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Publisher
Huell Howser Productions
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 videdisc (30 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
This series highlights what creative Californians are doing to solve environmental challenges. In this green adventure, Huell travels to the small northern California town of Arcata to visit two businesses that use recycled material to create beautiful and functional art. First it's off to Whit McLeod Furniture to see how a group of craftsman are turning old wine barrels into fine furniture. Using the Craftsman style of furniture design, this small...
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The award-winning human rights activist and advisor to policy makers and presidential candidates delivers a 21st-century economic plan to rescue working-class Americans. Van Jones illustrates how we can invent and invest our way out of the pollution-based grey economy and into the healthy new green economy. Built by a broad coalition deeply rooted in the lives and struggles of ordinary people, this path has the practical benefit of both cutting energy...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
422 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
Description
"The public lands of the western United States comprise some 450 million acres of grassland, steppe land, canyons, forests, and mountains. It's an American commons, and it is under assault as never before. Journalist Christopher Ketcham has been documenting the confluence of commercial exploitation and governmental misconduct in this region for over a decade. His revelatory book takes the reader on a journey across these last wild places, to see how...
Author
Publisher
Comstock Publishing Associates, a division of Cornell University Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
xiii, 220 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Description
Overview: In The Edge of Extinction, Jules Pretty explores life and change in a dozen environments and cultures across the world, taking us on a series of remarkable journeys through deserts, coasts, mountains, steppes, snowscapes, marshes, and farms to show that there are many different ways to live in cooperation with nature. From these accounts of people living close to the land and close to the edge emerge a larger story about sustainability...
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Publisher
The Science Bookshelf
Pub. Date
[2021].
Physical Desc
222 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Description
Ice on land is melting, and sea level is rising, both at astonishing rates never seen in recorded history. Are you, your property, investments, and family ready for these unprecedented changes? Read Moving to Higher Ground and ... Learn how Sea Level Rise (SLR) is unstoppable for many centuries due to excess heat already stored in our oceans- and how soon our shorelines will go underwater ... Understand how disastrous SLR will profoundly affect more...
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