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Burial Environmental aspects United States Environmental responsibility Environmental responsibility United States Funeral rites and ceremonies Environmental aspects United States Funérailles Rites et cérémonies Aspect de l'environnement États-Unis Human ecology Nature Effect of human beings on Offenses against the environment Prevention Sépulture Aspect de l'environnement États-Unis United StatesSummary: Examines efforts by a group of citizens in West Virginia to hold the industrial giant Du Pont responsible for poisoning the drinking water supply as a result of dumping toxic chemicals.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC DEVSummary: "THE RELUCTANT RADICAL is an intimate portrait of climate activist Ken Ward. Ken breaks the law as a last resort and with great trepidation, to fulfill what he sees as his personal obligation to future generations. The film follows Ken through a series of civil disobedience direct actions, culminating with his participation in the coordinated action that shut down all the U.S. tar sands oil...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC RELHerring, Lucinda
Summary: "For all those seeking to reclaim their innate and legal right to care for their own dead, create home funeral vigils, and choose greener after-death care options that are less toxic and more sustainable for the earth More natural after-death care options are transforming the paradigm of the existing funeral industry, helping families and communities recover their instinctive capacity to care...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: North Atlantic Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 393 HERKelly, Suzanne
Summary: "We once disposed of our dead in earth-friendly ways--no chemicals, biodegradable containers, dust to dust. But over the last 150 years death care has become a toxic, polluting, and alienating industry in the United States. Today, people are slowly waking up to the possibility of more sustainable and less disaffecting death care, reclaiming old practices in new ways, in a new age. Greening...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield 2015