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"Bea's five-year-old daughter, Agnes, is slowly wasting away, consumed by the smog and pollution of the overdeveloped metropolis that most of the population now calls home. If they stay in the city, Agnes will die. There is only one alternative: the Wilderness State, the last swath of untouched, protected land, where people have always been forbidden. Bea, Agnes, and eighteen others volunteer to live in the Wilderness State, guinea pigs in an experiment...
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Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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"We're living in an aha moment. Take 250 years of human ingenuity. Add abundant fossil fuels. The result: a population and lifestyle never seen before. The downsides weren't visible for centuries, but now they are. Suddenly everything needs rethinking - suburbs, cars, fast food, cheap prices. It's a changed world. This book explains it. Using politics, psychology, and history for attitude, Eyes Wide Open shows how to see the principles driving events...
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Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"This book presents the scientific underpinnings needed to achieve the ambitious environmental, economic, and social justice goals of a green new deal. It describes a convergence of the natural sciences, economics, social sciences, and the engagement of diverse groups of stakeholders to seek knowledge, policies, and solutions leading to a more sustainable, prosperous, and just future"--
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The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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"Air pollution prematurely kills seven million people every year, including more than one hundred thousand Americans. It is strongly linked to strokes, heart attacks, many kinds of cancer, dementia, and premature birth, among other ailments. In Choked, Beth Gardiner travels the world to tell the story of this modern-day plague, taking readers from the halls of power in Washington and the diesel-fogged London streets she walks with her daughter to...
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AstroNuts ; 3
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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"So far the AstroNuts have failed to find a suitable planet, but NNASA has come up with a new plan: send the four animal astronauts back through time on Earth where they are to contact early homo sapiens and somehow set them on a path to a sustainable future--trouble is, humans seem inferior to many of the other species (especially the wolves), so the AstroNuts come up with a Survival of the Fittest Olympics, hoping that with a little help the humans...
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National Geographic
Pub. Date
2009.
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English
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Investigates the impact that development has had on the environment and explores what is being done to protect our planet. The Northwest Passage opened for the first time in recorded history, much of the United States honeybee population mysteriously died, and much more.
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The Experiment
Pub. Date
[2013]
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English
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At the heart of this book by Nobel Prize–winning immunologist and professor Peter Doherty is this striking observation: Birds detect danger to our health and the environment before we do. Following a diverse cast of bird species around the world-from tufted puffins in Puget Sound to griffon vultures in India, pigeons in East Asia, and wedge-tailed shearwaters off the islands of Australia's Great Barrier Reef-Doherty illuminates birds' role as an...
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Crabtree Pub Co
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"Molly's bedroom is a mess and her toys are everywhere. She trips over one of them and hurts her knee, so she decides to sort through her toys to see which ones are worth keeping. Follow her story and find out why Molly's mom won't let her just throw hertoys away, and how we should reuse, repair, and share our things"--
