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Fen, Bog and Swamp : A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis
Proulx, AnnieScribner 2022*Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker and Literary Hub!* A Finalist for the 2022 NBCC Awards in Nonfiction, the 2023 Phillip D. Reed Environmental Writing Award, and the...
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Our Biggest Experiment : An Epic History of the Climate Crisis
Bell, AliceCatapult 2021Traversing science, politics, and technology, Our Biggest Experiment shines a spotlight on the little-known scientists who sounded the alarm to reveal the history behind the defini...
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Fuzz : When Nature Breaks the Law
Roach, MaryW. W. Norton & Company 2021An Instant New York Times Bestseller #1 Los Angeles Times Bestseller #1 Indie Hardcover Nonfiction Bestseller A Publishers Weekly Best Nonfiction Book of 2021 Longlisted for the...
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A World on the Wing : The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds
Weidensaul, ScottW. W. Norton & Company 2021New York Times Bestseller Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize A Library Journal Best Science and Technology Book of the Year An exhilarating exploration of the science...
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Under a White Sky : The Nature of the Future
Kolbert, ElizabethCrown 2021NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Sixth Extinction returns to humanity’s transformative impact on the environment, now asking: After doing so much dama...
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Living Fossils : Survivors from Earth's Distant Past
Hirsch, Rebecca ELerner Publishing Group 2020In the history of life on this planet, 99.9 percent of all species have gone extinct. But a few have survived almost unchanged. Author Rebecca E. Hirsch introduces readers to six l...
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Ruthie Fear : A Novel
Loskutoff, MaximW. W. Norton & Company 2020Winner of the 2021 High Plains Book Award in Fiction and the 2021 Montana Innovation Award In this haunting parable of the American West, a young woman faces the violent past of...
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We Are the Weather : Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast
Foer, Jonathan SafranMacmillan Audio 2019 UnabridgedThis program is read by the author. Some people reject the fact, overwhelmingly supported by scientists, that our planet is warming due to human activities. But do those of us who...
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Living Simply : A Teen Guide to Minimalism
McGraw, SallyLerner Publishing Group 2019Twenty-first-century minimalism is an increasingly mainstream response to global environmental crises such as climate change, the garbage glut, fast fashion, and other manifestatio...
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Dead Zone : Where the Wild Things Were
Lymbery, PhilipBloomsbury Publishing 2017'An honest, compelling and important account, and a critical plea for a fusion of farming, food and nature to provide global ecological security' CHRIS PACKHAM Why are so many anim...
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Every Last Drop : Bringing Clean Water Home
Mulder, MichelleOrca Book Publishers 2015In the developed world, if you want a drink of water you just turn on a tap or open a bottle. But for millions of families worldwide, finding clean water is a daily challenge, and...
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The Sixth Extinction : An Unnatural History
Kolbert, ElizabethBloomsbury Publishing 2014________________ WINNER OF THE 2015 PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NON-FICTION ________________ 'An invaluable contribution to our understanding of present circumstances, just as the p...
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Invisible Nature : Healing the Destructive Divide Between People and the Environment
Worthy, KennethPrometheus 2013A revolutionary new understanding of the precarious modern human-nature relationship and a pathto a healthier, more sustainable world.Amidst all the wondrous luxuries of the modern...
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Pedal It! : How Bicycles are Changing the World
Mulder, MichelleOrca Book Publishers 2013Pedal It! celebrates the humble bicycle—from the very first boneshakers to the sleek racing bikes of today, from handlebars to spokes to gear sprockets—and shows you why and how bi...
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Inside Animal Minds : The New Science of Animal Intelligence
Roach, Mary; Morell, Virgina; Miller, PeterDisney Book Group 2012The Animal Intelligence Bundle: "Minds of Their Own" by Virginia Morell (March 2008) "Almost Human" by Mary Roach (April 2008) "The Genius of Swarms" by Peter Miller (July 2007)...
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Rooftop Revolution : How Solar Power Can Save Our Economy—and Our Planet—from Dirty Energy
Kennedy, DannyBerrett-Koehler Publishers 2012 1. editionHere is the truth that the powerful Dirty Energy public relations machine doesn't want you to know: the ascent of solar energy is upon us. Solar-generated electricity has risen exp...
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Field Notes from a Catastrophe : Climate Change--Is Time Running Out?
Kolbert, ElizabethBloomsbury Publishing 2012_________________ 'A superbly crafted, diligently compressed vision of a world spiralling towards destruction' - Observer 'Kolbert mesmerises with her poetic cadence in this riveti...
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7 Billion : How Your World Will Change
National GeographicNational Geographic Society 2011Sometime in late October 2011, the 7 millionth citizen of planet Earth will be born. To mark the event, National Geographic magazine commissioned seven articles that explore the fa...
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Too Many People? : Population, Immigration, and the Environmental Crisis
Angus, Ian; Butler, SimonHaymarket Books 2011Too Many People? provides a clear, well-documented, and popularly written refutation of the idea that "overpopulation" is a major cause of environmental destruction, arguing that a...
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Sacred Economics : Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition
Eisenstein, CharlesNorth Atlantic Books 2011Sacred Economics traces the history of money from ancient gift economies to modern capitalism, revealing how the money system has contributed to alienation, competition, and scarci...