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Climatic changes Environmental protection Environmental protection Citizen participation Environmental protection Juvenile literature Environmental protection Religious aspects Christianity Environmentalism Human ecology Nature Religious aspects Christianity Pollution prevention Social actionMcAnulty, Stacy
Summary: Meet Earth. Planet Awesome! And your awesome home! Actually, Earth is home to all the plants and all the animals in the solar system, including nearly eight billion people. Humans have accidentally moved Earth's climate change into the fast lane, and she need your help to put on the brakes. Earthlings need Earth, and Earth needs Earthlings, so let's save Earth together!
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MCAHelmer, Jodi
Summary: We should thank a pollinator at every meal. These diminutive creatures fertilize a third of the crops we eat. Yet half of the 200,000 species of pollinators are threatened. Birds, bats, insects, and many other pollinators are disappearing, putting our entire food supply in jeopardy. In North America and Europe, bee populations have already plummeted by more than a third and the population of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Island Press 2019
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Summary: "An eye-opening and witty account of the global ecological transformations wrought by roads, from an award-winning author. Some 40 million miles of roadways encircle the earth, but we tend to regard them only as infrastructure for human convenience. In Crossings, Ben Goldfarb delves into the new science of road ecology to explore how roads have transformed our world. Millions of animals are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2023
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Summary: "Many young Christians are waking up to the realities of climate change but just don't know how to help. Through stories from the field, theological and scriptural exploration, and practical advice, this field guide from Christian climate activist Kyle Meyaard-Schaap helps us take meaningful action grounded in the joy of caring for creation"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: IVP, an imprint of InterVarsity Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 241 MEYHilborn, Elizabeth D.
Summary: "All spring, Dr. Elizabeth Hilborn watched as her family fruit farm of many years rapidly diminished, suffering from a lack of bees and other insects. The plentiful wildlife, so abundant just weeks before, was gone. Everything was still, silent. As an environmental scientist trained to investigate disease outbreaks, she rose to the challenge. Step by step, day by day, despite facing headwinds...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 333.72 HILVan Rossum, Maya K.
Summary: "We have reached a critical tipping point in our fight for the environment: Corporations profit off climate change, natural disasters devastate homes, and the most vulnerable suffer the health effects of pollution. Yet our laws are designed to accommodate this destruction rather than prevent it. Without government support, it's no wonder people feel powerless. But there is a solution. In The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disruption Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.7 VANSummary: This edition is the most up-to-date and comprehensive source for Environmental Resources and Statistics. Section I: Resources, provides detailed contact information for thousands of information sources, including Associations & Organizations, Awards & Honors, Conferences, Foundations & Grants, Environmental Health, Government Agencies, National Parks & Wildlife Refuges, Publications, Research...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grey House Publishing 2017
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1 available in Reference, Call number: R 363.7 ENVKormos, Rebecca
Summary: "A powerful argument that greater inclusion of women in conservation and climate science is key to the future of the planet"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 333.72 KORAraújo, Heriberto
Summary: "In the tradition of Killers of the Flower Moon, a haunting murder-mystery revealing the human story behind one of the most devastating crimes of our time: the ruthless destruction of the Amazon rainforest-and anyone who stands in the way"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2023
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Summary: "Many kids already understand that recycling and not littering are ways to help cut down on waste and pollution. But many don't know how what they use and buy impact the environment. From vehicle emissions to agricultural runoff, the main content of this book explains many kinds of waste and pollution and how it can affect the planet. Age-appropriate details and tips teach young readers how to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids Press 2023
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1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: J 333.72 AMSLappé, Frances Moore.
Summary: Argues that the biggest challenge to survival is faulty thinking about the environmental crises that are affecting the planet and offers "thought leaps" that will transform one's eco-mind.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nation Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 304.28 LAPGroc, Isabelle
Summary: Dogs are working with humans to find new ways to solve environmental problems and conserve wildlife, just a few of which are sniffing out invasive species and poisons, as well as identifying wildlife traffickers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orca Book Publishers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 636.7 GROLaDuke, Winona
Summary: "Haymarket Books proudly brings back into print Winona LaDuke's seminal work of Native resistance to oppression. This thoughtful, in-depth account of Native struggles against environmental and cultural degradation features chapters on the Seminoles, the Anishinaabeg, the Innu, the Northern Cheyenne, and the Mohawks, among others. Filled with inspiring testimonies of struggles for survival, each...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Haymarket Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 333.2 LADCopies Available at Peninsula
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Woodward, John
Summary: "Eyewitness Climate Change explains why human activities are making the planet heat up--and how we know for sure that this is the case. The book explores the effects of the changing climate, from more frequent hurricanes and wildfires to melting ice caps and rising sea levels. It shows how scientists predict how the climate will change in the future and what actions we can all take to combat...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 551.6 WOOFleischman, Paul
Summary: A summary of today's environmental challenges also counsels teens on how to decode conflicting information, explaining the role of vested interests while identifying the sources behind different opinions, helping teens make informed choices.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2014
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Summary: For millennia, plant and animal species have received little sustained attention as subjects of Christian theology and ethics in their own right. Focused on the human dilemma of sin and redemptive grace, theology has considered the doctrine of creation to be mainly an overture to the main drama of humanity's relationship to God. What value does the natural world have within the framework of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Summary: "In this debut essay collection, Laura Marris reframes environmental degradation by setting aside the conventional, catastrophic framework of the Anthropocene in favor of that of the Eremocene, the age of loneliness, marked by the dramatic thinning of wildlife populations and by isolation between and among species. She asks: how do we add to archives of ecological memory? How can we notice and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 2024
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Summary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2024
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Summary: "An Indigenous environmental scientist breaks down why western conservationism isn't working--and offers Indigenous models informed by case studies, personal stories, and family histories that center the voices of Latin American women and land protectors"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: North Atlantic Books 2022
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Summary: Suggests ways in which to make the world a better place, including ideas for helping others at home, at school, and in the community through donations and volunteering; environmental activities; and ways to improve oneself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lonely Planet Global Limited 2018
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Summary: "In 2016, a small protest encampment at the Standing Rock reservation in North Dakota, initially established to block construction of the Dakota Access oil pipeline, grew to be the largest Indigenous protest movement in the twenty-first century, attracting tens of thousands of Indigenous and non-Native allies from around the world. Its slogan “Mni Wiconi”—Water Is Life—was about more than just...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Haymarket Books 2024
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Summary: "The environment is an essential but sometimes tough and weighty concept to grasp. This engaging nonfiction book takes readers back to the basics, offering an accessible overview of what makes up our environment, how those parts work, and why they matter. Divided into five sections--water, air, soil, energy, and climate--the book uses facts, figures, and simple language to give an overarching...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Owlkids Books 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 577 PASStoll, Mark
Summary: In Inherit the Holy Mountain, historian Mark Stoll introduces us to the religious roots of the American environmental movement. Religion, he shows, provided environmentalists both with deeply-embedded moral and cultural ways of viewing the world and with content, direction, and tone for the causes they espoused. Stoll discovers that specific denominational origins corresponded with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 260 STOMarcus, Clare Cooper.
Summary: A journey of healing takes Clare Cooper Marcus on a 6-month long solitary retreat to the remote Scottish Island of Iona. Here she experiences a mirroring of her soul and reflects and reviews the life that brought her here to this magical place. Her compelling memoir "Iona Dreaming" is an inspirational account of personal survival and hope in which Clare shares her recovery from a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nicolas-Hays 2010