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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....
Author
Publisher
PolipointPress
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
282 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
After centuries of economic activity based on extraction, exploitation, and depletion, we now face undeniable environmental threats. New business models that save or restore natural resources are critical. But how can we translate that insight into more sustainable practices? BUILDING THE GREEN ECONOMY shows how community groups, families, and individual citizens have taken action to protect their food and water, clean up their neighborhoods, and...
Author
Publisher
Banyan Tree Books in association with Heyday Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
ix, 182 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Twenty years have passed since Northern California, Oregon, and Washington seceded from the United States to create a new nation, Ectopia. Rumors abound of barbaric war games, tree worship, revolutionary politics, sexual extravagance. Now this mysterious country admits its first American visitor: investigative reporter Will Weston, whose dispatches alternate between shock and admiration. But Ectopia gradually unravels everything Weston knows to be...
Author
Series
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
xvii, 222 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Originally perceived as a cheap and plentiful source of power, the commercial use of nuclear energy has been controversial for decades. Worries about the dangers that nuclear plants and their radioactive waste posed to nearby communities grew over time, and plant construction in the United States virtually died after the early 1980s. The 1986 disaster at Chernobyl only reinforced nuclear power's negative image. Yet in the decade prior to the Japanese...
Author
Series
Massive volume 1
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
169 p. : chiefly col. ill. ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
In a post-war, post-Crash, post-disaster, post-everything world, the environmental action trawler Kapital scours the earth's oceans for its missing sistership, The Massive, while struggling to redefine its core mission. Captain Callum Israel, a man who dedicated his life to the ocean, now must ask himself -- as our planet dies -- what it means to be an environmentalist after the world's already ended.
Author
Publisher
Villard
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
xii, 210 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Like many Americans, Doug Fine enjoys his creature comforts, but he also knows full well they keep him addicted to oil. So he wonders: Is it possible to keep his Netflix and his car, his Wi-Fi and his subwoofers, and still reduce his carbon footprint? In an attempt to find out, Fine moves to a remote ranch in New Mexico, where he brazenly vows to grow his own food, use sunlight to power his world, and drive on restaurant grease. Never mind that he...
Author
Series
Publisher
Verso
Pub. Date
1999
Physical Desc
238 pages ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the late 1970s Chip Ward and his wife left the Sleeping Rainbow Ranch in Capitol Reef National Park to raise their children in the classic small-town American setting of Grantsville, Utah. There, on the edge of the Great Basin Desert, disturbing tales of local sickness and death interrupted an idyllic life. A seven-year quest to understand a hidden history of ecocide followed. Canaries on the Rim is Ward’s firsthand account of that quest and...
Series
Ironweed film club volume no. 43
Publisher
Ironweed Film Club
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (131 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When clouds clear: Delves into one remote community's radical resistance to a proposed copper mine that would level and destroy their way of life forever. Set in an isolated cloud forest of the north Andes Mountains, the film is narrated by the founders and the children of Junin who depict how the village's daily life has been affect by the rich ore deposit that was discovered beneath their land. Suddenly these once-peaceful farmers find themselves...
51) No impact man
Publisher
Oscilloscope Pictures
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Colin Beavan is a New York City writer and self-proclaimed liberal. He has big plans for his new book. He decides on a grand experiment: to live one year with as little impact on the environment as possible. The problem is, the project requires his wife Michelle, an espresso-guzzling, Prada-worshipping business writer, and their young daughter to be fully on board. The family embarks on a year of no electricity, television, cars, toilet paper, elevators,...
Author
Series
World made by hand volume 1
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
317 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the wake of global catastrophes that have destroyed industrial civilization, the inhabitants of Union Grove, a small New York town, do anything they can to get by, as they struggle to deal with a new way of life over the course of an eventful summer.
Author
Publisher
Gibbs Smith
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
232 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In this book, made up of sketches first published in the Atlantic Monthly, I have done the best I could to show forth the beauty, grandeur, and all-embracing usefulness of our wild mountian forest reservations and parks, with a view to inciting the poeple to come and enjoy them, and get them into their hearts, that so at length their preservation and right use might be made sure." -- Author's description.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 30 cm.
Language
English
Description
Offers insight into the camping trip that President Theodore Roosevelt and naturalist John Muir took to the redwoods of Yosemite in 1903, during which the two men had experiences and conversations that eventually contributed to the establishment of national parks in the United States.
Author
Publisher
North Atlantic Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
303 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Flipping the script on climate change, Eisenstein makes a case for a wholesale reimagining of the framing, tactics, and goals we employ in our journey to heal from ecological destruction"--
Author
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
xiii, 353 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
The violence wrought by climate change, toxic drift, deforestation, oil spills, and the environmental aftermath of war takes place gradually and often invisibly. Using the innovative concept of "slow violence" to describe these threats, the author focuses on the inattention we have paid to the attritional lethality of many environmental crises, in contrast with the sensational, spectacle driven messaging that impels public activism today. Slow violence,...
59) The terraformers
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From science fiction visionary Annalee Newitz comes The Terraformers, a sweeping, uplifting, and illuminating exploration of the future. Destry's life is dedicated to terraforming Sask-E. As part of the Environmental Rescue Team, she cares for the planet and its burgeoning eco-systems as her parents and their parents did before her. But the bright, clean future they're building comes under threat when Destry discovers a city full of people that shouldn't...
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