Best environment & nature books according to redditors

We found 34 Reddit comments discussing the best environment & nature books. We ranked the 20 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.

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Top Reddit comments about Environment & Nature:

u/Odd_nonposter · 79 pointsr/vegan

Read Green is the New Red if you want an account of the brainscrewery that is anti-animal activist rhetoric and legislation.

u/SaitoHawkeye · 50 pointsr/ChapoTrapHouse

So I did a little research and uh...this guy is a chemtrails guy?


https://columbusfreepress.com/article/caldeira-comes-clean-chemtrails


https://freepress.org/article/call-it-its-real-name-chemtrails-harvard-prof-calls-spraying-re-freeze-arctic


https://www.amazon.com/Star-Wars-Weather-Spectrum-Dominance/dp/0971043868


I mean, the Epstein stuff is already deep in conspiracy territory but this is making me feel like some people are actually losing it...

u/Chtorrr · 12 pointsr/Old_Recipes

The book is Ladies' Home Journal Easy as 1-2-3 Warm Weather Cookbook. All the recipes are separated into menus for various dinners.

Here it is on Amazon and on AbeBooks

u/emanaton · 6 pointsr/vegan

Well said, Octagon. Adding to that, let's be clear about how the word "terrorist" is being misused in this context:

  • No human has ever been killed by animal rights activists.
  • Only very targeted property damage has over been done by animal rights activists.
  • The use of the word "terrorist" in this context is a deliberate misapplication of language meant to shape the discourse around "terrorism" rather than "financial losses".
  • For more on all this, give "Green Is The New Red" a read.
u/cuweathernerd · 6 pointsr/pics

I like it a lot. Since it is about forecasting and not Atmospheric Science so much, lots of people find it more engaging. It gets pretty good reviews on amazon too


If you are interested in learning about meteorology, I highly recommend COMET modules Some are pretty esoteric, but things like Skew-T mastery are fantastic. They take a bit of time but they've been as helpful as some of my college classes.

u/vahouzn · 5 pointsr/gifs

Charles Brooks also wrote a nice little book called Why the Weather and helped work on the International Cloud Atlas.

The cereal video is quite famous, too. :P

u/Asmodeane · 5 pointsr/sailing

Alard Cole's Heavy Weather Sailing, of course!

u/JimBoonie69 · 4 pointsr/weather

Hello - Glad to have you joining us as an atmospheric scientist! Can I ask where you are attending school? As for the reading, there are so many places to start. First off you should be well versed in mathematics, especially calculus topics like derivatives, integrals, and some basic differential equations knowledge. These things form the basis of our science.

One good book is the one used at my school for our ATMS100 class, and is co-authored by my department head. Here is a link http://www.amazon.com/SEVERE-AND-HAZARDOUS-WEATHER-INTRODUCTION/dp/0757517544

Here is another intro book http://www.amazon.com/Weather-Studies-Introduction-Atmospheric-Science/dp/1878220748

After you understand the basics you will tackle topics like Thermodynamics, Radiation, and Dynamics. Also I would HIGHLY recommend getting comfortable in a programming language (Python is a good starter) because as an atmospheric scientist it will be extremely helpful if you are able to ingest and process large volumes of weather data in order to analyze and gather info from it. I am about to graduate with a BS in atmos sci and I have already found a job.

My employers definitely need my weather knowledge as it is a very specific domain. But, on top of that, I have about 2 solid years of programming experience. Outside of my classwork I spent lots of time coding. A huge part of being a good engineer/atmospheric-scientist is being able to automate stuff with a programming language. This means that instead of having to make plots of pressure/temperature vs time by hand, I can write a program that will ingest millions of records and make thousands of graphs in a fraction of the time. Also I got familiar with web-dev and the apex of my learning was this ruby on rails app that plots weather forecasts. http://mos-dashboard.herokuapp.com. Having this little app definitely made me more employable. Plus, in the future, the integration of atmospheric science and programming is going to increase.

Here is a good place to start with Python http://www.learnpython.org

PS - feel free to message me if you have more questions.

u/tragopanic · 3 pointsr/Random_Acts_Of_Amazon
  1. I have helped raise over $7 million for charity in the last 7 years.
  2. I've only been on this subreddit for about a week and I'm already running out of fun facts to tell you about myself.
  3. I'm under the misguided impression that this particular book would make me happy. Perhaps my head is just in the clouds.
u/rm-rfroot · 3 pointsr/weather

You may also like the Weather Forcasting Handbook by Tim Vasquez also, (well Anything by Tim Vasqauez from what I heard is great).
He also owns a weather forum that is visited by a good amount of experienced storm chasers and weather enthuses, stormtrack.org .
You also have https://www.meted.ucar.edu/index.php which was either linked to either on here or /r/freebies which offers free meteorology courses.

