rdf-syntax-grammar
mods:
  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Why Life Matters
    sub title: Fifty Ecosystems of the Heart and Mind
  name:
    name part: Tobias, Michael Charles.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Morrison, Jane Gray.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2014
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XIX, 419 p. 258 illus., 248 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: Dr. Michael Charles Tobias and Jane Gray Morrison are world-renowned ecological philosophers and activists, interdisciplinary social and environmental scientists and broad-ranging, deeply committed humanists. This collection of fifty essays and interviews comprises an invigorating, outspoken, provocative and eloquent overview of the ecological humanities in one highly accessible volume. The components of this collection were published in the authors’ "Green Conversations" blog series, and pieces in the Eco News Network from 2011 to 2013 and feature luminaries from Jane Goodall to Ted Turner to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution to the former head of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity. Stunning color photographs captured by the authors and contributors make Why Life Matters: Fifty Ecosystems of the Heart and Mind a feast for the eyes as well as the mind and soul. Ethics, science, technology, ecological literacy, grass-roots renaissance thinkers, conservation innovation from the U.S. to the U.K.; from India to Ecuador; from Bhutan to Haiti; from across Africa, the Neo-Tropics, Central Asia and Japan, to Rio, Shanghai and Manhattan – this humanistic ode to the future of life on earth is a relevant and resonating read. Michael Tobias and Jane Gray Morrison, partners who between them have authored some 50 books and written, directed and produced some 170 films, a prolific body of work that has been read, translated and/or broadcast around the world, have been married for more than a quarter-of-a-century. Their field research across the disciplines of comparative literature, anthropology, the history of science and philosophy, ecology and ethics, in over 80 countries, has served as a telling example of what two people – deeply in love with one another – can accomplish in spreading that same unconditional love to others – of all species.
  table of contents: Part One: Nature & Human Economics -- 1) “Technology, Business and Nature: An Economic Primer on Winners and Losers” -- 2) “Women, Wall Street and Mitigating Climate Change: The Critical Importance of WOCAN” -- 3) “The New Business of Business: Evolution of Culture and the Survival of Humankind”.-4) “Wall Street After Rio: A Discussion With Calvert Investments’ Senior Sustainability Research Analyst, Ms. Ellen Kennedy" -- 5) “Investing in the End-Game: An Earth Day Post-Mortem” -- 6) “Just When You Thought You Could Bank On It” -- Part Two: The Carbon-Negative Ideal -- 7) “Super Grid” -- 8) “Ecuador’s Imperiled Paradise: One of the World’s Most Important, If Least Known Battles – A Conversation with Dr. Ivonne Baki” -- 9) “Native American Tribes Get a Seat at the Climate Table” -- 10) “Climate Shock: UC-Berkeley Scientist Dr. John Harte Puts the World On Notice” -- Part Three: Human Health and a Living Earth -- 11) “Occupy Your Diet: A Discussion About Food, Health and Kindness With Dr. Neal Barnard" -- 12) “Eating You Alive: Environmental Cancer” -- 13) Food That Might Protect Your Brain and Save Your Life: A Discussion About the Ecology of Alzheimers With Dr. Neal Barnard” -- 14) “Biological Shock-Treatment: A Discussion With ‘Deadly Monopolies’ Author Harriet A. Washington” -- 15) “Bioeconomics: A New National Blueprint” -- Part Four: Ecology and the Human Population Explosion -- 16) “Six Billion or Fifteen Billion People: A Discussion With Environmental Scientist Leon Kolankiewicz” -- 17) “A King’s Speech That Could Help Save The World: A Discussion With UC-Berkeley’s Dr. Malcolm Potts” -- 18) “Planet Under Siege: Family Planning Critics Soon to See Global Population Reach 7,000,000,000” -- 19) “China’s Demographic and Ecological Conundrum” -- Part Five: Ecological Heroes -- 20) “One Woman’s Remarkable Quest to Save Africa’s White Lion” -- 21) “A Discussion With UNOPS Luminary Ms. Maria-Noel Vaeza” -- 22) “Down To Earth: The World According to Ted Turner” -- 23)…
  note: by Michael Charles Tobias, Jane Gray Morrison.
  subject:
    topic: Life sciences
  subject:
    topic: Ecology
  subject:
    topic: Conservation biology
  subject:
    topic: Nature
  subject:
    topic: Environment
  subject:
    topic: Environmental law
  subject:
    topic: Environmental policy
  subject:
    topic: Nature conservation
  subject:
    topic: Life Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Ecology
  subject:
    topic: Popular Science in Nature and Environment
  subject:
    topic: Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice
  subject:
    topic: Environment, general
  subject:
    topic: Conservation Biology/Ecology
  subject:
    topic: Nature Conservation
  classification: QH540-549.5
  classification: 577
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9783319078601
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07860-1
  record info:
    record creation date: 141103
    record change date: 20151204154210.0
    record identifier: 978-3-319-07860-1