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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.9 - AR Pts: 39
Language
English
Description
Examines America's surprising loss of focus and national purpose since 9/11 and the global environmental crisis, and shows how the solutions to these two problems are linked-- we can restore the world and revive America at the same time.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Catherine Flowers grew up in Lowndes County, Alabama, a place that's been called "Bloody Lowndes" because of its violent, racist history. Once the epicenter of the voting rights struggle, today it's Ground Zero for a new movement that is Flowers's life's work. It's a fight to ensure human dignity through a right most Americans take for granted: basic sanitation. Too many people, especially the rural poor, lack an affordable means of disposing cleanly...
4) Before they're gone: a family's year-long quest to explore America's most endangered national parks
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
xxii, 197 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A longtime backpacker, climber, and skier, Michael Lanza knows our national parks like the back of his hand. As a father, he hopes to share these special places with his two young children. But he has seen firsthand the changes wrought by the warming climate and understands what lies ahead. He takes his nine-year-old son, Nate, and seven-year-old daughter, Alex, on an ambitious journey to see as many climate-threatened wild places as he can fit into...
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
Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
395 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A personal, lyrical, and idiosyncratic ode to our national parks"--
"For years, America's national parks have provided public breathing spaces in a world in which such spaces are steadily disappearing, which is why close to 300 million people visit the parks each year. Now, to honor the centennial of the National Park Service, Terry Tempest Williams, the author of the beloved memoir When Women Were Birds, returns with The Hour of Land, a literary...
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Series
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
261 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"This sweeping history recognizes that the Civil War was not just a military conflict but also a moment of profound transformation in Americans' relationship to the natural world. To be sure, environmental factors such as topography and weather powerfully shaped the outcomes of battles and campaigns, and the war could not have been fought without the horses, cattle, and other animals that were essential to both armies. But here Judkin Browning and...
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