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Becoming Rooted: One Hundred Days of Reconnecting With Sacred Earth
by Randy Woodley 202.12 WOO
Randy Woodley -- a farmer, educator, former pastor, and Cherokee descendant -- shares his deep understanding of the "community of creation" and the Native American "harmony way" across 100 pithy essays and anecdotes; each ends with meditative questions and ideas for action. The lessons build on each other to impart a holistic education that's doled out in accessible segments.
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Braiding sweetgrass: indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge, and the teachings of plants
by Robin Wall Kimmerer 304.2 KIM
As a botanist, Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowledge together to take us on "a journey that is every bit as mythic as it is scientific, as sacred as it is historical, as clever as it is wise."
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Earth detox: how and why we must clean up our planet
by Julian Cribb 363.736 CRI
Every person on our home planet is affected by a worldwide deluge of man-made chemicals and pollutants. Our chemical emissions are six times larger than our total greenhouse gas emissions. This universal poisoning affects our minds, our bodies, our genes, our grandkids, and all life on Earth. Cribb describes the full scale of the chemical catastrophe we have unleashed. He also maps an empowering and hopeful way forward, to rid our planet of these toxins and return Earth to the clean, healthy condition which our forebears enjoyed, and our grandchildren should too.
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The hidden life of ice: dispatches from a disappearing world
by Marco Tedesco 551.31 TED
A pioneering researcher's illuminating account of Arctic ice -- its secret history and dire future. Tedesco unearths its secrets--from evidence of long-extinct "polar camels" to fantastically weird microorganisms living at freezing temperature in cryoconite holes -- and weaves together the bald facts on climate change with poetic reflections on this endangered landscape, epic tales of Arctic explorers, and the legends of the rare local populations.
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Otherlands: a journey through Earth's extinct worlds
by Thomas Halliday 560 HAL
Mining the most recent paleontological advances, a brilliant paleobiologist recreates 16 extinct worlds, rendered here with a novelist’s eye for detail and drama, bringing us up close to the intricate relationships of these ancient worlds, allowing us to discover the inner working—and the fragility—of our own.
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Ever green: saving big forests to save the planet
by John W. Reid 577. 3 REI
Five stunningly large, unbroken forests remain on Earth. These megaforests are vital to preserving global biodiversity, thousands of cultures, and a stable climate. Megaforests serve an essential role in decarbonizing the atmosphere, and saving them constitutes the fastest, most affordable way to start addressing our planet's most formidable ongoing crisis.
Clear, provocative, and persuasive, Ever Green offers practical solutions -- from supporting Indigenous forest stewards to planning smarter roads--in an inspiring call to action for the planet.
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The death and life of the Great Lakes
by Dan Egan 577.63 EGA
An award-winning journalist traces the scientific, historical, and ecological factors that are endangering the Great Lakes, discussing the late-19th century's effort to connect the lakes to the Atlantic, which unexpectedly introduced invasive species from the natural world.
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The insect crisis: the fall of the tiny empires that run the world
by Oliver Milman 595.7 MIL
Three out of four of the planet's known species are insects, but much recent evidence suggests this kaleidoscopic group of creatures is suffering the greatest existential crisis in its remarkable 400-million-year history. Milman delves into why insect numbers are plummeting and outlines the dire consequences of losing the tiny empires that hold life aloft on Earth. Along the way, readers encounter a researcher who collects insect guts from the windshields of cars, the bees sent on long-haul truck journeys to prop up our food supply, and a desperate attempt to move trees up mountains to save an iconic butterfly. The mounting losses threaten to unpick the web of life we rely upon.
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The bald eagle: the improbable journey of America's bird
by Jack E. Davis 598.943 DAV
Featuring stories of Founding Fathers, rapacious hunters, heroic bird rescuers and the lives of bald eagles themselves, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author presents a sweeping cultural and natural history of the bald eagle in America, demonstrating how this bird’s wondrous journey may provide inspiration today.
