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Series: 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... + Read More
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Series: The Ecological Buffalo On the Trail of a Keystone Species Paperback Wes Olson 9780889778719 $39.95 NATURE May 21, 2022

An expert on the buffalo tells the history of this keystone species through extensive research and beautiful photographs. The mere mention of the buffalo instantly brings to mind the vast herds that once roamed the North American continent, and few wild animals captivate our imaginations as much as the buffalo do. Once numbering in the tens of millions, these magnificent creatures played a significant role in structuring the varied ecosystems they occupied. For at least 24,000 years, North American Indigenous Peoples depended upon them, and it ... + Read More
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Series: Canadian Essentials Canada and Climate Change Hardcover William Leiss 9780228009160 $24.95 SCIENCE May 18, 2022

Pandemics, massive earthquakes, war, and other catastrophes inspire immediate action because their casualties and destruction are immediately visible. Climate change is an unyielding problem because its long-range dangers are hidden, and thus it is a global risk unlike anything in human experience.The federal government recently announced aggressive climate targets for Canada. We have committed to producing net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, which will require major changes for our economy and way of life. Canadian citizens need to unde... + Read More
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Series: Bee and Flea Bee & Flea and the Compost Caper Hardcover Anna Humphrey 9781771474207 $18.95 JUVENILE FICTION Interest age, years from 6 - 9 Apr 15, 2022

Unlikely bug buddies bring the science of compost heaps to life Bee is spending another beautiful, boring day pollinating flowers in the backyard when a visitor named Flea gallops onto the scene on a dog’s back. Flea is the one and only agent of the Fenced-in-Area Law Enforcement Agency (the F.L.E.A. for short) and she’s heard about trouble in the compost heap: it’s erupted into a wild frenzy, and Flea needs to investigate. Enlisting Bee in the investigation, the pair flies off to the scene of the crime, where they discover compost critters dan... + Read More
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Series: Climate in Crisis Changing Coastlines, Severe Storms, and Damaging Drought Hardcover Carla Mooney 9781647410612 $29.95 YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION Interest age, years from 12 - 15 Apr 15, 2022

A close, personal examination of climate science for ages 12 to 15. Read true stories of how climate change has affected people’s lives and learn the science behind the new reality we witness every day. Does your region get stronger storms and more extreme weather than it used to? Do you have to take steps to conserve water because of drought? Is there more flooding in your area than there used to be? These could all be symptoms of Earth’s climate crisis. In Climate in Crisis: Changing Coastlines, Severe Storms, and Damaging Drought, readers 12... + Read More
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Series: Climate in Crisis Changing Coastlines, Severe Storms, and Damaging Drought Paperback Carla Mooney 9781647410643 $22.95 YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION Interest age, years from 12 - 15 Apr 15, 2022

A close, personal examination of climate science for ages 12 to 15. Read true stories of how climate change has affected people’s lives and learn the science behind the new reality we witness every day. Does your region get stronger storms and more extreme weather than it used to? Do you have to take steps to conserve water because of drought? Is there more flooding in your area than there used to be? These could all be symptoms of Earth’s climate crisis. In Climate in Crisis: Changing Coastlines, Severe Storms, and Damaging Drought, readers 12... + Read More
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Series: Saving Earth Climate Change and the Fight for Our Future Hardcover Nathaniel Rich 9780374313050 $26.99 JUVENILE NONFICTION Interest age, years from 10 - 14 Apr 05, 2022

A timely and inspiring nonfiction guide for middle grade readers about the history of our fight against climate change, and how young people today are rising to action.Inspired by Nathaniel Rich’sLosing Earth: A Recent History, the acclaimed book that grew out of an August 2018 issue of theNew York Times Magazine solely dedicated to it,Saving Earth tells the human story of the climate change conversation from the recent past into the present day. It wrestles with the long shadow of our failures, what might be ahead for today’s generation, and c... + Read More
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Series: The Better World Shopping Guide: 7th Edition Every Dollar Makes a Difference 7th edition Paperback Ellis Jones 9780865719460 $14.99 REFERENCE Mar 15, 2022

