer a realistic and informed approach to immediate and future marine conservation. Whilst the science and logisitcs are complex, the theory behind MPAs is ...
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Making Waves: The Orgin and Future of Greenpeace 1 review
Jim Bohlen
Black Rose Books, 2000
Brave, humble addition to the history of Greenpeace
With a few thousand dollars scraped together through a charity Joni Mitchell and James Taylor concert, a raggle taggle collection of hippies and peace activists charter a leaky fishing boat and set off to stop a nuclear bomb. This is a very personal account of one of Greenpeace's founders: the ...
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Greenpeace: Standing Up for the Earth Calendar 200815 reviews
Greenpeace
Workman Publishing Company, 2007
Parrots in May and on Cover
+ A Useful Time Instrument
+ Broaden your Outlook.
+ Greenpeace calendar
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Ocean Warrior: My Battle to End the Illegal Slaughter on the High Seas8 reviews
Captain Paul Watson
Key Porter Books, 1996
Eco-terrorists of the world unite!!!!!
+ amazing!
+ READ THIS BOOK!
+ We need many more like him.
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Wild Ocean1 review
Sylvia Earle, Henry Wolcott
National Geographic, 1999
Beautifully illustrated - superb into to marine parks
THE definitive introduction to America's 'Parks Under the Sea'. Beautifully illustrated with photographs from a virtual who's who of underwater/nature photography -- Wolcott Henry, David Doubilet, Frans Lanting, Gary Ellis, Stephen Frink, Norbert Wu ... From the slow-moving Manatee in the caribbean ...
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Fire In The Turtle House: The Green Sea Turtle and the Fate of the Ocean9 reviews
Osha Gray Davidson
PublicAffairs, 2003
Mysterious Waters....
+ Fantastic Book
+ fascinating and heartbreaking
+ An Honest, Inside Account about the Fate of the Sea Turtle
+ Compelling Read About Fate of Sea Turtles and the Oceans
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Heal the Ocean: Solutions for Saving Our Seas4 reviews
Rod Fujita
New Society Publishers, 2003
UPBEAT, REALISTIC AND FULL OF NEW IDEAS
+ Dive into this ocean of knowledge!
+ New Book Rides a Wave of Hope
+ Championing the Seas
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Seal Wars: Twenty-five Years on the Front Lines with the Harp Seals4 reviews
Paul Watson
Firefly Books, 2003
A Great Man, A Great Story
+ A true tale of heroism
+ Eye Opener!
+ Everyone who cares about earth should read this book
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Ocean's End Travels Through Endangered Seas22 reviews
Colin Woodard
Basic Books, 2001
Coastal Policy Has Killed the Oceans!
+ Powerful and Well Written
+ A Really Good Book
+ One of the most devastating books I've read
+ A great book
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The Greenpeace to Amchitka: An Environmental Odyssey2 reviews
Robert Hunter
Arsenal Pulp Press, 2005
Bob Hunter created Greenpeace - read about it here!
+ A Journey That Continues to Inspire
Robert Hunter died May 2nd, 2005, shortly after this book was published. I have every book he ever published; every damn one of them is a trip to read, like you're sitting in a bar with this great storyteller and he cannot stop talking - and you don't want him to! Bob was a great storyteller, and ...
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Marine Reserves: A Guide to Science, Design, and Use1 review
Jack Sobel, Craig Dahlgren
Island Press, 2004
Essential reading for managers and activists alike
Extraordinary review of the vitally important role of protected areas in the marine environment for biodiversity conservation AND economic yield for fisheries. Too bad the idiots who run the world's fisheries are apparently too illiterate to read and absorb it...
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Defying Ocean's End: An Agenda For Action
Island Press, 2004
If humankind were given a mandate to do everything in our power to undermine the earth's functioning, we could hardly do a better job than we have in the past thirty years on the world's oceans, both by what we are putting into it-millions of tons of trash and toxic materials-and by what we are taking out of it-millions of tons of wildlife. Yet only recently have we begun to understand the scale ...
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Earth Island Journal 2 reviews
Earth Island Institute
Eco-news and action.
Earth Island provides insight on a wide-range of ecological concerns, and attempts to meliorate various disasters that are befalling our planet. Environmental legend David Brower was instrumental in the founding of Earth Island Journal, and his legacy lives on in the "Brower Awards" that the ...
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Sea of Slaughter: Farley Mowat Library2 reviews
Farley Mowat
Stackpole Books, 2004
Slaughter for Profit
+ A shaking litany of slaughter by humans
Passionate, well-written account of what has become of animal life in North America since the arrival of the Europeans in the early 1500's. Amazing. I will never look at the world in the same way. Farley Mowat, focusing on the North-east of North America, paints a vivid picture of what animal ...
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The Silent Deep: The Discovery, Ecology, and Conservation of the Deep Sea2 reviews
Tony Koslow
University Of Chicago Press, 2007
A fascinating review of a fascinating field of study
+ An excellent encyclopedia of the deep
I ordered this book hoping for more amazing photographs of newly-discovered deep-sea species like I found in "The Deep", but I got much, much more than that. The review of deep-sea ecology was both incredibly interesting and not too difficult for someone without much experience in marine biology. I ...
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