Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

New Jersey

Why We Need A Green Revolution — And How It Can Renew America 

Hot, Flat, and Crowded

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#hardcover #kids #children #earth #earthday #environmentalism #childrens #nonfiction #picturebook #conserve 

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Oregon

"I take care of the earth because I know I can do little things every day to make a BIG difference..."

With his signature blend of playfulness and sensitiviy, Todd Parr explores the important, timely subject of environmental protection and conservation in this eco-friendly picture book. Featuing a circular die-cut Earth on the cover, and printed entirely with recycled materials and nontoxic soy inks, this book includes lots of easy, smart ideas on how we can all work together to make the Earth feel good - from planting a tree and using both sides of the paper, to saving energy and reusing old things in new ways.

Best of all, the book includes an interior gatefold with a poster with tips/reminders on how kids can "go green" everyday. Equally whimsical and heartfelt, this sweet homage to our beautiful planet is sure to inspire readers of all ages to do their part in keeping the Earth happy and healthy.

The EARTH Book

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#hardcover #protectivecover #formerlibrarybook #birds #ornithological #endangeredspecies #environmentalism #falconeggs #falcons #rarebirds #truecrime #wildanimals 

California

A True Tale of Adventure, Treachery, and the Hunt for the Perfect Bird

A rollicking true-crime adventure about a rogue who trades in rare birds and their eggs—and the wildlife detective determined to stop him. On May 3, 2010, an Irish national named Jeffrey Lendrum was apprehended at Britain’s Birmingham International Airport with a suspicious parcel strapped to his stomach. Inside were fourteen rare peregrine falcon eggs snatched from a remote cliffside in Wales. So begins a tale almost too bizarre to believe, following the parallel lives of a globe-trotting smuggler who spent two decades capturing endangered raptors worth millions of dollars as race champions—and Detective Andy McWilliam of the United Kingdom’s National Wildlife Crime Unit, who’s hell bent on protecting the world’s birds of prey. The Falcon Thief whisks readers from the volcanoes of Patagonia to Zimbabwe’s Matobo National Park, and from the frigid tundra near the Arctic Circle to luxurious aviaries in the deserts of Dubai, all in pursuit of a man who is reckless, arrogant, and gripped by a destructive compulsion to make the most beautiful creatures in nature his own. It’s a story that’s part true-crime narrative, part epic adventure—and wholly unputdownable until the very last page.

The Falcon Thief

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#paperback #ecology #environmentalism #science #childrens #kids #juvenilefiction #school #environment #recycle 

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Science

An enterprising group of kids introduces a recycling program in their town.

In the Planet Protectors series, students are introduced to some of the key environmental issues affecting the United States today. Each book explores a particular environmental problem. These fictional accounts develop as students identify a problem and then design a solution. Readers will be thrilled by the engaging stories and, at the same time, they will learn importance science content. (Genre: Realistic Fiction)

Content-Based Chapter Books Fiction (Science: Planet Protectors): Waste Watchers

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#hardcover #travel #oceantravel #sailing #pollution #plasticpollution #environment #environmentalism #activism #garbage 

Vermont

An Ocean Voyage and a Rising Tide of Activism to Fight Plastic Pollution

"An exciting account of an activist scientist's unorthodox fight in the growing movement against plastic marine pollution and of his expedition across the Pacific on a home-made "junk raft" Over the past several years, the news media has brought the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch"--the famous swirling gyre of plastic litter in the ocean--into the public consciousness. When Marcus Eriksen cofounded the 5 Gyres Institute with his wife, Anna, and set out to study marine pollution, they found that the reality is even more dire: instead of a stable mass of litter, they discovered that a "plastic smog" of microparticles permeates the world's oceans, defying simplistic clean-up efforts. What's more, these microplastics and their toxic chemistry have seeped into the food chain, threatening marine life and humans alike. Far from being a gloomy treatise on an environmental catastrophe, though, Junk Raft tells the exciting story of Eriksen's fight to raise awareness and solve the problem of plastic pollution, contributing to a fast-growing movement to stem the tide of trash. Eriksen writes of his voyage from Los Angeles to Hawaii aboard his homemade "junk raft," and along the way he recounts the successful efforts to fight corporate influence and demand that plastics producers take responsibility for a problem they've created. Eriksen provides concrete, actionable solutions and an empowering message: it's up to bold, brash, unapologetically activist "citizen scientists" to challenge the status quo for the sake of the planet"--

Junk Raft

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#paperback #socialmovements #history #activism #environmentalism #climatechange #globalwarming #climatedidaster #survival

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

New York

Common Preservation in Action

We the people of the world are creating the conditions for our own self-extermination, whether through the bang of a nuclear holocaust or the whimper of an expiring ecosphere. Today our individual self-preservation depends on common preservation--cooperation to provide for our mutual survival and well-being.

