McKibben, Bill
Summary: Bill McKibben’s groundbreaking book The End of Nature -- issued in dozens of languages and long regarded as a classic -- was the first book to alert us to global warming. But the danger is broader than that: even as climate change shrinks the space where our civilization can exist, new technologies like artificial intelligence and robotics threaten to bleach away the variety of human...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 909.83 MCKMcKibben, Bill
Summary: At thirty-seven, celebrated journalist, writer, and environmentalist Bill McKibben decided to take a break from living the life of the mind to put himself to the ultimate test: devoting a year to training as a competitive cross-country skier. Consulting with personal trainers, coaches, and doctors at the US Olympic Center, he followed a rigorous training regime better suited to a world-class...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rodale 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.93 MCKMcKibben, Bill.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hungry Mind Press 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 304.28 MCKMcKibben, Bill
Summary: "When we work together, we humans can do incredible things. We share the responsibility to address climate change and our changing planet. It is critical that we act collectively to protect our beautiful, fragile world. Renowned environmentalist Bill McKibben and the incredibly talented artist Stevie Lewis team up to bring this gorgeous picture book to life. Celebrating the amazing things...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ-ALONG MCKMcKibben, Bill.
Summary: McKibben's earliest warnings about global warming went largely unheeded. In this book, he argues that we can meet the challenges of a new "Eaarth"--still recognizable but suddenly and violently out of balance--by building the kind of societies and economies that can hunker down, concentrate on essentials, and create the type of community that will allow us to weather trouble on an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Time Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 304.2 MCKMcKibben, Bill
Summary: "From environmentalist and bestselling author Bill McKibben comes a hopeful, inspiring picture book celebrating the power of human cooperation and the beauty of life on Earth."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Godwin Books, Henry Holt and Company 2022
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Summary: The author issues a warning about the dangers and limitations of technology, delving into the latest research in genetic engineering, robotics, and nanotechnology to map a future where humans will be made rather than born.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Times Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303.483 MCKMcKibben, Bill.
Summary: "Bill McKibben is not a person you'd expect to find handcuffed in the city jail in Washington, D.C. But that's where he spent three days in the summer of 2011, after leading the largest civil disobedience in thirty years to protest the Keystone XL pipeline. A few months later the protesters would see their efforts rewarded when President Obama agreed to put the project on hold. And yet McKibben...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.7 MCKMcKibben, Bill
Summary: Bill McKibben--award-winning author, activist, educator--is fiercely curious. "I'm curious about what went so suddenly sour with American patriotism, American faith, and American prosperity." Like so many of us, McKibben grew up believing--knowing--that the United States was the greatest country on earth. As a teenager, he cheerfully led American Revolution tours in Lexington, Massachusetts. He...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2022
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Summary: "A book that's also the beginning of a movement, Bill McKibben's debut novel Radio Free Vermont follows a band of Vermont patriots who decide that their state might be better off as its own republic. As the host of Radio Free Vermont--"underground, underpowered, and underfoot"--seventy-two-year-old Vern Barclay is currently broadcasting from an "undisclosed and double-secret location." With the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Rider Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2017
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Summary: 'Reissued on the tenth anniversary of its publication, this classic work on our environmental crisis features a new introduction by the author, reviewing both the progress and ground lost in the fight to save the earth. This impassioned plea for radical and life-renewing change is today still considered a groundbreaking work in environmental studies. McKibben's argument that the survival of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Trade Paperbacks 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 304.2 MCKMcKibben, Bill.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 394.2663 MCKGerhardt, Christina
Summary: "Low-lying island nations are least responsible for global warming, but they are already suffering its impacts severely and disproportionately. According to the International Panel on Climate Change, island nations are responsible for 0.03% of global emissions. A weave of essays, maps, poems and illustrations, Sea Change presents the impacts of and solutions to sea level rise. An essay, drawing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of California Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 304.2 GERMuir, John
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library Of America 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 508.74 MUISummary: Sy Montgomery, New York Times best-selling author and recipient of numerous awards, edits this year's volume of the finest science and nature writing. "Science is important because this is how we seek to discover the truth about the world. And this is what makes excellent science and nature writing essential," observes New York Times best-selling author Sy Montgomery. "Science and nature...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 810.8 BESBurroughs, John
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 508 BURSummary: An anthology of seminal American environmental writing from the past two centuries considers their influence on the ways in which people view the natural world and includes pieces by such figures as Henry David Thoreau, John Muir, and John James Audubon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Literary Classics of the United States 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 304.28 AMESummary: Coming of Age at the End of Nature explores a new kind of environmental writing. This powerful anthology gathers the passionate voices of young writers who have grown up in an environmentally damaged and compromised world. Each contributor has come of age since Bill McKibben foretold the doom of humanity’s ancient relationship with a pristine earth in his prescient 1988 warning of climate...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Trinity University Press 2016
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 508 COMSummary: Collects thirty-five essays on global warming from the nineteenth century to today, with contributions by Michael Crichton, Al Gore, Elizabeth Kolbert, and Naomi Klein.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.738 GLOSummary: An unconventional work in every way, the Qatsi Trilogy wordlessly surveys the rapidly changing environments of the Northern Hemisphere. It shuttles viewers from one vision to the next, moving from images of untouched nature to others depicting human beings' increasing dependence on technology. -- adapted from container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC QATLapp,̌ 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 LAPMills, Stephanie
Summary: Live well live wild asks that people confront themselves, each other, and our society in general regarding how we have lost the wild and how we can bring it back into our imaginations, our values, our actions, and our land.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ice Cube Press 2006