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Back to Earth : what life in space taught me about our home planet--and our mission to protect it / by Stott, Nicole(Astronaut),author.;
Includes bibliographical references."When NASA Astronaut Nicole Stott first saw the Earth from space, she was filled with awe. Our shared home was a brilliant blue marble, with a razor thin atmosphere protecting billions of people, including everyone she loved. She realized that we are all bound together on this fragile planet. When she came back to earth, she knew she had to share this vision to help protect it. Stott knows the scale of the daunting task at hand-and yet, she believes we can set aside our differences and work together to tackle the most challenging planetary problems humanity has ever faced. She knows this, because she's seen it happen, on the International Space Station. Throughout her book, Stott imparts hard-won lessons in high-stakes problem solving, survival, and responding to crisis in space. On a space station, astronauts can't wait for someone else to handle a rescue; and when it comes to our earthbound problems, Stott learned that everyone should live like a crewmember, not like a passenger. In space, where everyone survives in a closed system, everything is local-and Stott discovered that in a profound way, the same is true back at home. Back to Earth distills these lessons and more into seven principles that can be practiced by each and every one of us to make much-needed change. In addition to sharing stories from her own spaceflight, Stott offers eye-opening insights from scientists and changemakers already sparking meaningful change in their communities and around the globe. She explores the complexities and splendor of the earth's biodiversity, and what it takes to preserve it, with both pioneering scientists on earth and engineers working to enable life in space. She meets with activists who use their time in space to advocate for clean water, and with executives who quit their corporate positions and use their global reach to become environmental leaders. Through her stirring call to action, Nicole Stott reveals how we each have the power to respect the Earth and one another-and to change our own lives in the process. And, while we're at it, we might just save humanity"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Stott, Nicole (Astronaut); International Space Station; Environmentalism.; Human ecology.; Nature; Women astronauts;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Forces of nature / by Cox, Brian,1968-; Cohen, Andrew(Scientist);
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Subjects: Nature.; Earth sciences.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Dino-earth day / by Wheeler, Lisa,1963-; Gott, Barry.;
"What do dinosaurs do on Earth Day? They care for the planet! They ride bikes and scooters, clean up a park, plant an urban garden, visit a recycling center, and more"--Ages 5-9.
Subjects: Stories in rhyme.; Picture books.; Dinosaurs; Earth Day;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Mother earth living (news) [periodical].
Subjects: Environmentalism; Green products; Ecological houses; Organic living;
© c2009., Ogden Publications,
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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A room called earth / by Ryan, Madeleine,author.;
This debut novel from autistic writer and advocate for neurodiversity, Madeleine Ryan, is a story of a fiercely original young woman whose radical self-acceptance illuminates a new way of being in the world and opens up a whole new realm of understanding and connection. As a full moon rises over Melbourne, Australia, a young autistic woman gets ready for a party. As the events of the night unfold, she moves from person to person, weaving a web around the magical, the mundane, and the tragic.
Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Autistic people; Interpersonal relations; Parties;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Earth Day every day / by Bullard, Lisa.; Xiao Xin.;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 24), Internet addresses and index."005-008, GRL: K"--P. [4] of cover.LSC
Subjects: Earth Day; Environmentalism; Environmental protection;
© c2012., Millbrook Press,
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The uninhabitable earth : life after warming / by Wallace-Wells, David,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."It is worse, much worse, than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possible. In California, wildfires now rage year-round, destroying thousands of homes. Across the US, "500-year" storms pummel communities month after month, and floods displace tens of millions annually. This is only a preview of the changes to come. And they are coming fast. Without a revolution in how billions of humans conduct their lives, parts of the Earth could become close to uninhabitable, and other parts horrifically inhospitable, as soon as the end of this century. In his travelogue of our near future, David Wallace-Wells brings into stark relief the climate troubles that await -- food shortages, refugee emergencies, and other crises that will reshape the globe. But the world will be remade by warming in more profound ways as well, transforming our politics, our culture, our relationship to technology, and our sense of history. It will be all-encompassing, shaping and distorting nearly every aspect of human life as it is lived today. Like An inconvenient truth and Silent spring before it, The uninhabitable earth is both a meditation on the devastation we have brought upon ourselves and an impassioned call to action. For just as the world was brought to the brink of catastrophe within the span of a lifetime, the responsibility to avoid it now belongs to a single generation"--
Subjects: Nature; Global warming; Climatic changes; Global environmental change; Environmental degradation;
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Earth's changing mountains / by Morris, Neil,1946-;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 31) and index.Looks at the geography and people that make up mountain regions throughout the world, focusing on the changing characteristics of both.
Subjects: Mountains; Mountain ecology; Landscape changes;
© 2003., Raintree,
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Protecting Earth's waters / by Crane, Cody.;
Our wet world -- Waters in trouble -- Washed away -- An ocean of a problem -- Cleaning up -- Hands-on activity -- Water warriors."NEW "Rookie" series teaching kids about the importance of water!"--Provided by publisher.LSC
Subjects: Water; Environmental protection;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Saving Earth for Kids
Mode of access: Internet.
Subjects: For Kids & Tweens;
© , Saving Earth Magazine
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