Bloomberg, Michael
Summary: "The 2016 election left many people who are concerned about the environment fearful that progress on climate change would come screeching to a halt. But not Michael Bloomberg and Carl Pope. Bloomberg, an entrepreneur and former mayor of New York City, and Pope, a lifelong environmental leader, approach climate change from different perspectives, yet they arrive at similar conclusions. Without...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.7 BLOWallace-Wells, David
Summary: "It is worse, much worse, than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possible. In California, wildfires now rage year-round, destroying thousandsof homes. Across the US, "500-year" storms pummel communities month after month, and floods displace tens of millions annually. This is only a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tim Duggan Books 2019
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3 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 304.2 WALCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 304.2 WALWallace-Wells, David
Summary: "An exploration of the devastating effects of global warming-how the future will look to those living through it as well as a direct overview and an impassioned and hopeful call to action to change the trajectory while there is still time. Adapted for young adults from the #1 New York Times bestseller"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 304.2 WALCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 304.2 WALGoodell, Jeff
Summary: "The Heat Will Kill You First is about the extreme ways in which our planet is already changing. It is about why spring is coming a few weeks earlier and fall is coming a few weeks later and the impact that will have on everything from our food supply to disease outbreaks. It is about what will happen to our lives and our communities when typical summer days in Chicago or Boston go from 90°F to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLELapp,̌ Anna
Summary: "In 1971, Frances Moore Lappe's Diet for a Small Planet sparked a revolution in how we think about hunger, alerting millions to the hidden environmental and social impacts of our food choices. Now, nearly four decades later, her daughter, Anna Lappe, picks up the conversation. In her new book, the younger Lappe exposes another hidden cost of our food system: the climate crisis." "While you may...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.19 LAPSummary: "Chicago suffered the worst heat disaster in U.S history in 1995, when 739 residents--mostly elderly and black--died over the course of one week. As Cooked links the deadly heat wave's devastation back to the underlying manmade disaster of structural racism, it delves deep into one of our nation's biggest growth industries: Disaster Preparedness. Peabody Award-winning filmmaker Judith Helfand...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020