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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11.5 - AR Pts: 19
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English
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THE CLASSIC THAT LAUNCHED THE ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT
"Rachel Carson is a pivotal figure of the twentieth century...people who thought one way before her essential 1962 book Silent Spring thought another way after it."—Margaret Atwood
Rarely does a single book alter the course of history, but Rachel Carson's Silent Spring did exactly that. The outcry that followed its publication in 1962 forced
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English
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Award-winning designer and author Lori Dennis proves interior design can be both stylish and environmentally sustainable in this easy-to-use, entertaining guide. Dennis discusses every aspect of interior design—furniture and accessories, window treatments, fabrics, surface materials, appliances, plants, and more—from a green perspective in terms of reducing waste and pollution and turning a home into a healthy, comfortable environment....
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English
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Cheap fashion has fundamentally changed the way most Americans dress. Stores ranging from discounters like Target to fast fashion chains like H&M now offer the newest trends at unprecedentedly low prices. Retailers are producing clothes at enormous volumes in order to drive prices down and profits up, and they've turned clothing into a disposable good. After all, we have little reason to keep wearing and repairing the clothes we already own when...
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Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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"By 1979, we knew nearly everything we understand today about climate change--including how to stop it. Over the next decade, a handful of scientists, politicians, and strategists, led by two unlikely heroes, risked their careers in a desperate, escalating campaign to convince the world to act before it was too late. [This] is their story"--
8) Food fix: how to save our health, our economy, our communities, and our planet--one bite at a time
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English
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Our most powerful tool to reverse the global epidemic of chronic disease, heal the environment, reform politics, and revive economies is food. What we eat has tremendous implications not just for our waistlines, but also for the planet, society, and the global economy. What we do to our bodies, we do to the planet; and what we do to the planet, we do to our bodies. Bestselling author Mark Hyman explains how our food and agriculture policies are corrupted...
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W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xxvii, 228 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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"The story of phosphorus spans the globe and vast tracts of human history. The race to mine phosphorus took people from the battlefields of Waterloo, which were looted for the bones of fallen soldiers, to the fabled guano islands off Peru, the Bone Valley of Florida, and the sand dunes of the Western Sahara. Over the past century, phosphorus has made farming vastly more productive, feeding the enormous increase in the human population. Yet, as Egan...
10) Freightened
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Green Planet Films
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (53 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
90% of the goods we consume in the West are manufactured in far-off lands and brought to us by ship. The cargo shipping industry is a key player in world economy and forms the basis of our very model of modern civilisation; without it, it would be impossible to fulfil the ever-increasing demands of our societies. Yet the functioning and regulations of this business remain largely obscure to many, and its hidden costs affect us all. Due to their size,...
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Dreamscape Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (78 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The Ugly truth about plastic pollution. -- Here is an informative, hard hitting and educational film about the environmental problem of plastic pollution inside the Oceans rising to a dangerous level for human safety and its solution. The film busts the myth of a plastic island floating in the middle of the Pacific Ocean and unveils the accurate data that is worse.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 51 minutes) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
After Mikhail Gorbachev signaled the end of the Cold War, he brought together hundreds of the worlds leading thinkers to confront the most daunting challenge of all times. Together they embark on a determined search for a safe passage into the next century. On the Edge is a riveting tale of the greatest crisis ever to threaten the human race. This emotional documentary wrestles with the combined impacts of our teeming human population coupled with...
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Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, [Hazardous Materials and Waste Management Division]
Pub. Date
2007
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1 PDF ([247] p. : ill., col. maps ; 6,185 KB)
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English
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The purpose of this Natural Resource Damage Assessment Plan is to document the State Trustees' basis for conducting a damage assessment, and to set forth the proposed approaches for quantifying harm to natural resources and calculating damages associated with those injuries. The Assessment Plan enables the Trustees to ensure that the Natural Resource Damage Assessment will be completed in a planned and systematic manner and at a reasonable cost....
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The New Press
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English
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“An enlightening and deeply disturbing account” of the dangerous chemicals that have infiltrated our food, by the Rachel Carson Prize–winning journalist (Booklist).
Our Daily Poison is “a gripping and urgent book” for anyone concerned about democracy, corporate power, or public health (Raj Patel, author of Stuffed and Starved). In it, award-winning journalist and filmmaker...
Our Daily Poison is “a gripping and urgent book” for anyone concerned about democracy, corporate power, or public health (Raj Patel, author of Stuffed and Starved). In it, award-winning journalist and filmmaker...
17) Acid rain
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Sea to Sea Publications
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 p. : col. ill., map ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes the causes of acid rain, its harmful effects, and efforts being made to solve this environmental problem.
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GWPF, The Global Warming Policy Foundation
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
xxi, 259 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
The authors posit that "economic prosperity and a cleaner environment are the direct results of both population growth and humanity's increased use of fossil fuels, and [feel that] campaigns against the spread of fossil fuels will cause misery in the developing world, fuel poverty in advanced economies, and will inevitably wreak havoc on the natural world"--From publisher's description.
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Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
537 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
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"In Land of Tears, historian Robert Harms reconstructs the chaotic process by which the heart of Africa was utterly transformed in the nineteenth century and the rainforest of the Congo River basin became one of the most brutally exploited places on earth. Ranging from remote African villages to European diplomatic meetings to Connecticut piano-key factories, Harms reveals how equatorial Africa became fully, fatefully, and tragically enmeshed within...
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Publisher
Blue Star Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
x, 247 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The founder of Ariel Arts, an interior design studio on a mission to make sustainable and affordable design accessible for everyone, provides the inspiration and tools needed to curate a space that fits you and your family's lifestyle and needs in no time.
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