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"Over the past several decades, globalization has homogenized what we eat, and done so ruthlessly. The numbers are stark: Of the roughly six thousand different plants once consumed by human beings, only nine remain major staples today. Just three of these-rice, wheat, and corn-now provide fifty percent of all our calories. Dig deeper and the trends are more worrisome still: The source of much of the world's food-seeds-is mostly in the control of just...
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"Tells the story of the energy boom's impact on a small town at the edge of Appalachia--and one woman's transformation from a struggling single parent to an unlikely activist. Stacey Haney is a local nurse working hard to raise two kids and keep up her small farm when the fracking industry comes to her hometown of Amity, Pennsylvania. Intrigued by reports of lucrative natural gas leases in her neighbors' mailboxes, she strikes a deal with a Texas-based...
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Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Inspired by a real incident, this look at the pollution crisis in our oceans follows one of the ducks as it is washed away on ocean currents, encountering plastic-endangered whales and sea turtles and passing through the giant floating island of marine debris known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. A picture book with an ultimately hopeful message about environmental issues and the state of our oceans. An end map documents the widely scattered journey...
87) Gringo trails
Publisher
Icarus Films Home Video
Pub. Date
[2015?]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (79 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A timely documentary that raises urgent questions about how we travel and the unintended cultural and environmental consequences of tourism around the globe. Gringo Trails follows well-worn travelers' routes through Bolivia, Thailand, Mali, and Bhutan and reveals the complex relationships between colliding cultures, such as the host countries' need for financial security and the tourists who provide it in their quest for authentic experiences. Through...
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English
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In this new edition of his classic book, David Korten illuminates the convergence of ideological, political, and technological forces that have driven an ever-greater concentration of economic and political power in a handful of corporations and financial institutions and left the market system blind to all but its own short-term financial gains. As he vividly documents, the social and environmental consequences of these efforts have been devastating....
89) A killer bargain
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 57 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
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English
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The killer bargain referred to by this hard-hitting documentary's title is the availability of cheap consumer goods, imported by Western companies, whose prices don't reflect the actual human and environmental costs associated with their production in the developing world. Consumers remain largely unaware of the conditions under which the goods they buy are produced; this film makes those connections shockingly clear. While some retailers and manufacturers...
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
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1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 19 min., 46 sec.) : digital, .flv file, sound
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English
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Some of the biggest opportunities for energy improvements occur in the building trades. This program presents an overview of job opportunities in this booming industry where there is a high demand for trained professionals, designers, and workers to help improve the efficiency of commercial and residential buildings through better design of new buildings and smart improvements to existing structures. Making our homes and offices more energy efficient...
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Spiegel & Grau
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
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290 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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English
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"BLOOD AND EARTH is a gripping account of the deadly link between slavery and environmental destruction. Kevin Bales is a social scientist, human rights activist, and journalist -- and he's also one of the world's leading experts on modern slavery. In his work he began to notice the connection between environmental decline and slavery: the two almost always went hand-in-hand, whether in the hellish gold mines of Ghana or the miraculously beautiful...
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English
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"An eye-opening and witty account of the global ecological transformations wrought by roads, from an award-winning author. Some 40 million miles of roadways encircle the earth, but we tend to regard them only as infrastructure for human convenience. In Crossings, Ben Goldfarb delves into the new science of road ecology to explore how roads have transformed our world. Millions of animals are killed by cars each day in the US alone, and roads fragment...
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Forum Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
Edition 1.0
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280 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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English
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"This book provides a worrying yet hopeful analysis. COVID-19, as the greatest public health crisis of the century has led to enormous economic devastation and made existing inequities worse. But the power of human beings lies in their foresight, ingenuity and - at least to a certain extent - ability to take their destiny into their hands and plan for a better future. This book shows us where to start."--Publisher's statement
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Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
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138 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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"This narrative middle-grade nonfiction from Rebecca Donnelly dives into the scientific and cultural history of the waste humans produce, examining why we make so much trash, why we're so bad at handling it, and how we can stop it (that is, us) from ruining the planet"--
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English
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"Every year, the world produces more than 300 million tons of plastic. These products will never break down and will endlessly pollute our oceans, air, land, and food chain. But the good news is that there are many steps, small and large, we can take to change our plastic-using habits. This illustrated book offers more than 100 suggestions in an accessible visual and gifty package. The introductory chapter walks readers through the different types...
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Collective Eye Films
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (52 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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The planet is being overwhelmed with clothes. Close to 56 million tonnes of clothes are sold every year. In Europe, the amount purchased has almost doubled since the year 2000. Thanks to fast disposable fashion, you can constantly renew your wardrobe. But producing clothes at such a low price has a very high environmental cost. Textiles are the second most polluting industry in the world, after oil. According to the brands, they no longer have time...
98) Oil
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Publisher
Beach Lane Books
Pub. Date
2020
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The story of an oil spill and its devastating effects on animals and the environment.--description provided by publisher.
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English
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"From hunting and gathering to GMOs and ultraprocessed foods, this expansive tour of human history rewrites the story of our species--and points the way to a better future"--
How humankind first hunted and gathered explains our emergence as a new species and our earliest technology. Our first food systems, from fire to agriculture, tell where we settled and how civilizations expanded. The quest for food for growing populations drove exploration,...
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Orca think volume 9
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English
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"Around the world, a billion tons of food gets thrown away every year, even while hundreds of millions of people go hungry. A lot of what we don't eat ends up rotting in landfills, which creates methane and contributes to the climate crisis. The good new is that many governments, communities and individuals--like you--are working hard to tackle this giant problem."--
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