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Author
Publisher
Avery, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In their effort to build the world's first and largest commercial green rooftop farm, the founders of Brooklyn Grange learned a lot about building and sustaining a business while never losing sight of their mission to serve their community by providing delicious organic food and changing the way people think about what they eat.
22) Our green city
Author
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Welcome to our green city! You'll find flowers, trees, animals... and wind turbines, electric cars, and solar panels, too. In this city, a utopian imagination of what a sustainable community could look like, neighbours from diverse backgrounds come together to care for their surroundings and one another. As readers are invited on a journey through the city, they learn about what makes it environmentally friendly, from electric transportation to green...
Author
Publisher
Twenty-First Century Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Urban planners, architects, and scientists are developing high-rise forests that seek to balance human activity and natural regeneration. Discover how green infrastructure will transform the urban landscape and how we think about our future"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
University of Washington Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
In Building Reuse: Sustainability, Preservation, and the Value of Design, Kathryn Rogers Merlino makes an impassioned case that truly sustainable design requires reusing and reimagining existing buildings. The construction and operation of buildings is responsible for 41 percent of all primary energy use and 48 percent of all carbon emissions. The impact of the demolition and removal of an older building can greatly diminish the advantages of adding...
25) Going green
Author
Publisher
Teacher Created Resources
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Standards-based lessons to encourage students to take care of the environment by adapting the way they live and do things, beginning in the classroom. Each unit includes suggestions and adaptations to help ELL students and students in RTI (response to intervention) programs keep pace with the rest of the class.
26) Folks, this ain't normal: a farmer's advice for happier hens, healthier people, and a better world
Author
Publisher
Center Street
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
Farmer Joel Salatin is the 21st century's thinking man's farmer who believes that the answer to rebuilding America is to start with the family farm and for those farms to thrive, we all need to learn how to eat naturally again. Salatin's solutions as presented in the book are very simple and easy to implement in any American household, whether in the suburbs of Chicago, the mountains of Colorado, or urban life in New York City. On topic with today's...
Author
Publisher
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"This book shows you how to keep your organization working. You'll learn how to obtain space, equipment and tools at little cost, how to minimize insurance and legal costs and how to use volunteers and keynote programs. Realistic hands-on strategies can save your organization money each year and prevent mistakes that cause many nonprofits to fail"--
Publisher
Firefly Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"This guidebook focuses on our global health impact via "water footprints", how much freshwater is used to produce goods and services such as manufacturing, growing, harvesting, packaging, and shipping to market, which teaches young readers how to consume responsibly, and to think innovatively on sustainable freshwater alternatives."--
29) Food and farming
Author
Publisher
Heinemann Library
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 9.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
This book looks at the way changing ideas about the environment and sustainability have affected the way we obtain our food, and will do so in the future.
Author
Publisher
Kyle Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
We no longer just want to garden, we want to engage with the land; the plants in it, the animals, insects and even the fungi. The Modern Gardener isn't just about creating a space that simply looks visually stunning, but about encouraging wildlife, reducing our carbon footprint and making our outdoor and indoor space more useful in all areas of our lives. As well as how to select and grow your plants, there is also information for how to design your...
Publisher
BK, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc., San Francisco, a BK Life Book
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Sarah van Gelder and her colleagues at YES! Magazine have been exploring the meaning of real happiness for eighteen years. In this volume, they marshal research, in-depth essays, and personal stories that lead to a life-altering conclusion: what makes us truly happy are the depth of our relationships, the quality of our communities, our opportunities to make a contribution, and the renewal we receive from the natural world.
Author
Series
Publisher
Cavendish square
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"This [..] book presents current agricultural problems that could impact our world in the future. By learning about things like deforestation, soil erosion, and decreasing biodiversity, students will understand sustainability and climate change, and will recognize the importance of these issues. Through full-color photographs, dynamic spotlight facts, and activities like "Solve It!" and "Test It!," readers are encouraged to think critically about...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Isabel meets Edward, both are at a crossroads: he wants to follow his late wife to the grave, and she is ready to give up on love. Thinking she is merely helping out her friend, Edward's daughter--who lives far away and asked her to check in on her nonagenarian dad in New York--Isabel has no idea that the man in the kitchen baking the sublime roast chicken and light-as-air apricot soufflé will end up changing her life. As Edward and Isabel...
Author
Publisher
Island Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"In this superbly written book, fashion insider Lucianne Tonti looks beyond sustainable fashion to a future remade by natural fibres. An exploratory dive into the art and industry of clothing and an ode to the possibilities in nature, Sundressed is an accessible, engaging and optimistic challenge to designers, farmers and business to think bigger.If we grasp their potential, natural fabrics will revolutionize more than the way we dress. Regenerative...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Carl is fed up with his dad, he may be brilliant, but bin-diving for food, scouring through rubbish for 'salvageable' junk and wearing clothes fully sourced from garage sales is getting old. Increasingly worried by what his schoolmates will think - and encouraged by his riotous best friend - Carl decides to use a puppy-training pamphlet to 'retrain' his dad's mindset a crackpot experiment that produces some hilarious results!
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Leadership
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
No matter what kind of creative artist you are -whether you're a musician, photographer, painter, writer, dancer, singer, or any other medium with aspirations of making a living from your art, this is the perfect time to turn your creative ideas into a successful art business. With gatekeepers no longer controlling the market, anyone with a laptop and a dream can make a thriving living from their creativity. This is the definitive sales and marketing...
Author
Publisher
Greystone Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Like Elin, I have met countless people who have lost hope in many countries. Most were apathetic. Some were angry. Others depressed. Because, they told me, their future has been compromised and there was nothing they could do about it. But there is something they can do. This book comes at just the right moment. It brings a message of hope to help curb the negativity, the gloom and doom we are confronted with each day. It is NOT too late if we get...
Author
Publisher
Britannica Educational Publishing, in association with Rosen Educational Services
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In this instructive and accessible volume, readers discern how engineers safeguard the environment with their practices. They learn how green engineers cut down on waste and the use of natural resources by inventing new materials and techniques. This resource covers recycling, reuse, and renewable energy sources and explains global warming and greenhouse gases and their effects on Earth's environment. Readers recognize engineers' solutions to some...
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