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A Bucket of Stars
Par Suri Rosen. 2023
A story of two kids trying to save the world they know and heal the families they have.It’s the summer…
of 2003 and thirteen-year-old astronomer Noah Cooper has just moved to Queensport, a small town with a vast amateur sky full of stars. There he meets Tara Dhillon, a lonely girl and aspiring filmmaker. When the two team up to produce an astronomy movie and enter a film contest, they discover a secret plan to turn their rural hamlet into a huge subdivision.Noah and Tara must use their unique skills to identify the culprits who plan on paving over the historic county — and try to save the infinite beauty of the stars. As if that’s not enough to have at stake, Noah needs to win the prize money to buy a new telescope for his unemployed father — an ex-astronomer who’s almost given up on the stars, as well as life on earth.Touching on themes of activism, environmental anxiety and mental health, A Bucket of Stars will have readers cheering for Noah, a boy whose head is in the stars, and Tara, a girl who lives in a world of digital images — and their special bond that just might mend the world around them.Le grand livre du climat
Par Greta Thunberg. 2022
Plus de cent experts, écrivains, activistes ou scientifiques évoquent les enjeux de la crise écologique. Ils abordent notamment les extrêmes…
météorologiques, la montée des eaux, la pollution, les maladies, entre autres.Nomadland: Surviving america in the twenty-first century
Par Jessica Bruder. 2017
From the beet fields of North Dakota to the wilderness campgrounds of California to an Amazon warehouse in Texas, people…
who once might have kicked back to enjoy their sunset years are hard at work. Underwater on mortgages or finding that Social Security comes up short, they're hitting the road in astonishing numbers, forming a new community of nomads: RV and van-dwelling migrant laborers, or "workampers." Building on her groundbreaking Harper's cover story, "The End of Retirement," which brought attention to these formerly settled members of the middle class, Jessica Bruder follows one such RVer, Linda, between physically taxing seasonal jobs and reunions of her new van-dweller family, or "vanily." Bruder tells a compelling, eye-opening tale of both the economy's dark underbelly and the extraordinary resilience, creativity, and hope of these hardworking, quintessential Americans?many of them single women?who have traded rootedness for the dream of a better lifeSpace on Earth: How Thinking Like an Astronaut Can Help Save the Planet
Par Dave Williams. 2023
Really “high” tech to inspire us for sustainable solutions on Earth.Who could imagine an idea born on a space station…
would help sustain our planet? Astronauts, living on the International Space Station, have to protect their resources because their lives depend on it. They learn to conserve water, air, food, energy, and waste.These efforts have in turn lead to amazing and innovative ideas for air quality, food production, and water purification here on Earth.With vivid, energetic illustrations, photographs, and Dr. Dave’s experiments on key topics, readers learn about technological innovations such as waterless toilets and the world’s tallest air purification tower."Our climate crisis may at times appear to be happening slowly, but it fact it is happening very quickly -…
and has become a true planetary emergency. The Chinese expression for crisis consists of two characters. The first is a symbol for danger ; the second is a symbol for opportunity. In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and more through it, we first have to recognize that we are facing a crisis. So why is that out leaders seem not to hear such clarion warnings? Are they resisting the truth because they know that the moment they acknowledge it, they will face a moral imperative to act? Is it simply more convenient to ignore the warnings? Perhaps, but inconvenient truths do not go away just because they are not seen. Indeed when they are not responded to, their significance doesn't diminish ; it grows."Gaia: a new look at life on earth
Par J. E Lovelock. 1987
An intimate account of a journey through time and space in search of evidence with which to support a new…
model of earth: one where the life of earth functions as a single organism which actually defines and maintains conditions necessary for its survival.A David Suzuki collection: a lifetime of ideas
Par David T Suzuki. 2003
Drawing from David Suzuki's published and unpublished writings, this collection reveals the underlying passions and philosophies that have informed his…
