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Forest ecology Graphic novels Green technology New York (State) New York Human ecology New York (N.Y.) Environmental conditions Sustainable architecture New York (State) New York Trees in cities Urban ecology (Sociology) Urban ecology (Sociology) Juvenile literature Urban forestryCurtis, Andrea
Summary: ""Imagine a city draped in a blanket of green ... Is this the city you know?" This beautiful book of narrative non-fiction looks at the urban forest, starting with a bird's-eye view of the tree canopy, then swooping down to street level, digging deep into the ground, then moving up through a tree's trunk, back into the leaves and branches. It discusses the problems that city trees face such as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books 2020
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Summary: Describes the history, vision and impact of The Urban Ecology Center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and its model for urban environmental education. Strategies that can be used elsewhere called the Neighborhood Environmental Education Project are included.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Morgan James Publishing 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 304 LEIKaner, Etta.
Summary: A tour of some of the world's greenest structures
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT Design KanerKellogg, Scott T.
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Publisher / Publication Date: South End Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 640 KELMosco, Rosemary
Summary: Mole and Vole always venture out into the world to see what nature they can find, but after an accidental move from the country to the city, the best friends have to learn to discover new plants and animals in their new environment.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Graphic 2022
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Summary: With a combination of scientific rigor and passionate advocacy, Brand shows exactly where the sources of environmental dilemmas lie and offers a bold and inventive set of policies and solutions for creating a more sustainable society.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 304.2 BRASmil, Vaclav
Summary: Growth has been both an unspoken and an explicit aim of our individual and collective striving. It governs the lives of microorganisms and galaxies; it shapes the capabilities of our extraordinarily large brains and the fortunes of our economies. Growth is manifested in annual increments of continental crust, a rising gross domestic product, a child's growth chart, the spread of cancerous...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The MIT Press 2019
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Summary: Since the beginning of civilization humans have built cities to wall nature out, then glorified it in beloved but quite artificial parks. Wilson looks to the fraught relationship between nature and the city for clues to how the planet can survive in an age of climate crisis. We are at last acknowledging that human engineering is not enough to protect us from extremes of weather. Wilson takes us...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 577.5 WILWest, Geoffrey B.
Summary: "From one of the most influential scientists of our time, a dazzling exploration of the hidden laws that govern the life cycle of everything from plants and animals to the cities we live in. The former head of the Sante Fe Institute, visionary physicist Geoffrey West is a pioneer in the field of complexity science, the science of emergent systems and networks. The term "complexity" can be...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2018
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303 WESOwen, David
Summary: Upending the environmentalist viewpoint that urban areas are "anti-green," New Yorker staff writer David Owen argues that sustainability is achieved in areas like New York City, while open space, backyard compost heaps, locavorism and high-tech gadgetry like solar panels and triple-paned windows are formulas for wasteful sprawl and green-washed consumerism.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2009