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Plastic built the modern world. Where would we be without bike helmets, baggies, toothbrushes, and pacemakers? But a century into our love affair with plastic, we’re starting to realize it’s not such a healthy relationship. Plastics draw on dwindling fossil fuels, leach harmful chemicals, litter landscapes, and destroy marine life. As journalist Susan Freinkel points out in this engaging and eye-opening book, we’re nearing a crisis point. We’ve...
Series
Ironweed film club volume no. 51
Publisher
Ironweed Film Club
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 1 hrs. 38 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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Tipping point: Our warming earth is most dramatically revealed in this modern day journey through the North West Passage. This is a revealing and worrying documentary that explains the effects of global climate change on the polar region and the alarming and rapid increase in the melting ice that might create an ice-free Arctic as soon as 2012 or 2013, by some recently revised predictions.
Life in plastic...: Plastic is the backbone of our society...
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Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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More than 200 million years ago, geological forces split apart the continents. Isolated from each other, the two halves of the world developed radically different suites of plants and animals. When Christopher Columbus set foot in the Americas, he ended that separation at a stroke. Driven by the economic goal of establishing trade with China, he accidentally set off an ecological convulsion as European vessels carried thousands of species to new homes...
5) Green guide for artists: nontoxic recipes, green art ideas, & resources for the eco-conscious artist
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Publisher
Quarry Books
Language
English
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The Green Guide for Artists inspires artists to make better eco-conscious choices within their work and their studios and shows them how. The book has four sections: The first contains recipes for DIY art supplies such as ones for mixing your own non-toxic paints and adhesives and making your own papers from recycled paper. The second offers safe and green practices for the workspace. The next section shares a fresh look at using recycled materials...
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English
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Bill Bryson and his family live in a Victorian parsonage in a part of England where nothing of any great significance has happened since the Romans decamped. Yet one day, he began to consider how very little he knew about the ordinary things of life as he found it in that comfortable home. To remedy this, he formed the idea of journeying about his house from room to room to “write a history of the world without leaving home.” The bathroom provides...
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Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
xix, 310 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Galapagos archipelago is often viewed as a last foothold of pristine nature. For sixty years, conservationists have worked to restore this evolutionary Eden after centuries of exploitation at the hands of pirates, whalers, and island settlers. This book tells the story of the islands' namesakes--the giant tortoises--as coveted food sources, objects of natural history, and famous icons of conservation and tourism. By doing so, it brings into stark...
Author
Publisher
[Becky Mundt]
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
132 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
This all new 5th edition of "The Clean Green Home Revolution -- 101 Home Uses of Hydrogen Peroxide" is a comprehensive guide to home, garden, spa and personal care uses of hydrogen peroxide from the editor and publisher of FoodGradeH2O2.com. Replace toxic home cleaning products with safe effective hydrogen peroxide -- this book will show you how! Improve indoor air quality, disinfect and clean without dangerous chemicals. 101 Home Uses of Hydrogen...
9) Damnation
Publisher
Patagonia
Pub. Date
c2014.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc ( 88 min.) : sound; color with some black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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This powerful film odyssey across America explores the sea change in our national attitude from pride in big dams as engineering wonders to the growing awareness that our own future is bound to the life and health of our rivers. Dam removal has moved beyond the fictional Monkey Wrench Gang to go mainstream. Where obsolete dams come down, rivers bound back to life, giving salmon and other wild fish the right of return to primeval spawning grounds,...
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Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xxvii, 228 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
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"The story of phosphorus spans the globe and vast tracts of human history. The race to mine phosphorus took people from the battlefields of Waterloo, which were looted for the bones of fallen soldiers, to the fabled guano islands off Peru, the Bone Valley of Florida, and the sand dunes of the Western Sahara. Over the past century, phosphorus has made farming vastly more productive, feeding the enormous increase in the human population. Yet, as Egan...