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Now is the time for trees: make an impact by planting the earth's most valuable resource
by Dan Lambe 635.977 LAM
The Arbor Day Foundation celebrates its 150th anniversary in April 2022, and this book is timed to coincide with that noteworthy milestone. Part inspiration (by showing some of their most successful endeavors from the past - some of which have shaped the very character of our nation) and part call to action (by giving readers the information they need to plant the best trees for their own yards), this book is at once a celebration of one of our country's most enduring charities and a manual for how to add trees at home.
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Earthy vegan eats: 60 delicious gluten-free plant-based recipes
by Maria Gureeva 641.5636 GUR
Living a more healthy, plant-based life is easy with these 60 delectable recipes. You'll be well-equipped to cook a variety of gluten-free vegan meals with as little fuss as possible -- there's no need to spend long hours at the stove. Maria's recipes are the best of both worlds: they capture the comfort of satisfying, down-to-earth meals without compromising on any aspect of your diet.
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Vegetable kingdom: the abundant world of vegan recipes
by Bryant Terry 641.5636 TER
A guide to the fundamentals of plant-based cooking features over 100 recipes for such dishes as Dirty Cauliflower, Barbecued Carrots With Slow-Cooked White Beans and Millet Roux Mushroom Gumbo, as well as tips on vegan cooking.
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As Long As Trees Take Root in the Earth: And Other Poems
by Alain Mabanckou 841 MAB
These compelling poems by novelist and essayist Alain Mabanckou conjure nostalgia for an African childhood where the fauna, flora, sounds, and smells evoke snapshots of a life forever gone. In these pages, Mabanckou pays tribute to his beloved mother, as well as to the regenerative power of nature, and especially of trees, whose roots are a metaphor for the poet's roots, anchored in the red earth of his birthplace.
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Masters of Empire: Great Lakes Indians and the Making of America
by Michael A McDonnell 970.00497 MCD
Describes and chronicles the important historical role the native people of the Great Lakes had in the history of North America, highlighting the Anishinaabeg tribe's experiences with other native Americans, as well as with the newcomer Europeans.
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Composite creatures
by Hardaker, Caroline Hardaker SF HAR
How close would you hold those you love, when the end comes? In a society where self-preservation is as much an art as a science, Norah and Arthur are learning how to co-exist in their new little world. Though they hardly know each other, everything seems to be going perfectly - from the home they're building together to the ring on Norah's finger.
But survival in this world is a tricky thing, the air is thicker every day and illness creeps fast through the body. And the earth is becoming increasingly hostile to live in. Fortunately, Easton Grove is here for that in the form of a perfect little bundle to take home and harvest. You can live for as long as you keep it -- or her -- close.
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Skinny dip: a novel
by Carl Hiaasen F HIA
Doctoring water samples to help his corrupt agribusiness employer continue illegal dumping in the Everglades, biologist Chaz Perrone attempts to murder his wife, who has figured out his scam and who survives to plot her husband's downfall.
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Gloryland: a novel
by Shelton Johnson F JOH
This fictional memoir of a “buffalo soldier” follows Elijah Yancy from the Reconstruction to the Nebraska plains, where his military career includes subduing Native Americans, causing him to grapple with inflicting persecution on another group of people of color.
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The last woman in the forest
by Diane Les Becquets F LES
On a conservation study in northern Alberta, field technician Marian Engström found her true calling: training rescue dogs to help track endangered or threatened wildlife. Under the tutelage of experienced handler, Tate Mathias, Marian felt her future opening up before her. But after Tate is killed in a bear attack, Marian finds herself questioning the man she thought she loved.
As she circles ever closer to the truth, evil stalks her every move. From the breathtaking Rocky Mountains to the vast deserts of Utah to the lush rainforests of the northwest, The Last Woman in the Forest chronicles the experiences of a woman whose faith in the nature of man is about to be tested.
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The overstory: a novel
by Richard Powers F POW
The National Book Award-winning author presents an impassioned novel of activism and natural-world power that is comprised of interlocking fables about nine remarkable strangers who are summoned in different ways by trees for an ultimate, brutal stand to save the continent's few remaining acres of virgin forest.
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Hummingbird salamander
by Jeff VanderMeer F VAN
Sent taxidermied specimens of two endangered species, a software manager becomes the target of the ecoterrorists and wildlife traffickers behind a catastrophic global conspiracy. By the award-winning author of the Southern Reach trilogy.
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