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1) Flush
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English
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With their father jailed for sinking a river boat, Noah Underwood and his younger sister, Abbey, must gather evidence that the owner of this floating casino is emptying his bilge tanks into the protected waters around their Florida Keys home.
2) Hoot
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English
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Roy, who is new to his small Florida community, becomes involved in another boy's attempt to save a colony of burrowing owls from a proposed construction site.
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Ex-Green Beret George Hayduke returns from war to find his beloved southwestern desert threatened by industrial development. Joining with Bronx exile and feminist saboteur Bonnie Abzug, wilderness guide and outcast Mormon Seldom Seen Smith, and libertarian billboard torcher Doc Sarvis, M.D., Hayduke is ready to fight the power. They (the Monkey Wrench Gang) take on the strip miners, clear-cutters, and the highway, dam, and bridge builders who are...
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An Air Force loadmaster in the Vietnam War is shot out of the sky, then saved by falling into a banyan. An artist inherits a hundred years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut. A hard-partying undergraduate in the late 1980s electrocutes herself, dies, and is sent back into life by creatures of air and light. A hearing- and speech-impaired scientist discovers that trees are communicating with one another. These four,...
8) Time to think small: how nimble environmental technologies can solve the planet's biggest problems
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Publisher
Charlesbridge Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
vii, 280 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A guide to how small technologies can solve environmental problems in ways unimaginable just a decade ago"--
9) Just a dream
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English
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When he has a dream about a future Earth devastated by pollution, Walter begins to understand the importance of taking care of the environment.
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English
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In this brave and provocative work, former US Vice President, Al Gore asserts that only a radical rethinking of our relationship with nature will save the earth's ecology for future generations. Gore's analysis of where we've gone wrong ranges across politics, history, science, economics, psychology, and religion. He argues that only a worldwide mobilization can save us from disaster and presents a brilliant and comprehensive plan for action that...
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Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xvi, 254 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A celebration of courageous American innovators who are transforming the way we protect and care for the world we live in. The environment, and the movement that grew up to protect it, is under concerted and purposeful attack. The need for solutions to pressing environmental problems grows more urgent each day. Teresa Heinz Kerry and Senator John Kerry traveled across the country in a national campaign to see at first hand how these issues unite people...
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[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2022
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263 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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English
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Our planet is in a deepening environmental crisis. The conservation community is not up to this challenge often relying on obsolete approaches and inadequately trained personnel. This book offers a 9-point framework for getting things on track by focusing on societal values and community action. Anyone who cares about the environment, from conservation professionals to citizens concerned about the living world around them, will find this book a must-read....
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Publisher
Milkweed Editions
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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"Inspired by a rough-and-tumble journey across country and down river, David Gessner makes the case for a new environmentalism. In a frank, funny, and incisive call to arms that spans from the Cape Wind Project to the Monkey Wrench Gang, he considers whywe do or do not fight to protect and restore wilderness, and reminds us why it's time to join the fray. Though environmental awareness is on the rise, our march toward ecological collapse continues....
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