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... + Read More
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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... + Read More
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Series: Bird Brother A Falconer's Journey and the Healing Power of Wildlife Hardcover Rodney Stotts 9781642831740 $32.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Feb 03, 2022

To escape the tough streets of Southeast Washington, D.C. in the late 1980s, young Rodney Stotts would ride the metro to the Smithsonian National Zoo. There, the bald eagles and other birds of prey captured his imagination for the first time. In Bird Brother, Rodney shares his unlikely journey to becoming a conservationist and one of America’s few Black master falconers. Rodney grew up during the crack epidemic, with guns, drugs, and the threat of incarceration an accepted part of daily life for nearly everyone he knew. To rent his own apartmen... + Read More
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Series: Ice the Bear and the Burning Land Hardcover Valentina Agnesi 9788857245737 $26.95 JUVENILE FICTION Feb 01, 2022

Ice the polar bear travels to South Africa and Brazil, rescuing an elephant and witnessing terrible destruction in the AmazonThis is the second volume in Valentina Agnesi and Zelda Was a Writer’s trilogy about the adventures of a polar bear seeking to save his native land from climate disaster.In Ice the Bear and the Burning Land, Ice’s journey to the UN must take a detour when the young bear gets a call from South Africa asking for help. Poachers have captured the mother of little Farfallino the Elephant.At the end of this adventure, Ice the B... + Read More
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Series: Ice the Bear and the Evil Sorcerer Hardcover Valentina Agnesi 9788857245744 $26.95 JUVENILE FICTION Feb 01, 2022

The adventures of our friend Ice the Bear are about to end: the cub arrives in New York to conclude his missionIn the final volume in Valentina Agnesi and Zelda Was a Writer’s trilogy about the adventures of a polar bear in the age of climate change, Ice has to face a black tide caused by an oil spill. Upon reaching the coast of Louisiana, he tries to rescue the animals trapped on the beach by the spill, with the help of a little girl.After a long journey, Ice the Bear finally arrives in New York, where he tells the humans about everything that... + Read More
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Series: Ice the Bear and the Boiling Breath Hardcover Valentina Agnesi 9788857245720 $26.95 JUVENILE FICTION Nov 30, 2021

Ice the polar bear, alarmed by the melting Arctic, travels to the UN in pursuit of climate justiceIce is a polar bear cub who lives at the North Pole, in the icy area of Clear Water, where he spends his days getting into trouble with his best friend, Baffo the Seal. When temperatures get warmer and the glacier begins to melt, the young bear must set out on the greatest adventure of his life, in which he will have to face endless dangers and perils.Ice has been chosen to deliver a petition to the human tribes gathered at a UN conference, asking ... + Read More
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Series: Decolonizing Feminisms Making Livable Worlds Afro-Puerto Rican Women Building Environmental Justice Paperback Hilda Lloréns 9780295749402 $45.00 SOCIAL SCIENCE US school grade range from 17 Nov 24, 2021

When Hurricanes Irma and María made landfall in Puerto Rico in September 2017, their destructive force further devastated an archipelago already pummeled by economic austerity, political upheaval, and environmental calamities. To navigate these ongoing multiple crises, Afro?Puerto Rican women have drawn from their cultural knowledge to engage in daily improvisations that enable their communities to survive and thrive. Their life-affirming practices, developed and passed down through generations, offer powerful modes of resistance to gendered an... + Read More
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Series: Sustainable Building Essentials Series Essential Green Roof Construction The Complete Step-by-Step Guide Paperback Leslie Doyle 9780865719156 $39.99 HOUSE & HOME Nov 09, 2021

Essential Green Roof Construction is a comprehensive, in-depth guide to building simple green roofs for houses and small buildings.Packed with detailed photos, illustrations, case studies, and code compliance advice, it offers clear step-by-step instructions necessary to create your own living roof on a new build or as a retrofit. Coverage includes: The benefits of a green roof The basics of planning and design Assessing site conditions such as aspect, slope, and loads Navigating building codes and working with building officials Mater... + Read More
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Series: Urban Cascadia and the Pursuit of Environmental Justice Paperback Nik Janos 9780295749365 $45.00 HISTORY US school grade range from 17 Oct 26, 2021

