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150 pages ; 23 cm
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English
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"When an electricity blackout strikes, Jamilah's climate change anxiety kicks into high gear, and she ends up staying out all night, infuriating her Palestinian-born conservative father, who is done with all this doomsday nonsense. Tension at home erupts and Jamilah runs away and joins a climate change protest where she learns about solidarity and agency, giving her hope for the future. When she returns home, her parents see just how deep Jamilah's...
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207 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 22 cm
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English
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"This nonfiction book for middle readers profiles twenty environmental activists of colour from around the world. Their individual stories show that the intersection of environment and ethnicity is an asset, not an obstacle, to helping the planet. Illustrated with photos of each of the people profiled."--
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xx, 344 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), map ; 24 cm
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English
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"Stronghold tells the story of Guido Rahr, a passionate and eccentric environmentalist who has single-mindedly dedicated his life to saving the environment, working to preserve the world's last pristine stronghold (habitat) for salmon in Russia's Far East--a landscape of ecological richness and diversity that is rapidly being developed for oil, gas, minerals, and timber in the Putin era. A high school drop-out and rebel more at home in the natural...
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Discover the true story of how environmentalist Farmer Tantoh is transforming the landscape in his home country of Cameroon. When Tantoh Nforba was a child, his fellow students mocked him for his interest in gardening. Today he's an environmental hero, bringing clean water and bountiful gardens to the central African nation of Cameroon. Authors Miranda Paul and Baptiste Paul share Farmer Tantoh's inspiring story.
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1 videodisc (approximately 120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Chronicles the famed biologist's lifelong love for the natural world and his groundbreaking research. Wilson's work on ant communication led to his remarkable studies of advanced social behavior. His research turned to human behavior, and his controversial theories on the role of evolutionary processes in social behavior. His work in the great National Park of Gorongosa, brings together the great themes of his life and work: nature and humanity's...
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ix, 230 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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When the great environmental writer Edward Abbey died in 1989, four of his friends buried him secretly in a hidden desert spot that no one would ever find. The final resting place of the Thoreau of the American West remains unknown and has become part of American folklore. In this book a young writer who went looking for Abbey's grave combines an account of his quest with a creative biography of Abbey.
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140 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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English
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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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"A book about loggerhead sea turtles, and a girl's attempts to help save their babies from man-made light."--
Viv has a new home and a new school by the sea on the South Carolina coast. Trying to find an idea for the class project, she becomes interested in problems faced by the baby loggerhead turtles. Can the class rally the community and help the sea turtles?
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xvii, 281 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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English
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"The activists featured in this book are inspired by the late Edward Abbey, one of America's uncompromising and irascible defenders of wilderness"--Back cover.
Wrenched from the Land features sixteen interviews with some of the most iconic eco-warriors to put themselves on the line for their beliefs. The activists featured in this book are inspired by the late Edward Abbey, one of America's uncompromising and irascible defenders of wilderness. The...
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31 pages : color illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm
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English
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As a child, Rachel Carson lived by the rhythms of the natural world. Spring after spring, year after year, she observed how all living things are connected. And as an adult, Rachel watched and listened as the natural world she loved so much began to fall silent. Spring After Spring traces Rachel's journey as scientist and writer, courageously speaking truth to an often hostile world through her book, and ultimately paving the way for the modern environmental...
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xxx, 857 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
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English
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"Chronicles the rise of environmental activism during the Long Sixties (1960-1973), telling the story of an indomitable generation that saved the natural world under the leadership of John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and Richard Nixon"--
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As a single mom of a special-needs boy, Angela is happy for any work she can get, even if it means returning to the West Virginia hometown she left in disgrace. But when her new boss turns up dead, Angela discovers that her own secrets aren't the only ones her mountain hometown has kept buried.
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220 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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"Sixteen profiles of scientists who are changing the face of science and the future of Earth through their research"--
"Scientists who collect microbes from surfers' skin, who use radar sensors to gather data miles away, who combat inequality by pushing for cleaner air policies. Each with their own story, all working to make life better for future generations. Celebrated author Dana Alison Levy profiles 16 people, all studying different elements...
19) Wangari Maathai
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59 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
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English
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"When Wangari Maathai learned about how many trees had been cut down in Kenya, where she was from, she was horrified. So she founded the Green Belt Movement and got friends, family, and even strangers to help her plant trees and respect the environment -- and she received a Nobel Peace Prize for her work"--
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228 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
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Español
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16 vidas extraordinarias de personas que luchan cada día por proteger el medioambiente. 16 cuentos para los pequeños héroes que salvaran nuestro planeta.
16 extraordinary lives of people who fight every day to protect the environment. 16 stories for the little heroes who will save our planet.
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