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Author
Publisher
North Atlantic Books
Pub. Date
2023
Description
In Climate Resilience, climate justice and resilience strategist Kylie Flanagan invites us to see and act beyond status-quo solutions, Big Tech promises...and everything we?re usually told about how to save the planet. Centering the voices of Native Rights activists, queer liberation ecologists, youth climate-justice organizers, Latinx wilderness activists, and others on the front lines, Climate Resilience urges us toward a vision of climate care...
Author
Publisher
DK
Pub. Date
2025
Description
Create a beautiful, climate-resilient, sustainable garden that will take your outdoor space into the future. As we live with an increasingly changing climate, summer droughts, winter waterlogging, high winds, erratic frosts and frequent pests are challenges that all gardeners face. This forward-thinking book - grounded in the latest RHS research - shows you how to work with the environment and adapt your outdoor space to give it exactly what it needs...
Author
Publisher
Profile Books
Pub. Date
2024
Description
A carbon neutral future is possible - we have the technology to transform the global economy and guard against the worst effects of climate change. So how do we get to net zero? In Possible, entrepreneur and climate tech consultant Chris Goodall tackles sixteen challenges that we must overcome in making a just transition to carbon neutrality. He explores the technologies that will solve these challenges - from changing how steel, cement and fuel are...
Author
Publisher
Faber
Pub. Date
2023
Description
In 2032 as Polly and her family struggle with the effects of global warming, when swimming in the reservoir she is transported back in time to 1952 when the valley was originally flooded and experiences the life of one of former residents as she endeavours to swim the English Channel.
Author
Publisher
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Pub. Date
2008
Description
For the first time in the history of the world one species has grown so numerous and so technologically powerful that it has the ability to destabilise the narrow range of temperature within which life can flourish. And we are now doing just that. The author tells us how we can halt and reverse this process.
Author
Publisher
Profile Books
Pub. Date
2013
Description
Entertaining and authoritative, 'The Burning Question' reveals climate change as the most fascinating intellectual, social and political puzzle in human history. It shows that - despite increasingly dire warnings from scientists - carbon emissions are still accelerating upwards, following a trend that goes back hundreds of years.
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
2010
Description
In this major assessment of leading climate-change skeptic Bjorn Lomborg, Howard Friel deconstructs the Danish statistician's claim that global warming is 'no catastrophe' by exposing the systematic misrepresentations and partial accounting that are at the core of climate skepticism.
19) Planet in peril!
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2008
Description
From climate change to carbon footprints 'Planet in Peril!' is a horribly useful guide to the environmental issues children are most concerned about. The book offers oodles of ideas of things readers can do to help to save the planet.
20) Polar bears
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Series
Publisher
Ticktock Media
Pub. Date
2006
Description
This book allows the reader to follow the everyday lives of polar bears living in the Arctic circle. Topics covered include their habitat, physical characteristics, diet, lifecycle, and behaviour.