Mass, Wendy
Summary: Earth is in danger! The only thing that can save the planet are six essential elements that can fuse into a new source of clean energy. But the elements are scattered throughout the galaxy. And it's up to the Voyagers-, a team of four remarkable kids and an alien, to gather them all and return to Earth. The Voyagers have made it to the last planet. If they complete this mission, they can...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD MASBulling, Nino
Summary: Everything is changing-but everything is also exactly the same. Ingken can't ignore it: ice caps stained brown from forest fires, pipeline construction, drought... the whole world somehow persists despite the slow erosion of stability. After a trip to Paris, Ingken returns home ready for a break from drugs. Their supportive partner, Lily, is flushed, excited about a new connection she's made....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Drawn & Quarterly 2024
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BULAraújo, Heriberto
Summary: "In the tradition of Killers of the Flower Moon, a haunting murder-mystery revealing the human story behind one of the most devastating crimes of our time: the ruthless destruction of the Amazon rainforest-and anyone who stands in the way"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 304.2 ARASummary: "A middle class white guy comes to grips with Peak Oil, Climate Change, Mass Extinction, Population Overshoot and the demise of the American lifestyle. ... Featuring interviews with Daniel Quinn, Derrick Jensen, Jerry Mander, Chellis Glendinning, Richard Heinberg, Thomas Berry, William Catton, Ran Prieur and Richard Manning, What a Way to Go looks at the current global situation and asks the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: VisionQuest Pictures 2007
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WHAHawley, Steven
Summary: During the first two decades of the twenty-first century, the whole messy truth about the legacy of last century's big dam building binge has come to light. What started out as an arguably good government project has drifted oceans away from that original virtuous intent. Governments plugged the nation's rivers in a misguided attempt to turn them into revenue streams. Water control projects'...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Patagonia 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 333.914 HAWSummary: Examines efforts by a group of citizens in West Virginia to hold the industrial giant Du Pont responsible for poisoning the drinking water supply as a result of dumping toxic chemicals.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC DEVSummary: Explores the indelible footprint that humans have left on this planet, and the catastrophic effects of environmental neglect and abuse, and calls for restorative action through a reshaping of human activity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2008
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ELEMbue, Imbolo
Summary: "'We should have known the end was near.' So begins Imbolo Mbue's exquisite and devastating novel How Beautiful We Were. Set in the fictional African village of Kosawa, it tells the story of a people living in fear amidst environmental degradation wrought by a large and powerful American oil company. Pipeline spills have rendered farmlands infertile. Children are dying from drinking toxic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2021
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MBUTsing, Anna Lowenhaupt.
Summary: "A tale of diversity within our damaged landscapes, The Mushroom at the End of the World follows one of the strangest commodity chains of our times to explore the unexpected corners of capitalism. Here, we witness the varied and peculiar worlds of matsutake commerce: the worlds of Japanese gourmets, capitalist traders, Hmong jungle fighters, industrial forests, Yi Chinese goat herders, Finnish...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 330 TSIDavis, Jack E.
Summary: Significant beyond tragic oil spills and hurricanes, the Gulf has historically been one of the world's most bounteous marine environments, supporting human life for millennia. Based on the premise that nature lies at the center of human existence, Davis takes readers on a compelling and, at times, wrenching journey from the Florida Keys to the Texas Rio Grande, along marshy shorelines and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 976 DAVMbue, Imbolo
Summary: "'We should have known the end was near.' So begins Imbolo Mbue's exquisite and devastating novel How Beautiful We Were. Set in the fictional African village of Kosawa, it tells the story of a people living in fear amidst environmental degradation wrought by a large and powerful American oil company. Pipeline spills have rendered farmlands infertile. Children are dying from drinking toxic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MBUCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MBUCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MBUCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Mbue 2020Summary: Theo Faron is a bureaucrat in a Britain gone despotic. It is 2027 and the entire planet has gone infertile. Women no longer have babies, and chaos has erupted: war, rebellion, mass destruction, and a huge refugee problem, with the imposition of martial law. One day, Theo is kidnapped. His ex-wife Julian has a proposition for her former spouse, and because of their relationship, she thinks Theo...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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2 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI CHIKetcham, Christopher
Summary: "The public lands of the western United States comprise some 450 million acres of grassland, steppe land, canyons, forests, and mountains. It's an American commons, and it is under assault as never before. Journalist Christopher Ketcham has been documenting the confluence of commercial exploitation and governmental misconduct in this region for over a decade. His revelatory book takes the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 333.73 KETSummary: Coming of Age at the End of Nature explores a new kind of environmental writing. This powerful anthology gathers the passionate voices of young writers who have grown up in an environmentally damaged and compromised world. Each contributor has come of age since Bill McKibben foretold the doom of humanity’s ancient relationship with a pristine earth in his prescient 1988 warning of climate...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Trinity University Press 2016
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 508 COMMbue, Imbolo
Summary: In the African village of Kosawa, people live in fear amidst environmental degradation wrought by a large and powerful American oil company. Pipeline spills have rendered farmlands infertile. Children are dying from drinking toxic water. Promises of clean up and financial reparations to the villagers are made, and ignored. The country's government, led by a corrupt, brazen dictator, exists to...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MBUDanson, Ted
Summary: Most people know Ted Danson from television and movies, but fewer realize that over the course of the past two and a half decades, Danson has tirelessly devoted himself to the cause of heading off a looming global catastrophe--the massive destruction of our planet's oceanic biosystems and the collapse of the world's major commercial fisheries. Here, Danson details his journey from joining a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rodale 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 333.95 DANRøyne, Anja
Summary: "A journey through chemistry and physics introducing the elemental building blocks from which humans are made--iron, phosphorus, silicon, potassium, and more"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Experiment 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 546 ROYMcKibben, Bill.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hungry Mind Press 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 304.28 MCKSummary: Four acts document distinct perspectives on the pivotal events that preceeded and followed Katrina's passage through New Orleans, a catastrophe during which the divide between race and class lines has never been more pronounced.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Home Box Office 2006
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WHEHartmann, Thom
Summary: In his latest work, top talk-radio host and progressive commentator Thom Hartmann defines three critical breaking points--economic, demographic, and environmental--that we've reached. In clear and impassioned prose, he busts the myths and ideologies of religious fundamentalism, capitalism run amok, male domination, and militarism that are draining our world of its natural and human resources...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 909.09821 HARMcCarthy, Michael
Summary: "The moth snowstorm, a phenomenon Michael McCarthy remembers from his boyhood when moths 'would pack a car's headlight beams like snowflakes in a blizzard,' is a distant memory. Wildlife is being lost, not only in the wholesale extinctions of species but also in the dwindling of those species that still exist. The Moth Snowstorm records in painful detail this rapid dissolution of nature's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York Review Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.7 MCCMcKibben, Bill.
Summary: McKibben's earliest warnings about global warming went largely unheeded. In this book, he argues that we can meet the challenges of a new "Eaarth"--still recognizable but suddenly and violently out of balance--by building the kind of societies and economies that can hunker down, concentrate on essentials, and create the type of community that will allow us to weather trouble on an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Time Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 304.2 MCKWilson, Edward O.
Summary: "In order to stave off the mass extinction of species, including our own, we must move swiftly to preserve the biodiversity of our planet, says Edward O. Wilson in his most impassioned book to date. Half-Earth argues that the situation facing us is too large to be solved piecemeal and proposes a solution commensurate with the magnitude of the problem: dedicate fully half the surface of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation 2016