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Agriculture Environmental aspects Climatic changes Social aspects Environmental policy Environmental policy Moral and ethical aspects Global environmental change Social aspects Greenhouse gases Environmental aspects Marine pollution Juvenile literature NATURE / Environmental Conservation & Protection Plastic marine debris Environmental aspects Juvenile literature Plastic scrap Environmental aspects Juvenile literatureEgan, Dan
Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 577.14 EganPêgo, Ana
Summary: "When she was young, biologist Ana Pêgo didn't play in a backyard but on a beach. As she grew older, Ana realized that a new species was becoming more and more common in the sand. She decided to collect the species and give it a name: Plasticus maritimus. She dedicated her life to studying plastic in the oceans and raising awareness of the danger it poses to the health of the planet. Inspired...
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Publisher / Publication Date: David Suzuki Institute/Greystone Kids 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Y 363.7 PegoWohlleben, Peter
Summary: "When you walk in the woods, do you use all five senses to explore your surroundings? For most of us, the answer is no--but when we do engage all our senses, a walk in the woods can go from pleasant to immersive and restorative. Forest Walking teaches you how to get the most out of your next adventure by becoming a forest detective, decoding nature's signs and awakening to the ancient past and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greystone Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 582 WohllebenSummary: "Feature-length environmental documentary, following an intrepid filmmaker as he uncovers the most destructive industry facing the planet today and investigates why the world's leading environmental organizations are too afraid to talk about it"--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Movies, Call number: DVD 363.7 CowspiracyAlexander, Jeff
Summary: "The St. Lawrence Seaway was considered one of the world's greatest engineering achievements when it opened in 1959. The $1 billion project-a series of locks, canals, and dams that tamed the ferocious St. Lawrence River-opened the Great Lakes to the global shipping industry. Linking ports on lakes Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario to shipping hubs on the world's seven seas increased...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2009
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1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MC 577.632 AlexaBittman, Mark
Summary: "From hunting and gathering to GMOs and ultraprocessed foods, this expansive tour of human history rewrites the story of our species-and points the way to a better future"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 394.12 BittmanNesbit, Jeffrey Asher
Summary: The world itself won't end, of course. Only ours will: our livelihoods, our homes, our cultures. And we're squarely at the tipping point. Longer droughts in the Middle East. Growing desertification in China and Africa. The monsoon season shrinking in India. Amped-up heat waves in Australia. More intense hurricanes reaching America. Water wars in the Horn of Africa. Rebellions, refugees and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books,an imprint of St. Martin's Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363 Nesbit 2018Gates, 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 GatesWallace-Wells, David
Summary: "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 thousandsof homes. Across the US, "500-year" storms pummel communities month after month, and floods displace tens of millions annually. This is only a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tim Duggan Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 304.2 Wall 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 McKibbLourie, Bruce.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613 LourHernandez, Jessica
Summary: "An Indigenous environmental scientist breaks down why western conservationism isn't working--and offers Indigenous models informed by case studies, personal stories, and family histories that center the voices of Latin American women and land protectors"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: North Atlantic Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 304.208 HernandezVince, 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
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.87 VinceGrisham, John.
Summary: The stakes in the novel's plot are high: corporate crime on the largest scale. The duo of lawyers at the centre of the narrative are Mary and Wes Grace, who succeed in a multimillion dollar case against a chemical company, who have polluted a town with dumped toxic waste. A slew of agonising deaths have followed this, but lawyers for the chemical company appeal, and a variety of legal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION GrishNewman, Patricia
Summary: A team of scientists explore the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, where millions of pieces of plastic have gathered, having drifted there from rivers, beaches, and ocean traffic all over the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Millbrook Press 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Non-fiction, Call number: J 363.738 New 2019Taillant, Jorge Daniel
Summary: "Glaciers is a volume about the role glaciers play in our daily lives (often without us knowing), the risks posed to glaciers from natural and anthropogenic activity (including climate change and industrial pollution), and policies and practices that should be employed to protect this fundamental hydrological reserve"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 551.312 TaillSummary: Investigates the growing privatization of the world's dwindling fresh water supply from the perspective of politics, economics, pollution and environmental issues, human rights, public health, and the effects of corporate greed and apathetic governments. Features interviews with scientists and activists, who discuss the water crisis at both the global and human scale. Also gives viewers a look...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oscilloscope Pictures 2008
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1 available in Movies, Call number: DVD 343.09 SalinGriswold, Eliza
Summary: In Amity and Prosperity, the prizewinning poet and journalist Eliza Griswold tells the story of the energy boom’s impact on a small town at the edge of Appalachia and one woman’s transformation from a struggling single parent to an unlikely activist. Stacey Haney is a local nurse working hard to raise two kids and keep up her small farm when the fracking boom comes to her hometown of Amity,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.73 Griswold 2018Ball, Matthew (Matthew L.)
Summary: "From the leading theorist of the Metaverse comes the definitive account of the next internet: what the Metaverse is, what it will take to build it, and what it means for all of us. The term "Metaverse" is suddenly everywhere, from the front pages of national newspapers and the latest fashion trends to the plans of the most powerful companies in history. It is already shaping the policy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 004.6 BallBilott, Robert
Summary: An unforgettable David and Goliath-style legal drama about malice and manipulation, the failings of environmental regulation, and one lawyer's quest to expose the truth about this previously unknown--and still unregulated--chemical that presents one of the greatest human health crises of the 21st century. --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 344.04 Bilott 2019Allen, Brigette
Summary: "Every year, the world produces more than 300 million tons of plastic. These products will never break down and will endlessly pollute our oceans, air, land, and food chain. But the good news is that there are many steps, small and large, we can take to change our plastic-using habits. This illustrated book offers more than 100 suggestions in an accessible visual and gifty package. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 640.286 AllenMcKay, Kim.
Summary: Presents 100 strategies for safeguarding the environment.
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic Society 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 333.72 McKayRich, Nathaniel
Summary: "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"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.738 Rich 2019Egan, Sophie
Summary: "A radically practical guide to making food choices that are are good for you, others, and the planet. Is organic really worth it? Are eggs ok to eat? If so, which ones are best for you, and for the chicken--Cage-Free, Free-Range, Pasture-Raised? What about farmed salmon, soy milk, sugar, gluten, fermented foods, coconut oil, almonds? Thumbs-up, thumbs-down, or somewhere in between? Using...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Workman Publishing 2020