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Sophie's Planet
A Search for Truth About Our Remarkable Home Planet and Its Future
Hardcover
James Hansen
9781632868947
$36.50
SCIENCE
Sep 13, 2022
In a series of letters to his granddaughter, Sophie, the world's leading climatologist shows how it is still possible to ensure that young people inherit a clean world.Dr. James Hansen is the single most credible scientific voice worldwide on the issue of global warming. In his celebrated first book,Storms of My Grandchildren, he presented the full truth about climate change, a truth born out in the years since as climate disasters continue to ravage our world. The urgency is apparent; the response so far, inadequate. But Hansen remains an opti...
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Series: Mother Earth News Wiser Living Series
Food Freedom
A Year of Growing and Foraging 100 Percent of My Food and Why It Matters
Paperback
Rob Greenfield
9780865718968
$19.99
NATURE
Feb 08, 2022
Ten years ago, Rob Greenfield woke up to the destruction caused by the industrial food system and Big Ag. Since then he has been deeply exploring food sovereignty—often through immersive activism—which led to his most recent quest: could he step outside of the food system and grow and forage 100% of his food? In Food Freedom, he shares his adventures of living without grocery stores or restaurants. Nothing packaged, processed, or shipped—not even multi-vitamins, supplements, or spices. Within Orlando, Florida, he turned lawns into abunda...
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The Better World Shopping Guide: 7th Edition
Every Dollar Makes a Difference
7th edition
Paperback
Ellis Jones
9780865719460
$12.99
REFERENCE
Aug 03, 2021
While we strive to make our vote count every four years, few of us realize that our most immediate power to shape the world is squandered on a daily basis. Every dollar we spend has the potential to create social and environmental change. In fact, it already has. The world that exists today is in large part a result of our purchasing decisions.The Better World Shopping Guide rates hundreds of products and services from A to F so you can quickly tell the "good guys" from the "bad guys" and ensure your money is not supporting corporations that ma...
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A Year of Living Green
365 Things You Can Do for Yourself and the Planet
Paperback
Julie Fisher-McGarry
9781642502947
$24.95
NATURE
Jun 15, 2021
A Year of Living Green is a daily chronicle/journal by author Julie Fisher-McGarry to help keep your mind and heart open to all that lives. The book is a collection of nonreligious, yet deeply soulful suggestions for demonstrating concern, kindness, and consideration for nature and its animals. Organized by month, it includes tips on living green, where to purchase organic and fair-trade products, how to unplug from the grid, supporting local economies, nourishing the earth, and creating a sustainable lifestyle. Julie offers daily personal ane...
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Plants of Haida Gwaii
Third Edition
3rd edition
Paperback
Nancy J. Turner
9781550179149
$29.95
NATURE
Apr 24, 2021
For many thousands of years the lands and waters of Haida Gwaii have been home to the Haida. Plants of Haida Gwaii, written with the cooperation and collaboration of Haida knowledge holders and botanical experts, is a detailed and insightful record of the traditional uses of over 150 species of native plants. Moreover, it explains the systems of knowledge and understanding that enabled the Haida to use the resources of their islands sustainably from one generation to the next over millennia. The Haida names of these plants indicate their import...
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Minimal
For Simple and Sustainable Living
Hardcover
Stéphanie Mandrea
9781487009434
$29.95
HOUSE & HOME
Apr 06, 2021
A stylish and inspiring guide for living a happier life in balance with the natural world.Minimal: For Simple and Sustainable Living offers readers inspiration and tools to embrace simple living and create meaningful, lasting change in their lives. From advice on home decorating and decluttering, easy-to-follow recipes for making your own cosmetics and cleaning products, and tips for shopping sustainably, composting, and restoring old furniture, Minimal provides a host of small but powerful ways to live a more balanced life while being good to ...
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Series:
Go Green! Activity Book
Projects, Activities, and Ideas to Make a Difference
Paperback
Alice Harman
9781839406119
$12.95
JUVENILE NONFICTION
Age (years) from 6 - 10
Apr 01, 2021
This inspirational, optimistic activity book is packed with imaginative suggestions and fun projects that show how small changes in our everyday lives can make a big difference to the environment. Young readers can explore the challenges facing our planet through eye-opening facts and intriguing activities, and discover top tips about how to protect and nurture the environment for future generations. Vibrantly illustrated in full-color, this charming book contains a mixture of write-in activities and step-by-step projects.Includes:• A tree...
