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4) Conservation
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64 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 24 cm.
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English
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xii, 109 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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Wendell Berry proposes, and earnestly hopes, that people will learn once more to care for their local communities, and so begin a restoration that might spread over our entire nation and beyond. The renewed development of local economies would help preserve rural diversity despite the burgeoning global economy that threatens to homogenize and compromise communities all over the world. From modern health care to the practice of forestry, from local...
7) Ravenwood
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On Arborium, the last forested island in the future, fourteen-year-old Ark, who lives in a mile-high city set in the treetops, overhears a plot to rob Arborium of its wood, a natural resource more precious than gold.
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219 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
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English
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Kids around the world are working together to make our planet a better, safer, happier place -- and now you can join in with this practical guide! You Can Change the World empowers kids to make changes in their lives and communities with the powerful message that anyone can make a difference in the world. This colorfully illustrated book is packed with information, ideas, and activities for everyday sustainability -- like mending clothes, composting,...
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viii, 349 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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Climate change. Finite fossil fuels. Fresh water depletion. Rising commodity prices. Ocean acidification. Overpopulation. Deforestation. Feeding the world's billions. We're beset by an array of natural resource and environmental challenges. They pose a tremendous risk to human prosperity, to world peace, and to the planet itself. Yet, if we act, these problems are addressable. Throughout history we've overcome similar problems, but only when we've...
11) Choose to reuse
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English
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A young boy named Tyler helps to introduce readers to the idea of reusing items where possible to avoid making more harmful waste.
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English
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"Using lilting, rhyming couplets, this book explores the many items that are made from trees. But it doesn't stop there! Kids will also learn about the many uses of live trees--and the environmental danger to trees posed by forest fires, floods, and deforestation. Kids are encouraged to be kind, not only to one another, but to the environment as well."--
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36 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
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中文(繁體)
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"An enchanting fantasy story of the village of Peach Blossom, whose inhabitants rely on their beloved bridge as their only connection to the outside world. One autumn morning, the villagers wake up to discover that their bridge has completely vanished. With harvest season approaching and no other way to get their crops to market, they appoint Master Chen, a retired soldier, to untangle the mystery."--Page 4 of cover.
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xii, 337 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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"A surprising analysis of the decline in consumption of natural resources despite the explosion of goods, prosperity, and population"--
Throughout history, the only way for humanity to grow was by degrading the Earth: chopping down forests, fouling the air and water, and endlessly digging out resources. Since the first Earth Day in 1970, the reigning argument has been that taking better care of the planet means radically changing course: reducing...
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ix, 182 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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"Twenty years have passed since Northern California, Oregon, and Washington seceded from the United States to create a new nation, Ectopia. Rumors abound of barbaric war games, tree worship, revolutionary politics, sexual extravagance. Now this mysterious country admits its first American visitor: investigative reporter Will Weston, whose dispatches alternate between shock and admiration. But Ectopia gradually unravels everything Weston knows to be...
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