For half a century Jeremy Brecher has been studying and participating in social movements that have created new forms of common preservation. Through entertaining storytelling and personal narrative, Save the Humans? provides a unique and revealing interpretation of how social movements arise and how they change the world. Brecher traces a path that leads from the sitdown strikes on the pyramids of ancient Egypt through America's mass strikes and labor revolts to the struggle against economic globalization to today's battles against climate change.

Weaving together personal experience, scholarly research, and historical interpretation, Jeremy Brecher shows how we can construct a "human survival movement" that could "save the humans." He sums up the theme of this book: "I have seen common preservation--and it works." For those seeking an understanding of social movements and an alternative to denial and despair, there is simply no better place to look than Save the Humans?

Save the Humans?

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#paperback #environment #environmentalism #nature #nonfiction #sustainability #sociology #ecology #ecofriendly 

Minnesota

The Adventures of a Guilty Liberal Who Attempts to Save the Planet and the Discoveries He Makes about Himself and Our Way of Life in the Process

A guilty liberal finally snaps, swears off plastic, goes organic, becomes a bicycle nut, turns off his power, and generally becomes a tree-hugging lunatic who tries to save the polar bears and the rest of the planet from environmental catastrophe while dragging his baby daughter and Prada-wearing, Four Seasons-loving wife along for the ride. And that's just the beginning. Bill McKibben meets Bill Bryson in this seriously engaging look at one man's decision to put his money where his mouth is and go off the grid for one year--while still living in New York City--to see if it's possible to make no net impact on the environment. In other words, no trash, no toxins in the water, no elevators, no subway, no products in packaging, no air-conditioning, no television . . .

What would it be like to try to live a no-impact lifestyle? Is it possible? Could it catch on? Is living this way more satisfying or less satisfying? Harder or easier? Is it worthwhile or senseless? Are we all doomed or can our culture reduce the barriers to sustainable living so it becomes as easy as falling off a log? These are the questions at the heart of this whole mad endeavor, via which Colin Beavan hopes to explain to the rest of us how we can realistically live a more "eco-effective" and by turns more content life in an age of inconvenient truths.

No Impact Man

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Wisconsin

Fishing Rivers of the Far North

From Incredible Success to Enabling Environmental and Resource Unsustainability

SIGNED — Capitalism Is Past Its Sell-By Date

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#paperback #radio #latenightsonair #nationalbestseller #canada #environmentalism #canoeing #artic

Michigan

In 1975 Yellowknife, four employees of a small radio station embark on a canoe trip that takes them into the Arctic wilderness, following the 1927 route taken by ill-fated Englishman John Hornby, and find their relationships shifting.

Late Nights on Air

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#paperback #environmentalism #greenliving #satire #current #nonfiction
In great condition.

Illinois

"A very clever, extremely well-done romp that somehow manages to make the birth of a granddaughter, the Mafia and global warming all work brilliantly ensemble style. A fine, fun story that is not without serious depth and warmth. I loved it." --Ed Gorman, Writer of the Sam McCain series "A funny, fast-paced crime story whose serious points pack the wallop of a forty-five." --Terence Faherty, Shamus-winning author of the Scott Elliott series. "A hilarious, albeit chilling, eco-Mafia novel--a new species. Lopresti knows his mobsters, his New Jersey, and his science, and knows how to make it all sing." --SJ Rozan, Edgar-winning author (as Sam Cabot) of SKIN OF THE WOLF "RobertLopresti's GREENFELLAS has a great concept and vivid characters, both criminals and commoners. There's snappy patter and a fast-moving story, and it's funny, too. Elmore Leonard fans (and everybody else) should snap this up immediately." --Bill Crider, bestselling author of the Sheriff Dan Rhodes mysteries --- About the Author: Robert Lopresti's writing has been praised for "razor-sharp wit," so watch your fingertips. His most recent book, SHANKS ON CRIME, is a collection of stories about a curmudgeonly mystery writer, and definitely not autobiographical. Lopresti is the environmental science librarian at a university in the Pacific Northwest. He has won the Black Orchid Novella Award and the Derringer (twice), and been nominated for the Anthony. He conceived and edited THURBER ON CRIME. He blogs at SleuthSayers.com and reviews short stories at Little Big Crimes."

