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- Mother Earth is Our Elder. by Katłı̨̀ą.;
- Now more than ever, institutions and citizens alike are seeking out and relying on the resilience of Indigenous knowledge systems to help solve the climate crisis. In 'Mother Earth Is Our Elder', award-winning Dene activist and writer Katla teaches us Indigenous ways to protect and learn from Mother Earth. Katla (Catherine Lafferty) is a Dene woman who grew up in Yellowknife, NT, and now lives in Vancouver, BC.Library Bound Incorporated
- Subjects: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / Indigenous; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs; SCIENCE / Global Warming & Climate Change;
- Human nature : nine ways to feel about our changing planet / by Marvel, Kate,author.;
- Includes bibliographical references and index."A captivating exploration of climate change that uses nine different emotions to better understand the science, history, and future of our evolving planet. Scientist Kate Marvel has seen the world end before, sometimes several times a day. In the computer models she uses to study climate change, it's easy to simulate rising temperatures, catastrophic outcomes, and bleak futures. But climate change isn't just happening in those models. It's happening here, to the only good planet in the universe. It's happening to us. And she has feelings about that. Human Nature is a deeply felt inquiry into our rapidly changing Earth. In each chapter, Marvel uses a different emotion to explore the science and stories behind climate change. As expected, there is anger, fear, and grief -- but also wonder, hope, and love. With her singular voice, Marvel takes us on a soaring journey, one filled with mythology, physics, witchcraft, bad movies, volcanoes, Roman emperors, sequoia groves, and the many small miracles of nature we usually take for granted. Hopeful, heartbreaking, and surprisingly funny, Human Nature is a vital, wondrous exploration of how it feels to live in a changing world"--
- Subjects: Climatic changes; Climatic extremes; Climatology; Environmental policy; Global warming;
- Life on a little-known planet : dispatches from a changing world / by Kolbert, Elizabeth,author.;
- "A landmark collection of Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Kolbert's most important pieces about climate change and the natural world. From her National Magazine Award-winning series The Climate of Man to her Pulitzer Prize-winning book The Sixth Extinction, Kolbert's work has shaped the way we think about the environment in the twenty-first century. Collected in Life on a Little-Known Planet are her most influential and thought-provoking essays. An intrepid reporter and a skillful translator of scientific ideas, Kolbert expertly captures the wonders of nature and paints vivid portraits of the researchers and concerned citizens working to preserve them. She takes readers all around the globe, from an island in Denmark that's succeeded in going carbon neutral, to a community in Florida that voted to give rights to waterways, to the Greenland ice sheet, which is melting in a way that has implications for everyone. We meet a biologist who believes we can talk to whales, an entomologist racing to find rare caterpillars before they disappear, and a climatologist who's considered the "father of global warming," amongst other scientists at the forefront of environmental protection. The threats to our planet that Kolbert has devoted so much of her career to exposing have only grown more serious. Now is the time to deepen our understanding of the world we are in danger of losing"--
- Subjects: Essays.; Climatic changes.; Environmental protection; Global environmental change.; Global warming.; Nature conservation.;
- How to avoid a climate disaster : the solutions we have and the breakthroughs we need / by Gates, Bill,1955-author.;
- Includes bibliographical references and index."Bill Gates shares what he's learned in more than a decade of studying climate change and investing in innovations to address the problems, and sets out a vision for how the world can build the tools it needs to get to zero greenhouse gas emissions. Bill Gates explains why he cares so deeply about climate change and what makes him optimistic that the world can avoid the most dire effects of the climate crisis. Gates says, "We can work on a local, national, and global level to build the technologies, businesses, and industries to avoid the worst impacts of climate change." His interest in climate change is a natural outgrowth of the efforts by his foundation to reduce poverty and disease. Climate change, according to Gates, will have the biggest impact on the people who have done the least to cause it. As a technologist, he has seen firsthand how innovation can change the world. By investing in research, inventing new technologies, and by deploying them quickly at large scale, Gates believes climate change can be addressed in meaningful ways. According to Gates, "to prevent the worst effects of climate change, we have to get to net-zero emissions of greenhouse gases. This problem is urgent, and the debate is complex, but I believe we can come together to invent new carbon-zero technologies, deploy the ones we have, and ultimately avoid a climate catastrophe""--
- Subjects: Climatic changes; Environmental policy.; Global warming; Greenhouse gases;
- Unstoppable : harnessing science to change the world / by Nye, Bill.; Powell, Corey S.,1966-;
- The former host of "Bill Nye the Science Guy" challenges common misunderstandings about global warming while outlining the scientific community's potential for solving key energy and environmental problems.
- Subjects: Climate change mitigation.; Climatic changes.; Energy consumption.; Global warming.; Power resources.;
- Global / by Colfer, Eoin.; Donkin, Andrew.; Rigano, Giovanni.;
- Told in alternating voices, twelve-year-old Sami, from a village along the Bay of Bengal, and fourteen-year-old Yuki, from Northern Canada, strive to protect their homes from the encroaching damage brought on by climate change.Ages 10 and up.
- Subjects: Graphic novels.; Comics (Graphic works); Environmental comics.; Cartoons and comics.; Climatic changes; Global warming;
- Eaarth [sound recording (CD)] / by McKibben, Bill.; Wyman, Oliver.;
- Read by Oliver Wyman.
- Subjects: Audiobooks.; Climatic changes.; Environmental degradation.; Global warming.; Human ecology.; Nature; Sustainable living.;
- © p2010., Macmillan Audio,
- 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;
- Climate change for dummies / by May, Elizabeth,author.; Caron, Zoë,author.; Kidder, John,author.;
- Subjects: Climatic changes; Climatic changes; Global warming.; Human beings; Human ecology;
- The biggest little farm [videorecording] / by Chester, John(John G.),film producer,film director,on-screen participant.; Pilachowski, Matthew,on-screen participant.; Elevation Pictures,film distributor.;
- John Chester, Molly Chester, Matthew Pilachowski.John Chester chronicles the eight-year quest he and Molly Chester went on when they traded city living for 200 acres of barren farmland and a dream to harvest in harmony with nature. Through dogged perseverance and embracing the opportunity provided by nature's conflicts, the Chesters unlock and uncover a biodiverse design for living that exists far beyond their farm, its seasons, and our wildest imagination.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.MPAA rating: PG.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
- Subjects: Biographical films.; Documentary films.; Chester, John (John G.); Chester, Molly.; Family farms; Farm life; Sustainable agriculture; Global warming;
- For private home use only.
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