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Was wäre, wenn Kohlenstoff nicht unser Feind, sondern unser größter Verbündeter ist?Paul Hawkens Kohlenstoff - Das verkannte Element präsentiert eine neue, unvoreingenommene Perspektive, welche die gängige Wahrnehmung des "Klimaschädlings" infrage stellt. Der renommierte Umweltschützer erkundet, wie das Element in jede Pore unserer Existenz vordringt und das gesamte Gewebe des Lebens formt. Das Buch führt uns durch Pflanzen-, Tier- und Pilzreiche und zeigt: Kohlenstoff ist die fundamentale Lebenskraft - Grundstein aller lebensfähigen chemischen Verbindungen, zentraler Motor des atmosphärischen Kreislaufs und essenzieller Baustein für technische Innovationen. Hawken erkundet Habitate von Menschen, Vögeln und Insekten und zeigt in seiner unnachahmlich poetischen und mitreißenden Sprache, wie wir unser Verhältnis zur Natur reparieren können. Ein intelligentes, Neugier weckendes und hoffnungsvolles Buch.

Die ökologische Krise ist vielschichtig. Die erforderliche gesellschaftliche Transformation betrifft auch das Weltbild. Aktuelle Vorschläge zur Weiterentwicklung der Vorstellungen zum Verhältnis von Mensch und Natur fallen meist fragmentarisch aus und tendieren in eine romantische oder utopische Richtung. Was fehlt, ist eine fundierte Klärung der Sinnbedingungen passender Weltbilder. Die Beiträge aus Philosophie, Theologie und Environmental Humanities legen dazu grundlegende Überlegungen vor und benennen zentrale Faktoren: die moralische und rechtliche Stellung von Naturwesen, die spirituelle Dimension, die Ausrichtung technischer und ökonomischer Zugänge und die Notwendigkeit eines relationalen Denkens.

<BR>A NATIONAL BESTSELLER<BR><BR>This keepsake collection, featuring tributes from Margaret Atwood and Neil Young, captures the essence of a revolutionary life as it celebrates the legacy of environmental icon David Suzuki.<BR><BR>Across his 90 years on planet Earth, David Suzuki has inspired generations of his followers to fight for environmental and social causes with courage and conviction. In Lessons From a Lifetime, Suzuki shares pearls of wisdom and hard-earned lessons for the next generation of activists, alongside personal stories and heartfelt contributions from his friends and family, his admirers, and even his opponents, including:<BR>- Margaret Atwood- Neil Young- Jane Fonda- Elizabeth May- Justin Trudeau- … and many more.<BR>In words and photographs, Lessons From a Lifetime shares David Suzuki's journey from surviving internment camps as a Japanese-Canadian child to becoming North America's most trusted voice in science communication. The book charts his years as a geneticist and superstar professor at the University of British Columbia; his dedication to demystifying complex science through his public broadcasting work, especially his beloved CBC Television program, The Nature of Things; his founding of The David Suzuki Foundation; and his unparalleled dedication to standing up for Indigenous and environmental rights, a dedication that continues today.<BR><BR>A stunning tribute to a fearless truth-teller who transformed how we understand our relationship with the natural world, Lessons From a Lifetime belongs on every bookshelf.<BR><BR>Published in Partnership with the David Suzuki Institute<BR><BR>

There is no silver bullet for the climate crisis-but that hasn't stopped people searching. Seizing its chance, the nuclear power industry wants us to believe that theirs is the only technical fix for our deliverance. The public, politicians and the media have been easily swayed.This should come as no surprise. After all, the pro-nuclear PR campaign is richly funded and has an army of lobbyists sowing myths while the industry reaps the rewards of taxpayer-funded subsidies.No To Nuclear calls the industry's bluff. Blasting aside its claims to be safe and green, Linda Pentz Gunter makes the irresistible case that nuclear power is too slow, too expensive, too dangerous and too integrally connected to the nuclear weapons complex, to serve as a rational energy choice.The book also delves into the lives of Indigenous peoples and communities of colour, who have been harmed the most by the nuclear sector, and questions whether the way we devalue nature and the environment is costing us the chance of a genuinely just energy transition.