Greenfellas

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Connecticut

A Memoir

Reflections on race, environment, politics, and living on the front lines of change

In Angels by the River, James Gustave "Gus" Speth recounts his unlikely path from a southern boyhood through his years as one of the nation's most influential mainstream environmentalists and eventually to the system-changing activism that shapes his current work. Born and raised in an idyllic but racially divided town that later became the scene of South Carolina's horrific Orangeburg Massacre, Speth explores how the civil rights movement and the South's agrarian roots shaped his later work in the heyday of the environmental movement, when he founded two landmark environmental groups, fought for the nation's toughest environmental laws, spearheaded programs in the United Nations, advised the White House, and moved into a leading academic role as dean of Yale's prestigious School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. Yet, in the end, he arrived somewhere quite unexpected-still believing change is possible, but not within the current political and economic system. Throughout this compelling memoir, Speth intertwines three stories-his own, his hometown's, and his country's-focusing mainly on his early years and the lessons he drew from them, and his later years, in which he comes full circle in applying those lessons. In the process he invites others to join him politically at or near the place at which he has arrived, wherever they may have started.

Angels by the River

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Bjørn Lomborg

Pennsylvania

The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming

Written by the author of The Skeptical Environmentalist, this groundbreaking book transforms the debate about global warming by offering a fresh perspective based on human needs as well as environmental concerns.

Cool It

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Edward Abbey

Massachusetts

Ex-Green Beret George Hayduke has returned from war to find his beloved southwestern desert threatened by industrial development. Joining with Bronx exile and feminist saboteur Bonnie Abzug, wilderness guide and outcast Mormon Seldom Seen Smith, and libertarian billboard torcher Doc Sarvis, M.D., Hayduke is ready to fight the power—taking on the strip miners, clear-cutters, and the highway, dam, and bridge builders who are threatening the natural habitat. The Monkey Wrench Gang is on the move—and peaceful coexistence be damned!

The Monkey Wrench Gang

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Terry Russell

Renny Russell

Vintage. Photograohy. See photo for back cover description..

On the Loose

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#paperback #food #ethics #environmentalism 

Why Our Food Choices Matter

The Ethics of What We Eat

Lindsay Peoples Wagner

An urgent call for climate justice from Teen Vogue, one of this generation’s leading voices, using an intersectional lens - with critical feminist, indigenous, antiracist and internationalist perspectives. As the political classes watch our world burn, a new movement of young people is rising to meet the challenge of climate catastrophe. This book is a guide, a toolkit, a warning and a cause for hope.
"I hope that this book embodies Teen Vogue’s motto of making young people feel seen and heard all over the world. I hope that it forces their parents, communities, loved ones, friends, and—most importantly—those in power to see that the health of our planet depends on how quickly and drastically we change our behaviors. I hope it forces them all to respond."  —From the foreword by Teen Vogue editor-in-chief, Lindsay Peoples Wagner

Iowa

A Teen Vogue Guide to the Climate Crisis

An urgent call for climate justice from Teen Vogue, one of this generation's leading voices, using an intersectional lens - with critical feminist, indigenous, antiracist and internationalist perspectives. As the political classes watch our world burn, a new movement of young people is rising to meet the challenge of climate catastrophe. This book is a guide, a toolkit, a warning and a cause for hope.

"I hope that this book embodies Teen Vogue's motto of making young people feel seen and heard all over the world. I hope that it forces their parents, communities, loved ones, friends, and--most importantly--those in power to see that the health of our planet depends on how quickly and drastically we change our behaviors. I hope it forces them all to respond." --From the foreword by Teen Vogue editor-in-chief, Lindsay Peoples Wagner

No Planet B

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No dust jacket. Pages in excellent condition. 

Georgia

Rush Limbaugh  The Way Things Ought To Be

#trees #genetics #wildlife #environmentalism 

A Life Story

A story that spans a millennium and includes a cast of millions. The story of a single tree.

In this clear, concise, and captivating book, renowned scientist and environmentalist David Suzuki and award-winning writer Wayne Grady tell the life story of a tree, beginning when heat from a devastating forest fire opens thousands of pine cones and sends millions of seeds into the air. Most of these seeds perish, but one falls into the soil and develops into the tree that is the subject of this book.

