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Physical Desc
270 pages
Language
English
Description
Is investing itself the problem?
Our lives are split between living every day and accumulating money for our future. We have over $100 trillion invested, more than the size of the global economy, and the planet can no longer produce enough to keep this growing. There is no other way to say it – our savings are killing the planet. But we need the money. We need it to support us as we age. We fear not having enough, of becoming destitute.
This book...
Author
Publisher
Back of Beyond Books
Pub. Date
c1982
Physical Desc
4 sound discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Ten selections taken from Desert Solitaire, The Journey Home, Abbey's Road, and Down the River convey Abbey's stance against the development of the American West and the destruction of its wilderness.
23) Wrenched
Publisher
[Distributed by] Bullfrog Films
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : digital, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Reveals how Edward Abbey's anarchistic spirit and riotous novels influenced and helped guide the nascent environmental movement of the 1970s and 1980s. Through interviews, archival footage and re-enactments, the film captures the outrage of Abbey's friends who were the original eco-warriors. In defense of wilderness, these early activists pioneered "monkeywrenching"--a radical blueprint for "wrenching the system." As exemplified by EarthFirst! in...
Author
Publisher
National Geographic Society
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
127 p. : col. ill. ; 20 x 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Global warming, climate change, toxic waste, and more: it sometimes seems the environmental challenges we face are just too huge for individual actions to matter, but they're not--and here's the proof. True Green is based on the practical experience of Clean Up the World, a grassroots environmental movement that has inspired more than 40 million volunteers in over 100 countries to take action since 1993. Whether you live in a city apartment, a suburban...
Author
Publisher
Seven Stories Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
349 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
In this impassioned polemic, radical environmental philosopher Derrick Jensen debunks the near-universal belief in a hierarchy of nature and the superiority of humans. Vast and underappreciated complexities of nonhuman life are explored in detail — from the cultures of pigs and prairie dogs, to the creative use of tools by elephants and fish, to the acumen of caterpillars and fungi. The paralysis of the scientific establishment on moral and ethical...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
xv, 252 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Lauded by some, despised by others, Mike Roselle is one of the most controversial figures in the crusade to protect the environment. Mike has succeeded in stopping a lumber project by spiking trees, struggled with death threats and the car bombing of fellow activist Judi Bari, endured countless days in jail, infiltrated the Nevada Test Site to delay nuclear bomb detonation, helped put a gas mask on Mount Rushmore’s George Washington, and aided actor...
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Language
English
Description
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,...
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Language
English
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Description
"The average American spends ninety percent of their time indoors, and children are no exception. Today, kids can spend up to seven hours per day looking at screens. Not only does this phenomenon have consequences for our kids' physical and mental health, it calls into question their ability to understand and engage with anything beyond the built environment. We can talk about environmental stewardship, but until more people make meaningful contact...
Series
Ironweed Film Club volume no. 74
Publisher
Iron Weed Film Club
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (68 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Consumed: Consumerism has become the cornerstone of the post-industrial age. Yet how much do we know about it and what it is doing to us? Using theories of evolutionary psychology to underpin a bold narrative of our times, this film takes a whirlwind tour through the "weird mental illness of consumerism", showing how our insatiable appetite has driven us into "the jaws of the beast". Manipulating our innermost impulses, capitalism has begun to not...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
220 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In these ten stories, Rash spins a haunting allegory of the times we live in--rampant capitalism, the severing of ties to the natural world in the relentless hunt for profit, the destruction of body and soul with pills meant to mute our pain--and yet within this world he illuminates acts of extraordinary decency and heroism"--
Author
Publisher
North Atlantic Books
Language
English
Formats
Description
"An Indigenous environmental scientist breaks down why western conservationism isn't working--and offers Indigenous models informed by case studies, personal stories, and family histories that center the voices of Latin American women and land protectors"--
Author
Publisher
Bower House
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
xii, 260 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"All My Rivers Are Gone celebrates a great American landscape, mourns its loss, and challenges us to undo the damage and forever prevent such mindless destruction in the future"
33) The unforeseen
Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The American dream of owning a house with a white picket fence goes head to head with environmental sustainability in this urgent, beautifully crafted documentary. When an ambitious real estate developer sets out to transform thousands of acres of pristine hill country around Austin, Texas into a suburban development, threatening a nearby natural spring, the community fights back. In the conflict that ensues, we see a microcosm of the struggle between...
Publisher
Oscilloscope Pictures
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (85 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Profiles the radical environmental organization ELF and Oregon-based member Daniel G. McGowan, who faced possible life imprisonment for his related activities, while addressing various perspectives on environmentalism, activism, and terrorism.
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
x, 284 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Paul Kingsnorth was once an activist--an ardent environmentalist. He fought against rampant development and the depredations of a corporate world that seemed hell-bent on ignoring a looming climate crisis in its relentless pursuit of profit. But as the environmental movement began to focus on "sustainability" rather than the defense of wild places for their own sake, and as global conditions worsened, he grew disenchanted with the movement that he...
37) Serena: a novel
Author
Publisher
Ecco
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
371 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The year is 1929, and newlyweds George and Serena Pemberton travel from Boston to the North Carolina mountains where they plan to create a timber empire. Although George has already lived in the camp long enough to father an illegitimate child, Serena is new to the mountains -- but she soon shows herself to be the equal of any man, overseeing crews, hunting rattle-snakes, even saving her husband's life in the wilderness. Together this lord and lady...
38) Green with envy
Author
Series
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
147 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
As Nancy and her friends continue their stay at the Casa Verde eco-resort in Costa Rica, additional bad things happen and, as Nancy investigates the new problems, she discovers that the resort is not as green as it claims to be.
Author
Publisher
Haymarket Books
Pub. Date
2019
Physical Desc
182 pages : maps ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Who gets to shape the narrative of our times? The current moment is a battle royale over that foundational power, one in which women, people of color, non-straight people are telling other versions, and white people and men and particularly white men are trying to hang onto the old versions and their own centrality. In Whose Story Is This? Rebecca Solnit appraises what's emerging and why it matters and what the obstacles are.
Author
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
318 pages : illustrations, maps, portrait ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The American people sees itself advance across the wilderness, draining swamps, straightening rivers, peopling the solitude, and subduing nature," wrote Alexis de Tocqueville in 1835. That's largely how we still think of nineteenth-century America today: a country expanding unstoppably, bending the continent's natural bounty to the national will, heedless of consequence. A country of slavery and of Indian wars. There's much truth in that vision....
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