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A gardener's guide to climate adaptive gardening : the essential guide to gardening sustainably / by Mason, Kelvin,author.;
"This book covers a range of methods to create a sustainable garden with a low carbon footprint that will continue to thrive as the climate changes in the future. It includes ideas and suggestions on how to design and maintain a low-carbon garden that is still both colourful and productive."--
Subjects: Gardening; Gardening.; Permaculture.; Sustainable horticulture.;
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Climate change / by Woodward, John,1954-;
Earth's climate -- The greenhouse effect -- Checks and balances -- Natural climate change -- Human impact -- Burning the forests -- Fossil fuels -- Our carbon culture -- Adding to the problem -- Heatwaves and droughts -- Melting ice -- Warming oceans -- Oceanic research -- Living with the heat -- Plight of the polar bear -- Climate models -- This century -- What scares the scientists? -- Who is most vulnerable? -- Adapting to climate change -- Combating climate change -- Cutting the carbon -- Nuclear power -- Renewable energy -- Power for the people -- Energy efficiency -- Green transport -- Your carbon footprint -- Greenhouse-gas producers.Explains why human activities are making the planet heat up--and how we know for sure that this is the case. Explores the effects of the changing climate, from more frequent hurricanes and wildfires to melting ice caps and rising sea levels. Shows how scientists predict how the climate will change in the future and what actions we can all take to combat climate change.LSC
Subjects: Climatic changes; Global warming; Environmental protection;
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The Lobster [videorecording (BLURAY)]. by Farrell, Colin; Weisz, Rachel; Seydoux, Lea; Reilly, John C.;
Director, Yorgos Lanthimos.Colin Farrell, Rachel Weisz, Lea Seydoux, John C. Reilly.In a dystopian near future, single people, according to the laws of The City, are taken to The Hotel, where they are obligated to find a romantic partner in forty-five days or are transformed into beasts and sent off into The Woods.OFRB rating: 14A.Blu-ray.
Subjects: Comedy.; Drama.; Comedy.;
© 2016., Lionsgate,
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Preacher. [videorecording] / by Cooper, Dominic,1978-actor.; Negga, Ruth,1982-actor.; Gulgun, Joseph,actor.; Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm),publisher.; Sony Pictures Television,production company.; AMC Film Holdings,production company.;
Dominic Cooper, Joseph Gilgun, Ruth Negga, Lucy Griffiths, W. Earl Brown, Derek Wilson, Ian Colletti.Jesse Custer's quest for God takes him back home. Jesse, Tulip and Cassidy return to the plantation where Jesse was raised, and find old grudges and deadly obligations awaits them. With the help of his friends, and a few enemies, Jesse will need to escape his past, because the future of the world depends on it.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Action and adventure television programs.; Clergy; Demoniac possession; Vampires;
For private home use only.
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This is how you lose the time war / by El-Mohtar, Amal,author.; Gladstone, Max,author.;
Among the ashes of a dying world, an agent of the Commandant finds a letter. It reads: Burn before reading. Thus begins an unlikely correspondence between two rival agents hellbent on securing the best possible future for their warring factions. Now, what began as a taunt, a battlefield boast, grows into something more. Something epic. Something romantic. Something that could change the past and the future. Except the discovery of their bond would mean death for each of them.
Subjects: Fiction.; Science fiction.; Space and time; Imaginary wars and battles; Soldiers; Letters; Time travel;
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NBA 2K18 [electronic resource]. by Sony Computer Entertainment.;
Game.The future of sports career modes has arrived, allowing you to play the game the way you like. Build your career in NBA games, hit the courts in The Playground Park, join the Pro-Am circuit, or explore the shops and venues in an all-new open neighborhood setting. Featuring new MyPLAYER upgrade and endorsement systems, our biggest cast of characters to date including NBA players, and so much more.ESRB Content Rating: E10, Everyone, 10+ (crude humor, mild language).Blu-ray disc compatible with Playstation 4 console ; HDTV 720p/1080i/1080p ; in game surround sound ; 2-10 player online multiplayer with leaderboards and voice (paid subscription and broadband internet connection required) ; 53 GB storage required ; online play optional ; PS4 Pro enhanced ; Remote play enabled.
Subjects: National Basketball Association; Playstation 4 (Video game console); Video games.; Computer games.; Basketball; NBA 2K18 (Game);
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Most delicious poison : the story of nature's toxins-from spices to vices / by Whiteman, Noah,author.;
"Based on cutting-edge science in the fields of evolution, chemistry, and neuroscience, Most Delicious Poison reveals the origins of toxins produced by plants, mushrooms, microbes, and even some animals, the mechanisms that animals evolved to overcome them, and how a co-evolutionary arms race made its way into the human experience. This perpetual chemical war not only drove the diversification of life on Earth, but is also intimately tied to our own successes and failures. You will never look at a houseplant, mushroom, fruit, vegetable, or even the last 500 years of human history, the same way again"--
Subjects: Mushrooms, Poisonous.; Poisoning; Poisonous animals.; Poisonous plants.; Poisons.;
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The Plastic Dome of Norma Jean. by Compton, Juleen,film director.; St. John, Marco,actor.; Gentry, Robert,actor.; Waterson, Sam,actor.; Henesy, Sharon,actor.; Flicker Alley (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Marco St. John, Robert Gentry, Sam Waterson, Sharon HenesyOriginally produced by Flicker Alley in 1966.The story of a clairvoyant teenage girl, Norma Jean (Sharon Henesy), who struggles between the responsibility of seeing the future and the attentions of a rock-n-roll band set on exploiting her powers for profit. Centered around an enigmatic dome structure delivered to the magical pastoral Ozark countryside, THE PLASTIC DOME OF NORMA JEAN explores a battle of wills, both spiritual and material.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Feature films.; Motion pictures.; Drama.; Motion Pictures.; Musicals.;
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Red Rising / by Brown, Pierce,1988-author.;
Darrow is a Red, a member of the lowest caste in the color-coded society of the future. Like his fellow Reds, he works all day, believing that he and his people are making the surface of Mars livable for future generations. Yet he spends his life willingly, knowing that his blood and sweat will one day result in a better world for his children.
Subjects: Science fiction.; Dystopian fiction.; Government, Resistance to;
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Sea Change: The Gulf of Maine. by Yi, Chun-Wei,actor.; PBS (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Chun-Wei YiOriginally produced by PBS in 2024.The Gulf of Maine is warming 97% faster than the global ocean, and what happens here is likely to happen worldwide. We are at a crossroads for the future of the Gulf. Does it retain enough of its biodiversity and regenerative strength to weather the human-induced storm? Is the sheer beauty of this place and spectacular range of its creatures enough to wake us to what is at stake?Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Documentary films.; Science.; Documentary films.; Television series.; Motion pictures.; Climatic changes.; Ocean.; Biodiversity.; Documentary television programs.;
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