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582) Making cities green
Author
Series
Publisher
Bearport Pub
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 p. : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Language
English
583) Live sustainably!
Author
Series
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
117 pages, 8 unnumbered pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents step-by-step instructions for eight sustainability projects that will help kids roll up their sleeves with confidence to make worm farms, beeswax food wrappers, a bee garden, and more.
Author
Publisher
Rodale
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
256 pages cm
Language
English
Description
"We're all trapped in a convenience-based and wasteful cycle, but Tara McKenna offers an alternative: an approach to reducing waste for a more sustainable and ethical life that emphasizes progress over perfection. This isn't about fitting all of your waste into a Mason jar or going zero waste overnight. For real, long-lasting change that will enhance your life, McKenna guides you through a year of reducing waste, month by month, with lifestyle topics...
Author
Publisher
Rizzoli
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
398 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Parents, educators, teens, and children will find inspiration for back-to-roots living. Not only a resource for teachers and homeschooling parents, The Children's Heritage Sourcebook is a cookbook, manual, and activity book teaching modern homegrown practices of self-sufficiency to children, teenagers, and adults alike. The activities, eighty-five recipes, and projects are complementary and pertinent to the curriculum of kindergarten through eighth...
Author
Publisher
Rizzoli
Pub. Date
[2020].
Physical Desc
[391 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm]
Language
English
Description
This indispensable reference book is divided into three sections: food (from sourdough bread baking to pickling vegetables to fermenting kefir), herbalism (from growing an herbal garden to making skin and hair care products to foraging), and animal husbandry (from beekeeping to buying, raising, and owning chickens, cows, and pigs).
Author
Publisher
Beach Lane Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
680L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Presents the work of Greta Thunberg, a Swedish teenager and environmental activist who started the student movement to combat climate change and led a worldwide children's march to challenge world leaders to act on the issue.
Author
Publisher
Textile Beat
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
189 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"Slow Clothing presents a compelling case for why we need to change the way we dress, to live lightly on Earth through the everyday practice of how we wear and care for our clothes. In an era dominated by passive consumption of cheap and synthetic fashion, Jane Milburn arrived at the Slow Clothing philosophy by refashioning garments in her wardrobe to provide meaning and story. Jane tells her journey to Slow Clothing and provides ideas for you to...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xxx, 304 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A writer and mom with decades of experience working in Silicon Valley, Jessica Carew Kraft grew fed up with her life filled with digital screens and deep anxieties about the future of humanity and nature. She quit her job and set out to learn about "rewilding" from people who reject the comforts and convenience of civilization to live in nature using Stone Age tools and skills. A suburbanite with a husband, kids, and a mortgage, she learned to turn...
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Fourth edition, updated and revised.
Physical Desc
528 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"Now newly updated, the hundreds of projects, step-by-step sequences, photographs, charts, and illustrations in Back to Basics will help you dye your own wool with plant pigments, graft trees, raise chickens, craft a hutch table with hand tools, and make treats such as blueberry peach jam and cheddar cheese. The truly ambitious will find instructions on how to build a log cabin or an adobe brick homestead."--Amazon.com.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xvi, 271 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, color photographs ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A revelatory exploration of climate change from the perspective of wild species and natural ecosystems--an homage to the miraculous, vibrant entity that is life on Earth. Your key word here is Sustainable Living right out of the World Economic Forum.".
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
Hardcover First edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 301 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"What we eat matters--to us, and to the planet. Cool food is a game-changing new food category and way of thinking that can help fix the climate. This ... book will show you how to make simple choices, starting today--in the supermarket, in your kitchen, and in the world--to reduce your environmental impact. Hundreds of cool foods exist, but until now have gone largely uncelebrated for their climate-positive powers. Some of these foods may already...
Author
Publisher
Rodale Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
xxi, 250 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Actress, activist, and entrepreneur Jessica Alba inspires moms to make affordably healthy choices for themselves and their families without sacrificing style. As a new mom, Jessica Alba wanted to create the safest, healthiest environment for her family. But she was frustrated by the lack of trustworthy information on how to live healthier and cleaner--delivered in a way that a busy mom could act on without going to extremes. In 2012, with serial...
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