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Illus. in color. Sam-I-Am mounts a determined campaign to convince another Seuss character to eat a plate of green eggs and ham. "Limited vocabulary but unlimited exuberance of illustration."--School Library Journal.

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Why We Need a Green Revolution - and How it Can Renew America

by Thomas L. Friedman

A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year A Washington Post Best Book of the Year A Businessweek Best Business Book of the Year A Chicago Tribune Best Book of the Year In this brilliant, essential book, Thomas L. Friedman speaks to America’s need for national renewal, and explains how a green revolution is the only way to secure our children’s future. Global warming, rapidly... (more)

Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things

Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things

by William McDonough

A manifesto for a radically different philosophy and practice of manufacture and environmentalism "Reduce, reuse, recycle" urge environmentalists; in other words, do more with less in order to minimize damage. As William McDonough and Michael Braungart argue in their provocative, visionary book, however, this approach perpetuates a one-way, "cradle to grave" manufacturing model that dates to the Industrial... (more)

An Inconvenient Truth

by Albert Gore

An Inconvenient Truth —Gore’s groundbreaking, battle cry of a follow-up to the bestselling Earth in the Balance —is being published to tie in with a documentary film of the same name. Both the book and film were inspired by a series of multimedia presentations on global warming that Gore created and delivers to groups around the world. With this book, Gore, who is one of our environmental heroes—and a leading... (more)

Circle Trilogy

Green (The Circle Series)

by Ted Dekker

At Last . . . The Circle Reborn The story of how Thomas Hunter first entered the Black Forest and forever changed our history began at a time when armies were gathered for a final battle in the valley of Migdon. Green is a story of love, betrayal, and sweeping reversals set within the apocalypse. It is the beginning: the truth behind a saga that has captured the imagination of more than a million readers... (more)

Jemima J: A Novel About Ugly Ducklings and Swans

Jemima J: A Novel About Ugly Ducklings and Swans

by Jane Green

Jemima Jones is overweight. About one hundred pounds overweight. Treated like a maid by her thin and social-climbing roommates, and lorded over by the beautiful Geraldine (less talented but better paid) at the Kilburn Herald , Jemima finds that her only consolation is food. Add to this her passion for her charming, sexy, and unobtainable colleague Ben, and Jemima knows her life is in need of a serious change. ... (more)

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle

A Year of Food Life

by Barbara Kingsolver

Bestselling author Barbara Kingsolver returns with her first nonfiction narrative that will open your eyes in a hundred new ways to an old truth: You are what you eat. "As the U.S. population made an unprecedented mad dash for the Sun Belt, one carload of us paddled against the tide, heading for the Promised Land where water falls from the sky and green stuff grows all around. We were about to begin the... (more)

Green Clean: The Environmentally Sound Guide to Cleaning Your Home

Green Clean: The Environmentally Sound Guide to Cleaning Your Home

by Linda Mason Hunter

There is a revolution going on in America—a green revolution. The latest front is the home, as households across the country adopt new ways to keep their homes clean and healthy—and ways to do it that are good for the environment. Green Clean is the definitive, step-by-step guide to cleaning better while using nontoxic, ecofriendly products. Room by room and stain by stain, Green Clean breaks environmentally... (more)

Go Green, Live Rich

by David Bach

Let David Bach show you a whole new way to prosper—by going green Internationally renowned financial expert and bestselling author David Bach has always urged readers to put their financial lives in line with their values. But what if your values are a cleaner and greener earth? Most people think that “going green” is an expensive choice they can’t afford. Bach is here to say that you can have both: a life in... (more)

Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future

Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future

by Bill McKibben

"The bestselling author of The End of Nature issues an impassioned call to arms for an economy that creates community and ennobles our lives. In this powerful and provocative manifesto, Bill McKibben offers the biggest challenge in a generation to the prevailing view of our economy. For the first time in human history, he observes, "more" is no longer synonymous with "better"--indeed, for many of us, they have... (more)

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle CD: A Year of Food Life

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle CD: A Year of Food Life

by Barbara Kingsolver, Steven L. Hopp, Camille Kingsolver

No impact man

by Colin Beavan

A guilty liberal finally snaps, swears off plastic, goes organic, becomes a bicycle nut, turns off his power, and generally becomes a tree-hugging lunatic who tries to save the polar bears and the rest of the planet from environmental catastrophe while dragging his baby daughter and Prada-wearing, Four Seasons–loving wife along for the ride. And that’s just the beginning. Bill McKibben meets Bill Bryson in this... (more)

Grub: Ideas for an Urban Organic Kitchen

Grub: Ideas for an Urban Organic Kitchen

by Bryant Terry, Anna Lappe?

