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You know it’s going to be a rough summer when you spend Father’s Day visiting your dad in the local lockup. Noah’s dad is sure that the owner of the Coral Queen casino boat is flushing raw sewage into the harbor–which has made taking a dip at the local beach like swimming in a toilet. He can’t prove it though, and so he decides that sinking the boat will make an effective statement. Right. The boat is pumped out... (more)

Maximum Ride: Book 5

Max

by James Patterson

Maximum Ride and the other members of the flock have barely recovered from their last Arctic adventure, when they are confronted by the most frightening catastrophe yet. Millions of fish are dying off the coast of Hawaii and someone--or something--is destroying hundreds of ships. Unable to discover the cause, the government enlists the flock to help them get to the bottom of the disaster before it is too late.... (more)

The Lorax

by Theodor "Dr. Seuss" Geisel

Illus. in full color. "The big, colorful pictures and the fun images, word plays and rhymes make this an amusing exposition of the ecology crisis."-- School Library Journal.

The Appeal

by John Grisham

Politics has always been a dirty game. Now justice is, too. In a crowded courtroom in Mississippi, a jury returns a shocking verdict against a chemical company accused of dumping toxic waste into a small town’s water supply, causing the worst “cancer cluster” in history. The company appeals to the Mississippi Supreme Court, whose nine justices will one day either approve the verdict or reverse it. Who are the... (more)

The Sheep Look Up

by John Brunner

An enduring classic, this book offers a dramatic and prophetic look at the potential consequences of the escalating destruction of Earth. In this nightmare society, air pollution is so bad that gas masks are commonplace. Infant mortality is up, and everyone seems to suffer from some form of ailment. The water is polluted, and only the poor drink from the tap. The government is ineffectual, and corporate interests... (more)

Lost on Planet China

The Strange and True Story of One Man's Attempt to Understand the World's Most Mystifying Nation, or How He Became Comfortable Eating Live Squid

by J. Maarten Troost

The bestselling author of The Sex Lives of Cannibals returns with a sharply observed, hilarious account of his adventures in China—a complex, fascinating country with enough dangers and delicacies to keep him, and readers, endlessly entertained. Maarten Troost has charmed legions of readers with his laugh-out-loud tales of wandering the remote islands of the South Pacific. When the travel bug hit again, he... (more)

Galactic Center: Book 1

In the Ocean of Night

by Gregory Benford

2019: NASA astronaut Nigel Walmsley is sent on a mission to intercept a rogue asteroid on a collision course with Earth. Ordered to destroy the comet, he discovers that it is actually the shell of a derelict space probe - a wreck with just enough power to emit a single electronic signal...2034: A reply is heard. Searching for the source of this signal that comes from outside the solar system, Nigel discovers the... (more)

Un Lun Dun

by China Mieville

What is Un Lun Dun? It is London through the looking glass, an urban Wonderland of strange delights where all the lost and broken things of London end up . . . and some of its lost and broken people, too–including Brokkenbroll, boss of the broken umbrellas; Obaday Fing, a tailor whose head is an enormous pin-cushion, and an empty milk carton called Curdle. Un Lun Dun is a place where words are alive, a jungle... (more)

Planetwalker: How to Change Your World One Step at a Time

Planetwalker: How to Change Your World One Step at a Time

by John Francis

When the struggle to save oil-soaked birds and restore blackened beaches left him feeling frustrated and helpless, John Francis decided to take a more fundamental and personal standhe stopped using all forms of motorized transportation. Soon after embarking on this quest that would span two decades and two continents, the young man took a vow of silence that endured for 17 years. It began as a silent... (more)

The Wump World

by Bill Peet

The Pollutians invade the Wump World and turn the green meadows into a concrete jungle.

