Ocean State Libraries

"Environmental sustainability policy has failed due to focusing on symptoms, such as CO2 emissions, rather than the root cause problems of the limitations of human systems and global poverty. Through significant research and a detailed road-map for how to achieve sustainability by 2050, Buffington provides a realistic, game changing path forward"--

"The slow violence being inflicted on our environment-through everything from carbon emissions to plastic pollution-also represents an impending public health catastrophe. Yet standard healthcare practices are more concerned with short-term outcomes than long-term sustainability. Every resource used to deliver medical care, from IV tubes to antibiotics to electricity, has a significant environmental impact. This raises an urgent ethical dilemma: in...

"Introduces readers to what plastic pollution is, the consequences of this type of pollution, and what people are doing to help"--Provided by publisher.

"Recent years have seen dramatic changes to the events industry. The influence of social media and global communications technology, increased focus on environmental sustainably and social responsibility, and changes to the economic and cultural landscape have driven rapid expansion and increased competition. Special Events: Creating and Sustaining a New World for Celebration has been the event planner's essential guide for three decades, providing...

Demon Mineral can be considered an anti-Western, flipping the classical cinematic paradigm by centering the voices and experiences of the Diné community to explore the legacy of uranium mining in Diné Bikeyah, the sacred homelands of the Navajo where over 500 unremediated mines are scattered across an area the size of West Virginia. In the span of just four generations entire ways of living have been lost or severely compromised, as mining has contaminated...

The founders of Female Invest, Europe’s largest financial educator for women, present a guide to choosing sustainable investments, funds, stocks and shares that can have a positive impact on both personal wealth and the future of the planet.

"With increasing environmental changes resulting from climate change, many people have had to move away from their homes. Readers will learn about the relationship between climate change and migration in this . . . title"--Provided by publisher.

"More and more people are investing in electric vehicles to help combat climate change and use less fossil fuels. But is this something everyone should do? Readers dive deep into this question as they explore the debate surrounding electric cars. Both sides of this discussion are presented objectively and with fact boxes to help readers to learn to back up their opinions with relevant data and statistics. Full-color photographs and a graphic organizer...

"Introduces readers to what light pollution is, the consequences of this type of pollution, and what people are doing to help"--Publisher.

"In 1942, the US government began construction on a sixty-thousand-acre planned community named Oak Ridge in a rural area west of Knoxville, Tennessee. Unmarked on regional maps, Oak Ridge attracted more than seventy thousand people eager for high-paying wartime jobs. Among them were author Emily Strasser's grandfather George, a chemist. All employees--from scientists to secretaries, from military personnel to construction workers--were restricted...