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Author
Publisher
Audioworks
Pub. Date
c2017
Physical Desc
4 sound discs (ca. 4.5 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This book on CD is a call to action that details how the future of human civilization is under threat and offers concrete advice on how to solve the climate crisis at a moment when the solutions we need are emerging around the world.
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
375 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In a near future when life is harsh outside of Earth's last unpolluted place, Cee tries to leave an abandoned island while her sister, STEM prodigy Kasey, seeks escape from the science and home she once trusted.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"'We should have known the end was near.' So begins Imbolo Mbue's exquisite and devastating novel 'How Beautiful We Were.' Set in the fictional African village of Kosawa, it tells the story of a people living in fear amidst environmental degradation wrought by a large and powerful American oil company. Pipeline spills have rendered farmlands infertile. Children are dying from drinking toxic water. Promises of clean up and financial reparations to...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xiii, 783 p. : 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Weisman traveled to more than 20 countries to ask what experts agreed were the probably the most important questions on Earth-and also the hardest: How many humans can the planet hold without capsizing? How robust must the Earth's ecosystem be to assure our continued existence? Can we know which other species are essential to our survival? And, how might we actually arrive at a stable, optimum population, and design an economy to allow genuine prosperity...
Author
Series
Publisher
Ruby Tuesday Books
Pub. Date
2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 p. : ill., map 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Plastic pollution is one of the most damaging environmental issues we face today. And no one is more passionate about solving this problem and protecting our world than kids! This new title in the Get Started With STEM series gives young science enthusiasts all the information they need to investigate and do their part to help solve this problem now and for the future. Packed with facts, discussion topics, imaginative ideas for activities, experiments,...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
A mother and midwife inadvertently threatens the fortunes and livelihoods of her family and their neighbors after noticing an increase in local miscarriages and believes it's caused by the pesticides used by the Sanderson Timber Company, her husband's employer.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Since its publication in 1977, The Unsettling of America has been recognized as a classic of American letters. In it, Wendell Berry argues that good farming is a cultural and spiritual discipline. Todays agribusiness, however, takes farming out of its cultural context and away from families. As a result, we as a nation are more estranged from the land -- from the intimate knowledge, love, and care of it. Sadly, his arguments and observations are...
Author
Publisher
Tim Duggan Books
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"It is worse, much worse, than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possible. In California, wildfires now rage year-round, destroying thousands of homes. Across the US, "500-year" storms pummel communities month after month, and floods displace tens of millions annually. This is only a preview of the changes to come. And they are coming fast....
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
196 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A lifelong environmentalist, Annie Proulx brings her wide-ranging research and scholarship to the subject of wetlands and the vitally important yet little understood role they play in preserving the environment--by storing the carbon emissions that greatly contribute to climate change. Fens, bogs, swamps, and marine estuaries are the earth's most desirable and dependable resources, and in four stunning parts, Proulx documents the long-misunderstood...