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bibliography Documentaires télévisés. Documentary television programs. Nonfiction television programs. Science television programs. Video recordings for the hearing impaired. videorecording Vidéos pour personnes handicapées auditives. Émissions scientifiques télévisées. Émissions télévisées autres que de fiction.Lipsky, David
Summary: Explores how "anti-science" became so virulent in American life through a history of climate denial and its consequences.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 304.2 LIPCripps, Elizabeth
Summary: Philosopher Elizabeth Cripps approaches climate justice not just as an abstract idea but as something that should motivate us all. Using clear reasoning and poignant examples, starting from irrefutable science and uncontroversial moral rules, she explores our obligations to each other and to the non-human world, unravels the legacy of colonialism and entrenched racism, and makes the case for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Continuum 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.738 CRIStephenson, Wen
Summary: The science is clear: catastrophic climate change, by any humane definition, is upon us. At the same time, the fossil-fuel industry has doubled down, economically and politically, on business as usual. We face an unprecedented situation--a radical situation. As an individual of conscience, how will you respond? In 2010, journalist Wen Stephenson woke up to the true scale and urgency of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.738Kolbert, Elizabeth
Summary: "In 26 connected essays, Pulitzer-Prize winning reporter Elizabeth Kolbert takes us on an illustrated journey through the landscape of climate change and the stories we tell ourselves about the future"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ten Speed Press 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 304.2 KOLDembicki, Geoff.
Summary: A declaration of independence, and a call for systemic change, from the generation that will be most impacted by climate change. The millennial generation could be the first to experience the doomsday impacts of climate change-- and the last generation able to do something about them. Dembicki provides a wake-up call for the biggest challenge of our era, told through the stories of people...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury USA 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.7 DEMPooley, Eric.
Summary: In this epic tale of an American civil war, Pooley takes us behind the scenes and into the hearts and minds of the most important players in the struggle to cap global warming pollution-a fight in which trillions of dollars and the fate of the planet are at stake. To write this book, Pooley, the former managing editor of Fortune and chief political correspondent for Time, spent three years...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.738 POOSummary: "Two powerful phenomena are simultaneously unfolding on Earth: the rise of the climate movement and the rise of women and girls. The People's Climate March and the Women's March. School strikes for climate and the #MeToo movement. Rebellions against extinction and declarations that time's up. More than concurrent, the two trends are deeply connected. From sinking islands to drought-ridden...
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Publisher / Publication Date: One World 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.7 ALLCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Environ AllParenti, Christian.
Summary: An investigative journalist visits the economically and politically battered post-colonial nations around the earth's mid-latitudes and reveals how extreme weather in the era of climate change is breeding banditry, humanitarian crises, and state failure.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nation Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 304.2 PARFriedman, Thomas L.
Summary: Friedman discusses how the key to understanding the 21st century is understanding that the planet's three largest forces -- Moore's law (technology), the market (globalization) and Mother Nature (climate change and biodiversity loss) -- are accelerating all at once. And these accelerations are transforming the five key realms: the workplace, politics, geopolitics, ethics, and community....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303 FRICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303 FRICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 303.48 FRICopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Social Cult FriedmanFriedman, Thomas L.
Summary: A field guide to the twenty-first century, written by one of its most celebrated observers. Thomas L. Friedman shows that society has entered an age of dizzying acceleration, and explains how to live in it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 303 FRILinden, Eugene
Summary: "From a writer and climate-change expert who has been at the center of the fight for more than thirty years, a brilliant big-picture reckoning with the reasons for our shocking failure to this point, focusing on the malign power of key business interests, and arguing that those same interests could flip this story very quickly, if a looming economic catastrophe doesn't happen first. Eugene...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 304.2 LINThunberg, Greta
Summary: "The groundbreaking speeches of Greta Thunberg, the young climate activist who has become the voice of a generation, including her historic address to the United Nations. In August 2018 a fifteen-year-old Swedish girl, Greta Thunberg, decided not to go to school one day in order to protest the climate crisis. Her actions sparked a global movement, inspiring millions of students to go on strike...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2019
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 179 THUBremmer, Ian
Summary: "Renowned political scientist Ian Bremmer draws lessons from global challenges of the past 100 years--including the pandemic--to show how we can respond to three great crises unfolding over the next decade. In this revelatory, unnerving, and ultimately hopeful book, Bremmer details how domestic and international conflicts leave us unprepared for a trio of looming crises--global health...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 303.4909 BREEaster, Mark J.
Summary: "Do you really know what's for dinner? The Blue Plate is the perfect dinner companion for food lovers who also care about the planet. Ecologist Mark Easter offers a detailed picture of the impact the foods you love have on the earth. Organized by the ingredients of a typical dinner party, including seafood, salad, bread, chicken, steak, potatoes, and fruit pie with ice cream, each chapter...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Patagonia 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 338.19 EASRose, Jessica
Summary: "This illustrated nonfiction book for middle-grade readers examines how artists are using their creativity to help the environment and build a more sustainable world."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orca Book Publishers 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 704.9 ROSSummary: An epic new series, filmed over three years,that travels to the extremes on all seven continents to meet an extraordinary group of people and animals living and working on the front line of climate change. They reveal how science, nature and tradition can prepare us for the future.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024