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-- Seven billionc2011., Adult, National Geographic Edition: eBook ed. Summary Note: "Environment editor Robert Kunzig starts by sketching out a natural history of population. The issues associated with population growth seem endless: poverty, food and water supply, world health, climate change, deforestation, fertility rates, and more. In additional chapters Elizabeth Kolbert explores a new era--the "Anthropocene," or the age of man--defined by our massive impact on the planet, which will endure long after our cities have crumbled; and takes us to the Mediterranean, where she delves into issues associated with increasing ocean acidification. In Bangladesh, Don Belt explores how the people of this crowded region can teach us about adapting to rising sea levels. In "Food Ark" we travel deep within the earth and around the globe to explore the seed banks that are preserving the variety of food species we may need to increase food production on an increasingly crowded planet. In Brazil, Cynthia Gournay explores the phenomenon of "Machisma" and shows how a mix of female empowerment and steamy soap operas helped bring down Brazil's fertility rate and stoke its vibrant economy. Additionally we explore threats to biodiversity, and the return of cities--which may be the solution to many of our population woes. Join National Geographic on this incredible journey to explore our rapidly growing planet."--OverDrive.
![7 billion [eBook] : how your world will change](/Library/images/~imageCT73481.JPG "7 billion [eBook] : how your world will change")
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2021., Adult, Random House Canada Call No: Fic Pow Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Theo Byrne is a promising young astrobiologist who has found a way to search for life on other planets dozens of light years away. He is also the widowed father of a most unusual nine-year-old. His son, Robin, is funny, loving, and filled with plans. He thinks and feels deeply, adores animals, and can spend hours painting elaborate pictures. He is also on the verge of being expelled from third grade for smashing his friend's face with a metal thermos. What can a father do, when the only solution offered to his rare and troubled boy is to put him on psychoactive drugs? What can he say when his boy comes to him wanting an explanation for a world that is clearly in love with its own destruction? The only thing for it is to take the boy to other planets, even while fostering his son's desperate campaign to help save this one.
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2008., Adult, Alto Call No: QWF FR Fic Edd Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Une histoire d'amour (entre Douglas et Éléna), d'absence, de passion pour les plantes qui guérissent, pour les arbres, etc. L'histoire "d'une étrange famille [qui déroge] outrageusement aux convenances" p. 127. La fille de Douglas, le père absent, et d'Éléna, la mère décédée, lit avec ferveur les lettres de Douglas et espère son retour. Un regard bienveillant sur les êtres et les choses" par une écrivaine - d'origine française, vivant au Québec - "à la prose sage et poétique, à l'imaginaire subtil et délicat" (S. Giguère). [SDM]
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By Stoff, Erwin Goodman, Gregory, 1959- Rennie, Michael Neal, Patricia, 1926-2010 Jaffe, Sam, 1891-1984 Bavier, Frances, 1902-1989 Bates, Harry, 1900-1981 North, Edmund H., 1911-1990 Wise, Robert, 1914-2005 Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation 3 Arts Entertainment (Firm) Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc Dune Entertainmentc2009., 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic Day Earth Edition: Widescreen. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Governments and scientists race to unravel the mystery behind a visitor's appearance. Dr. Helen Benson is a renowned scientist who finds herself face-to-face with an alien called Klaatu. Klaatu has traveled across the universe to warn of an impending global crisis. She quickly discovers the deadly ramifications of Klaatu's claim that he is a 'friend to the Earth.' Now, she and her yourng stepson must find a way to convince the entity who was sent to destroy humans that mankind is worth saving, but it may be too late.
![The day the Earth stood still [DVD] (1951) Directed by Robert Wise](/Library/images/cover/noimage.png "The day the Earth stood still [DVD] (1951) Directed by Robert Wise")
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2022., Blackstone Pub. Edition: Unabridged. Access eAudiobook Summary Note: Our narrator is stuck at home alone under lockdown, where she remembers her 1990s childhood in rural Yorkshire. The ecological phenomena that start in her own backyard interconnect and spread out from China to Nicaragua as pesticides circulate, money flows around the planet, and bodies feel the force of distant power.
![Emergency [eAudiobook] : a pastoral novel](/Library/images/~imageCT103547.JPG "Emergency [eAudiobook] : a pastoral novel")
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2023., Adult, McClelland & Stewart Call No: IND Fic Abe Edition: Hardcover edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Reimagining James Fenimore Cooper's nineteenth-century text The Last of the Mohicans from the contemporary perspective of an urban Nisga'a person whose relationship to land and traditional knowledge was severed by colonial violence, Jordan Abel explores what it means to be Indigenous without access to familial territory and complicates popular understandings about Indigenous storytelling. Engaging the land through fiction and metaphor, the successive chapters of Empty Spaces move toward an eerie, looping, and atmospheric rendering of place that evolves despite the violent and reckless histories of North America. The result is a bold and profound new vision of history that decenters human perception and forgoes Westernized ways of seeing.
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-- Fire keeper :2024., Adult, Roseway Publishing, an imprint of Fernwood Publishing Call No: NEW IND Fic Kat Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Indigenous Collection.Summary Note: Nyla has an affinity to fire. A neglected teen in a small northern town--trying to escape a mother battling her own terrors--she is kicked out and struggles through life on the streets. Desperate for love, Nyla accidentally sets fire to her ex's building and is then incarcerated for arson. Through community-led diversion, Nyla finds herself on a reserve as their firekeeper. But when climate change--induced wildfires threaten her new home, she knows intimately how to fight back. The fourth book from acclaimed writer Katlia brings a Northern Indigenous perspective to the destructive effects of ongoing colonialism.
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2023., Pegasus Books Call No: Fic Pau Edition: First Pegasus Books cloth edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Ea has always felt like an outsider. As a spinner dolphin who has recently come of age, she's now expected to join in the elaborate rituals that unite her pod. But Ea suffers from a type of deafness that prevents her from mastering the art of spinning. When catastrophe befalls her family and Ea knows she is partly to blame, she decides to make the ultimate sacrifice and leave the pod. As Ea ventures into the vast, she discovers dangers everywhere, from lurking predators to strange objects floating in the water. Not to mention the ocean itself seems to be changing; creatures are mutating, demonic noises pierce the depths, whole species of fish disappear into the sky above. In her terrifying, propulsive novel, Laline Paull explores the true meaning of family, belonging, sacrifice--the harmony and tragedy of the pod--within an ocean that is no longer the sanctuary it once was, and which reflects a world all too recognizable to our own"--
