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Publisher
Gale Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Covers the environmental issues for each U.S. state and Canadian province. Essays include an introduction that describes the geographical and geological features of the state/province, information on how global climate change could affect the state/province and its inhabitants, information on natural resources, energy, Green Economy, Green Jobs, and Green Building, and a special section that covers a major environmental topic in each state/province....
Author
Publisher
TwoDot
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Written by Stephen Grace, the companion book to The Great Divide, a film by Havey Productions, will be a sweeping, magnificently illustrated story of Colorado water from the region's first inhabitants to the incoming settlers and developers to modern environmentalists"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Relates the history of environmental protection in the United States, explains how environmental issues have helped shape the world as we know it, and discusses both historical and present-day problems.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
The Everglades was once reviled as a liquid wasteland, and Americans dreamed of draining it. Now it is revered as a national treasure, and Americans have launched the largest environmental project in history to try to save it. The Swamp is the stunning story of the destruction and possible resurrection of the Everglades, the saga of man's abuse of nature in southern Florida and his unprecedented efforts to make amends. Michael Grunwald, a prize-winning...
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The buffalo, an American icon once nearly extinct, has made a comeback. This stirring picture book tells the dramatic story, following bison from the Plains Indians to the cowboys, Teddy Roosevelt to the Dust Bowl, and from the brink of extinction to the majestic herds that now roam our national parks.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.9 - AR Pts: 39
Language
English
Description
Friedman's bestseller "The World Is Flat" has helped millions of readers to see globalization in a new way. Now the author brings a fresh outlook to the crises of destabilizing climate change and rising competition for energy.
11) The environment
Publisher
Greenhaven Press
Pub. Date
©2006
Language
English
Description
Explores the controversy over which actions society should take to find the balance between protecting the natural world and encouraging economic grown and development.
12) The BP oil spill
Series
Publisher
Greenhaven Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Provides model essays on a current controversial issue guiding students in writing a five-paragraph essay, including persuasive, descriptive, expository and cause-and-effect essays. Includes guided reading and discussion questions to help students understand the essays themselves and target persuasive techniques authors use to compose convincing arguments. This volume covers the 2010 BP (British Petroleum) oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
Author
Publisher
Lee & Low Books Inc
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"A combined history of the Puerto Rican parrot and the island of Puerto Rico, highlighting current efforts to save the Puerto Rican parrot by protecting and managing this endangered species"--Provided by publisher.
14) WALL-E
Series
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
After hundreds of lonely years, a waste management robot finds a new purpose in life. With only a cockroach for a friend, he finds true love in another robot sent on a mission to Earth to see if it is safe for human life.
Publisher
The Video Project
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
This film goes beyond the news headlines to spotlight the impact of the devastating water contamination crisis on the people of Flint, Michigan. The film highlights the stories of residents who were personally injured, along with the work of local organizations and individuals that rallied to support them. Flint is a city of 100,000 people, with 41% living below the poverty line and an African-American majority. The city switched in 2014 to water...
Author
Publisher
Harper One
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
The award-winning human rights activist and advisor to policy makers and presidential candidates delivers a 21st-century economic plan to rescue working-class Americans. Van Jones illustrates how we can invent and invest our way out of the pollution-based grey economy and into the healthy new green economy. Built by a broad coalition deeply rooted in the lives and struggles of ordinary people, this path has the practical benefit of both cutting energy...
Author
Publisher
Fulcrum Pub
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Presents an imaginary journey back in time to the birth of the Hudson River and examines its history, pollution and clean-up, nearby Native American and European settlements, and the river's appeal as a tourist destination and literary subject.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"A riveting, urgent account of the explorers and scientists racing to understand the rapidly melting ice sheet in Greenland, a dramatic harbinger of climate change. Greenland: a remote, mysterious island five times the size of California but with a population of just 56,000. The ice sheet that covers it is 700 miles wide and 1,500 miles long, and is composed of nearly three quadrillion tons of ice. For the last 150 years, explorers and scientists...
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Significant beyond tragic oil spills and hurricanes, the Gulf has historically been one of the world's most bounteous marine environments, supporting human life for millennia. Based on the premise that nature lies at the center of human existence, Davis takes readers on a compelling and, at times, wrenching journey from the Florida Keys to the Texas Rio Grande, along marshy shorelines and majestic estuarine bays, both beautiful and life-giving, though...
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