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“Sustainability Made Simple” is an introduction to sustainability and sustainable living that explores the relationship between everyday life and the intricate global environmental issues of today, including air and water pollution, deforestation, and climate change. Rosaly Byrd and Laurèn DeMates offer an optimistic yet realistic perspective on our impact on the environment, giving much needed guidance to those who are interested in finding...
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Ten Speed Press
Pub. Date
[2012], ©2012
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English
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"A practical guide to generating less waste, featuring meaningful and achievable strategies from the blogger behind The Green Garbage Project, a yearlong experiment in living garbage-free. You don't have to be a tree hugger to benefit from zero-waste living. The average American tosses out nearly five pounds of trash every day, yet studies show the more we buy, the less happy we are. In The Zero-Waste Lifestyle, Amy Korst shows us how to have a happier,...
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Let David Bach show you a whole new way to prosper—by going green
Internationally renowned financial expert and bestselling author David Bach has always urged readers to put their financial lives in line with their values. But what if your values are a cleaner and greener earth? Most people think that “going green” is an expensive choice they can’t afford. Bach is here to say that you can have both: a life in line with your...
Internationally renowned financial expert and bestselling author David Bach has always urged readers to put their financial lives in line with their values. But what if your values are a cleaner and greener earth? Most people think that “going green” is an expensive choice they can’t afford. Bach is here to say that you can have both: a life in line with your...
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Greenhaven Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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The At Issue series includes a wide range of opinion on a single controversial subject. Each volume includes primary and secondary sources from a variety of perspectives -- eyewitnesses, scientific journals, government officials and many others. Extensive bibliographies and annotated lists of relevant organizations to contact offer a gateway to future research.Features and Benefits Greenhaven Press s At Issue series provides a wide range of opinions...
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Gaiam Americas
Pub. Date
c2009
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English
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Presents six episodes of the series "Stuff Happens with Bill Nye" in which "Science Guy" Bill Nye examines the environmental consequences of everyday products in bathrooms, backyards, attics, garages, bedrooms, and kitchens, and provides simple ways to make one's life greener.
14) Save the Earth!
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Freddy's first-grade class is celebrating Earth Day but he is worried that he will not have enough time.
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At a time when everyone is going green, most people are unaware that the FBI is using anti-terrorism resources to target environmentalists and animal rights activists. The courts are being used to push conventional boundaries of what constitutes "terrorism" and to hit nonviolent activists with disproportionate sentences. Some have faced terrorism charges for simply chalking slogans on the sidewalk. Like the Red Scare, this "Green Scare" is about fear...
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The Little Book of Going Green aims to shed light on the ways humans are harming the environment, from pollution and deforestation to industrial production and farming methods.
Before we can fix a problem, we must have a basic understanding of what brought us there in first place.
In addition, Dyer explores how we can easily practice sustainability and conservation on both individual and corporate levels, creating habits at home that we can then...
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Brentwood Communications Intl
Pub. Date
2008
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English
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Ed Begley is a dedicated environmentalist. After thirteen years together, Ed likes to believe he's winning his wife Rachelle over to his green lifestyle and sometimes odd contraptions. But it's love and laughter that puts the fun in dysfunction and obviously keeps this seemingly mismatched Hollywood couple together. Hang out with Ed as he tinkers with his solar roof, makes toast with a bicycle and rides in Jay Leno's 1909 Baker electric car.
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All the "stuff" that surrounds us has a life cycle: materials are harvested, the stuff is made and distributed, it's consumed and then it gets trashed or recycled. Using the typical contents of a child's school backpack (defined as water, food, clothing, paper, plastic, metals, electronics), this book explores those stages in detail, including lots of ways to reduce, reuse or recycle waste along the way. Children will gain new insight into the routine...
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