u/AznTiger · 2 pointsr/askphilosophy

YES. The problem of application is a big part of my research right now! As the other authors suggested, Hursthouse's On Virtue Ethics is super easily digestible. As for Aristotle though, if you don't have the time to go through everything (even if they're subtly linked), the Politics is a good thing to follow up Nic Ethics with. I haven't read the entirety of Eudemean Ethics, so I don't have a fully formed opinion on it. Another good book is Setiya's Reason Without Rationality, which was recommended to me by a doctoral candidate in super applied ethics, who did virtue ethics in his undergrad. Again, I haven't finished this yet, but what I have read is super on point.

As for specific topics, virtue ethics has been used a lot recently in healthcare ethics, and environmental ethics. Specifically, Holland wrote an interesting piece on the plausibility of virtue ethics resolving the shortcomings of the prevalent theories, and have an excellent anthology on virtue ethics with regards to the environment (under the guidance of my supervisor, a lot of my undergrad thesis is expanding or reworking the papers in here, if that lends it any credibility). From the authors in that anthology, I've also been looking more into Thomas Hill Jr. and Wensveen, specifically who have loads of great advice. Lastly, MacIntyres After Virtue is pretty important. I have tons more, but that should be a good start for you. LMK if you have any more specific requests, or need any help understanding these.

As for applying virtue ethics in our own lives, for me personally, the manner of moral judgment and criticism is super easily applied to my own life (granted, I'm a pretty fucking insecure person off the internet, so direction of causation is questionable there). There are a lot of thoughts that take the form of "damn, that was a very [vice] act" etc. I like to imagine that anyone with a serious interest in virtue ethics at least aims towards being a virtuous agent.

u/Ivebeenfurthereven · 2 pointsr/boating

Would-be naval architect here (turned aerospace engineer, they're surprisingly similar fields). Our dreams are not so different.

You absolutely need to read - and understand - Heavy Weather Sailing by Adlard Coles. This is regarded as the Bible of ocean-crossing small craft design and has been in print for about 40 years. It's quite heavy text, but you don't need to be a scientist to understand it, just remember not giving up on this book and reading as much as you can will keep you safe.

It starts off talking about the meteorology of storms, the physics of wind & wave formation, and once you understand how these things work it explains how competing designs and different charecteristics of the rig and hull cope with extreme weather, e.g. breaking waves pitchpoling a yacht, as well as fair-weather performance. I read it purely for interest, but I was 15 at the time, so it's really not too hard to follow.

I was going to put key points here, but it is absolutely impossible to tl;dr summarise everything your situation needs. If you can't do it yourself, do the smart thing and hire a designer with a good reputation to help you realise your dream - if going it alone, this book is mandatory required reading.

Overengineer things. Rigging wire a size or two larger than manufacturers' recommendation is more likely to come out of extreme situations unscathed, it's not unusual for blue-water sailors to carry an anchor a size or three over to be certain it will grip in a storm, etc. Read up on safety gear - EPIRBs and satellite radios are, imo, a must these days but it's not all flashy electronics - several spare 600-yard warps are useful in everything from drag in a storm to jury-rigging a rudder to towing someone else to safety. Consider different scenarios and how you'd cope - "the mast falls down and you're asleep", for instance, or "the fresh water tanks leak and there's none left in the middle of the Atlantic". Can you fix it alone? Tools - and the knowledge to use them to repair everything you own - will keep you safe.

Finally, I recommend an xpost to /r/sailing, they're a bit more active. Also find some forums dedicated for sailors (I like Scuttlebutt on yachtingmonthly.com, but there must be communities dedicated to blue-water sailing and self-builds) - you'll get much more detailed advice there. Good luck and don't give up!

u/Maybeyesmaybeno · 1 pointr/IAmA

I'm not sure you're going to get to any more questions, but I wanted to know if you had read the book "One Straw Revolution" by Masanobu Fukuoka, and if so, what you might think of it.

Thank you.

u/bigginsking · 1 pointr/flying

Not to be trifled with! Try the Owens Valley on for size, in the Sierra Wave Project a glider was subjected to +/-15 Gs, ripped apart, the pilot bailed out, got a detached retina in one eye and with the other eye he saw chunks of the gilder sucked into the rotor cloud. Read "Exploring the Monster" to get the full details.

u/nodlehsmd · 1 pointr/Green

The only reason your company can exist is because of an enormous amount of market manipulation by the government, the exact market manipulation you and Gary Johnson are against. I promise you, without it, you would be out of a job. Technologies like solar, wind, and hydrogen fuel cells suffer from massive start-up costs and would never be able to compete with fossil fuels which benefit form massive economies of scale. The free market got us into this mess because the free market, while it is good for lots of things, is terrible at discounting for the future costs of pollution, a lot of the problem being that it's so damn hard to know what those costs will be. The free market is why Lake Erie died. The free market is why Centralia, PA is completely uninhabitable. The free market is why people's water all over Pennsylvania is now flammable. The free market is why the ecosystem of the Gulf of Mexico is now crippled and will be for decades.

