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      By Connacher, Ian
       c2008., General, Cryptic Moth Productions Call No: DVD 363.73 A224a   Edition: Widescreen ed.    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: A feature-length documentary about solutions to plastic pollution, spanning three years of filming in 12 countries on 5 continents, including two trips to the middle of the Pacific Ocean where plastic debris accumulates. The film details plastic's path over the last 100 years and provides a wealth of expert interviews on practical and cutting edge solutions to recycling, toxicity and biodegradability.
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      By Miller, Amy, 1980-
       2014., Red Deer Press Call No: QWF 363.738746 M647c    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: "The Carbon Rush travels across four continents and brings us up close to the realities of carbon trading and the Kyoto Protocol's Clean Development Mechanism. Based on the groundbreaking documentary of the same name, The Carbon Rush focuses on the real meaning of the carbon trading system, where countries can buy and sell each other's carbon emissions and carbon credits are traded like stocks. These stocks are then often used to bankroll huge industrial operations, many of which are ravaging both the world's poor and their environments." --from book jacket.
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      By Gardiner, Beth
       2019., The University of Chicago press Call No: 615.902 G221c    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: "Air pollution prematurely kills seven million people every year, including more than one hundred thousand Americans. It is strongly linked to strokes, heart attacks, many kinds of cancer, dementia, and premature birth, among other ailments. In Choked, Beth Gardiner travels the world to tell the story of this modern-day plague, taking readers from the halls of power in Washington and the diesel-fogged London streets she walks with her daughter to Poland's coal heartland and India's gasping capital. In a gripping narrative that's alive with powerful voices and personalities, she exposes the political decisions and economic forces that have kept so many of us breathing dirty air. This is a moving, up-close look at the human toll, where we meet the scientists who have transformed our understanding of pollution's effects on the body and the ordinary people fighting for a cleaner future."--Page [2] of cover.
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      -- Growing up in the nuclear shadow of Rocky Flats
      By Iversen, Kristen
       c2012., Crown Publishers Call No: Bio I94f   Edition: 1st ed.    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: "A narrative report by a woman who grew up near the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons facility describes the secrets that dominated her childhood, the strange cancers that afflicted her neighbors, her brief employment at Rocky Flats, and the efforts of residents to achieve legal justice." -- Publisher's description.
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      By Leon, Donna
       2020., Adult, Atlantic Monthly Press Call No: MYS Fic Leo    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Series Title: Commissario Brunetti   Volume: 29Summary Note: When Dottoressa Donato calls the Questura to report that a dying patient at the hospice Fatebenefratelli wants to speak to the police, Commissario Guido Brunetti and his colleague, Claudia Griffoni, waste no time in responding. "They killed him. It was bad money. I told him no," Benedetta Toso gasps the words about her recently deceased husband, Vittorio Fadalto. Even though he is not sure she can hear him, Brunetti softly promises he and Griffoni will look into what initially appears to be a private family tragedy. They discover that Fadalto worked in the field collecting samples of contamination for a company that measures the cleanliness of Venice's water supply and that he had died in a mysterious motorcycle accident. Distracted briefly by Vice Questore Patta's obsession with youth crime in Venice, Brunetti is bolstered once more by the remarkable research skills of Patta's secretary, Signora Elettra Zorzi. Piecing together the tangled threads, in time Brunetti comes to realize the perilous meaning in the woman's accusation and the threat it reveals to the health of the entire region. But justice in this case proves to be ambiguous, as Brunetti is reminded it can be when, seeking solace, he reads Aeschylus's classic play The Eumenides.
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      By Blackwell, Andrew, 1972-
       c2012., Rodale : Distributed to the trade by Macmillan Call No: 363.73 B632v    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: For most of us, traveling means visiting the most beautiful places on Earth--Paris, the Taj Mahal, the Grand Canyon. It's rare to book a plane ticket to visit the lifeless moonscape of Canada's oil sand strip mines, or to seek out the Chinese city of Linfen, legendary as the most polluted in the world. But in "Visit Sunny Chernobyl," Andrew Blackwell embraces a different kind of travel, taking a jaunt through the most gruesomely polluted places on Earth. From the hidden bars and convenience stores of a radioactive wilderness to the sacred but reeking waters of India, "Visit Sunny Chernobyl "fuses immersive first-person reporting with satire and analysis, making the case that it's time to start appreciating our planet as it is--not as we wish it would be. Irreverent and reflective, the book is a love letter to our biosphere's most tainted, most degraded ecosystems, and a measured consideration of what they mean for us. Equal parts travelogue, expose, environmental memoir, and faux guidebook, Blackwell careens through a rogue's gallery of environmental disaster areas in search of the worst the world has to offer--and approaches a deeper understanding of what's really happening to our planet in the process.
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      By Stenson, Fred, 1951-
       c2014., Adult, Doubleday Canada Call No: Fic Ste    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: The heart of this moving story belongs to Tom Ryder - a man whose expectations for the future and assumptions about his own strength and power are persistently and devastatingly undermined by the arrival of a sour gas plant on the border of his southern Alberta farm in the early 1960s. The emissions from the plant poison not only his livestock but the relationships he has with his family, most especially with his wife, Ella.