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61) Fed up!
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2014.
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English
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About 70% of the food we eat contains genetically engineered ingredients and the biotech industry is spending $50 million a year to convince us that this technology is our only hope. Using hilarious and disturbing archival footage and featuring interviews with farmers, scientists, government officials and activists, Fed up! presents an entertaining and compelling overview of our current food production system from the Green Revolution to the Biotech...
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Introduces readers to what nuclear pollution is, the consequences of this type of pollution, and what people are doing to help. Additional features include a table of contents, a Fast Facts page, a STEM project, a phonetic glossary, ways for readers to help, an index, an introduction to the author, and sources for further research. Author/Illustrator biography Educational front/back matter Fast facts Glossary of key words Index Infographics Informative...
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"This is the most comprehensive book on the market about indoor allergens. The authors discuss the potential dangers to health caused by all matter of indoor allergens. This book is informed by the first author's education in chemistry and his thirty-plusyears of running a business that identifies and fixes indoor air pollution. This second edition is greatly expanded, with eight new chapters and updated content in the other chapters. New chapters...
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What We Leave Behind is a piercing, impassioned guide to living a truly responsible life on earth. Human waste, once considered a gift to the soil, has become toxic material that has broken the essential cycle of decay and regeneration. Here, award-winning author Derrick Jensen and activist Aric McBay weave historical analysis and devastatingly beautiful prose to remind us that life-human and nonhuman-will not go on unless we do everything we can...
69) Pollution
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[2009]
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English
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"An examination of pollution's causes and consequences. Includes a discussion of government and individual action that help prevent and remediate pollution. Features include fact boxes, sidebars, activities, glossary, list of recommended reading and Web sites, and index"--Provided by publisher.
71) I love our air
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"Find out what air is, why it's important, and how people can protect it"--Provided by publisher.
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[2020]
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English
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A fact-filled guide to the role plastic plays in environmental pollution draws on illuminating interviews with leading researchers and National Geographic experts to outline simple, tangible ways that everyday kids can make informed choices and reduce plastic use.
76) The environment
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"More than 7 billion people live on Earth today, so making sure that the planet remains habitable and hospitable for our species is of vital importance. Yet, many scientists are concerned that human activity--from water and air pollution to the emission of greenhouse gases that affect the climate--threatens the stability of the environment. This book examines differing viewpoints on how to best protect our environment and utilize the earth's natural...
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This book gives practical and often surprising advice for removing toxic chemicals from our bodies and homes. There are over 80000 synthetic chemicals in commerce today, and the authors use their outrageous experiments to prove how easily our bodies absorb these chemicals - from the foods we eat, the air we breathe and the products we smear on our skin. With trademark humour, the authors give us the good news about the steps we can take to help our...
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2017.
Edition
First edition.
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English
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Obe Devlin spends a lot of his time cleaning up the creek that runs through what little is left of his family's once extensive farmland, and worrying about what the developers are doing nearby, and the pollution it is causing--but one day he finds a strange creature by his creek that eats plastic, and soon the animal he calls Marvin Gardens becomes his personal secret, which he believes needs to be protected from pretty much everybody.
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Max Einstein volume 2
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
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English
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Max and her CMI friends attempt to use their smarts to find solutions to a water crisis, while a greedy corporation with an eye on capturing Max seems to know their every move.
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"Poisoned Rivers and Lakes introduces young readers to the issues of river and lake pollution due to the dumping of garbage, chemicals, and other things into our planet's waterways. It also gives students plenty of ideas for ways that they can be part of the campaign to help keep our rivers and lakes clean and safe for the future."--
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