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152 pages illustrations
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English
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A new report details how the White Mesa Mill, a conventional uranium mill in southeastern Utah a mile from Bears Ears National Monument, became America's cheapest radioactive waste dump. By transforming its business model, the mill has turned into a commercial landfill for contaminated wastes, placing Utah's clean air, water, environment, and people at risk and perpetuating environmental injustices in the Bears Ears cultural landscape.
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Publisher
New Society Publishers
Pub. Date
c2003
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xix, 251 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 23 cm.
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English
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For builders of natural homes (straw bale, cob, adobe, rammed earth, and other natural materials), this unique step-by-step guide takes the confusion out of choosing, mixing, and applying natural plasters. From principles to practicalities, and with every stage of the process illustrated, The Natural Plasters Book details the entire process of plastering with earth, lime, and gypsum for a long-lasting and durable finish. Starting with an overview...
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English
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Until recently, Elizabeth Cline was a typical American consumer. She’d grown accustomed to shopping at outlet malls, discount stores like T.J. Maxx, and cheap but trendy retailers like Forever 21, Target, and H&M. She was buying a new item of clothing almost every week (the national average is sixty-four per year) but all she had to show for it was a closet and countless storage bins packed full of low-quality fads she barely wore — including...
Publisher
Foundation for Deep Ecology, printed and distributed by Goff Books, an imprint of ORO Editions
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 35 cm.
Language
English
Description
Every problem facing humanity, from poverty to violent conflict over resources, is exacerbated by a ballooning human population –- and so is every problem facing nature, including ecosystem loss, species extinctions, and climate chaos. But why is the demographic explosion and its effects ignored by policymakers and the media? Why do important people within the global environmental movement itself avoid the great challenges of the population issue?...
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New Society Publishers
Pub. Date
c2005
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xx, 202 p. ; 24 cm.
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English
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Compelling evidence links the chemicals in household products to cancer, asthma, allergies, multiple chemical sensitivity syndrome-also known as environmental illness-hormonal disruption, reproductive and developmental disorders, and other conditions. Yet cleaning products are exempt from the full ingredient disclosure on product labels as required for food and personal care products and enter the marketplace with little or no testing for potential...
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Publisher
Gibbs Smith
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
160 p. : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
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English
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Green. It conjures images of a meadow in spring for some, and the color of money for others. What does "green" have to do with our homes? In essence, green building-or sustainable building-means being smart about how we use energy, water, and building materials so that we can live well without needlessly damaging the environment. Creating a good green home isn't just about conservation, about using less or saving more-although that's certainly part...
17) Earth to spirit
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Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
c1994
Physical Desc
159 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
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English
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Publisher
Nation Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
viii, 295 p. ; 24 cm.
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English
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From Africa to Asia and Latin America, the era of climate wars has begun. Extreme weather is breeding banditry, humanitarian crisis, and state failure. In Tropic of Chaos, investigative journalist Christian Parenti travels along the front lines of this gathering catastrophe -- the belt of economically and politically battered postcolonial nations and war zones girding the planet's midlatitudes. Here he finds failed states amid climatic disasters....
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English
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Matsutake is the most valuable mushroom in the world-and a weed that grows in human-disturbed forests across the northern hemisphere. Through its ability to nurture trees, matsutake helps forests to grow in daunting places. It is also an edible delicacy in Japan, where it sometimes commands astronomical prices. In all its contradictions, matsutake offers insights into areas far beyond just mushrooms and addresses a crucial question: what manages to...
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Publisher
Rodale
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
xix, 396 p. ; 24 cm.
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English
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We are what we eat, but we also are what we use to clean our homes, pamper our skin, and decorate our rooms, according to Renée Loux, accomplished raw food chef, award-winning author, and host of Fine Living TV's Easy Being Green. In her new book, Easy Green Living, she applies her whole-foods philosophy to home, garden, and beauty routines. Renée Loux demonstrates that being green at home is easy, affordable, and better in every sense of the word....
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