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22) Time to think small: how nimble environmental technologies can solve the planet's biggest problems
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Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
vii, 280 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"A guide to how small technologies can solve environmental problems in ways unimaginable just a decade ago"--
Author
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
279 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Description
Going green doesn't mean spending big bucks on organic food, solar panels, and hybrid cars. At its core, green living is simply about moderation, efficiency, and living less expensively. Included are hundreds of habit-shifting suggestions to leave you with thousands of dollars you would otherwise never see again. These are tiny modifications that any family can make.
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Description
The irrepressible Olivia participates in environmentally responsible initiatives with her family, but she must devise a clever solution to the problem of her brother needing a nightlight in order to keep everyone in the family happy.
25) Heartbeat
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Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Description
Separated from her mother, a young whale swims the oceans for decades until she finds a young girl who shares her vision of one planet for which all are responsible.
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Series
Pub. Date
2014.
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32 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Description
Presents information about the idea of a carbon footprint, explaining how the production of greenhouse gases contributes to global warming, how people can calculate how much they contribute to the problem, and how they can reduce their carbon footprint.
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Series
Violet Mackerel books volume 6
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
118 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Description
Violet and Rose organize a protest to save the big oak tree in Clover Park.
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
272 pages illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
"Every Action Matters will lay out the issues facing the planet and offer up 100 important actions that readers can take to help slow the adverse affects of climate change. Each action will get a spread and be accompanied by an infographic, statistic, or display quote to provide visual impact to the topic at hand"--
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
255 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Description
"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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Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
xviii, 323 pages ; 25 cm
Description
For millennia, plant and animal species have received little sustained attention as subjects of Christian theology and ethics in their own right. Focused on the human dilemma of sin and redemptive grace, theology has considered the doctrine of creation to be mainly an overture to the main drama of humanity's relationship to God. What value does the natural world have within the framework of religious belief? The crisis of biodiversity in our day,...
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Fifth hero volume 1
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
201 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
Four kids with the power to speak to creatures, shake the earth, manipulate water, and control the wind, are on a mission to save the earth from the evil Calamity Corporation--and readers must make a choice in three scenarios that change the course of the adventure.
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Pub. Date
[2010] c2009
Physical Desc
276 p. ; 21 cm.
Description
When the guilt about his high-impact lifestyle finally got to Colin Beavan, he swore off plastic, went organic, became a bicycle fanatic, turned off his power, and devoted himself to saving the polar bears and the rest of the planet from environmental catastrophe. The liberal New Yorker dragged his baby daughter and Prada-wearing, Four Seasons-loving wife along for the ride. And that's just the beginning.
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Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
215 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
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"The Arbor Day Foundation will celebrate its 150th anniversary in April 2022, and this book will be timed to coincide with that noteworthy milestone. Now more than ever, its mission to engage homeowners to actually get out and plant trees is critical to mitigate carbon in our atmosphere, and as their wildly successful Time for Trees campaign in late 2019 showed, CEOs and celebrities from around the world believe Arbor Day remains not only relevant...
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Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
140 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Description
Profiles forty-five children around the world who are taking steps to help the environment through fund-raising, public demonstrations, and creating activist art, and includes suggestions on how readers can get involved.
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