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The aim of international climate change policy is to limit global warming to two degrees Celsius. But scientists believe that a temperature rise of just 1.5 degrees could lead to irreversible damage to ecosystems and terrestrial and marine areas. MUSIC MEETS SCIENCE: The style of 1.5 Stay Alive is part music video and part factual. In it, popular Caribbean musicians express their experiences with rising seas by composing and performing songs about...
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| 2017. | Cool Springs Press | 160 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm. | English |
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| 2017 | OverDrive | Cool Springs Press | English | Available Online
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Shawna Coronado, one of America's most creative gardeners, gives you her library of clever gardening tricks in 101 Organic Gardening Hacks.
If you ask garden author Shawna Coronado what a hack is, she might just wave her hand toward her own back yard. She could be pointing at the garden bench she created from leftover wood posts and a few cinder blocks, or the rows of wine bottles buried soldier-style along a winding pathway,
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| c2009 | McGraw-Hill | xi, 193 p. : ill. ; 28 cm. | English | It's Here
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| 2009 | OverDrive | 1 | McGraw-Hill Education | English | Available Online
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Provides step-by-step instructions, material lists, and illustrations for fifty projects that are environmentally focused.
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The challenges we face can be difficult even to think about. Climate change, the depletion of oil, economic upheaval, and mass extinction together create a planetary emergency of overwhelming proportions. Active Hope shows us how to strengthen our capacity to face this crisis so that we can respond with unexpected resilience and creative power. Drawing on decades of teaching an empowerment approach known as the Work That Reconnects, the authors guide...
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| 2014 | OverDrive | Mountaineers Books | English | Available Online
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"Inspires minority communities to look outdoors for experiences that will enrich their lives, and to encourage them toward greater environmental stewardship."--Publisher.
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| 2014. | First edition. | Milkweed Editions | 436 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), map ; 24 cm. | English | Available at another branch
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| 2014 | OverDrive | Milkweed Editions | English | Available Online
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A science journalist travels the world to explore humanity's ecological devastation—and its potential for renewal in this "compelling read" (Guardian, UK).
We live in times of profound environmental change. According to a growing scientific consensus, the dramatic results of man-made climate change have ushered the world into a new geological era: the Anthropocene, or Age of Man. As an editor at Nature, Gaia
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| [2019] | First edition. | Pantheon Books | 1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly illustrations ; 32 cm | English | Available at another branch
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"From the New York Times bestselling author of The Invention of Nature, comes a breathtakingly illustrated and brilliantly evocative recounting of Alexander Von Humboldt's five year expedition in South America. Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) was an intrepid explorer and the most famous scientist of his age. His restless life was packed with adventure and discovery, but his most revolutionary idea was a radical vision of nature as a complex and...
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| 2021. | First. | North Atlantic Books | 368 pages ; 23 cm | English | Available at another branch
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"A solutions-focused inspirational guide for addressing the earth's environmental crisis and enacting meaningful change"--
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| 2015 | OverDrive | Indiana University Press | English | Available Online
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Africa's Past, Our Future engages the history of the African continent through the perspective of global issues such as political instability, economic development, and climate change. Since the past may offer alternative models for thinking about our collective future, this book promotes an appreciation for African social, economic, and political systems that have endured over the long-term and that offer different ways of thinking about a sustainable
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| [2015] | Harvard University Press | 326 pages ; 22 cm. | English | Available at another branch
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"Nature no longer exists apart from humanity. Henceforth, the world we will inhabit is the one we have made. Geologists have called this new planetary epoch the Anthropocene, the age of Humans. The geological strata we are now creating record industrial emissions, industrial-scale crop pollens, and the disappearance of species driven to extinction. Climate change is planetary engineering without design. These facts of the Anthropocene are scientific,...
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| c1993 | EarthPress | x, 321 p. ; 24 cm. | English | Available at another branch
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Water is essential for food security and livelihood, especially for the millions of rural poor who rely on agriculture. Aghbalou combines a local story of struggle with a global call to action against the growing challenge of sustaining water supplies in the face of an increasingly hostile climate. Half of Morocco's population is employed in agriculture and therefore dependent upon groundwater for both food and employment. The Todgha Valley in Southern...
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| [2020] | First edition. | One World | xxiv, 418 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm | English |
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"Two powerful phenomena are simultaneously unfolding on Earth: the rise of the climate movement and the rise of women and girls. The People's Climate March and the Women's March. School strikes for climate and the #MeToo movement. Rebellions against extinction and declarations that time's up. More than concurrent, the two trends are deeply connected. From sinking islands to drought-ridden savannas, the global warming crisis places an outsized burden...
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| c1983 | 1st ed. | Little, Brown | viii, 88 p. ; 22 cm. | English | Available at another branch
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| 2018. | First edition. | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | xii, 318 pages : maps ; 24 cm | English | Available at another branch
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| [2018] | Unabridged. | Macmillan Audio | 9 audio discs (approximately 10 hr., 33 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | Available at another branch
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| 2018 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Macmillan Audio | English | Available Online
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| 2018 | OverDrive | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | English | Available Online
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"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 industry comes to her hometown of Amity, Pennsylvania. Intrigued by reports of lucrative natural gas leases in her neighbors' mailboxes, she strikes a deal with a Texas-based...
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| 2021. | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | xiv, 364 pages ; 24 cm | English | Available at another branch
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"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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| [2021] | Dutton | 293 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm | English |
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| 2021 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group | English | Checked Out
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| 2021 | OverDrive | Penguin Publishing Group | English | Checked Out
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"The Anthropocene is the current geological age, in which human activity has profoundly shaped the planet and its biodiversity. In this remarkable symphony of essays adapted and expanded from his groundbreaking podcast, John Green reviews different facets of the human-centered planet-from the QWERTY keyboard and Staphylococcus aureus to the Taco Bell breakfast menu-on a five-star scale. John Green's gift for storytelling shines throughout this artfully...
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| [2019] | Kino Lorber | 1 videodisc (87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. | English | Available at another branch
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"The film follows the research of an international body of scientists, the Anthropocene Working Group who, after nearly 10 years of research, argue that the Holocene Epoch gave way to the Anthropocene Epoch in the mid-twentieth century as a result of profound and lasting human changes to the Earth."--Container.
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| 2017. | Bloomsbury USA | xii, 305 pages ; 25 cm | English | Available at another branch
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| 2017 | OverDrive | Bloomsbury Publishing | English | Available Online
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A declaration of resistance, and a roadmap for radical change, from the generation that will be most screwed by climate change.
The Millennial generation could be first to experience the doomsday impacts of climate change. It's also the last generation able to do something about them. With time ticking down, 31-year-old journalist Geoff Dembicki journeyed to Silicon Valley, Canada's tar sands, Washington, DC, Wall Street