Imagine what the future might be like if we ignored the challenges facing us today. What If We Do Nothing? takes a long, thoughtful look at some of the world's most pressing problems. Each book in the series clearly explains the causes and effects of a potential crisis and suggests solutions.
In Do Nothing, award-winning journalist Celeste Headlee illuminates a new path ahead, seeking to institute a global shift in our thinking so we can stop sabotaging our well-being, put work aside, and start living instead of doing.
The collection includes such classic essays as "The Ways of Our People" and "Africa in Our Midst," as well as personal observations on literature, sports, the South, and leading figures from the racial dissident movement"--Amazon.com
In collecting my thoughts for this book , I spent countless hours in Bay Area parks — not only in the Rose Garden , but Purisima Creek Redwoods Preserve , Joaquin Miller Park , Sam McDonald County Park , the Pearson - Arastradero ...
The climate change is coming. To prepare for it, we need to admit that we can’t prevent it.
Dissolving and dismantling your belief that something is wrong with you and replacing that with what is. Redefining a new interpretation of right and wrong
. . . I encourage people to read this book.”—Alan Weisman, The New York Review of Books
Describes how large amounts of garbage are created today, how to recycle effectively, and why it is important to reduce or eliminate garbage.
Backed with advice from the world's leading experts on happiness and productivity, this book examines the underlying science behind niksen and how doing less can often yield so much more.
The most urgent story of our times, brilliantly reframed, beautifully told: how we had the chance to stop climate change, and failed.
This book looks at the causes of major infectious diseases, how they spread, and how they can be treated and discusses the different steps that governments and health organizations can take to handle and prevent epidemics and pandemics.