Suzuki and Grady describe how the tree grows and receives nourishment and what role the tree plays in the forest throughout its life. It acts as a home to succession of creatures and plays a crucial role in the water cycle, in breaking rock down into soil, and in removing carbon dioxide and producing oxygen. Even after the tree dies, it provides a home for moss, ferns, and other plants, which use the tree as a nurse log, and it provides nutrients for insects and fungi. Tree also looks at the community of organisms that share the tree's ecosystem and at the events going on in the larger world during the tree's lifetime.


Tree

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Name written on the front page and slight discoloration around the spine, I think from the sun. Otherwise excellent. 

 #paperback #nonfiction #environmentalism #nature #climatechange #science #biology 

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Colorado

As I See It, Science Is Not Enough

The Environment

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#hardcover #joshuahorwitz￼ #history #science #whales #dolphins #environmentalism #navy￼ #warofthewhales

Rhode Island

A True Story

Winner of the 2015 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award: "Horwitz's dogged reporting...combined with crisp, cinematic writing, produces a powerful narrative.... He has written a book that is instructive and passionate and deserving a wide audience" (PEN Award Citation).

War of the Whales is the gripping tale of a crusading attorney who stumbles on one of the US Navy's best-kept secrets: a submarine detection system that floods entire ocean basins with high-intensity sound--and drives whales onto beaches. As Joel Reynolds launches a legal fight to expose and challenge the Navy program, marine biologist Ken Balcomb witnesses a mysterious mass stranding of whales near his research station in the Bahamas. Investigating this calamity, Balcomb is forced to choose between his conscience and an oath of secrecy he swore to the Navy in his youth.

When Balcomb and Reynolds team up to expose the truth behind an epidemic of mass strandings, the stage is set for an epic battle that pits admirals against activists, rogue submarines against weaponized dolphins, and national security against the need to safeguard the ocean environment. Waged in secret military labs and the nation's highest court, War of the Whales is a real-life thriller that combines the best of legal drama, natural history, and military intrigue.

War of the Whales

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Like new except for red ink mark on bottom outside edge of front cover. See photos. 

A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed

When a shattered kayak and camping gear are found on an uninhabited island in the Pacific Northwest, they reignite a mystery surrounding a shocking act of protest. Five months earlier, logger-turned-activist Grant Hadwin had plunged naked into a river in British Columbia's Queen Charlotte Islands, towing a chainsaw. When his night's work was done, a unique Sitka spruce, 165 feet tall and covered with luminous golden needles, teetered on its stump. Two days later it fell.As vividly as John Krakauer puts readers on Everest, John Vaillant takes us into the heart of North America's last great forest.

The Golden Spruce

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From the Death of Environmentalism to the Politics of Possibility

Break Through (bundle)

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Raea Gragg

There is a crimp in one corner as shown. 

A Graphic Novel

Two girls wrangle with the themes of growing up and changing while embarking on a rollicking adventure to save the environment. A full color, 280-page graphic novel for children ages 7+. ​

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Thomas L. Friedman

Hot, Flat, and Crowded

Todd Parr

The EARTH Book

Joshua Hammer

The Falcon Thief

Barbara Keeler

Content-Based Chapter Books Fiction (Science: Planet Protectors): Waste Watchers

Marcus Eriksen

Junk Raft

Jeremy Brecher

Save the Humans?

Colin Beavan

No Impact Man

Dan D. Gapen, Sr.

Fishing Rivers of the Far North

Kit Webster

SIGNED — Capitalism Is Past Its Sell-By Date

Elizabeth Hay

Late Nights on Air

Robert Lopresti

Greenfellas

James Gustave Speth

Angels by the River

Bjørn Lomborg

Cool It

Edward Abbey

The Monkey Wrench Gang

Terry Russell; Renny Russell

On the Loose

Peter Singer & Jim Mason

The Ethics of What We Eat

Edited by Lucy Diavolo, Foreward by Lindsay Peoples Wagner, Samhita Mukhopadhyay, Allegra Kirkland, Allison Maloney, and More

No Planet B

Rush Limbaugh

Rush Limbaugh The Way Things Ought To Be

David Suzuki; Wayne Grady; Robert Bateman (Illustrator)

Tree

Bruce Wallace

The Environment

Joshua Horwitz

War of the Whales

John Vaillant

The Golden Spruce

Michael Shellenberger

Break Through (bundle)

Raea Gragg

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