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2019.
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"The Conscious Closet is not just a style guide. It is a call to action to transform one of the most polluting industries on earth-fashion-into a force for good. Readers will learn where our clothes are made and how they're made, before connecting to a global and impassioned community of stylish fashion revolutionaries. In The Conscious Closet, Elizabeth shows us how we can start to truly love and understand our clothes again-without sacrificing the...
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"Many architects today are looking to plants and animals to help solve their design challenges. Inspired by how nature already works, these architects are coming up with innovative ways to cool buildings, withstand earthquakes and save energy. In Wild Buildings and Bridges, bestselling author Etta Kaner explores these wild and wonderful feats of architecture. Kids will discover buildings and bridges inspired by cactuses, beetles, termite towers, trees,...
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Entrepreneur Press
Pub. Date
c2008
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xi, 257 p. ; 23 cm.
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"Going green is no longer an option, but a 'must' for successful businesses who want to turn greater profits, expand their customer base, and compete in today's market. Author Rich Mintzer presents you with 101 ways to turn your current company into a more sustainable, environmentally-friendly business. With this book, you have the tools necessary to modify your current business practices and incorporate new, green practices while also saving money,...
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Island Press
Pub. Date
2021
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xv, 232 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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"Much of what you've heard about plastic pollution may be wrong. Instead of a great island of trash, the infamous Great Pacific Garbage Patch is made up of manmade debris spread over hundreds of miles of sea--more like a soup than a floating garbage dump. Recycling is more complicated than we were taught: less than nine percent of the plastic we create is reused, and the majority ends up in the ocean. And plastic pollution isn't confined to the open...
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W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2023]
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xxvii, 228 pages ; 24 cm
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The story of phosphorus spans the globe and vast tracts of human history. The race to mine phosphorus took people from the battlefields of Waterloo, which were looted for the bones of fallen soldiers, to the fabled guano islands off Peru, the Bone Valley of Florida, and the sand dunes of the Western Sahara. Over the past century, phosphorus has made farming vastly more productive, feeding the enormous increase in the human population. Yet, as Egan...
10) Organic farm
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Huell Howser Productions
Pub. Date
c2006
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1 videdisc (30 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Huell's visits California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, to see their student-run, certified organic farm which consists of approximately 11 acres of land.
11) At home
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Books on Tape
Pub. Date
p2010
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13 CDs (16 hrs., 33 mins.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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Bryson takes readers on a tour of his house, a rural English parsonage, showing how each room has figured in the evolution of private life.
15) Silent spring
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Houghton Mifflin
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"First published by Houghton Mifflin in 1962, Silent Spring alerted a large audience to the environmental and human dangers of indiscriminate use of pesticides, spurring revolutionary changes in the laws affecting our air, land, and water. “Silent Spring became a runaway bestseller, with international reverberations . . . [It is] well crafted, fearless and succinct . . . Even if she had not inspired a generation of activists, Carson would prevail...
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Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
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336 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
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"Across the globe, scientists and civilians alike are noticing rapidly rising sea levels, and higher and higher tides pushing more water directly into the places we live, from our most vibrant, historic cities to our last remaining traditional coastal villages. With each crack in the great ice sheets of the Arctic and Antarctica, and each tick upwards of Earth's thermometer, we are moving closer to the brink of broad disaster. The Water Will Come...
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Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
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viii, 277 pages ; 24 cm
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"As we become a more digital society, the gains that have been made for the environment by moving toward a paperless world with more and more efficient devices will soon be or already have been offset by the number of devices in our lives that are always using energy. But many don't think about the impact on the environment of the "Internet of things." Whether it's a microwave connected to the internet, use of Netflix, or online shopping, these technological...
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Island Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
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x, 340 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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"The sustainability challenges of yesterday have become today's resilience crises. National and global efforts have failed to stop climate change, transition from fossil fuels, and reduce inequality. We must now confront these and other increasingly complex problems by building resilience at the community level. But what does that mean in practice, and how can it be done in a way that's effective and equitable? The Community Resilience Reader offers...
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Firefly Books
Pub. Date
2019
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80 pages cm
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"An exploration of the ways in which we use and dispose of plastic and how our dependence on plastic is negatively impacting our planet. The text concludes with a call to action for readers to help change the current rates of plastic use."--
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