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Books for a better earthGlassley, William E.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 559.8 GLASSLEY 2018Proulx, Annie
Summary: From Pulitzer Prize winner Annie Proulx - whose novels are infused with her knowledge and deep concern for the earth - comes an urgent and riveting history of wetlands, their ecological role and how the loss of them threatens the planet. Fens, bogs, swamps and marine estuaries are the earth's most desirable and dependable resources, and in four illuminating parts Proulx documents the emergence...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 551.4 ProulxMiller, Sam J.
Summary: After the climate wars, a floating city is constructed in the Arctic Circle, a remarkable feat of mechanical and social engineering, complete with geothermal heating and sustainable energy. Now crime and corruption have set in, the contradictions of incredible wealth alongside poverty are spawning unrest, and a new disease called "the breaks" is ravaging the population. When a strange new...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2018
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1 available in Adult Sci-Fi / Fantasy, Call number: SCI FIC MillerBerger, Joel
Summary: "On the Tibetan Plateau, there are wild yaks with blood cells thinner than those of horses' by half, enabling the endangered yaks to survive at 40 below zero and in the lowest oxygen levels of the mountaintops. But climate change is causing the snow patterns here to shift, and with the snows, the entire ecosystem. Food and water are vaporizing in this warming environment, and these beasts of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of Chicago Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 304.2 Berger 2018Koonin, Steven E.
Summary: The author points out that core questions about the way the climate is responding to our influence and what the impacts will be remain largely unanswered. He provides insights and perspective free from political agendas, dispels popular myths, and unveils little-known truths. He points out that the models we use to predict the future aren't able to accurately describe the climate of the past,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: BenBella Books, Inc. 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.738 KooninSteyer, Tom
Summary: The climate is changing more rapidly than scientists predicted even a few years ago, with extreme weather already touching our everyday lives. At the same time, the clean energy revolution is forging ahead faster than nearly anyone anticipated. As Tom Steyer sees it, these two trends together create a moment like the one America faced during World War II: on the one hand, an existential threat...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spiegel & Grau 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: This groundbreaking documentary event series explores the human impact of climate change. From the damage wrought by Hurricane Sandy to the upheaval caused by drought in the Middle East, YEARS OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY combines the blockbuster storytelling styles of top Hollywood movie makers with the reporting expertise of Hollywood's brightest stars and today's most respected journalists.
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Publisher / Publication Date: FilmRise 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Applegate, Katherine
Summary: When the annual migration of hummingbears, a source of local pride and income, dwindles and no one knows why, Willodeen, armed with a magical birthday gift, speaks up for the animals she loves and vows to uncover this mystery.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FICTION ApplegateSummary: Hushpuppy is a six-year-old living in an isolated bayou community. When her father Wink becomes ill, she sets off for the outside world in an attempt to help him. The journey to save her father is delayed by a "busted" universe that reverses weather patterns and brings about long-extinct animals. Can Hushpuppy save the day?
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Movies, Call number: DVD DVD BeastsGates, Bill
Summary: "Bill Gates shares what he's learned in more than a decade of studying climate change and investing in innovations to address the problems, and sets out a vision for how the world can build the tools it needs to get to zero greenhouse gas emissions. Bill Gates explains why he cares so deeply about climate change and what makes him optimistic that the world can avoid the most dire effects of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.738 GatesGoodall, Jane
Summary: Jane Goodall and Douglas Abrams explore through intimate and thought-provoking dialogue one of the most sought after and least understood elements of human nature: hope. Drawing on decades of work that has helped expand our understanding of what it means to be human and what we all need to do to help build a better world, the book touches on vital questions, including: How do we stay hopeful...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Celadon Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 128 GoodallGoodell, Jeff
Summary: "What if Atlantis wasn't a myth, but an early precursor to a new age of great flooding? Across the globe, scientists and civilians alike are noticing rapidly rising sea levels, and higher and higher tides pushing more water directly into the places we live, from our most vibrant, historic cities to our last remaining traditional coastal villages. With each crack in the great ice sheets of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 551.4 GOOD 2017Artist Not Provided
Summary: Examines the drastic climate changes which are currently taking place in both the Arctic and Antarctica.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Public Broadcasting Service 2020
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1 available in Movies, Call number: DVD 577.5 PolarFriedman, Thomas L.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303.483 FriedmanLopez, Barry Holstun
Summary: "This collection represents part of the enduring legacy of Barry Lopez, hailed as a 'national treasure' (Outside) and "one of our finest writers" (Los Angeles Times Book Review) when he died in December 2020. An ardent steward of the land, fearless traveler, and unrivaled observer of nature and culture in all its forms, Lopez lost much of the Oregon property where he had lived for over fifty...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 LopezThunberg, Greta
Summary: "Greta Thunberg has gathered the wisdom of over one hundred experts - geophysicists, oceanographers and meteorologists; engineers, economists and mathematicians; historians, philosophers and indigenous leaders - to equip us all with the knowledge we need to combat climate disaster"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.705 ThunbergLemery, Jay
Summary: While the subject of climate change is often in the news and social media, and its realities debated in various arenas of science and government, the health impacts are often overlooked. Here, two seasoned physicians dispel myths, clarify science, and help readers understand the threats of environmental change to human health.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.1 Lemery 2018Stremer, Jessica
Summary: "A timely middle grade book exploring the incredible ways animals detect, respond, and adapt to wildfires, as well as how climate change is affecting the frequency and severity of these devastating events in nature"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Non-fiction, Call number: J 577.24 StremerLynch, Molly
Summary: When his wife, Ada, vanishes from their bed one night, with their son, Gilles, in the next room, Danny discovers mothers around the world are vanishing from their homes and wonders if the mystery is linked to the forest she seemed magnetically drawn to.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Catapult 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION LynchMcKibben, Bill
Summary: Bill McKibben’s groundbreaking book The End of Nature -- issued in dozens of languages and long regarded as a classic -- was the first book to alert us to global warming. But the danger is broader than that: even as climate change shrinks the space where our civilization can exist, new technologies like artificial intelligence and robotics threaten to bleach away the variety of human...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 909.83 McKibb 2019McKibben, Bill.
Summary: Author and environmental activist Bill McKibben recounts the personal and global story of the fight to build and preserve a sustainable planet, including accounts of leading the civil disobedience to protest the Keystione XL pipeline and of spending a year in the company of a beekeeper raising his hives as part of the growing trend toward local food.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Times Books 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.70 McKibbStine, Alison
Summary: A few generations from now, the coastlines of the continent have been redrawn by floods and tides. Global powers have agreed to not produce any new plastics, and what is left has become valuable: garbage is currency. In the region-wide junkyard that Appalachia has become, Coral is a "plucker," pulling plastic from the rivers and woods. She's stuck in Trashlands, a dump named for the strip club...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Adult Sci-Fi / Fantasy, Call number: SCI FIC StineVince, Gaia
Summary: Drawing on a career of environmental reporting and over two years of travel to the front lines of climate migration across the globe, an award-winning science journalist, in this urgent call to action, discusses the underreported, seismic consequences of climate change and how it will reshape humanity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022