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1) Savage run
Author
Series
Joe Pickett novels volume 2
Language
English
Description
When a massive explosion occurs deep within the forests of Twelve Sleep County and a colorful environmental activist appears to have perished in the blast, Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett is called to the scene to help investigate. The case is wrapped up quickly, explained as an environmental publicity stunt gone wrong, but Joe isn't convinced. He soon discovers clues that suggest a deadly conspiracy one that will test his courage, his survival skills,...
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Series
Language
English
Description
A motley crew of saboteurs wreaks havoc on the corporations destroying America’s Western wilderness in this “wildly funny, infinitely wise” classic (The Houston Chronicle).
When George Washington Hayduke III returns home from war in the jungles of Southeast Asia, he finds the unspoiled West he once knew has been transformed. The pristine lands and waterways are being strip mined, dammed up, and paved...
When George Washington Hayduke III returns home from war in the jungles of Southeast Asia, he finds the unspoiled West he once knew has been transformed. The pristine lands and waterways are being strip mined, dammed up, and paved...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
This documentary portrays the transformative vision and extraordinary efforts of Wenzday Jane, a young woman whose mechanical skills and innovative actions are reshaping her community. Wenzday Jane goes to the heart of the sustainability issue by offering practical economic solutions, and suggests that things don't have to be the way they are. As a young child growing up in public housing, Wenzday's bicycle meant personal responsibility and self-direction....
5) Night moves
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English
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NIGHT MOVES is the story of three radical environmentalists coming together to execute the most intense protest of their lives: the explosion of a hydroelectric dam. Official Selection at the **Venice Film Festival** and **Toronto International Film Festival**.
7) Forever
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Series
Language
English
Description
For Lydia Susi, there is no sweet sorrow in saying goodbye to the man she loves ... As an operative for a clandestine arm of the United States government, Daniel Joseph always expected to die an early death. He just assumed it would be out in the field--not in a laboratory hospital bed. With his time running out, he refuses a potentially lifesaving treatment to focus on making sure that Lydia finds her wolven clan ... Marshaling his strength, he must...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A stunningly beautiful film narrated by Frances McDormand, Rebels With a Cause spotlights a battle over land that changed the American landscape forever. Beginning in the 1950s, a national movement was born of principles that may seem obvious today. Unconvinced by land developers who promoted residential construction as unmitigated progress, citizens began banding together to preserve open spaces near urban areas for parks and farms — and took the...
9) Freedom
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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Description
The idyllic lives of civic-minded environmentalists Patty and Walter Berglund come into question when their son moves in with aggressive Republican neighbors, green lawyer Walter takes a job in the coal industry, and go-getter Patty becomes increasingly unstable and enraged
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Director Robert Stone ("Oswald's Ghost," "Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst") traces the origins of the modern environmental movement through the eyes of nine Americans who propelled the movement from its beginnings in the 1950s to its moment of triumph in 1970 with the original Earth Day and to its status as a major political force in America.
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Language
English
Description
"A book about loggerhead sea turtles, and a girl's attempts to help save their babies from man-made light."--
Viv has a new home and a new school by the sea on the South Carolina coast. Trying to find an idea for the class project, she becomes interested in problems faced by the baby loggerhead turtles. Can the class rally the community and help the sea turtles?
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"When climate activist Greta Thunberg was eleven, her parents, Malena and Svante, and her little sister, Beata, were facing a crisis in their own home. Greta had stopped eating and speaking, and her mother and father had reconfigured their lives to care for her. Desperate and searching for answers, her parents discovered what was at the heart of Greta's distress: her imperiled future on a rapidly heating planet. Steered by Greta's determination to...
13) Wildcrafters
Author
Series
Venus Diamond mysteries volume 3
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
Fish and Wildlife agent Venus Diamond investigates the kidnaping of an Indian baby in Washington State. The probe takes her to a nature preserve and the world of wildcrafters, people illegally harvesting wild plants for the manufacture of anti-aging aids
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
The environmentalist describes how he created a successful tomato business as a teenager, worked at the USDA, and founded two non-profit organizations that have drawn attention to climate change and lagging agricultural productivity.
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Profiles forty-five children around the world who are taking steps to help the environment through fund-raising, public demonstrations, and creating activist art, and includes suggestions on how readers can get involved.
16) Medusa
Author
Series
Venus Diamond mysteries volume 6
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
A New York Times–bestselling series: A murder mystery set on Italy's secretive island of Murano, renowned for its world-famous glass.
On a luminous spring day in Venice, Commissario Brunetti and his assistant play hooky from work to help a friend, Marco Ribetti, arrested during an environmental protest. They secure his release, only to be faced by the fury of the man's father-in-law, Giovanni De Cal, a cantankerous glass factory owner who has...
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Series
Bruno Courreges mysteries volume 2
Language
English
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Description
The second installment in the delightful, internationally acclaimed series featuring Bruno, Chief of Police: When a bevy of winemakers descend on Saint-Denis the idyllic town finds itself the center of an intense drama, with suspicious fires at the agricultural research station that is working on genetically-modified crops.
Two young men—Max, an environmentalist who hopes to make organic wine, and Fernando, the...
Two young men—Max, an environmentalist who hopes to make organic wine, and Fernando, the...
20) Habitat
Author
Series
Venus Diamond mysteries volume 4
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
Fish and wildlife agent Venus Diamond of Seattle investigates a fire which killed a dozen scientists. They were genetically engineering animals as a way of saving endangered species and suspects include the Russian mafia, seeking the secret of the process.
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