work over a lifetime. In these incisive and provocative essays, Suzuki explores the limits of knowledge and the connectedness of all things he looks unflinchingly at the destructive forces of globalisation, political short-sightedness, and greed and cautions against blind faith in science, technology, politics, and economics. Here too are examples of how and where to make those changes that will matter to all of us and to future generations. David offers a vision of hope based on our love of children and nature, with inspiring stories about the people who are making positive environmental and social contributions to our world. Here is an important reminder of how we are all connected and of what really matters.The last snake man: the remarkable true-life story of an Aussie legend and a century of snake shows
Par Jimmy Thomson, John Cann. 2018
Wildlife warrior, professor of snakes, entertainer, Olympian. John Cann is a truly remarkable Australian. Written in John's engaging and affable…
voice, The Last Snake Man tells the story of John and his fascinating family, who entertained Australians for nearly a century with their incredible snake shows. By the time John retired in 2010, he'd survived five venomous snake bites. Many of those familiar with John and his shows wouldn't know that he was also an Olympic athlete, a top state rugby league player who played alongside some of the legends of the game, a state champion boxer, an adventurer and a world authority on turtles. From wrangling snakes to chasing turtles, from remote country towns to the impenetrable jungles of New Guinea, this is the story of an amazing Australian and his never-ending search for fascinating animals and adventure.Time to change
Par David T Suzuki. 1993
Well-known geneticist and committed environmentalist David Suzuki, gives his ideas and opinions in a series of short, engaging essays that…
originally appeared in a regular newspaper column. In a very personal way, Suzuki explores the range of environmental problems facing the earth, but also offers an optimistic variety of possible solutions.An explorer's notebook: essays on life, history and climate
Par Tim F Flannery. 2007
A selection of Tim Flannery's essays and articles written over a period of twenty-five years. In them we see his…
evolution from the young scientist doing fieldwork in remote locations to the major thinker who has changed the way Australians think about climate and the threat that global warming presents to our planet. Flannery writes about his journeys in the jungles of New Guinea and Irian Jaya, about the extraordinary people he met and the species he discovered. He writes about population, water and the stresses we have put on our environment. He writes about how we can try to predict our own future by learning about the profound history of life on Earth, and the threads that bind us all together as Australians. Flannery also writes about the challenges which face us, his fellow citizens, in dealing with the climate crisis that is now upon us. This book includes a new essay in which he updates his thinking since the publication of The Weather Makers in 2005.White limbo: the first Australian climb of Mt Everest
Par Lincoln Hall. 1985
The author chronicles the mountaineering hazards and joys experienced by the first four Australians on Everest. Menaced constantly by avalanches…
and treacherous ice, they also suffered altitude intoxication, which made the author foolishly jump a bottomless crevasse.Hooked: a true story of pirates, poaching and the perfect fish
Par G. Bruce Knecht. 2006
On 7 August 2003, the patrol boat Southern Supporter came upon the Uruguayan long-liner Viarsa in one of the most…
isolated places on earth - the Australian Fishing Zone near Heard Island, 2200 nautical miles southwest of Perth. The patrol suspected Viarsa was carrying an illegal catch of the endangered Patagonian Toothfish.Thus began one of the longest and most dangerous pursuits in maritime history. The chase lasted 21 days and covered 3900 nautical miles through unimaginably rough seas. Hampered by snowstorms, icebergs, and the worst that the Roaring Forties could throw at them, the crews pushed their ships to the limit. Why was this fish so important that it was worth risking disaster? G. Bruce Knecht has brought this great modern sea story to life after extensive interviews with both the pursuers and the pursued. Behind the chase and the subsequent legal battles lies the strange story of the Patagonian Toothfish, only recently brought to the surface from its deep ocean habitats. Popularised in America's most exclusive restaurants, it now faces an uncertain future. Hooked is the extraordinary story of a remarkable fish, the men who prey upon it, and the people who battle to save it from extinction.