Summary: Bursting with idealism, Melanie Pröschle, a young teacher from the countryside, starts her first job at a high school in the city. Desperate to fulfil her hopes, Melanie intends to do everything the right way. Politely she introduces herself to her neighbours with homemade schnapps. At her first day of school she gives a very ambitious speech for her colleagues. She wants to be a 'fresh breeze'...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Film Mouvement 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN FORBeresford-Kroeger, Diana
Summary: "Canadian botanist, biochemist and visionary Diana Beresford-Kroeger's startling insights into the hidden life of trees have already sparked a quiet revolution in how we understand our relationship to forests. Now, in a captivating account of how her life led her to these illuminating and crucial ideas, she shows us how forests can not only heal us but save the planet. When Diana...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Canada 2019
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BERESFORD-KROEGER, DIANA BERSummary: Branching off of his bestselling book, renowned forester and writer Peter Wohlleben guides us through his most precious ideas and understanding of how trees work in this enlightening documentary. Presenting ecological, biological, and academic expertise with matter-of-fact candor, Peter inspires us to see the forest for the trees. Traveling through Germany, Poland, Sweden, and Vancouver, Peter...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC HIDWohlleben, Peter
Summary: "In an era of cell phone addiction and ever-expanding cities, many of us fear we've lost our connection to nature--but Peter Wohlleben is convinced that age-old ties linking humans to the forest remain alive and intact. Whether we observe it or not, our blood pressure stabilizes near trees, the color green calms us, and the forest sharpens our senses. Drawing on new scientific discoveries, The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greystone Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 304.2 WOHSummary: "Bursting with idealism, Melanie Prèoschle, a young teacher from the countryside, starts her first job at a high school in the city; however, things don't go quite as she planned. She had hoped to be a 'fresh breeze' to the school, but her colleagues are annoyed by her new teaching methods. Not only that, Melanie hasn't one friend in her new town. Tr ying not to get discouraged, she attempts...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Komplizen Film 2006
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN FORSummary: Rita Leistner planted over half a million trees from 1984-93. She spent the next twenty years working as a documentary photographer and photojournalist, primarily in war zones, claiming the backbreaking work of tree planting and the logistical skills she acquired as a crew boss prepared her for thriving in challenging environments.0Returning to the cut-block (the vast swathes of land cleared by...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FOREvenson, Dean.
Summary: A blending of natural sounds with free-form compositions, featuring flute, guitar, harp and percussion.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Soundings of the Planet 1993
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD NEW AGE EVECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD WM Forest 1993(Stephenson, Carol, Perf.)
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1997
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK FORLogsdon, Gene.
Summary: "As author Gene Logsdon puts it, 'We are all tree huggers.' But not just for sentimental or even environmental reasons. Humans have always depended on trees for our food, shelter, livelihood, and safety. In many ways, despite the Grimm's fairy-tale version of the dark, menacing forest, most people still hold a deep cultural love of woodland settings, and feel right at home in the woods. In this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea Green Pub. 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 511.52 LOGGeisel, Theodore
Summary: The Lorax is a lovable creature who speaks for the trees, trying to stop the profit-greedy Once-ler from destroying the forest.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV DRSummary: Humboldt State University biologist Steve Sillett is obsessed with monster redwoods. But just when he thinks he's climbed and measured an unbeatably tall specimen, a new record-breaker turns up in a hidden West Coast valley. Through the story of the discovery of redwood Hyperion-379.1 feet, and still growing strong!-this program makes a study of the world's tallest living trees, from base to...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Rawlence, Ben
Summary: "In the tradition of Elizabeth Kolbert and Barry Lopez, a powerful, poetic and deeply absorbing account of the "lung" at the top of the world. For the last fifty years, the trees of the boreal forest have been moving north. Ben Rawlence's The Treeline takes us along this critical frontier of our warming planet from Norway to Siberia, Alaska to Greenland, to meet the scientists, residents and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 577.3 RAWCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 577.3 RAWHolten, Katie
Summary: "Inspired by forests, trees, leaves, roots, and seeds, The Language of Trees: A Rewilding of Literature and Landscape invites readers to discover an unexpected and imaginative language to better read and write the natural world around us and reclaim our relationship with it. In this gorgeously illustrated and deeply thoughtful collection, Katie Holten gifts readers her tree alphabet and uses it...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tin House 2023
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Summary: A Forest of Trees Does Not Grow There in Rows recounts the story of two types of forests, those that grow naturally and those unusual forests that grow in straight rows. The rows of trees, planted during the 1930s, are the legacy of countless man hours. The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) and the Works Progress Administration (WPA) existed from 1933 until 1942 to help relieve joblessness...
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Publisher / Publication Date: SC & FC Publications 0000
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Wolpe 2014Collins, Ailynn
Summary: "Xenia is new to Ravens Pass and reluctantly she sets out to explore the forest behind her house with the strange girl, Zephyr--but the ancient trees are hungry, and in order to survive Xenia must make a deal with the forest--and become a hunter for the trees"--OCLC.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2023
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE COLBaum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank)
Summary: After a cyclone transports her to the land of Oz, Dorothy must seek out the great Wizard in order to return to Kansas.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1992
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BAUHitchcock, Susan Tyler
Summary: "For millennia, trees have offered renewal and inspiration. They have provided for humanity on every level, from spiritual sanctuary to the raw material for our homes, books, and food. In this beautiful and revealing book, National Geographic combines legendary photography with cutting-edge science to illuminate exactly how trees influence the life of planet Earth--from our personal lives to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2022
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Contents: Why maple matters: the case for increasing production and consumption -- Of pure maple products -- Is sugaring for you? -- Sugarhouse design and construction -- An untapped resource: the sap-producing trees of North America -- Gathering sap: cost-effective collection techniques to enhance your operation -- From sap to syrup: processing techniques that will save you time money, fuel, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea Green Pub. 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 633.64 FARContents: Cry of the forest (3:223) -- Grandfather Rain (4:52) -- Willow people (3:35) -- Voices to the sky (3:28) -- Inland water travel (4:37) -- Towhata Lake (3:35) -- Spring Council (4:39) -- Prayer for the ancient trees (3:40) -- Rainbow world (2:50) -- Tuez Tzeec (3:03) -- Terra (2:42) -- Native tongue (1:41) -- Caribou skin hut dance (3:38) -- Taan Mun-Lake LaBerge (4:25) -- Prayer song (8:24) --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Soundings of the Planet 1996
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD NEW AGE ARCGianferrari, Maria
Summary: Compares the structures and functions of trees to human bodies, shows the interconnectness and dependence of trees in a forest, and urges readers to communicate, share, and care for one another. Includes notes on the anatomy of a tree, ways to help save trees, and how to help in one's community.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2021
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Summary: After returning to the forest to search for the magic totem that enables him to transform into a sasquatch, Rufus and Penny have a plan to stop the developers who are cutting down the trees.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Kids Can Press 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 TORSummary: Guides readers back to the source of people's knowledge about a specific subject, then moves them forward through the present to the future. Contains interactive elements including: an embossed page of bark textures, a minibook, open flaps, acetate page, and reusable vinyl stickers.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 1995
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J582.16 TREMencagli, Marco
Summary: "Our connection to nature is deeply rooted in the history of our evolution. And yet, we have less contact with green space now than ever, and our stress and anxiety levels are at an all-time high. "The secret therapy of trees" helps us rediscover the restorative value of our natural environment and presents the science behind green therapies like forest bathing and bioenergetic landscapes,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019