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The story of more : how we got to climate change and where to go from here / by Jahren, Hope,author.;

Includes bibliographical references."Hope Jahren is an award-winning geobiologist, a brilliant writer, and one of the seven billion people with whom we share this earth. The Story of More is her impassioned open letter to humanity as we stand at the crossroads of survival and extinction. Jahren celebrates the long history of our enterprising spirit--which has tamed wild crops, cured diseases, and sent us to the moon--but also shows how that spirit has created excesses that are quickly warming our planet to dangerous levels. In short, highly readable chapters, she takes us through the science behind the key inventions--from electric power to large-scale farming and automobiles--that, even as they help us, release untenable amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. She explains the current and projected consequences of greenhouse gases--from superstorms to rising sea levels--and shares the science-based tools that could help us fight back. At once an explainer on the mechanisms of warming and a capsule history of human development, The Story of More illuminates the link between our consumption habits and our endangered earth. It is the essential pocket primer on climate change that will leave an indelible impact on everyone who reads it."--

Subjects: Global warming.; Greenhouse gases; Climatic changes.; Technological innovations.; Consumption (Economics); Civilization, Modern;

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The better world shopping guide : every dollar makes a difference / by Jones, Ellis,1970-;

Includes Internet addresses.LSC

Subjects: Social responsibility of business.; Consumer education.; Consumption (Economics); Shopping; Shopping; Consumer behavior; Corporations;

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Just eat it [videorecording] : a food waste story / by Baldwin, Grant(Composer),film director,composer,editor of moving image work,interviewer.; Rustemeyer, Jenny,film producer,interviewer.; Battle, Murray,film producer.; Bloom, Jonathan,1976-interviewee.; Gunders, Dana,interviewee.; Stuart, Tristram,interviewee.; Wood, Melanie,film producer.; Knowledge Network (B.C.),production company.; Peg Leg Films,production company.; Bull Frog Films,publisher.;

Executive producers, Melanie Wood and Murray Battle ; camera, Grant Baldwin, Jenny Rustemeyer ; original music, Grant Baldwin.Jenny Rustemeyer, Grant Baldwin ; featuring: Tristram Stuart, Dana Gunders and Jonathan Bloom."Filmmakers and food lovers Jen and Grant dive into the issue of waste from farm, through retail, all the way to the back of their own fridge. After catching a glimpse of the billions of dollars of good food that is tossed each year in North America, they pledge to quit grocery shopping cold turkey and survive only on foods that would otherwise be thrown away. In a nation where one in 10 people is food insecure, the images they capture of squandered groceries are both shocking and strangely compelling. But as Grant's addictive personality turns full tilt towards food rescue, the 'thrill of the find' has unexpected consequences. Featuring interviews with TED lecturer, author and activist Tristram Stuart and acclaimed author Jonathan Bloom, Just Eat It looks at our systemic obsession with expiry dates, perfect produce and portion sizes, and reveals the core of this seemingly insignificant issue that is having devastating consequences around the globe. Just Eat It brings farmers, retailers, inspiring organizations, and consumers to the table in a cinematic story that is equal parts education and delicious entertainment"--foodwastemovie.com.E.DVD.

Subjects: Documentary films.; Educational films.; Environmental films.; Food waste.; Food waste; Waste minimization.; Waste minimization; Food industry and trade; Food industry and trade; Surplus agricultural commodities.; Source reduction (Waste management); Food preferences; Food preferences; Food supply; Food supply; Food consumption; Food consumption; Food habits; Waste (Economics); Waste (Economics); Consumption (Economics); Consumption (Economics); Waste products; Salvage (Waste, etc.); Sustainable living; Thriftiness.; Gleaning.; Consumer education.;

For private home use only.

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Surviving progress [videorecording] / by Atwood, Margaret,1939-; Crooks, Harold.; Goodall, Jane,1934-; Hawking, S. W.(Stephen W.); Roy, Mathieu.; Suzuki, David T.,1936-; Venter, J. Craig.; Big Picture Media Corporation.; Cinemaginaire (Firm); First-Run Features (Firm); National Film Board of Canada.;

Featuring, Stephen Hawking, Margaret Atwood, Jane Goodall, Michael Hudson, David Suzuki, Craig Venter.Technological advancement, economic development, population increase - are they signs of a thriving society, or too much of a good thing? Executive produced by Martin Scorsese, 'Surviving Progress' is a provocative documentary that explores the concept of progress in the modern world, guiding through the major 'progress traps' facing civilization in the arenas of technology, economics, consumption, and the environment.E.DVD ; NTSC; widescreen presentation.

Subjects: Documentary films.; Progress; Progress; Progress.; Science and civilization.; Technological innovations; Technological innovations; Technology and civilization.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.;

© c2012., First Run Features,

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Sharing is good : how to save money, time and resources through collaborative consumption / by Buczynski, Beth.;

Includes bibliographical references, Internet addresses and index.LSC

Subjects: Cooperation.; Sharing;

© c2013., New Society Publishers,

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The Good Life. by Schanze, Jens,film director.; Pragda (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;

Originally produced by Pragda in 2015.The story of the Colombian village of Tamaquito, told against a global backdrop of rising energy consumption being driven by the pursuit of growth and affluence.Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Subjects: Documentary films.; Business.; Science.; Social sciences.; Economic development.; Environmental sciences.; Latin America.; Foreign study.; Sociology.; Documentary films.; Current affairs.;

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Waste wars : the wild afterlife of your trash / by Clapp, Alexander,author.;

Includes bibliographical references and index."The total mass of the world's manmade materials has recently come to equal the entire biomass of the earth. This means we are living in a world where man's ability to create garbage, or eventual garbage, has surpassed the earth's ability to create life. Dumps and landfills around the world are overflowing, and disputes about what to do with the tons of garbage generated every day have given rise to waste wars waged in just about every country on earth. Some are border skirmishes, fought to move trash out of one place and dump it into another. Others are waged across thousands of miles. But no matter the scale, one thing is true about almost all of them: few people have any idea they're happening. For every story about how a commodity gets hustled through world supply chains for consumption, there exists another untold story about how it gets discarded for renewal -- or for eternity. Some trash gets tossed onto roadsides. Some gets burned for fuel. Some gets buried underground. But most of it lives a hot potato second life, getting bartered, sold, re-sold, smuggled, salvaged, re-purposed from one country or mafia or corporation to another, with devastating consequences for millions of people. Waste Wars tells the stories of five trash conflicts being waged in different corners of the world right now. They are representative but rich strands in the story of our planet's runaway garbage pandemic. In each theater, a different commodity is being smuggled or imported or bartered. Sometimes there is a winner; sometimes there is a loser. And in each theater a different political dilemma -- from global inequality to the pitfalls of green politics -- is presenting itself through the seemingly pedestrian medium of trash. A globe-trotting work of relentless investigative reporting, Waste Wars exposes the multi-billion-dollar global garbage trade in which almost everyone in the world unknowingly engages and asks: If the handling of its trash reveals deeper truths about a particular society, what does the global business of trash say about our world today?"--

Subjects: Recycling (Waste, etc.); Recycling industry.; Refuse and refuse disposal; Refuse and refuse disposal;

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