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2018.
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In 1957, more than six thousand products made with the chemical pesticide DDT were available. Farmers used DDT for pest control on their food crops. Consumers used wallpaper laced with the pesticide to keep bugs at bay. Scientists and the government all considered DDT safe, until a thoughtful and brave woman dared to question the indiscriminate and excess use of the synthetic chemical. Rachel Carson was a writer and marine biologist. The publication...
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2013.
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"Bill McKibben is not a person you'd expect to find handcuffed in the city jail in Washington, D.C. But that's where he spent three days in the summer of 2011, after leading the largest civil disobedience in thirty years to protest the Keystone XL pipeline. A few months later the protesters would see their efforts rewarded when President Obama agreed to put the project on hold. And yet McKibben realized that this small and temporary victory was at...
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Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
As a child, Rachel Carson lived by the rhythms of the natural world. Spring after spring, year after year, she observed how all living things are connected. And as an adult, Rachel watched and listened as the natural world she loved so much began to fall silent. Spring After Spring traces Rachel's journey as scientist and writer, courageously speaking truth to an often hostile world through her book, and ultimately paving the way for the modern environmental...
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Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 4
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Profiles people who have been influential in the environmental movement: John Muir, Jay Norwood "Ding" Darling, Rosalie Edge, Aldo Leopold, Olaus and Margaret Murie, Rachel Carson, David Brower, and Gaylord Nelson.
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Pub. Date
c1998
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"In A Word for Nature, Robert Dorman explores the careers and ideas of four figures of monumental importance in the history of American conservation - George Perkins Marsh, Henry David Thoreau, John Muir, and John Wesley Powell. He offers lively portraits of each of these early environmental advocates, who witnessed firsthand the impact of economic expansion and industrial revolution on fragile landscapes from the forests of New England to the mountains...
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2023.
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"Jolts, Synchronicities, Dream Catchers and A Memoir Into the Fire of Original Experience challenges the reader to look below the surface and see what is most important to one's body, mind, heart and spirit. The book explores different themes that make up the author's journey of becoming as he presents a memoir that goes to the epicenter of being human. The stories in this book span seven decades. They begin in a 3 flat apartment above a tavern owned...
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Pub. Date
[2005]
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"Doug Peacock's tale brings us epic personalities, traumatizing war, grizzly bears, and wildass adventure. A former Green Beret medic in Vietnam, he was mythologized by Edward Abbey as George Washington Hayduke in his environmental classic The Monkey Wrench Gang. Peacock has since become celebrated for his wildlife writing, his book Grizzly Years, and his tireless struggle to help preserve what is wild both in and around us."--BOOK JACKET
37) Earth keepers
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Series
Pub. Date
c1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Examines the lives of three people who were pioneer naturalists and ecologists.
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Pub. Date
[2002]
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"No writer has had a greater influence on the American West than Edward Abbey (1927-1989), author of twenty-one books of fiction and non-fiction. This biographical memoir by one of Abbey's closest friends is a tribute to the gadfly anarchist who popularized environmental activism in his novel The Monkey Wrench Gang and articulated the spirit of the arid West in Desert Solitaire and scores of other essays and articles. In the course of a twenty-year...
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