I have a Masters of Economics, my focus was Environmental Econ, and I'm working on my PhD in Envi Econ now. This is my life. I eat, breathe, and sleep environmental economics.

Here's some good reading on the subject:

Public Policies for Environmental Protection, Portney and Stavins (2000)

The Wealth of Nature: Economics as if Survival Mattered, Greer (2011)

Environmental Policy: New Directions for the Twenty-first Century, Vig and Craft (2009)

The Environmental Case: Translating Values Into Policy, Layzer (2011)

And a couple blogs that I like:

env-econ.net

greeneconomics.blogspot.com

u/galaxydust · 1 pointr/tipofmytongue

I've been looking for this for months, but after I posted this I suddenly found it. Parade of Stories by Child Horizons.

Link: http://www.amazon.com/Parade-Stories-Horizons-Esther-Bjoland/dp/B000EDZLNY

u/Nineties-Kid · 1 pointr/changemyview

I recommend you read Will Potter's Green is the New Red for a detailed and sympathetic (since you posted to CMV) view on ELF.

To keep this short, I don't think it is appropriate for the government to conflate terrorism or violence with ELF actions which include sabotage and property destruction. Harm to buildings and equipment isn't exactly in the same moral category as harm to persons, although one could make the argument that arson poses a sufficiently significant risk to human safety that that distinction is blurred somewhat.

Also, Potter argues in his book that the reason for the terrorism label being applied to ELF activists is more motivated by the threat they pose to the profits of the firms they target than by an actual threat to public safety. He points out that right-wing hate groups who engage in violent acts against persons are not as great of a priority to the FBI.

u/NoPyroNoParty · 1 pointr/UKGreens

Depends what you want really, there's no shortage of political books out there. I've still got a long list to read myself.

Environmental Politics: A Very Short Introduction is good (the Environmental Economics book from the same series is also okay-ish but not very wide-ranging). Green Parties, Green Future is one I want to read at some point. I've also heard good things about Derek Wall's No-Nonsense Guide to Green Politics and Shahrar Ali's Why Vote Green but haven't read them myself. I'm sure there are more though.

On a wider note, there are quite a few major titles within the environmental movement, past (Silent Spring, A Blueprint for Survival) and present (This Changes Everything). Haven't got round to reading many of them.

Just been informed that there will be a used book sale for green and political books at conference too, looking forward to that.

u/Floriderp · 1 pointr/IWantToLearn
u/unportrait · 1 pointr/conspiracy

> OK, when you show me PROOF they ARE condensation based "con-trails"
>

http://i.imgur.com/H7FBIDR.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/9u9PIJX.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/ShyXbvK.jpg

If you are looking for additional references I would suggest:

The Book of Clouds: John A. Day
http://www.amazon.com/The-Book-Clouds-John-Day/dp/1402728131

Clouds and Weather: R.K Pilsbury
http://www.amazon.com/Clouds-weather-R-K-Pilsbury/dp/0713421029

A Field Guide to the Atmosphere (Peterson Field Guides)
http://www.amazon.com/Field-Guide-Atmosphere-Peterson-Guides/dp/0395976316

There are many other resources describing how planes create condensation trails, but this should be a good start.


> there's plenty of evidence of their chemical composition out there.
>

Are you talking about the balanced chemical equation for the formation of water vapour through the burning of hydrocarbons? If not, please provide the evidence you are talking about:

http://www.chacha.com/question/what-is-the-balanced-equation-for-the-compte-combustion-of-kerosene

> including from the us govt themselves, BUT you'd shoot that down too as some type of bullshit\
>

Please provide a link where the US Govt states that they are dumping chemicals that would appear as contrails.

> otherwise, go troll someone else :D

Not sure that this was necessary ...

u/Captspanky · 1 pointr/sailing

This was essential reading on board our yacht. As a ten year old child, I remember being absorbed in this book down below, as our father took our violently pitching yacht through a horrible storm off the coast of France. Adlard Coles - Heavy Weather Sailing

Gripping stuff.

u/Newepsilon · -1 pointsr/news

Maybe you should reevaluate your understanding of this subject. Perhaps a comprehensive, well written, and well cited academic book would help. https://www.amazon.com/Environmental-Case-Translating-Values-Policy/dp/1604266120