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Discover scholarly journals, magazines, and other reference sources covering environmental issues and policies.
Publisher
New Day Films
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"Rebels With a Cause spotlights the schemers and dreamers who fought to keep developers from taking over the breathtaking landscape of the northern California coast. Rebels describes in fascinating detail how they protected agriculture and wildlife, established public parks next toi a densely populated urban center, and shaped the environmental movement as we know it today."--Container.
Author
Publisher
North Atlantic Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Flipping the script on climate change, Eisenstein makes a case for a wholesale reimagining of the framing, tactics, and goals we employ in our journey to heal from ecological destruction With research and insight, Charles Eisenstein details how the quantification of the natural world leads to a lack of integration and our "fight" mentality. With an entire chapter unpacking the climate change denier's point of view, he advocates for expanding our...
Author
Publisher
MCD / Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From the author of Losing Earth, a deeply reported and beautifully told exploration of how we live in a post-natural world"--
We live at a time in which scientists race to reanimate extinct beasts, our most essential ecosystems require monumental engineering projects to survive, chicken breasts grow in test tubes, and multinational corporations conspire to poison the blood of every living creature. No rock, leaf, or cubic foot of air on Earth has...
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Series
Publisher
American Girl Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Girls have the power to make a difference, whether that's in their own lives, their community, or even the world! But it can be confusing to know where to start. From protecting our planet to helping animals to saying hello to someone who seems lonely, this book offers young readers lots of ideas -- big and small -- on how to spark change. The quizzes, tips, and inspiration from other girls will help her identify her talents, skills, and the causes...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"The average American spends ninety percent of their time indoors, and children are no exception. Today, kids can spend up to seven hours per day looking at screens. Not only does this phenomenon have consequences for our kids' physical and mental health, it calls into question their ability to understand and engage with anything beyond the built environment. We can talk about environmental stewardship, but until more people make meaningful contact...
69) Serena: a novel
Author
Language
English
Description
The year is 1929, and newlyweds George and Serena Pemberton travel from Boston to the North Carolina mountains where they plan to create a timber empire. Although George has already lived in the camp long enough to father an illegitimate child, Serena is new to the mountains-but she soon shows herself to be the equal of any man, overseeing crews, hunting rattle-snakes, even saving her husband's life in the wilderness. Together this lord and lady of...
Author
Language
English
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Description
Bestselling author and environmental activist Bill McKibben recounts the personal and global story of the fight to build and preserve a sustainable planet
Bill McKibben is not a person you'd expect to find handcuffed and behind bars, but that's where he found himself in the summer of 2011 after leading the largest civil disobedience in thirty years, protesting the Keystone XL pipeline in front of the White House.
With the Arctic melting, the Midwest...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In this impassioned polemic, radical environmental philosopher Derrick Jensen debunks the near-universal belief in a hierarchy of nature and the superiority of humans. Vast and underappreciated complexities of nonhuman life are explored in detail--from the cultures of pigs and prairie dogs, to the creative use of tools by elephants and fish, to the acumen of caterpillars and fungi. The paralysis of the scientific establishment on moral and ethical...
Author
Publisher
Picarona
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
Tiny Crab is a tidy crab, and a crab who loves his beach. So, when his friends come to visit surely they will keep things clean... But what if they don’t? What if they leave rubbish everywhere! With an environmental message, this book is perfect for little people looking to take care of their planet, and their friends!
Publisher
Haymarket Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
An urgent call for climate justice from Teen Vogue, one of this generation's leading voices, using an intersectional lens - with critical feminist, indigenous, antiracist and internationalist perspectives. As the political classes watch our world burn, a new movement of young people is rising to meet the challenge of climate catastrophe.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
Greta Thunberg une a científicos, expertos, activistas y escritores como Thomas Piketty, Margaret Atwood, David Wallace-Wells o Naomi Klein para ofrecernos la información más veraz y actualizada sobre la emergencia climática y las soluciones que todavía están en nuestras manos EN LA LISTA DE MÁS VENDIDOS DE SUNDAY TIMES, SPIEGEL Y SAXO «Es una mujer increíble. [...] Greta Thunberg es una mártir, nuestra Juana de Arco. Su sufrimiento nos...
Author
Publisher
Duke University Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"An interdisciplinary book written by M�etis scientist and activist Max Liboiron, Pollution is Colonialism shows how doing environmental research and activism is often premised on a colonial worldview even when practitioners are working towards benevolent goals. The book lays out key terms and a framework for understanding scientific research methods as ways of being in the world that can align with or against colonialism. Liboiron models an anti-colonial...
80) Love, the Earth
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
With vibrant artwork and an affecting poetic text narrated by the Earth, this magnificent ode to our planet serves as a call to action.
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