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• Toxic Water, Toxic System

  Environmental Racism and Michigan's Water War

  Mascarenhas, Michael, 1963-

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  This book makes explicit the racial, ethnic, and gendered forms of environmental injustice that culminate from the collective, intersecting, and multi-scaler consequences of a seemingly anonymous authoritarian state willing to maintain white…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The State of Fire

  Why California Burns

  Kaufmann, Obi,

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  The State of Fire considers the long history of ecological burns, the varied ways fire behaves across the state, and the lessons that can be learned from California's largest fires of recent decades

• Braiding Sweetgrass

  Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

  Kimmerer, Robin Wall

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  As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation and botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer, embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers and brings these two lenses of knowledge together to take us on "a journey that is every bit as…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Story Is in Our Bones

  How Worldviews and Climate Justice Can Remake a World in Crisis

  Lake, Osprey Orielle,

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  Braiding poetic storytelling, deep cultural and climate justice analyses, and knowledge of Earth-centered cultures, The Story is in Our Bones, opens a portal to restoration and justice beyond the dominant, human-centered worldview has brought us to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• How to Blow Up a Pipeline

  Learning to Fight in a World on Fire

  Malm, Andreas, 1977-

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  In this lyrical manifesto, noted climate scholar Andreas Malm makes an impassioned call for the climate movement to escalate its tactics in the face of ecological collapse.

• Is Science Enough?

  Forty Critical Questions About Climate Justice

  Chomsky, Aviva, 1957-

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  This book shows that science is not enough to reverse climate catastrophe: we need to put social, racial, and economic justice front and center, radically redistribute, and abandon the global growth economy.

• Full Ecology

  Repairing Our Relationship With the Natural World

  Clare, Mary M., 1957-

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  Breaking the modern impulse to see humans as separate from nature, the authors encourage readers to learn from the "supremely methodical and highly improvisational" natural systems that touch people's lives.

• Being Salmon, Being Human

  Encountering the Wild in Us and Us in the Wild

  Mueller, Martin Lee,

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  In the pages of Being Salmon, