London, Martha
Summary: Laws play a big role in reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Reducing emissions is vital to slowing climate change. Climate Change and Politics examines the ways politics have helped or hindered the goal to stop climate change. Easy-to-read text, vivid images, and helpful back matter give readers a clear look at this subject. Features include a table of contents, infographics, a glossary,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Core Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 363.738 LONDaly, Herman E.
Contents: Economics as an academic discipline -- The fallacy of misplaced concreteness in economics and other disciplines -- Misplaced concreteness: the market -- Misplaced concreteness: measuring economic success -- Misplaced concreteness: homo economicus -- Misplaced concreteness: land -- New beginnings -- From academic discipline to thought in service of community -- From chrematistics to Oikonomia --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.9 DALSummary: "Michael Moore presents Planet of the Humans, a documentary that dares to say what no one else will--that we are losing the battle to stop climate change on planet earth because we are following leaders who have taken us down the wrong road--selling out the green movement to wealthy interests and corporate America. This film is the wake-up call to the reality we are afraid to face: that in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PLA1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF PLA
Van Rossum, Maya K.
Summary: "We have reached a critical tipping point in our fight for the environment: Corporations profit off climate change, natural disasters devastate homes, and the most vulnerable suffer the health effects of pollution. Yet our laws are designed to accommodate this destruction rather than prevent it. Without government support, it's no wonder people feel powerless. But there is a solution. In The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disruption Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.7 VANSummary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: VisionQuest Pictures 2007
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WHASummary: "An urgent and definitive collection of essays from leaders and experts championing the Green New Deal-and a detailed playbook for how we can win it-including contributions by leading activists and progressive writers like Varshini Prakash, Rhiana Gunn-Wright, Bill McKibben, Rev William Barber II, and more"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.7 PRASummary: Follows five Native American communities as they restore their traditional land management practices in the face of a changing climate. For millennia Native Americans successfully stewarded and shaped their landscapes, but centuries of colonization have disrupted their ability to maintain these processes. From deserts, coastlines, forests, mountains, and prairies, Native communities across the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021