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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations, color maps ; 26 x 26 cm
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English
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Tells the story of Greta Thunberg, a Swedish teenage climate activist who has sparked a worldwide student movement and is demanding action from world leaders who refuse to address climate change.
302) When we all stopped
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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English
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"Teach your kids in preschool through second grade that there are many activities that we practice that either contribute to saving the planet or further contribute to global warming and environmental issues. As millions around the world sheltered at home due to the coronavirus pandemic, our Planet Earth truly flourished. Smog melted away, the birds sang, and the waters ran clear. What if we used this moment in our lives and in history as an opportunity...
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1 videodisc (39 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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"The Pacific Northwest is ringed by volcanoes, volcanoes that have flooded the land with hot lava, built mountain ranges and left unearthly formations behind. These volcanoes are still active today. Three monuments reveal the extraordinary geologic history of the Pacific Northwest. Monuments featured in this series: Pinnacles National Monument, Craters of the Moon National Monument, Devils Postpile National Monument"--Container.
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1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
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English
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Celebrate young climate change activists in this charming story about an empowered girl who shows up, listens up, and ultimately, speaks up to inspire her community to take action against climate change. After attending a climate march, a young activist is motivated to make an effort and do her part to help the planet... by organizing volunteers to work to make green changes in their community, from cleaning a lake, to planting trees, to making composting...
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(José Luis)Sexto sol volume 2
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535 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
Español
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As the scientists investigating disastrous global climate changes just as a new cycle of the classical Mayan calendar begins adopt shamanistic practices to explore a Yucatan pyramid, Kiara flees Los Angeles to discover other epochs.
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44 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
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English
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Everyone is affected by climate change. Reading Climate Action: What Happened and What We Can Do is the perfect introduction not only to the dramatic effects of climate change, but to the solutions. Learn how our behavior and actions have led us to this point, hear from kids around the world dealing with extreme storms, wildfires, and sea level rise, and discover what scientists, youth activists, and ordinary citizens are doing to protect their communities....
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ix, 210 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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"This brilliantly original book dismantles the underlying assumptions that drive the decisions made by companies and governments the world over to show that our shared narrative of the global economy is deeply flawed and, if left unexamined, will lead corporations and countries astray, with dire consequences for us all. For the past fifty years or so, the global economy has been run on three big assumptions: that globalization will continue to spread;...
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1 videodisc (38 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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"The history of the Pacific Northwest is one of courage, sacrifice and great accomplishments. It also includes a tragic history of people forced to give up their homes and way of life. This history is reflected in three monuments from northern California to southern Idaho. Monuments featured in this series: Lava Beds National Monument, Muir Woods National Monument, Minidoka Internment National Monument"--Container.
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English
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"First published in 1985, William deBuys's Enchantment and Exploitation has become a New Mexico classic. It offers a complete account of the relationship between society and environment in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains of northern New Mexico, a region unique in its rich combination of ecological and cultural diversity. Now, more than thirty years later, this revised and expanded edition provides a long-awaited assessment of the quality of the journey...
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1 videodisc (38 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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"In the Pacific Northwest lies an incredible treasure of fossils, spanning the eons from 40 million years ago to 4 million years ago. These fossil sites are among the greatest in the world and convey an amazing story of life on earth. This story unfolds as you travel to the region's three national monuments devoted to fossils. Monuments features in this series: Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument, Fossil Butte National Monument, John Day Fossil...
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230 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 29 cm
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English
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On a future, frozen Earth, humanity has been packed onto self-sustaining trains, doomed to circumnavigate the globe until the end of the interminable ice age - or until the engines give out. When a scrap of music piques their interest, the inhabitants of the Icebreaker take the ultimate risk and cross the frozen ocean, a vast expanse with no train tracks ... and no way to return to them.
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1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 27 cm
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English
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"Spanning across time, continents, and DC comics titles, a cold new threat arises at the former site of the Fortress of Solitude! 1000 years ago, a disparate group of heroes - Hippolyta, Black Adam, Swamp Thing and the Viking Prince - banded together to prevent the world from freezing at the hands of the Frost King, an exiled Norse god with the ability to control entire ecosystems. The heroes triumphed, but victory came at a terrible price, one that...
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xiii, 369 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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English
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Alarmed by drastic changes in the Earth's climate systems, the author, a climate scientist and suburban father of two, embarked on a journey to change his life and the world. He began by bicycling, growing food, meditating, and making other simple, fulfilling changes. Ultimately, he slashed his climate impact to under a tenth of the US average and became happier in the process. Being the change explores the connections between our individual daily...
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418 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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"In the past few years, it has become impossible (for most) to deny the effects of climate change and that the planet is warming, and to acknowledge that we must act. But a new kind of denialism is taking root in the halls of power, shaped by a quarter-century of neoliberal policies, that threatens to doom us before we've grasped the full extent of the crisis. As Kate Aronoff argues, since the 1980s and 1990s, economists, pro-business Democrats and...
317) Trashlands
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381 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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A few generations from now, the coastlines of the continent have been redrawn by floods and tides. Global powers have agreed to not produce any new plastics, and what is left has become valuable: garbage is currency. In the region-wide junkyard that Appalachia has become, Coral is a "plucker," pulling plastic from the rivers and woods. She's stuck in Trashlands, a dump named for the strip club at its edge, where the local women dance for an endless...
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488 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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"How capitalism first promoted fossil fuels with the rise of steam power. The more we debate about the catastrophic implications of climate change, the more fossil fuels we continue to burn. How did we get caught up in this mess? In this masterful new history, Malm claims that it all began in Britain with the rise of steam power. So why did manufacturers turn from traditional fuels, notably water, to steam? Overturning established theories of the...
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