In Portland?s harbor, environmental justice groups challenge the EPA for a more thorough cleanup of the Willamette River. Near Olympia, the Puyallup assert their tribal sovereignty and treaty rights to fish. Seattle housing activists demand that Amazon pay to address the affordability crisis it helped create. Urban Cascadia, the infrastructure, social networks, built environments, and non-human animals and plants that are interconnected in the increasingly urbanized bioregion that surrounds Portland, Seattle, and Vancouver, enjoys a reputation ... + Read More
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Series: A Brief History of the Earth's Climate Everyone's Guide to the Science of Climate Change Paperback Steven Earle 9780865719590 $19.99 SCIENCE Oct 12, 2021

A Brief History of the Earth's Climate is an accessible myth-busting guide to the natural evolution of the Earth's climate over 4.6 billion years, and how and why human-caused global warming and climate change is different and much more dangerous.Richly illustrated chapters cover the major historical climate change processes including evolution of the sun, plate motions and continental collisions, volcanic eruptions, changes to major ocean currents, Earth's orbital variations, sunspot variations, and short-term ocean current cycles. As well as ... + Read More
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Series: Hidden Scourge Exposing the Truth about Fossil Fuel Industry Spills Paperback Kevin P. Timoney 9780228008941 $39.95 NATURE Oct 06, 2021

This book began when Kevin Timoney noticed a suspicious pattern in data reported by the Alberta Energy Regulator. For tens of thousands of spills, recovery volumes exactly matched the reported spill volumes. In short, the data were too good to be true. And so began a search for the scientific truth about spills. In western North America crude oil and saline water spills – both small and large – occur daily and cause permanent damage to ecosystems that remains largely hidden from public view.Hidden Scourge takes the reader on a journey into a co... + Read More
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Series: We’re All Climate Hypocrites Now How Embracing Our Limitations Can Unlock the Power of a Movement Paperback Sami Grover 9780865719606 $19.99 POLITICAL SCIENCE Sep 21, 2021

Our culture tells us that personal responsibility is central to tackling the climate emergency, yet the choices we make are often governed by the systems in which we live. Whether it's activists facing criticism for eating meat or climate scientists catching flack for flying, accusations of hypocrisy are rampant. And they come from both inside and outside the movement.Taking a tongue-in-cheek approach, self-confessed eco-hypocrite Sami Grover says we should do what we can in our own lives to minimize our climate impacts, but then we need to tar... + Read More
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Series: Living the 1.5 Degree Lifestyle Why Individual Climate Action Matters More than Ever Paperback Lloyd Alter 9780865719644 $19.99 SELF-HELP Sep 14, 2021

Living the 1.5 Degree Lifestyle reveals the carbon cost of everything we do, identifying where we can make big reductions, while not sweating the small stuff.The international scientific consensus is that we have less than a decade to drastically slash our collective carbon emissions to keep global heating to 1.5 degrees and avert catastrophe. This means that many of us have to cut our individual carbon footprints by over 80% to 2.5 tonnes per person per year by 2030. But where to start? Drawing on Lloyd Alter's journey to track his dail... + Read More
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Series: Planetary Solutions Making Waves Saving Our Ocean Paperback Albert Bates 9781939053336 $18.95 YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION US school grade range from 9 - 12 Aug 05, 2021

Renowned environmentalist Albert Bates provides children with an educational and engaging look at the interdependent relationship between the oceans and ourselves and what is needed to protect the ocean?s ecosystems. They gain an understanding of the ocean?s biodiversity and learn how human activities have resulted in significant changes in ocean temperature, oxygen levels, acidity, ice, sea levels, and sea life populations. Clear explanations show how this will have a consequential effect not just on the oceans themselves but humans on land as... + Read More
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