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Author
Series
[Violet Mackerel series] volume 6
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Violet and Rose organize a protest to save the big oak tree in Clover Park.
Author
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"All the stuff that surrounds us has a life cycle: materials are harvested, the stuff is made and distributed, it's consumed and then it gets trashed or recycled. Using the typical contents of a child's school backpack (defined as water, food, clothing, paper, plastic, metals, electronics), this book explores those stages in detail, including lots of ways to reduce, reuse or recycle waste along the way. Children will gain new insight into the routine...
Author
Series
Mallory volume 13
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
c2010.
Language
English
Description
When Mallory is appointed to the Fern Falls Elementary School Environmental Committee, which is deciding on class projects for the upcoming Green Fair, she rapidly succeeds in alienating her classmates, friends, and family by her overzealous efforts to save the planet.
92) Go further
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
GO FURTHER explores the idea that the single individual is the key to large-scale transformational change. The film follows actor Woody Harrelson as he takes a small group of friends on a bio-fuelled bus-ride down the Pacific Coast Highway. Their goal? To show the people they encounter that there are viable alternatives to our habitual, environmentally-destructive behaviours. The travellers include a yoga-teacher, a raw food chef, a hemp-activist,...
93) The Lonely Giant
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
A modern fable, The Lonely Giant is a story of conserving the environment, friendship and freedom. The forest giant likes nothing better than smashing, bashing and pulling up trees. But when all the animals run away in fear, the giant finds himself so very sad and lonely. How he misses the crackling warmth of a fire; how he misses the sweet, melodious songs of the birds! Can the lonely giant find a way to bring back the woodland bloom, and even make...
Series
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
A real estate agent witnesses her client's brutal murder and becomes the main focus of the homicide investigation. She is now in a race to uncover the motives behind the killing before she becomes the next victim.
Publisher
University of Utah Press
Pub. Date
[2010].
Language
English
Description
Contained in this volume is a collection of essays and poetry by both prominent American environmental writers and new voices. The poetry and essays by more than fifty contributors offer the reader glimpses into places as diverse as a forest in West Africa, the moors of Ireland, the canyons of the Sonoran desert mountains, and the fields of New England. They reflect the varied perspectives of field biologists, hunters, farmers, environmental educators,...
96) Killshot
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Carmen Colson is introducing her ironworker husband Wayne to the wonderful world of real estate brokering when the pair gets caught in the middle of an extortion scheme. With some quick thinking and some even quicker swinging of a crowbar, Wayne puts two nasty thugs temporarily out of commission. But now the Colsons' quiet life becomes a desperate fight to survive ruthless killers. Hiding in the witness protection program, they quickly learn it's...
97) The family
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"A mafia boss and his family are relocated to a sleepy town in France under the witness protection program after snitching on the mob. Despite Agent Stansfield's ... best efforts to keep them in line, Fred Blake..., his wife Maggie..., and their children ..., can't help resorting to old habits by handling their problems the 'family' way. Chaos ensues as their former Mafia cronies try to track them down, and scores are settled in the unlikeliest of...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Meet Earth. Planet Awesome! And your awesome home! Actually, Earth is home to all the plants and all the animals in the solar system, including nearly eight billion people. Humans have accidentally moved Earth's climate change into the fast lane, and she need your help to put on the brakes. Earthlings need Earth, and Earth needs Earthlings, so let's save Earth together!
Author
Series
Publisher
Core Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Personal data is data about people. Researchers collect personal data to learn more about populations. Companies collect personal data online to help sell their products. Personal Data Collection explores the debate about the collection and use of personal data.
Author
Publisher
Chelsea Green Publishing
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Gardeners and farmers can use the methods Coleman describes in this handbook to raise crops throughout the coldest of winters. Building on the techniques that hundreds of thousands of farmers and gardeners adopted from "The New Organic Grower" and "Four-Season Harvest," this new book focuses on growing produce of unparalleled freshness and quality in customized unheated or, in some cases, minimally heated, movable plastic greenhouses. Coleman offers...
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