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"An empowering, engaging young readers guide to understanding and battling climate change from the expert and bestselling author of This Changes Everything and On Fire, Naomi Klein. Warmer temperatures. Fires in the Amazon. Superstorms. These are just some of the effects of climate change that we are already experiencing. The good news is that we can all do something about it. A movement is already underway to combat not only the environmental effects...
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Find clarity on everyday green-living dilemmas to maximize your sustainability. Are paper bags always more environmentally friendly than plastic? How much better for the planet are electric cars? What saves more water: using the dishwasher or washing up by hand? We all want to do the right thing for the planet, but with so many factors at play, it can be difficult to work out which is the greenest way. With answers to more than 140 everyday green-living...
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Timely and unsettling essays from an important and beloved writer and conservationist
In Erosion, Terry Tempest Williams's fierce, spirited, and magnificent essays are a howl in the desert. She sizes up the continuing assaults on America's public lands and the erosion of our commitment to the open space of democracy. She asks: "How do we find the strength to not look away from all that is breaking our hearts?"
We know the elements of erosion: wind,...
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2023.
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A blueprint for how to rewild the world around us from two of the world's pioneers of wilding.
The enormity of climate change and biodiversity loss can leave us feeling overwhelmed. Nature can bounce back if you give it a chance. Not just wildlife in super-abundance, but solutions to the other environmental crises we face. Tree and Burrell provide a pragmatic handbook for how we can all help restore nature, grown out of their pioneering project in...
7) Earth Day
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c2007
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Introduces the history, purpose, and celebration of Earth Day
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[2022]
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"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...
12) What matters
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In this picture book, the ripple effect of one child's small action shows how we can all make a big environmental difference.
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[2008]
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As America and the world grapple with the consequences of global environmental change, the author, a writer and activist offers this anthology gathering the best and most significant American environmental writing from the last two centuries. "Each advance in environmental practice" in our nation's history, he observes in his introduction, "was preceded by a great book." In this work are the words that made a movement. Classics of the environmental...
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"Are you worried about the climate crisis? Are you suffering from eco-anxiety? Do you want to help but you're not sure how? Do you want to learn how to make greener choices? If you answered yes to any of those questions, author and environmentalist Heather White's 60 Days to a Greener Life is the resource you need. You can read an entry every day or at your own pace. Each entry provides valuable insights and easy-to-apply ways you can live a more...
19) The climate book
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2023.
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Gathering together the wisdom of experts, the world's leading climate activist arms readers with the knowledge needed to combat climate disaster, showing there is hope.
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