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Women in the WestFriedman, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 320.58 FRIFlowers, Catherine Coleman
Summary: "Catherine Flowers grew up in Lowndes County, Alabama, a place that's been called "Bloody Lowndes" because of its violent, racist history. Once the epicenter of the voting rights struggle, today it's Ground Zero for a new movement that is Flowers's life'swork. It's a fight to ensure human dignity through a right most Americans take for granted: basic sanitation. Too many people, especially the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.72 FLOLanza, Michael.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.3 LANSummary: "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"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.7 PRAFox, Josh
Summary: The Truth Has Changed captures the rapid-fire shocks that are changing the fabric of our lives--from 9/11 and the Iraq war, to fracking and the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill, to Hurricane Sandy, to relentless smear campaigns against climate scientists, to the fight for 100% renewable energy, to Standing Rock, to the 2016 presidential campaign, to Cambridge Analytica. Our normal isn't normal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Stories Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.2 FOXSteinberg, Theodore
Summary: Down to earth offers a sweeping history of our nation, one that places the environment at the very center of our story. Ted Steinberg sweeps across the centuries, re-envisioning the story of America as he recounts how the environment has played a key role in virtually every social, economic, and political development. Ranging from the colonists' attempts to impose order on the land to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 333.7 STEOstrander, Madeline
Summary: "From rural Alaska to coastal Florida, a vivid account of Americans working to protect the places they call home in an era of climate crisis"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.738 OSTDrabelle, Dennis
Summary: "The Power of Scenery tells the story of how America's national parks came to be, with Frederick Law Olmsted's insights and energy serving to link three jewels: Yosemite National Park, Yellowstone National Park, and Niagara Falls State Park"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.6 DRAZiegelman, Jane
Summary: "From the author of the acclaimed 97 Orchard and her husband, a culinary historian, an in-depth exploration of the greatest food crisis the nation has ever faced--the Great Depression--and how it transformed America's culinary culture. The decade-long Great Depression, a period of shifts in the country's political and social landscape, forever changed the way America eats. Before 1929,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5 ZIEFriedman, 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.
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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
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Environ FriedmanRiley, Glenda
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 333.72 RILSummary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC RELGilio-Whitaker, Dina
Summary: "Interrogating the concept of environmental justice in the U.S. as it relates to Indigenous peoples, this book argues that a different framework must apply compared to other marginalized communities, while it also attends to the colonial history and structure of the U.S. and ways Indigenous peoples continue to resist, and ways the mainstream environmental movement has been an impediment to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019