Summary: In a place where the brown Bar-ba-loots frisk and the Humming-Fish splash around, you will find the Lorax. The Lorax speaks of the trees, which the Once-ler is chopping down as fast as he pleases. Will the Once-ler change his destructive ways and heed the wise warnings of the Lorax?
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LOR RATED PGJones, Keisha
Summary: "Earth is our home, and its our responsibility to take care of it. Thats just one important truth students will learn through this title, which tackles the problem of pollution in an accessible way. With text written to support elementary science curricula, students will learn what causes pollution, why its harmful, and what can be done to fix it. Detailed photographs and fact boxes supplement...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids Press 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 363.7 JONBoothroyd, Jennifer
Summary: Introduces the concept of pollution and describes how and why to protect the planet from pollution.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lerner Publications 2020
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Summary: In rhyming text, Eco-Pig wakes up from a nap only to find his beautiful town of To-Be totally trashed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Magic Wagon 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FREYardi, Robin
Summary: Warned by an owl, ten-year-old Mattie discovers that someone is secretly polluting the land near her aunt's Big Sur donut shop and sets out to stop them.--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Carolrhoda Books 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC YARSummary: In a place where the brown Bar-ba-loots frisk and the Humming-Fish splash around, you will find the Lorax. The Lorax speaks of the trees, which the Once-ler is chopping down as fast as he pleases. Will the Once-ler change his destructive ways and heed the wise warnings of the Lorax?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2012
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Summary: Obe Devlin spends a lot of his time cleaning up the creek that runs through what little is left of his family's once extensive farmland, and worrying about what the developers are doing nearby, and the pollution it is causing--but one day he finds a strange creature by his creek that eats plastic, and soon the animal he calls Marvin Gardens becomes his personal secret, which he believes needs...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2017
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC KINRohde, Marie G.
Summary: From the atmosdragon causing global warming to the smogosaurus polluting our air, real-life environmental monsters are everywhere! Discover how planet-destroying monsters survive. Learn their weaknesses. Then join the fight to vanquish the beasts and save our planet!
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Publisher / Publication Date: What on Earth Books 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 363.7 ROHTwiddy, Robin
Summary: "Angelina Butterworth couldn't understand why people kept polluting our planet until the day she discovered it was the diabolical plan of aliens bent on destroying Earth! In this entertaining and instructive narrative, readers will be on the edge of their seats as they find out if Angelina can escape the slimy tentacles of the evil Toxlings while learning what people can do in real life to stop...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 363.17 TWISummary: A doctor wants to go public with his knowledge that the therapeutic springs that brought fame and commerce to his town are polluted, but the mayor and others are determined to stop him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ENEEmrys, Ruthanna
Summary: "A literary descendent of Ursula K. Le Guin, Ruthanna Emrys crafts a novel of extraterrestrial diplomacy and urgent climate repair bursting with quiet, tenuous hope and an underlying warmth. A Half-Built Garden depicts a world worth building towards, a humanity worth saving from itself, and an alien community worth entering with open arms. It's not the easiest future to build, but it's one that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tordotcom, a Tom Doherty Associates Book 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC EMRThaler, Mike
Summary: "There's an Earth Day celebration in store for Mrs. Green's class, and her students are working on important reports."--Publisher website.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2013
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE THATwiddy, Robin
Summary: "How big of a problem is plastic pollution? Essential answers are found in this inventive volume which tells the tale of Terry, who received a message from the future from a man claiming to be the last surviving human in a world ravaged by plastic pollution. Young Terry learns why plastic waste became such a serious issue and how to stop such a bleak future from coming true. This lively...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Publishing 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 363.72 TWIBerger, Melvin.
Summary: Explains why oil spills occur and how they are cleaned up and suggests strategies for preventing them in the future.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 1994
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE LETCribb, Julian
Summary: "Every person on our home planet is affected by a worldwide deluge of man-made chemicals and pollutants - most of which have never been tested for safety. Our chemical emissions are six times larger than our total greenhouse gas emissions. They are in ourfood, our water, the air we breathe, our homes and workplaces, the things we use each day. This universal poisoning affects our minds, our...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cambridge University Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.736 CRISummary: When it comes to the climate, we don't need more marketing or anxiety. We need established facts and a plan for collective action. The climate is the fundamental issue of our time, and now we face a critical decision. Whether to be optimistic or fatalistic, whether to profess skepticism or to take action. Yet it seems we can barely agree on what is really going on, let alone what needs to be...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Portfolio Penguin 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.738 CARSummary: Carol White is an L.A. housewife in the late 1980s who comes down with a debilitating illness. After the doctors she sees can give her no clear diagnosis, she comes to believe that she has frighteningly extreme environmental allergies. A prescient commentary on self-help culture, as a metaphor for the AIDS crisis, as a drama about class and social estrangement, and as a horror film about what...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA SAFSavage, Kathryn
Summary: "Groundglass takes shape atop a polluted aquifer in Minnesota, beside trains that haul fracked crude oil, as Kathryn Savage confronts the transgressions of US Superfund sites and brownfields against land, groundwater, neighborhoods, and people. Drawing on her own experiences growing up on the fence lines of industry and the parallel realities of raising a young son while grieving a father dying...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Coffee House Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 SAVAttenborough, David
Summary: In this scientifically informed account of the changes occurring in the world over the last century, an award-winning broadcaster and natural historian shares a lifetime of wisdom and a hopeful vision for the future.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 508 ATTFuller, Richard
Summary: Pollution is the single largest cause of death in the developing world. One in seven people in low- and middle-income countries die as a result of it. Simply put, pollution is now the world’s most prevalent health risk. And yet, while most everyone has heard about “going green,” few are aware of the more dire and sinister “brown” pollution—places where man-made toxic pollutants have taken root...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Santa Monica Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.7 FULBlackwell, Andrew
Summary: A tour of the world's most environmentally compromised regions provides satirical analysis of "destinations" ranging from hidden bars and convenience stores to radioactive wildernesses and the waters of India.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rodale 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.73 BLALomborg, Bjørn
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cambridge University Press 2001