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Author
Publisher
Little, Brown Spark
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
In this bold, radically hopeful book, a data scientist, drawing on the latest research, practical guidance and eye-opening graphics, gives us the tools for understanding our current environmental crisis and making lifestyle changes that actually have an impact.
5) Ravenwood
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
On Arborium, the last forested island in the future, fourteen-year-old Ark, who lives in a mile-high city set in the tree tops, overhears a plot to rob Arborium of its wood, a natural resource more precious than gold.
9) The Lorax
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Ted is determined to find a living Truffula Tree to impress a girl and ends up discovering the story of the Lorax, a creature who speaks on behalf of the trees.
10) Dessert island
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Monkey is stuck on an island made of desserts, and Fox on one made of dirt and rocks, but as time passes, fortunes change and they learn about sharing and caring.
11) Antarctica
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
A group of radical environmentalists struggles to find a way to save the natural beauty of Antarctica from the politicians who are fighting for control of its natural resources.
Author
Series
Publisher
Dover Publications
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
After being appointed the United States Minster Resident to the Ottoman Empire in 1849, George P. Marsh had the opportunity to travel the world and visit the sites of ancient civilizations. Troubled by what he saw, Marsh came to the conclusion that these societies were victims of self-destruction and that the same fate could be in store for the nations of today. Moved to action, Marsh would go on to publish Man and Nature: Or, Physical Geography as...
13) The Lorax
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a place where the brown Bar-ba-loots frisk and the Humming-Fish splash around, you will find the Lorax. The Lorax speaks of the trees, which the Once-ler is chopping down as fast as he pleases. Will the Once-ler change his destructive ways and heed the wise warnings of the Lorax? Includes an all-new featurette and two special features: Pontoffel Pock & His Magical Piano and Butter Battle Book.
Author
Publisher
Otago University Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
For more than five decades, Alan Mark has been a voice for conservation in New Zealand. From his call in the 1960s for the establishment of tussock-grassland reserves in the South Island high country to his involvement in the 2011-13 campaign to save the Denniston Plateau from mining, he has been a passionate and effective advocate for the preservation of areas of ecological importance. Alan's conservation activities have paralleled - and are informed...
Author
Publisher
New Society Publishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Inspiration, practices, and meditations to empower us in the face of planetary suffering: "True wisdom for tough times." --John Robbins, author of Diet for a New America Deepening global crises surround us, causing many to fall prey to denial and despair. Coming Back to Life shows how grief, anger, and fear are healthy responses to the harsh realities of our time, and that when honored through the revolutionary practice of the Work That Reconnects,...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
An extraordinary and timeless biography that looks at the influence the natural world played on Theodore Roosevelt. Evaluates Theodore Roosevelt's role in launching modern conservationsim, identifying the contributions of such influences as James Audubon and John Muir while describing how Roosevelt's exposure to natural wonders in his early life shaped his environmental values.
Author
Publisher
Canongate Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
For the last thirty years John Lister-Kaye, one of Britain's best-known nature writers, has taken the same circular walk from his home deep in a Scottish glen up to a small hill loch. Each day brings a new observation or an unexpected encounter - a fragile spider's web, an osprey struggling to lift a trout from the water or a woodcock exquisitely camouflaged on her nest - and every day, on his return home, he records his thoughts in a journal.Drawing...
Author
Series
Frank Einstein volume 5
Publisher
Abrams / Vearsa Limited
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
In the fifth book of the New York Times bestselling Frank Einstein series, Frank Einstein (kid genius, scientist, and inventor) and his best friend, Watson, pair up with Klink (a self-assembled artificial-intelligence entity) and Klank (a mostly self-assembled and artificial almost intelligence entity) to compete with T. Edison, their classmate and archrival. This time they're studying the science and mysteries of our very own home planet: Earth!...
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