A Sustainable Life | Metro Nashville Public Schools

"In this fascinating look at the race to secure the global food supply, environmental journalist and professor Amanda Little tells the defining story of the sustainable food revolution as she weaves together stories from the world's most creative and controversial innovators on the front lines of food science, agriculture, and climate change"--

83) Felicity

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Oliver, Mary

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"Mary Oliver, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, celebrates love in her new collection of poems,"--Amazon.com.

84) Fevered: why a hotter planet will hurt our health - and how we can save ourselves

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Marsa, Linda

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An assessment of the impact of global warming on human health cites spiraling rates of disease and heatstroke-related deaths and outlines a blueprint for protecting oneself from environment-related health challenges.

85) A field guide to climate anxiety: how to keep your cool on a warming planet

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Ray, Sarah Jaquette

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"A youth movement is reenergizing global environmental activism. The "climate generation"--late millennials and iGen, or Generation Z--is demanding that policy makers and government leaders take immediate action to address the dire climate science predictions. Those inheriting our planet's environmental problems expect to encounter challenges, but they may not foresee the feelings of powerlessness and despair that often accompany social activism in...

86) Field notes from a catastrophe: man, nature, and climate change

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Kolbert, Elizabeth

87) Fight global warming now: the handbook for taking action in your community

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McKibben, Bill

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A Holt paperback

88) Finding beauty in a broken world

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Williams, Terry Tempest

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The naturalist author of Refuge and An Unspoken Hunger reflects on what it means to be human, the interconnection between the natural and human worlds, and how they combine to produce both tumult and peace, ugliness and beauty.

89) Food fix: how to save our health, our economy, our communities, and our planet-- one bite at a time

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Hyman, Mark

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The Dr. Hyman Library

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An indispensable guide to food, our most powerful tool to reverse the global epidemic of chronic disease, heal the environment, reform politics, and revive economies, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Mark Hyman, MD—"Read this book if you're ready to change the world" (Tim Ryan, US Representative).
What we eat has tremendous implications not just for our waistlines, but also for the planet, society, and the global...

90) Food fix: how to save our health, our economy, our communities, and our planet-- one bite at a time

Author

Hyman, Mark

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The Dr. Hyman Library

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An indispensable guide to food, our most powerful tool to reverse the global epidemic of chronic disease, heal the environment, reform politics, and revive economies, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Mark Hyman, MD—"Read this book if you're ready to change the world" (Tim Ryan, US Representative).
What we eat has tremendous implications not just for our waistlines, but also for the planet, society, and the global...

91) Food is the solution: What to eat to save the world.80+ recipes for a greener planet and a healthier you

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Prescott, Matthew

92) Footprints: in search of future fossils

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Farrier, David

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The author surveys the traces we will leave for peoples in the very distant future. He shows that modern civilization has created objects and landscapes with the potential to endure through deep time, including the plastic polluting the oceans, the nuclear waste entombed within the earth, and the thirty million miles of paved roads spanning the planet. This is his medition on climate change and the Anthropocene, and an urgent search for fossils--industrial,...

93) Forest bathing: how trees can help you find health and happiness

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Li, Qing

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"The definitive guide to the therapeutic Japanese practice of shinrin-yoku, or the art and science of how trees can promote health and happiness Notice how a tree sways in the wind. Run your hands over its bark. Take in its citrusy scent. As a society we suffer from nature deficit disorder, but studies have shown that spending mindful, intentional time around trees--what the Japanese call shinrin-yoku, or forest bathing--can promote health and happiness....

94) Frank Lloyd Wright natural design: organic architecture : lessons for building green from an American original

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Hess, Alan

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"An unsung prophet of today's green movement in architecture, Frank Lloyd Wright was an innovator of eco-sensitive design generations ahead of his time. An architect and designer of far-reaching vision, it is not surprising that Frank Lloyd Wright anticipated many of the hallmarks of today's green movement. Across his work--which stands upon a philosophy Wright termed 'organic'--widespread evidence is seen of a refined sensitivity to environment,...

95) frugal value

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96) The future we choose: surviving the climate crisis

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Figueres, Christiana

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"In this cautionary but optimistic book, Figueres and Rivett-Carnac--the architects of the 2015 Paris Climate Change Agreement--tackle arguably the most urgent and consequential challenge humankind has ever faced: the world's changing climate and the fate of humanity. In The Future We Choose, the authors outline two possible scenarios for the planet. In one, they describe what life on Earth will be like by 2050 if we fail to meet the Paris targets...

97) Gaia's garden: a guide to home-scale permaculture

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Hemenway, Toby

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"Gaia's Garden will be recorded in history as a milestone for gardeners and landscapers. . . An amazing achievement."—Paul Stamets

The classic book about ecological gardening—whatever size your garden—with over 250,000 copies sold!

"A great book!"—Men's Journal

Gaia's Garden has sparked the imagination of home gardeners the world over by introducing

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98) Gathering moss: a natural and cultural history of mosses

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Kimmerer, Robin Wall

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Living at the limits of our ordinary perception, mosses are a common but largely unnoticed element of the natural world. Gathering moss is a mix of science and personal reflection that invites readers to explore and learn from the elegantly simple lives of mosses. In this series of linked personal essays, Robin Kimmerer leads general readers and scientists alike to an understanding of how mosses live and how their lives are intertwined with the lives...

99) Gathering moss: a natural and cultural history of mosses

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Kimmerer, Robin Wall

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Living at the limits of our ordinary perception, mosses are a common but largely unnoticed element of the natural world. Gathering moss is a mix of science and personal reflection that invites readers to explore and learn from the elegantly simple lives of mosses. In this series of linked personal essays, Robin Kimmerer leads general readers and scientists alike to an understanding of how mosses live and how their lives are intertwined with the lives...

100) The gentle subversive: Rachel Carson, Silent spring, and the rise of the environmental movement

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Lytle, Mark H

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New narratives in American history