The Sea Around Us

by Rachel Carson

Published in 1951, The Sea Around Us is one of the most remarkably successful books ever written about the natural world. Rachel Carson's rare ability to combine scientific insight with moving, poetic prose catapaulted her book to first place on The New York Times best-seller list, where it ruled for thirty-one consecutive weeks. It remained on the list for more than a year and a half and ultimately sold well over... (more)

The RIVERKEEPERS: Two Activists Fight to Reclaim Our Environment as a Basic Human Right

The RIVERKEEPERS: Two Activists Fight to Reclaim Our Environment as a Basic Human Right

by John Cronin

An account by the two leaders of the Hudson Riverkeeper organization describes their confrontations and eventual triumphs with the electric power industry, Exxon, the Army Corps of Engineers, and other environmental lawbreakers. 100,000 first printing."

Blue Inferior Volume 1

by Kyoko Shitou

It is a world where environmental pollution has spiraled out of control. Most of the land is contaminated desert, and there are only a few pockets along the shore where people can live. Those inhabiting these oases are suspicious of strangers, and know nothing about the outside world save for stories of vicious "sub-humans." One day, a young girl named Marine washes up on the shore of one of the inhabited... (more)

China Shifts Gears: Automakers, Oil, Pollution, and Development (Urban and Industrial Environments)

China Shifts Gears: Automakers, Oil, Pollution, and Development (Urban and Industrial Environments)

by Kelly Sims Gallagher

Chinese production of automobiles rose from 42,000 cars per year in 1990 to 2.3 million in 2004; the number of passenger vehicles on the road doubled every two and a half years through the 1990s and continues to grow. In China Shifts Gears , Kelly Sims Gallagher identifies an unprecedented opportunity for China to "shift gears" and avoid the usual problems associated with the automobile industry—including urban... (more)

Living in the Environment - Principles for Understanding and Sustaining the Earth (An Introduction to Environmental Science)

Living in the Environment - Principles for Understanding and Sustaining the Earth (An Introduction to Environmental Science)

by Jr. G. Tyler Miller

Covers resources, pollution and environmental degradation; scientific principles; economics and politics; worldview and ethics. FOUR LEVELS OF ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS: First level-Pollution and Environmental Degradation. Second level-Consumption Overpopulation. Third level-Spaceship earth. Fourth level-Sustainable Earth.

Toward sustainable communities: resources for citizens and their governments.: An article from: Canadian Journal of Urban Research

Toward sustainable communities: resources for citizens and their governments.: An article from: Canadian Journal of Urban Research

This book reviews and assesses environmental policy over the past three decades--primarily in the United States but with implications for other nations. The editors place U.S. environmental policy within the framework of the transition from 1970s-era policies that emphasized federally controlled regulation, through a period of criticism and efficiency-based reform efforts, to an emerging era of sustainability in... (more)

Oil Spill! (Let's Read-and-Find-Out Science, Stage 2)

Oil Spill! (Let's Read-and-Find-Out Science, Stage 2)

by Melvin Berger

Explains why oil spills occur and how they are cleaned up and suggests strategies for preventing them in the future.

Body Toxic: An Environmental Memoir

by Susanne Antonetta

For readers of A Civil Action and Refuge , a harrowing story of a body and a place--the New Jersey boglands, one of the most contaminated regions of the country. This is an American story. Two immigrant families drawn together from wildly different parts of the world, Italy on one side and Barbados on the other, pursued their vision of the American dream by building a summer escape in the boglands of New... (more)

Professor Angelicus Visits the Big Blue Ball

Professor Angelicus Visits the Big Blue Ball

by L.B.B. Ward

On the first day of spring, Zak, his dog Ziggy, and his friend Ivy plan to go fishing. But what they find at the river is beyond their wildest imagination. Professor Aquius Botanicus Angelicus arrives from the planet Quantia in search of pure water to fuel his unlikely spaceship – a giant bubble. He must find the water quickly, in order to return home to his planet for the Rainbow Festival - held once every... (more)

Pollution (Repairing the Damage)

by Alan Collinson

Designed for younger readers and those with special educational needs, this is one in a series of easy-to read editions. The book traces the history of man's influence on the Earth from Stone Age farming to 20th-century nuclear accidents, concluding that we have reached the Age of Conservation. The author examines steps that have been taken worldwide to clean up the land, the waterways and the air, and explores... (more)

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