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2) Earth Day
Author
Series
Publisher
PowerKids Press
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
24 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Rodale Press
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
325 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
The former vice-president details the factors contributing to the growing climate crisis, describes changes to the environment caused by global warming, and discusses the shift in environmental policy that is needed to avert disaster.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Rev. ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
191 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
This young readers' version of the recent documentary film's companion adult volume cuts the page count by about a third but preserves the original's cogent message and many of its striking visuals. After explaining that his interest in the environment predates even his mother's reading of Silent Spring aloud to him as a teenager, Gore proceeds to document steeply rising carbon dioxide levels in our atmosphere, and then to link that to accelerating...
Publisher
Paramount
Language
English
Formats
Description
Former Vice President Al Gore explains the facts of global warming, presents arguments that the dangers of global warning have reached the level of crisis, and addresses the efforts of certain interests to discredit the anti-global warming cause. Between lecture segments, Gore discusses his personal commitment to the environment, sharing anecdotes from his experiences.
Author
Publisher
HarperOne
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xiii, 237 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
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
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
37, [3] p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
A biography of Lady Bird Johnson who, as the wife of President Lyndon Johnson, reminded citizens about the importance of conserving natural resources and promoted the beautification of cities and highways by planting wildflowers.
Author
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
xi, 236 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In this provocative walking meditation, forest ranger and writer William Tweed takes us to California's spectacular High Sierra to discover a new vision for our national parks as they approach their 100th anniversary facing dramatic changes. Tweed, who worked among the Sierra Nevada's big peaks and big trees for more than thirty years, has now hiked more than 200 miles along California's John Muir Trail in a personal search for answers: How do we...
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