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Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"For more than twenty years, Naomi Klein has been the foremost chronicler of the economic war waged on both people and planet-and an unapologetic champion of a sweeping environmental agenda with justice at its center. In lucid, elegant dispatches from the frontlines of contemporary natural disaster, she pens surging, indispensable essays for a wide public: prescient advisories and dire warnings of what future awaits us if we refuse to act, as well...
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
[2011], c1995
Language
English
Description
Wendell Berry proposes, and earnestly hopes, that people will learn once more to care for their local communities, and so begin a restoration that might spread over our entire nation and beyond. The renewed development of local economies would help preserve rural diversity despite the burgeoning global economy that threatens to homogenize and compromise communities all over the world. From modern health care to the practice of forestry, from local...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12.3 - AR Pts: 48
Language
English
Description
A study of the downfall of some of history's greatest civilizations discusses the Anasazi, the Maya, and the Viking colony on Greenland, tracing patterns of environmental damage, poor political choices, and other factors in their demise.
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
" In 1980, the iconoclastic economist Julian Simon challenged celebrity biologist Paul Ehrlich to a bet. Their wager on the future prices of five metals captured the public's imagination as a test of coming prosperity or doom. Ehrlich, author of the landmark book The Population Bomb, predicted that rising populations would cause overconsumption, resource scarcity, and famine-with apocalyptic consequences for humanity. Simon optimistically countered...
Author
Publisher
Audioworks/Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
[2017].
Language
English
Description
Follow Vice President Gore around the globe as he tells a story of change in the making and offers real actionable steps that listeners can take to help reverse the damage. This riveting and thought provoking book is a must have for everyone who cares deeply about the planet.
10) Revolution
Publisher
The Video Project
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In this multi-award-winning film, Rob Stewart embarks on a global journey to uncover the grave dangers threatening the world's oceans -- and ultimately, humanity -- as well as to learn what it will take to reverse the challenges to life on earth. From the coral reefs in Papua New Guinea to the rainforests of Madagascar, Stewart's travels reveal that our fate is tied to even the smallest of creatures. Stunning scenes of underwater sea life bring viewers...
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Recycle. Fly less. Eat less meat. These are some of the tactics that we've been told can slow climate change. But most of these recommendations are a result of a multi-pronged marketing campaign that has succeeded in placing the responsibility for fixing climate change squarely on the shoulders of individuals. Fossil fuel companies have followed the example of other industries deflecting blame (think "guns don't kill people, people kill people")...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Bill Gates shares what he's learned in more than a decade of studying climate change and investing in innovations to address the problems, and sets out a vision for how the world can build the tools it needs to get to zero greenhouse gas emissions. Bill Gates explains why he cares so deeply about climate change and what makes him optimistic that the world can avoid the most dire effects of the climate crisis. Gates says, "We can work on a local,...
Author
Publisher
Perigee
Pub. Date
2008, c2007
Language
English
Description
A practical handbook offers more than fifty simple but effective ideas on how to develop a "green" lifestyle, with suggestions on everything from recycling, to reducing energy consumption, to eliminating toxins from one's home and surroundings.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
The Asia environmental correspondent for the "Guardian" delivers a fascinating, frontline account of the current environmental crisis in China, exploring how Beijing is balancing economic growth with sustainability and whether China will "emerge as the world's first green superpower" or tip our species "over the environmental precipice."
16) Collapse
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
An expedition into an industrialized civilization that has collapsed in the year 2310 in which scientists try to figure out what happened.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A stunningly beautiful film narrated by Frances McDormand, Rebels With a Cause spotlights a battle over land that changed the American landscape forever. Beginning in the 1950s, a national movement was born of principles that may seem obvious today. Unconvinced by land developers who promoted residential construction as unmitigated progress, citizens began banding together to preserve open spaces near urban areas for parks and farms — and took the...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.9 - AR Pts: 39
Language
English
Description
Proposes an ambitious national strategy to address key issues in climate change and energy shortages, identifying the factors that have contributed to current circumstances while outlining an American-led revolution of clean technology solutions.
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