Planet Earth - The Complete BBC Series

Amazon Price: $59.99 (as of 10/12/2008)

Planet Earth was filmed on Seven continents. It took Five years and included a $25 million budget. Planet Earth is such an epic, that it earns comparisons to some of the biggest Hollywood blockbusters. I think High Definition Digest said it best "It's the Titanic of television nature documentaries - a work of great majesty, high ambition and huge financial risk (after all, this isn't a genre known for generating huge profits)." David Attenborough's narrates the series and does a great job at it. Planet Earth first started airing as an eleven episode series on the BBC in England late last year, and more recently on the Discovery Channel and Discovery HD here in the United States. With Planet Earth you will see beautiful landscapes of our planet, and amazing animal scenes all which will leave you either breathless, or at times put you on the edge of your seat. How some of these things were even able to be photographed by humans often makes you wonder. If you have a 1080p HD TV I highly encourage you to get the blu-ray or HD-DVD of Planet Earth. Only then will you will really appreciate the beauty of this amazing series.

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Planting Nature: Trees and the Manipulation of Environmental Stewardship in America

by Shaul E. Cohen

Amazon Price: $35.95 (as of 10/12/2008)

In this thoughtful, well documneted book, Dr. Cohen points out that Americans have for a long time been aware of the damage we are doing to our environment. And for a long time tree planting has been viewed as a method of combating environmental degredation. But too often we treat tree planting as a panacea, though tree planting is not really the cure-all it is often made out to be. Dr. Cohen takes a critical view of such wholesome institutions as Arbor Day and the Global Releaf effort, but this is not out of a belief that planting trees is bad, but out of concern that by engaging in such activities people will not believe that there is more that needs to be done. This is a book that would read well with "Making Peace with the Planet" by Barry Commoner.

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Recycle!: Make Your Own Eco-Friendly and Creative Designs - 101 Projects for Home & Garden

by Moira Hankinson, Nicholas Hankinson

Amazon Price: $18.21 (as of 10/12/2008)

Designers Moira and Nicholas Hankinson are masters of transforming reclaimed materials into beautiful and useful objects, and their new book is packed with exciting projects for the home and garden. Arranged in chapters that include "Bedrooms, Bathrooms, and Boudoirs," "Decorative Accessories," and "The Garden," Recycle! offers clear, concise instructions on how to create each design, from the modest painting of the bed-spring candle holder and the window-shutter CD rack to the more ambitious excavations of the railway-tie garden steps. Taking us through each step, from finding the salvaged item to the beautifully photographed finished piece, Recycle! opens our eyes to the rich possibilities of turning "trash" into treasure.