Natural Resources


The Rare Metals War: the dark side of clean energy and digital technologies
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
Salt: A World History
The New Geopolitics of Natural Gas
The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power
Where the Water Goes: Life and Death Along the Colorado River
The Lorax
Dear Children of the Earth
Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food
Water: The Epic Struggle for Wealth, Power, and Civilization
Elixir: A History of Water and Humankind
The Mighty Red
The Devil's Element: Phosphorus and a World Out of Balance
Beaverland: How One Weird Rodent Made America
Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
Spindletop Gusher by Carmen BredesonThe Prize by Daniel YerginEnergy Development and Wildlife Conservation in Western North... by David E. NaugleThe Quest by Daniel YerginThe Boom by Russel Gold
Oil & Gas Mineral Rights
6 books — 3 voters
Land on Fire by Gary FergusonBetween Two Fires by Stephen J. PyneWildfire by Heather   HansenFire Season by Philip ConnorsThe Forest Of Fire by Erik Ohlsen
Wildfire Reading
64 books — 3 voters

Michigan Turtles and Lizards by James H. HardingMichigan Frogs, Toads, and Salamanders by James H. HardingMichigan Snakes by J. Alan Holman
MSU Extension Books
3 books — 1 voter

On a larger scale-be it our need for precious metals, hydroelectric power, or marine resources- we will all face the same decisions, feel under the same pressure to perform and produce. We will always be tempted to take a little more, push the land and its limits just a little bit harder. Do one or two birds matter? Will one more mineral mine or a few more drilling platforms alter the delicate balance? No, not on their own. But person by person, decision by decision, year by year, we will either ...more
Alvah Simon, North to the Night : A Spiritual Odyssey in the Arctic

Debasish Mridha
The true wealth of a nation is not their natural resources but their achievements in education.
Debasish Mridha

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