This week’s Quick Tip!Two percent of the world’s supply of oil is turned into water bottles!As few as 20 percent of water bottles are recycled, and by law they cannot be turned into more water bottles as they are considered contaminated by human contact. Try drinking tap water – out of a reusable bottle or pitcher. Buy a water filter if it makes you feel better. Do you know what’s in bottled water? Do you know who checks the quality of bottled water? |
Read MoreThe Lavery Library owns many books, periodicals, and videos that can help you learn more about issues that affect our planet, wildlife and wilderness areas, and our own lives. Below are a few selections that may interest you. Highlighted titles were last updated on: 03-18-09 Global Warming Titles from a variety of viewpoints Boiling Point. By Gelbspan, Ross Climate Confusion: How Global Warming Hysteria Leads to Bad Science,
Pandering Politicians, and Misguided Policies that Hurt the Poor. By Spencer, Roy W. Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate
Change. By Kolvert, Elizabeth Global Warming in the 21st Century, 3 volumes. By Johanson, Bruce E. Global Warming: Personal Solutions for a Healthy Planet. By Spence, Chris Hell and High Water and What We Should Do. By Romm, Joseph Ignition: What You Can Do to Fight Global Warming and Spark a
Movement. By Isham, Jonathan and Waage, Sissel Plan B 3.0: Mobilization to Save Civilization. By Brown, Lester R. Plan C: Community Survival Strategies for Peak Oil and Climate Change. By Murphy, Pat Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming and Environmentalism. By Horner, Christopher C. Down-to-Earth Guide to Global Warming. By David, Laurie and Gordon, Cambria From Windmills to Hydrogen Fuel Cells: Discovering Alternative Energy. By Morgan, Sally Global Warming: Our Planet in Peril. By Oxlade, Chris Kid's Guide to Global Warming. By Murphy, Glenn Additional Titles Black Gold: Wake Up and Smell the Coffee. California Newsreel, 2006. An Inconvenient Truth. Paramount Pictures, 2006. Creating a Climate for Change: Communicating Climate Change and Facilitating
Social Change. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge N.Y.: 2007 The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two
Biggest Problems. Jones, Van. Harper One, New York, N.Y.: 2008 Kicking the Carbon Habit: Global Warming and the Case for Renewable and
Nuclear Energy. Sweet, William. Columbia University, New York, N.Y.: 2006 Seeds for the Future: The Impact of Genetically Modified Crops on the
Environment. Thomson, Jennifer A. Comstock Pub., Ithaca, N.Y.: 2007. Tomorrow's Biodiversity. Shiva, Vandana. Thames & Hudson, London: 2000. The Weather Makers: How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth.
Flannery, Tim. Atlantic Monthly Press, New York: 2006 Wetland Drainage, Restoration, and Repair. Biebighauser, Thomas. The University
Press of Kentucky, Lexington: 2007. Audubon. Magazine – Current Periodicals Nature: International Weekly Journal of Science. Magazine – Current Periodicals New Scientist. Magazine – Current Periodicals You will discover more reading by searching the Lavery Library Catalog.Subject Headings to search include:
Also, a number of other subject headings, followed by Environmental Aspects, include:
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