Summary: 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.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC DEV

Summary: "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...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC REL

Herring, 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 HER

Kelly, 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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield 2015

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 393 KEL

Schlossberg, Tatiana

Summary: "As we become a more digital society, the gains that have been made for the environment by moving toward a paperless world with more and more efficient devices will soon be or already have been offset by the number of devices in our lives that are always using energy. But many don't think about the impact on the environment of the "Internet of things." Whether it's a microwave connected to the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.7 SCH

Fournier, Elizabeth

Summary: "A funeral home director discusses the environmental impact of common burial practices and provides ecologically sound alternatives that minimize the use of chemicals and non-biodegradable materials; also covers the financial and legal aspects of green burial methods"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: New World Library 2018

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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 393 FOU

Thunberg, Greta

Summary: "The groundbreaking speeches of Greta Thunberg, the young climate activist who has become the voice of a generation, including her historic address to the United Nations. In August 2018 a fifteen-year-old Swedish girl, Greta Thunberg, decided not to go to school one day in order to protest the climate crisis. Her actions sparked a global movement, inspiring millions of students to go on strike...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2019

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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 179 THU

Challenger, Melanie.

Summary: How do we think about the things we have lost? How can we use what we know about extinctions - cultural, biological and industrial - to reconnect with nature? When the gigantic bones of mammoths were first excavated from the Siberian permafrost in the eighteenth century, scientists were forced to consider a terrifying possibility: many species that had once flourished on the Earth no longer...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2012

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 576.84 CHA

Lomborg, Bjørn

Contents: The short story: higher temperatures -- Global warming: the many worries -- The politics of global warming.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2007

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.738 LOM

Dalai Lama XIV

Summary: At the Dalai Lama's residence in Dharamsala, India, an unusual visitor has arrived. His Holiness interrupts his morning meditation to greet a troubled Giant Panda who has travelled many miles to see him. Welcoming him as a friend, His Holiness invites the Panda on a walk through a cedar forest. There in the shadow of the Himalayas, surrounded by beauty, they discuss matters great and small . ....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper One 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 179 DAL

McKay, Kim.

Summary: Presents 100 strategies for safeguarding the environment.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic Society 2008

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.4083 MCK

Peninsula Township Hall

Summary: Learn about Great Lakes water levels and best shoreline management practices. Speakers are Heather Smith, baykeeper with Watershed Center Grand Traverse Bay, and Mark Breederland, extension educator with Michigan Sea Grant in Traverse City.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 551.45 FOR