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With their father jailed for sinking a river boat, Noah Underwood and his younger sister, Abbey, must gather evidence that the owner of this floating casino is emptying his bilge tanks into the protected waters around their Florida Keys home.
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Judy Moody volume 3
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When Judy Moody gets serious about protecting the environment, her little brother Stink thinks she is overdoing it, but she manages to inspire her third grade class to undertake an award-winning, environment-saving project.
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"These 15 contemporary climate champions are on the frontlines of science to create a sustainable future on Earth. They are climate scientists, journalists, professors, academics, researchers, and policy makers from around the world who draft policies with real-life solutions, run science labs to find new solutions to old problems, and lead organizations at the forefront of change. These women do not shy away from showing how racial and social injustices...
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In the Age of Environment, the scale of waste management is geographic all while often relegating such undesired matter to invisibility as "matter out of place. " Geographies of Trash reclaims the role of forms, technologies, economies and logistics of the waste system in the production of new aesthetics and politics of urbanism. Honored with a 2014 ACSA Faculty Design Award, the book charts the geographies of trash in Michigan across scales to propose...
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The best of McKibben's essays, fiery, magical, and infused with his uniquely soulful investigations of modern life, are collected in a single volume. Whether meditating on today's golden age in radio, the natural place of biting black flies in our lives, or the patriotism of a grandmother fighting to get corporate money out of politics, McKibben inspires us to become better caretakers of the Earth and of one another.
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The teacher, Mr. Slink, assigns an environmental project, and Halo Nightly pairs up with Flora, the school's resident tree hugger. Their team has the assignment in the bag (reusable, of course). But when the evil Doozie Hiss ruins their chances for a good grade, Flora changes from happy hippie to eco-terror. With her superpowered candies, Halo faces off against the Green Queen of Mean!
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"Our planet Earth is as individual and special as each one of us. It's ability to sustain and nurture life is unique in our solar system--and beyond. In this book, celebrate all the wonderful qualities of our Earth while learning how to protect her for future generations"-- Provided by publisher.
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A celebration of courageous American innovators who are transforming the way we protect and care for the world we live in. The environment, and the movement that grew up to protect it, is under concerted and purposeful attack. The need for solutions to pressing environmental problems grows more urgent each day. Teresa Heinz Kerry and Senator John Kerry traveled across the country in a national campaign to see at first hand how these issues unite people...
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Dragonflies spend most of their lives in or near water. Changes in water conditions-- temperature, pollution and so on-- can have a big effect on dragonflies. Gagne shows readers that when dragonflies are doing poorly, other bioindicators in the ecosystem are also suffering. Discover the impact that humans have on the environment-- and why dragonflies matter.
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Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 57
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Dawn thinks studying ecology is cool. She wants to start a recycling center at SMS, but she is too busy lecturing people she doesn't have the time.
17) We're All Climate Hypocrites Now: How Embracing Our Limitations Can Unlock the Power of a Movement
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A useful-and sprightly!-effort to get at the choice between individual and systemic action on the greatest problem we've ever faced.-Bill McKibben, author, The End of Nature
Taking a tongue-in-cheek approach, self-confessed eco-hypocrite Sami Grover says we should do what we can in our own lives to minimize our climate impacts and we need to target those actions so they create systemic change. We're All Climate Hypocrites Now helps you decide what...
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"What can we learn about the health of an ecosystem through polar bears? This title takes readers to polar bear habitats to understand why polar bears are suffering, what humans are doing to make matters worse, and the ways humans can help to ultimately save polar bears and Earth"--Publisher's website.
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"In Into the Clear Blue Sky, climate scientist and chair of the Global Carbon Project Rob Jackson explains that we need to redefine our goals. As he argues here, we shouldn't only be trying to stabilize the Earth's temperature at some arbitrary value. Instead, we can restore the atmosphere itself in a lifetime— and this should be our moral duty. Restoring the atmosphere means reducing the amount of greenhouse gases in the air to pre-industrial levels—...
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This book is an impassioned plea for radical and life-renewing change and is a groundbreaking work in environmental studies. The author's argument is that the survival of the globe is dependent on a fundamental, philosophical shift in the way we relate to nature. He writes of our Earth's environmental cataclysm, addressing such core issues as the greenhouse effect, acid rain, and the depletion of the ozone layer.





