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Plastic: A Toxic Love Story by Susan Freinkel Publisher Comments Plastic built the modern world. Where would we be without bike helmets, baggies, toothbrushes, and pacemakers? But a century into our love affair with plastic, we’re starting to realize it’s not such a healthy relationship. Plastics draw on... (read more) Your price: $29.99 New - Compact Disc
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Plastic Ocean: How a Sea Captain's Chance Discovery Launched a Determined Quest to Save the Oceans by Charles Moore Publisher Comments In the summer of 1997, Charles Moore set sail from Honolulu with the sole intention of returning home after competing in a trans-Pacific race. To get to California, he and his crew took a shortcut through the seldom-traversed North Pacific Subtropical... (read more) Your price: $39.99 New - Compact Disc
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Now or Never: Why We Must ACT Now to End Climate Change and Create a Sustainable Future by Tim Flannery Publisher Comments In Now or Never, internationally acclaimed author Tim Flannery has written a book that is at once a forceful call to action to combat global warming and a deeply and often surprisingly pragmatic road map toward sustainability. Utilizing the most up-to... (read more) Your price: $39.99 New - Compact Disc
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Star Lake Saloon and Housekeeping Cottages by Sara Rath Publisher Comments In this struggle to save the nostalgic landscape of northern Wisconsin, unlikely partnerships and new relationships lead to life-changing events for loveable Hannah Swann and all who surround her. Through this sometimes humorous, elegantly plotted... (read more) Your price: $36.25 New - Compact Disc
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The Man Who Planted Trees by Jean Giono Publisher Comments We have joined the Paul Winter Consort in the release of a CD version of the acclaimed audio of the story by Jean Giono. The original music was composed and is performed by the Paul Winter consort, and the text is narrated by Robert J. Lurtsema, host of "... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Compact Disc
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The Big Thirst: The Secret Life and Turbulent Future of Water by Charles Fishman Publisher Comments The water coming out of your tap is four billion years old and might have been slurped by a Tyrannosaurus Rex. We will always have exactly as much water on Earth as we have ever had. Water cannot be destroyed, and it can always be made clean enough for... (read more) Your price: $34.99 New - Compact Disc
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Elixir: A History of Water and Humankind by Brian Fagan Publisher Comments Elixir spans five thousand years, from the beginnings of civilization to the parched American Sun Belt of today. It is a story of human endeavor: our present-day interaction with this most essential resource has deep roots in the remote past, and every... (read more) Your price: $83.99 New - Compact Disc
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Plastic Ocean: How a Sea Captain's Chance Discovery Launched a Determined Quest to Save the Oceans by Charles Moore Publisher Comments In the summer of 1997, Charles Moore set sail from Honolulu with the sole intention of returning home after competing in a trans-Pacific race. To get to California, he and his crew took a shortcut through the seldom-traversed North Pacific Subtropical... (read more) Your price: $83.99 New - Compact Disc
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Conundrum: How Scientific Innovation, Increased Efficiency, and Good Intentions Can Make Our Energy and Climate Problems Worse by David Owen Publisher Comments Hybrid cars, fast trains, compact florescent lightbulbs, solar panels, carbon offsets: everything you've been told about being green is wrong. The quest for a breakthrough battery or a 100 mpg car is a dangerous fantasy. We are consumers, and we like to... (read more) Your price: $34.99 New - Compact Disc
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Oceana: Our Planet's Endangered Oceans and What We Can Do to Save Them by Ted Danson Publisher Comments Most people know Ted Danson as the affable bartender Sam Malone in the long-running television series Cheers. But fewer realize that over the course of the past two and a half decades, Danson has tirelessly devoted himself to the cause of heading off a... (read more) Your price: $71.99 New - Compact Disc
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The Human, the Orchid, and the Octopus: Exploring and Conserving Our Natural World by Jacques Yves Cousteau Publisher Comments Part adventure story, part manifesto, this is legendary ocean explorer Jacques Cousteau's passionate plea for sustaining life on earth. Explorer, diving pioneer, filmmaker, inventor, and activist, Jacques Cousteau was blessed from his childhood with... (read more) Your price: $37.99 New - Compact Disc
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This Moment on Earth: Today's New Environmentalists and Their Vision for the Future by John Kerry Publisher Comments The environment, and the movement that grew up to protect it, is under attack-concerted and purposeful. Yet the need for solutions to pressing environmental problems grows more urgent each day. Teresa Heinz Kerry and Senator John Kerry traveled across... (read more) Your price: $59.99 New - Compact Disc
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Now or Never: Why We Must Act Now to End Climate Change and Create a Sustainable Future by Tim Flannery Publisher Comments In Now or Never, internationally acclaimed author Tim Flannery has written a book that is at once a forceful call to action to combat global warming and a deeply and often surprisingly pragmatic road map toward sustainability. Utilizing the most up-to... (read more) Your price: $19.99 New - Compact Disc
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Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard Publisher Comments I am no scientist, says Annie Dillard. I am a wanderer with a background in theology and a penchant for quirky facts. In this classic of literary nonfiction, she takes us through a year of on-foot explorations through her own landscape, bringing... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $18.75 New - Compact Disc
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The Human, the Orchid, and the Octopus: Exploring and Conserving Our Natural World by Jacques Yves Cousteau Publisher Comments Part adventure story, part manifesto, this is legendary ocean explorer Jacques Cousteau's passionate plea for sustaining life on earth. Explorer, diving pioneer, filmmaker, inventor, and activist, Jacques Cousteau was blessed from his childhood with... (read more) Your price: $75.99 New - Compact Disc
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The Earth Moved: On the Remarkable Achievements of Earthworms by Amy Stewart Publisher Comments They destroy plant diseases. They break down toxins. They plough the earth. They transform forests. They’ve survived two mass extinctions, including the one that wiped out the dinosaur. Not bad for a creature that’s deaf, blind, and spineless.... (read more) Your price: $29.95 New - Compact Disc
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Heatstroke: Nature in an Age of Global Warming by Anthony D. Barnosky Publisher Comments In 2006, one of the hottest years on record, a “pizzly” was discovered near the top of the world. Half polar bear, half grizzly, this never-before-seen animal might be dismissed as a fluke of nature. Anthony Barnosky instead sees it as a... (read more) Your price: $26.95 New - Compact Disc
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Confronting Complexity: Solving Multidisciplinary Environmental Problems by Brock B. Bernstein Publisher Comments Confronting Complexity is intended for scientists, program managers, and regulators responsible for investigating and developing solutions for complex environmental problems. This book explicitly addresses the multidisciplinary nature of such problems... (read more) Your price: $96.25 New - Compact Disc
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2006 Inorganics Contaminants Workshop Proceedings by American Water Works Association Publisher Comments Proceedings from the drinking water industry's only event focused on inorganic contaminants, held January, 2006 in August TX. Topics covered include the inorganics regulatory climate, implementation of treatments to remove inorganic contaminants... (read more) Your price: $138.75 New - Compact Disc
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2011 Awwa Annual Conference & Exposition (Ace) by Multiple Contributors Publisher Comments Papers and presentations made at the 2011 AWWA Annual Conference and Exposition, held June 12-16 in Washington... (read more) Your price: $153.95 New - Compact Disc
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