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Earth Day

Earth Day 2023

Books on Display at GCC Library

Come by the Earth Day display in the Library to check out some of the Library's newest additions to our collection, arranged by the following themes!

Click on the images below for book details and current availability.

Books

All about birds : California

Are We Screwed?

Beloved Beasts: Fighting For Life In An Age of Extinction

Better Buses, Better Cities : How to Plan, Run, and Win the Fight for Effective Transit

The book of eels : our enduring fascination with the most mysterious creature in the natural world

A Brief History of Earth : Four Billion Years In Eight Chapters

Buzz, Sting, Bite : Why We Need Insects

Can I Recycle This?: A Guide to Better Recycling and how to Reduce Single-use Plastics

The Carbon Footprint of Everything

Choked : Life and Breath in the Age of Air Pollution

Climate Stewardship: Taking Collective Action to Protect California

The Conscious Closet : The Revolutionary Guide to Looking Good While Doing Good

The Day the World Stops Shopping : How Ending Consumerism Saves the Environment and Ourselves

The Deep : The Hidden Wonders Of Our Oceans And How We Can Protect Them

Environmental Justice in a Moment of Danger

Fen, Bog & Swamp : A Short History of Peatland Destruction and its Role in the Climate Crisis

Finding the Mother Tree : Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest

Flight Behavior : a Novel

Food From the Radical Center : Healing Our Land and Communities

Full Spectrum Resistance Vol 1: Building Movements and Fighting to Win

Full Spectrum Resistance Vol 2: Actions & Strategies for Change

Global Meat : Social and Environmental Consequences of the Expanding Meat Industry

The Green New Deal : Why The Fossil Fuel Civilization Will Collapse By 2028, And The Bold Economic Plan To Save Life On Earth

Hope Matters: Why Changing the Way We Think Is Critical to Solving the Environmental Crisis

How To Give Up Plastic : A Guide To Changing The World, One Plastic Bottle At A Time

Hurricane Lizards And Plastic Squid : The Fraught And Fascinating Biology Of Climate Change

Inconspicuous Consumption : The Environmental Impact You Don't Know You Have

The Nature of Nature : Why We Need The Wild

Oryx and Crake : A Novel

Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance

Parable of the Sower

Photo Ark Wonders

Planetary Health : Protecting Nature to Protect Ourselves

The Red Deal: Indigenous Action to Save Our Earth

Reduce, Reuse, Reimagine : Sorting Out The Recycling System

Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet

The Rescue Effect : The Key to Saving Life On Earth

Rescuing the Planet : Protecting Half the Land to Heal the Earth

Science Denial: Why It Happens and What to Do About It

The Secret Wisdom of Nature : Trees, Animals, and the Extraordinary Balance Of All Living Things : Stories from Science and Observation

The Sixth Extinction : An Unnatural History

Small Is Necessary : Shared Living On A Shared Planet

Standing with Standing Rock : Voices From the #NoDAPL Movement

A Terrible Thing to Waste : Environmental Racism and its Assault on the American Mind

Toxic Communities : Environmental Racism, Industrial Pollution, and Residential Mobility

Under the Sky We Make : How to Be Human in a Warming World

Youth to Power: Your Voice and How to Use It

Additional Library Books & Films Recommended by GCC Faculty

The Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey

The Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey

Recommended by Vita Watkins, English

Merchants of doubt : how a handful of scientists obscured the truth on issues from tobacco smoke to global warming

Merchants of Doubt by Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway

Recommended by Rachel Ridgway, Oceanography

Let it Shine: The 6,000-Year Story of Solar Energy by John Perlin

Let it Shine: The 6,000-Year Story of Solar Energy by John Perlin

Recommended by Rachel Ridgway, Oceanography

Silent Spring by Rachel Carson

Silent Spring by Rachel Carson

Recommended by Alex Pivovaroff, Biology

Field Notes from a Catastrophe by Elizabeth Kolbert

Field Notes from a Catastrophe by Elizabeth Kolbert

Recommended by Piper Rooney, English

National Geographic: Before the Flood

Before the Flood (film)

Recommended by Jamshid Hassanzadeh, Oceanography

Last Updated: Apr 25, 2024 3:10 PM
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