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Series:
I Have the Right to Save My Planet
Hardcover
Alain Serres
9781773064871
$19.95
JUVENILE NONFICTION
Age (years) from 4 - 7
Apr 01, 2021
From the author and illustrator duo who created the award-winning I Have the Right to Be a Child comes this beautifully illustrated picture book about a child’s right to advocate for the environment they live in.All children have the right to learn about the world, to celebrate the water, air and sunshine, and to be curious about the animals and plants that live on our planet. All children also have the right to learn about endangered species, to be concerned about plastic in the ocean, and to understand what a changing climate means for our Ea...
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The Wind and the Trees
Hardcover
Todd Stewart
9781771474337
$19.95
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 4 - 8
Mar 15, 2021
A gentle meditation on the cycle of life, told by two trees One day, a tiny pine seedling strikes up a conversation with a nearby tree. As the seedling grows larger, the older pine shares what it has learned about the strong wind that blows through the forest. Wind stretches trees and dries them out, but it also scatters seeds, spreads messages across the forest, and helps trees grow strong as it pushes against their trunks. As time passes, the wind takes its toll on the older tree. It loses needles and starts to droop as the young tree gro...
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Series:
Climate Change, The Choice is Ours
The Facts, Our Future, and Why There's Hope!
Hardcover
David Miles
9781952239007
$32.95
JUVENILE NONFICTION
Age (years) from 7 - 10
Oct 13, 2020
Climate change: would you leave it to chance? In this interactive book for kids, young readers will learn about climate, how climate has changed throughout history, and the driving forces of the greenhouse effect. Using colorful illustrations, simple text, and research from trusted sources like NASA, NOAA, and the United Nations, Interactive Climate Change outlines the causes of climate change and gently explores its consequences like rising sea levels, more extreme weather, and drought. Though not shy about uncomfortable realities, Interactive...
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Series:
A Book of Ecological Virtues
Living Well in the Anthropocene
Paperback
Heesoon Bai
9780889777569
$39.95
NATURE
Oct 03, 2020
For readers of The Sixth Extinction, a manifesto for meaningfully confronting our role in climate change and committing to sustainable, eco-friendly living during an era irrevocably marked by human activity. Despite our brief tenure on planet Earth, Homo sapiens have caused an epoch of climate change and declining ecological diversity: the Anthropocene. This age has been singularly defined by humans’ unique and unprecedented ability to destroy our only habitat. In the face of global warming and animal extinction, it is vitally important we co...
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Solved
How the World's Great Cities Are Fixing the Climate Crisis
Hardcover
David Miller
9781487506827
$29.95
NATURE
Oct 01, 2020
If our planet is going to survive the climate crisis, we need to act rapidly. Taking cues from progressive cities around the world, including Los Angeles, New York, Toronto, Oslo, Shenzhen, and Sydney, this book is a summons to every city to make small but significant changes that can drastically reduce our carbon footprint. We cannot wait for national governments to agree on how to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and manage the average temperature rise to within 1.5 degrees. In Solved, David Miller argues that cities are taking action on clim...
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Series:
Dark Side of the Ocean
The Destruction of Our Seas, Why It Matters, and What We Can Do About It
Paperback
Albert Bates
9781570673948
$16.95
SCIENCE
Sep 01, 2020
Our oceans face levels of devastation previously unknown in human history--from pollution, from overfishing, and through damage to delicate aquatic ecosystems affected by global warming. Ocean biodiversity is being decimated on par with the fastest rates of rain forest destruction. More than 80 per cent of pollutants in the oceans come from sewage and other land-based runoff (some of it radioactive). The rest is created by waste dumped by commercial and recreational vessels. In many areas and for many fish stocks, there are no conservation or m...
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Series:
Lead for the Planet
Five Practices for Confronting Climate Change
Hardcover
Rae Andre
9781487508333
$29.95
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Sep 01, 2020
With melting ice caps in the Arctic causing catastrophic environmental issues, it’s hard to believe that we’ve had to spend so much time convincing each other that climate change is real. Lead for the Planet shifts the focus to how we, the members of Team Humanity, are going to organize to solve the twin issues of climate change and energy evolution. The book channels a broad range of social science perspectives, from anthropology to psychology to economics, to help decision-makers explore how Team Humanity can get this thing done. Lead for th...
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Series:
The Reindeer Chronicles
And Other Inspiring Stories of Working with Nature to Heal the Earth
Paperback
Judith D. Schwartz
9781603588652
$25.95
NATURE
Aug 19, 2020
"Compelling, Fascinating, sometimes unexpectedly moving, this vitally important book is, above all, a springboard for hope and transformation."—Isabella Tree "A lucid and compelling look at the global movement of ecological rehabilitation."— The Boston Globe In a time of uncertainty about our environmental future—an eye-opening global tour of some of the most wounded places on earth, and stories of how a passionate group of eco-restorers is leading the way to their revitalization. Award-winning science journalist Judith D. Schwartz takes us...
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