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Tapped is an insightful look at the big business of bottled water.

The true story of the postman and gardener who took on McDonald’s—and won.

This book is the first comprehensive account of the causes, context, and consequences of the the worst accident in the history of commercial nuclear power in the United States, which occurred at Three Mile Island.

Bryan Norton differs between two types of sustainability definitions, ‘social scientific’ and ‘ecological’ ones, in order to define our moral obligation to act sustainably.

Ken Cruikshank and Nancy Bouchier’s research on the environmental history of the Hamilton, Ontario, waterfront since 1955 looks at who determines the environmental health of a community.

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Ferrieres, Madeleine. Sacred Cow, Mad Cow: A History of Food Fears. New York: Columbia University Press, 2006.

Leading health scholars reveal the impact of globalization on human health, as it is mediated through environmental change.

An original history of “ecological” ideas of the body as it unfolded in California’s Central Valley.

Eagle Glassheim, Carson Fellow from February until April 2012, talks about his research project on the ethnic, social, and environmental transformation of Czechoslovakia’s Border Lands after 1945.

On the use, abuse, and regulation of pesticides from World War II until 1970.