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PLUMBING: Ecology, Environment, Going Green |
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The little green book of the home
Sarah Callard
Format: Book
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One of six titles in the Little Green Book series, here you will learn how to make choices that affect not only your own life but the planet as a whole. The Little Green Book of the Home contains 250 tips on such topics as utilities (water, electricity, etc), insulation, lighting,... |
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The Green Book: The Everyday Guide to Saving the Planet One Simple Step at a Time
Elizabeth Rogers - Three Rivers Press
Format: Paperback
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Ellen DeGeneres, Robert Redford, Will Ferrell, Jennifer Aniston, Faith Hill, Tim McGraw, Martha Stewart, Tyra Banks, Dale Earnhardt, Jr., Tiki Barber, Owen Wilson, and Justin Timberlake tell you how they make a difference to the environment.Inside The Green Book, find out how you can too:-... |
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Renewable Energy Made Easy: Free Energy from Solar, Wind, Hydropower, and Other Alternative Energy Sources
David Craddock - Atlantic Publishing Company
Format: Paperback
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Studies have shown that the average North American family will spend more than a quarter of a million dollars on energy in a lifetime. What many other countries, including Germany, Spain, France, Denmark, China, Brazil, and even Iceland, have realized is that there is a better way to power... |
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Lives Per Gallon: The True Cost of Our Oil Addiction
Terry Tamminen - Island Press; First Printing edition
Format: Hardcover
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How much would you pay for a gallon of gas? $2.50? $10.00? Would you pay with the health of your lungs or with years taken from your lifespan? The infamous "pain at the pump" runs much deeper than our wallets, argues Terry Tamminen, former Secretary of the California Environmental... |
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Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water, Revised Edition
Marc Reisner - Penguin Books; Revised edition
Format: Book
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The story of the American West is the story of a relentless quest for a precious resource: water. It is a tale of rivers diverted and dammed, of political corruption and intrigue, of billion-dollar battles over water rights, of ecologic and economic disaster. In Cadillac Desert Marc... |
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River of Life, Channel of Death: Fish and Dams on the Lower Snake
Keith Petersen
Format: Book
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Keith Petersen's award-winning history of the lower Snake River dams chronicles the bitter conflict between the Northwest's most potent symbols -- fish and dams. Taking a balanced approach to this contentious issue, Petersen deftly traces the deep historical roots of the current... |
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Soil Sisters: A Toolkit for Women Farmers
Lisa Kivirist - New Society Publishers
Format: Print book
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Women in agriculture are sprouting up in record numbers, but they face a host of distinct challenges and opportunities. Blending What Color is Your Parachute-style career advice with sustainable agriculture practices viewed through a gender lens, Soil Sisters provides a wealth... |
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Overdressed: The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion
Elizabeth L. Cline - Portfolio Hardcover
Format: Hardcover
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Until recently, Elizabeth Cline was a typical American consumer. She’d grown accustomed to shopping at outlet malls, discount stores like T.J. Maxx, and cheap but trendy retailers like Forever 21, Target, and H&M. She was buying a new item of clothing almost every week (the national... |
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Junkyard Planet: Travels in the Billion-Dollar Trash Trade
Adam Minter - Bloomsbury Press
Format: Hardcover
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When you drop your Diet Coke can or yesterday’s newspaper in the recycling bin, where does it go? Probably halfway around the world, to people and places that clean up what you don’t want and turn it into something you can’t wait to buy. In Junkyard Planet, Adam Minter—veteran... |
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A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There
Aldo Leopold - Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback
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This special edition of the highly acclaimed A Sand County Almanac commemorates the one-hundredth anniversary of the birth of Aldo Leopold, one of the foremost conservationists of our century. First published in 1949 and praised in The New York Times Book Review as "full of beauty... |
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Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Annie Dillard - HarperPerennial
Format: Print book
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An exhilarating meditation on nature and its seasons-a personal narrative highlighting one year's exploration on foot in the author's own neighborhood in Tinker Creek, Virginia. In the summer, Dillard stalks muskrats in the creek and contemplates wave mechanics; in the fall she watches... |
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