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Author
Publisher
New Society Publishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Explores how to beautify any landscape or garden while helping protect the planet, covering such topics as shrinking a carbon footprint; increasing physical comfort during the hotter months; and supporting birds, butterflies, and other pollinators.
5) Water
Series
Publisher
Greenhaven Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Examines the issue of water use and water supply from a variety of international perspectives.
Author
Publisher
Harmony Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"In this fascinating look at the race to secure the global food supply, environmental journalist and professor Amanda Little tells the defining story of the sustainable food revolution as she weaves together stories from the world's most creative and controversial innovators on the front lines of food science, agriculture, and climate change"-- Provided by publisher.
7) The appeal
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In a crowded courtroom in Mississippi, a jury returns a shocking verdict against a chemical company accused of dumping toxic waste into a small town’s water supply, causing the worst “cancer cluster” in history.
The company appeals to the Mississippi Supreme Court, whose nine justices will one day either approve the verdict—or reverse it.
The chemical company...
The company appeals to the Mississippi Supreme Court, whose nine justices will one day either approve the verdict—or reverse it.
The chemical company...
Author
Series
Publisher
Red Chair Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Discusses agriculture, the food system, and the benefits of organic farming for the health of people and the planet, and explains the rise of community-supported agriculture.
Publisher
Passion River
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
This documentary highlights farmers and ranchers leaving behind conventional practices that are no longer profitable or sustainable. With quiet courage they are improving the health of our soil and sea to save their livelihoods, and our planet.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"An eye-opening and witty account of the global ecological transformations wrought by roads. Millions of animals are killed by cars each day in the United States alone, and roads fragment wildlife populations into inbred clusters, disrupt migration, allow invasive plants to spread and even bend the arc of evolution itself. But road ecologists are also seeking innovative solutions: [The author] meets with conservationists building bridges for mountain...
15) Land use
Author
Series
Publisher
AV2 by Weigl
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Series
Publisher
Macmillan Reference USA, a part of Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Aimed at readers who are not experts in the field, the material is relevant to courses in natural sciences, social sciences, and the humanities. It presents and analyzes the underpinnings of the multi-disciplinary concept of sustainability.
17) Touch the Earth
Author
Publisher
Sky Pony Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The WhiteFeatherFlier, a magical airplane, takes children around the world to engage them in helping the environment by spreading water to thirsty people, pulling pollution from the ocean, and using irrigation to make the desert bloom.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
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. By investing in research, inventing new technologies, and by deploying them quickly at large scale, Gates believes climate change can be addressed in meaningful ways.
20) Pave the Road
Publisher
Dreamscape Media, Llc
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
The film gives voice to neglected citizens in Costa Rica that suffer from deadly road dust due to corrupt governments and triggers the "Green Pavement" technology, which replaces fossil fuels with plastic waste.
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