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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.9 - AR Pts: 39
Language
English
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Description
Friedman's bestseller "The World Is Flat" has helped millions of readers to see globalization in a new way. Now the author brings a fresh outlook to the crises of destabilizing climate change and rising competition for energy.
Publisher
Milkweed Editions
Pub. Date
1996
Physical Desc
112 p. : ill., maps ; 18 cm.
Language
English
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Description
Distinguished writers, including John McPhee, Barry Lopez, William Kittredge, Ann Zwinger, and Mark Strand, speak out on the necessity to protect and preserve America's wilderness habitats in the face of assaults on government-protected lands by miners, developers, and other industries.
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 97 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A decade after An Inconvenient Truth brought climate change into the heart of popular culture comes the follow-up that shows just how close people are to a real energy revolution.
Publisher
One World
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
xxiv, 418 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Across the world, from boardrooms and policy positions to local communities, from science to activism, women everywhere are using their voices to take leadership and call for action on climate change. Curated by two climate leaders, this book leads us away from the brink and toward the possibility of a life-giving future.
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Description
"Brinkley pays tribute to those who combated the mauling of the natural world in the Long Sixties: Rachel Carson, ... David Brower, ... Barry Commoner, ... Coretta Scott King, ... Stewart Udall, ... William O. Douglas, ... Cesar Chavez, ... and other crusaders are profiled. ... [Carson's book Silent Spring] launched an ecological revolution that inspired such landmark legislation as the Wilderness Act (1964), the Clean Air Acts (1963 and 1970),...
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Former Vice President Al Gore explains the facts of global warming, presents arguments that the dangers of global warning have reached the level of crisis, and addresses the efforts of certain interests to discredit the anti-global warming cause. Between lecture segments, Gore discusses his personal commitment to the environment, sharing anecdotes from his experiences.
Publisher
Good Docs
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (77 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Inhabitants follows five Native American Tribes across deserts, coastlines, forests, and prairies as they restore their traditional land management practices. For millennia Native Americans successfully stewarded and shaped their landscapes, but centuries of colonization have disrupted their ability to maintain traditional land management practices. From deserts, coastlines, forests, mountains, and prairies, Native communities are restoring their...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"The true story of Marjory Stoneman Douglas, who saved the Florida Everglades from development and ruin"--
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