From making healthy food choices and preparing mouth-watering meals, to unmasking corporate flimflam and supporting sustainable farming, here is the complete guide for the young, the hip, the socially tuned-in - and for all who want to eat real food. In the past few decades, organic food has moved out of the patchouli-scented aisles of food co-ops and into over three-quarters of conventional grocery stores.... (more)

Gorgeously Green: 8 Simple Steps to an Earth-Friendly Life

Gorgeously Green: 8 Simple Steps to an Earth-Friendly Life

by Sophie Uliano

Are you confused by all the advice you hear and see daily on how to "go green"? Do you want to incorporate earth-friendly practices into your life, but you don't know where to start? Don't stress! Green guru Sophie Uliano has sorted through all the eco-info out there and put everything you need to know about living a green lifestyle right at your fingertips. In Gorgeously Green , Sophie offers a simple eight-step... (more)

The Gorgeously Green Diet: How to Live Lean and Green

The Gorgeously Green Diet: How to Live Lean and Green

by Sophie Uliano

Perfect for Earth Day: The bestselling author of Gorgeously Green returns with a simple—and budget-conscious—plan for waist management. Green guru and ecolicious consultant Sophie Uliano has appeared on Oprah, Good Morning America, The View , and other national television shows; her first book, Gorgeously Green , is a New York Times bestseller. And now, with The Gorgeously Green Diet , Sophie shows how to... (more)

Squeaky Green: The Method Guide to Detoxing Your Home

Squeaky Green: The Method Guide to Detoxing Your Home

by Eric Ryan, Adam Lowry

When Adam Lowry and Eric Ryan founded Method, the environmentally friendly brand of cleaning products, they used packaging stylish enough to showcase on the countertop and pleasant aromas such as green tea and cucumber to transform household products into must-have lifestyle accessories. And when they coined the phrase "People Against Dirty," they weren't just talking about the stuff you track in on your... (more)

Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution

Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution

by Paul Hawken, Amory B. Lovins, L. Hunter Lovins

Most businesses still operate according to a world view that hasn't changed since the start of the Industrial Revolution. Then, natural resources were abundant and labor was the limiting factor of production. But now, there's a surplus of people, while natural capital natural resources and the ecological systems that provide vital life-support services is scarce and relatively expensive. In this groundbreaking... (more)

An Abundance of Katherines

by John Green

When it comes to relationships, Colin Singleton’s type happens to be girls named Katherine. And when it comes to girls named Katherine, Colin is always getting dumped. Nineteen times, to be exact. He’s also a washedup child prodigy with ten thousand dollars in his pocket, a passion for anagrams, and an overweight, Judge Judy-obsessed best friend. Colin’s on a mission to prove The Theorem of Underlying... (more)

Organic Housekeeping: In Which the Non-Toxic Avenger Shows You How to Improve Your Health and That of Your Family, While You Save Time, Money, and, Perhaps, Your Sanity

Organic Housekeeping: In Which the Non-Toxic Avenger Shows You How to Improve Your Health and That of Your Family, While You Save Time, Money, and, Perhaps, Your Sanity

by Ellen Sandbeck

Longing for a kinder, gentler world? As the old saying goes, everything begins at home, and odds are, if you live in the all-American household, the air inside is more toxic than the air outside, even if you live in the most polluted of cities. You regularly handle the filthiest object in your home -- the kitchen sponge -- and put the same chemicals on your face that are used in brake fluid and antifreeze. The... (more)

A Friend of the Earth

by T. Coraghessan Boyle

Funny and touching, antic and affecting . . . while Boyle's humor is as black as ever, he demonstrates that satire can coexist with psychological realism, comedy with compassion." (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times ) In the tradition of The Tortilla Curtain , T.C. Boyle blends idealism and satire in a story that addresses the universal questions of human love and the survival of the species. In the year... (more)

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by Theodor "Dr. Seuss" Geisel

Why We Need a Green Revolution - and How it Can Renew America

by Thomas L. Friedman

by William McDonough

by Albert Gore

by Ted Dekker

by Jane Green

A Year of Food Life

by Barbara Kingsolver

by Linda Mason Hunter

by David Bach

by Bill McKibben

by Barbara Kingsolver, Steven L. Hopp, Camille Kingsolver

by Colin Beavan

by Bryant Terry, Anna Lappe?

by Sophie Uliano

by Sophie Uliano

by Eric Ryan, Adam Lowry

by Paul Hawken, Amory B. Lovins, L. Hunter Lovins

by John Green

by Ellen Sandbeck

by T. Coraghessan Boyle