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The Environment: Going Green

Continuing the 2010 Summer Reading theme on the environment, here is a list of new books and videos on ecology, communities, global warming, climate change and nature. In addition, we offer several environmental magazines.

New Books

• Hope for animals and their world : how endangered species are being rescued from the brink by Jane Goodall, with Thane Maynard and Gail Hudson

• Heaven and earth : global warming, the missing science by Ian Plimer

• Climate change by Adrienne Wilmoth Lerner and Chiara St. Pierre, book editors

• Prairie spring by Pete Dunne

• True green home : 100 inspirational ideas for creating a green environment at home by Kim McKay and Jenny Bonnin

• The cul-de-sac syndrome : turning around the unsustainable American dream by John F. Wasik

• Free trade by Mitchell Young

• Switch : how to change things when change is hard by Chip Heath and Dan Heath

• Global warming by Natalie Goldstein

• Early spring : an ecologist and her children wake to a warming world by Amy Seidl

• Eaarth : making a life on a tough new planet by Bill McKibben

• A world without ice by Henry Pollack

• Solar : a novel by Ian McEwan

• The national parks : America 's best idea : an illustrated history by Dayton Duncan ; with a preface by Ken Burns

• The big burn : Teddy Roosevelt and the fire that saved America by Timothy Egan

• The wilderness warrior : Theodore Roosevelt and the crusade for America by Douglas Brinkley

• The best American science and nature writing 2009 edited and with an introduction by Elizabeth Kolbert ; Tim Folger, series editor

• Summer world : a season of bounty by Bernd Heinrich

• Conservation Refugees : the hundred-year conflict between global conservation and native peoples by Mark Dowie

New Videos 

• Extreme ice, a production of Nova and National Geographic Television in association with Far West Film Company ; produced and directed by Noel Dockstader

• The botany of desire produced and directed by Michael Schwarz

• The national parks: America 's best idea written by Dayton Duncan ; produced by Dayton Duncan and Ken Burns

• Earth Disneynature presents a BBC, Greenlight Media, Discovery Channel co-production, directed by Alastair Fothergill and Mark Linfield

New Books & Videos for Children

• If you lived here you'd be home by now by Ed Briant

• Red sings from treetops : a year in colors by Joyce Sidman

• Earth in the hot seat : bulletins from a warming world by Marfé Ferguson Delano

Magazines

        

American Forests

Audubon

Backpacker

Gardens Illustrated

Natural History

Northern Woodlands

Organic Gardening

 

Keyword and LC Subject search terms   

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Examples of terms to use in searching:

Animal Ecology

Biotic Communities

Climatic Change

Ecological House

Ecology

Environment

Global Warming

Nature

Sustainable Architecture

Sustainable Development

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