While plenty of books tell readers how natural selection works, Force of Nature focuses on why understanding it has enormous practical value for reader's lives, right now.Natural selection never signs its work, earns awards, or collects the praise of peers. Still, the closer we look, the more awesome it is. We may understand that as life's most powerful process it shapes all living things in their endlessly surprising and photogenic diversity. But we're nowhere near done discovering its full power, scope, and reach. While plenty of books tell readers how natural selection works, Force of Nature focuses on why understanding it has enormous practical value and is important to reader's lives, right now. With vivid examples, the book shows how looking through the lens of natural selection adds value in domains as diverse as medicine, psychology, agriculture, artificial intelligence, engineering, economics, and law. Force of Nature illustrates how deepening our understanding of natural selection can help us to reduce errors, lower costs, increase efficiencies, and improve our ability to pursue some of our existing goals. It reveals hidden patterns that natural selection paints across seemingly disconnected things, from airplanes, cancers, and cod, to body armor, robot navigation, the feeling of ownership, and how we assess risks within the daily swirl of imperfectly predictable events. For example, the book looks at why both doctors and patients so often--and indeed so wildly--misunderstand diagnostic statistics for diseases like breast cancer. It illustrates how researchers can code software to evolve itself automatically to solve seemingly intractable problems. It explores the bases for some systemic but illogical biases in human decision-making. And it connects all these examples not only to each other but also to soil probes on Mars, satellite antennas, human breastmilk, the architectures of legal systems, and more. You are sure to come away with deeper understandings of how natural selection works, influences human behaviors more broadly and deeply than commonly contemplated, and how greater understanding of it can be harnessed to aid human flourishing across a surprisingly wide swath of domains.

Gold ist mehr als ein Rohstoff. Es ist ein Spiegel unserer Welt. | Mit limitiertem Farbschnitt in der 1. Auflage!Dieses Buch zeigt, wie eng Ressourcen, Macht, Kapital und globale Ungleichheit miteinander verwoben sind - und warum Lösungen selten dort entstehen, wo wir sie suchen.Ausgehend von persönlichen Erfahrungen im Kleinbergbau und der eigenen unternehmerischen Praxis verbindet Guya Merkle wirtschaftliche Realität mit gesellschaftlicher Verantwortung.Sie stellt die zentrale Frage unserer Zeit: Wie lassen sich Systeme verändern, die auf genau den Mechanismen basieren, die wir überwinden wollen?Ein Buch über Strukturen, Widersprüche und die Suche nach neuen Wegen - jenseits von einfachen Antworten.

Ein magisches Buch über ein lebensveränderndes Jahr in der Natur In der Dunkelheit des Winters, am ersten Tag des Jahres, erstellt Lea Korsgaard eine Liste. Sie hat sich vorgenommen, alle heimischen Schmetterlingsarten innerhalb eines einzigen Jahres zu sehen. Sie weiß nichts über Schmetterlinge. Sie weiß nicht, was sie antreibt. Sie spürt nur, dass etwas sie ruft. Es ist wie ein Sog.¿ Ihre Suche führt sie zu Landschaften, von deren Existenz sie nie geahnt hätte, geprägt vom Wind und vom Meer. Sie wandert über uralte Meeresböden und Hügel aus Algenschalen. Menschen, die ihre Hilfe anbieten, geleiten sie zu verborgenen Orten. Und je mehr sie über Schmetterlinge erfährt, desto unumwundener stößt sie auf die großen philosophischen Fragen: Warum leben wir? Und wofür leben wir wirklich?'Lesen Sie dieses Buch und Ihr Blick auf die Welt wird danach ein anderer sein.' Jyllands-Posten"Das Jahr der Schmetterlinge ist ein inspirierender Liebesbrief an die Magie der Natur in all ihrer Schönheit, Komplexität und Freude - eine intime Begegnung mit den Geheimnissen der Natur und des Lebens und eine unvergessliche Erinnerung daran, dass Wunder das Herz wiedererwecken." Amy Tan, New York Times-Bestsellerautorin von The Backyard Bird Chronicles 

How can design shine a light on humanity's relationship with the planet, its ecosystems and inhabitants, now and in the future?<BR><BR> Global challenges like climate change and ecosystem degradation are proving that a singular disciplinary approach is inadequate to respond to issues where societal behaviours, individual choices, political decisions, economic, technological and scientific developments are so densely entangled - not least in design. But what happens when we turn things around and decentre "the human" to look at our relationship with the planet, its ecosystems and inhabitants beyond the capitalist human-nature binary worldview?<BR><BR> Design Beyond the Human is a collection of essays by international scholars, designers and engaged citizens traversing activism, anthropology, conservation, creative writing, design practice, design theory, economics, education, environmental humanities, ethics, history, indigenous knowledge, law, philosophy, poetry, politics, regenerative agriculture, science, sociology and technology. Divided into three sections - We Are Not Alone, Design Beyond the Human, and Mediating Human-Non-Human Relations Through Design - the text generates conversations capable of thinking about life on planet Earth, challenging the Anglo-European anthropocentric conceptualisation of design that dominates practice, education, and academic discourse. Each section is unique: charting the transdisciplinary cultural perspective that is required to comprehend our predicament, the critique of human-centred design and its interdependence with capitalism, and the nascent practices and projects that are attempting to reconcile humanity's possible relationship with the planet, its ecosystems and inhabitants.<BR><BR> The book offers the reader an opportunity to engage with expertise, knowledge, methodologies and lived experiences from across disciplines shaped by shared concerns and provides an opportunity to question if design in a more-than-human way might reimagine design's relationship to capitalism and contemporary lifestyles. Will our planetary future be merely an ecologically aware version of today, or, in going beyond the human, might we develop a transdisciplinary perspective capable of imagining an alternative vision of life on Earth?