French, Lisa S.
Summary: In rhyming text, Eco-Pig wakes up from a nap only to find his beautiful town of To-Be totally trashed.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Magic Wagon 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FRESummary: "An urgent and definitive collection of essays from leaders and experts championing the Green New Deal-and a detailed playbook for how we can win it-including contributions by leading activists and progressive writers like Varshini Prakash, Rhiana Gunn-Wright, Bill McKibben, Rev William Barber II, and more"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.7 PRAHarris, Duchess
Summary: "As people began to see how pollution and industry could damage the environment, they began to seek change. Environmental Protests explores the research that revealed how common practices harmed the environment, the events people held to raise awareness, and the tactics protesters use to protect nature and change laws."--Amazon.com
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Core Library, and imprint of Abdo Publishing 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J333.72 HARSummary: A paper-over-board interactive picture book with sturdy pages that introduces younger readers to recycling, resources, Earth science, and conservation. Reduce. Reuse. Recycle. Revitalize. Learn how budding environmentalists can help take care of the Earth with the interactive story Reuse This Book! Can you tap the seeds to help them grow? Tilt the book to water the tree? Trace the path of the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2021
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Summary: Recycling magic turns a garbage-filled park into a "greentastic" garden.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Kann 2013Swift, Keilly
Summary: A guide to becoming a good citizen provides ideas and tips on making the world a better place through activism, discussing self-care, public speaking, and organizing and funding campaigns for causes.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2020
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Summary: "An empowering, engaging young readers guide to understanding and battling climate change from the expert and bestselling author of This Changes Everything and On Fire, Naomi Klein. Warmer temperatures. Fires in the Amazon. Superstorms. These are just some of the effects of climate change that we are already experiencing. The good news is that we can all do something about it. A movement is...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 363.738 KLELaDuke, Winona
Summary: "Winona LaDuke is a leader in cultural-based sustainable development strategies, renewable energy, sustainable food systems and Indigenous rights. To Be a Water Protector, explores issues that have been central to her activism for many years -- sacred Mother Earth, our despoiling of Earth and the activism at Standing Rock and opposing Line 3. For this book, Winona discusses several elements of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Fernwood Publishing 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.7 LADLondon, Martha
Summary: It's up to people to put an end to climate change. But there are many things that must be done before climate change will slow. Stopping Climate Change examines the many ways people must act to stop greenhouse gas emissions, from watching their diets to adding green spaces to cities.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Core Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 363.738 LONCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J363.738 LONReynolds, Mary
Summary: "We Are the Ark asks readers to have a sweeping change of vision for our relationship with our gardens. To inspire people to look at what we can do for the earth and all her kin, rather than seeing our patches of the planet as 'outdoor rooms' for our pleasure or 'blank pallets' for our creative visions. To Ark their land and restore a network of native plants instead of 'low maintenance'...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Timber Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 630.2 REYSirett, Dawn.
Summary: You can make a big difference if you help take care of the planet. From growing a garden in a tray to recycling trash, this book is full of ideas.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dorling Kindersley Pub. 2009
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Summary: Provides instruction on living an environmentally friendly life, and how to make money doing it.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 640 BACWinter, Jeanette
Summary: This true story of Wangari Maathai, environmentalist and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, is a shining example of how one woman's passion, vision, and determination inspired great change.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Company 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "Idealistic filmmaker Sebastian ... and his cynical producer Costa ... arrive in Bolivia to make a revisionist film about Christopher Columbus' conquest of the Americas. But as filming commences, the local citizens begin to riot in protest against a multi-national corporation that is taking control of their water supply. With the film shoot in jeopardy, both men find their convictions shaken....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2012
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF EVEAdler, David A.
Summary: On Green Day, Cam and her classmates discuss ways to protect the environment, but when money collected for the the school's new skylights disappears, Cam uses her photographic memory to solve the mystery.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Puffin Books 2008
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE ADLFriedman, Thomas L.
Summary: Friedman's bestseller "The World Is Flat" has helped millions of readers to see globalization in a new way. Now the author brings a fresh outlook to the crises of destabilizing climate change and rising competition for energy.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2008
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 333.79073 FRICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 333.79073 FriCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Environ FriedmanGutman, Dan.
Summary: New third grade teacher Mr. Granite has so many strange ideas about how to make Ella Mentary School environmentally friendly that the students are sure he must be an alien.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTrophy 2008
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED GUTSummary: Marked by sluggish growth and high unemployment, the U.S. economy has been in crisis for years. Might the investment of billions of dollars into the clean energy sector trigger innovation and the creation of millions of jobs? Or would we simply be pumping dollars into the myth of a green economy?
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Fine, Doug.
Summary: Like many Americans, Doug Fine enjoys his creature comforts, but he also knows full well they keep him addicted to oil. So he wonders: Is it possible to keep his Netflix and his car, his Wi-Fi and his subwoofers, and still reduce his carbon footprint? Inan attempt to find out, Fine moves to a remote ranch in New Mexico, where he brazenly vows to grow his own food, use sunlight to power his...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Villard 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 333.72 FINFriedman, Thomas L.
Summary: New York Times columnist and Pulitzer Prize winner Thomas L. Friedman brings his unique point of view to the red hot topic of global climate change. Here he proposes a national plan for going green that will not only benefit the earth, but also make America's economy stronger and its borders more secure.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 320.58 FRIImus, Deirdre.
Summary: Offers parents practical suggestions on how to raise a healthy child in an increasingly toxic environment, drawing on the latest scientific and medical research to cover health issues related to children in every age group, from infancy to adolescence.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649.1 IMUJames, Franke.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: New Society Pub. 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 333.72 JAMShellenberger, Michael
Summary: "Environmental expert Michael Shellenberger unleashes a scientific, fact-based broadside against eco-alarmism and the excesses of the New Left, arguing that climate change isn't a 30-year problem, but a 300-year problem"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 304.2 SHESummary: In 1971, a group of friends sailed into a nuclear test zone in a protest that would capture the public's imagination. That handful of individuals would go on to become the international environmental organization Greenpeace. Comprised of rare archival footage and interviews with former Greenpeace members, How to change the world recounts Greenpeace's early days under the pioneering helm of its...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016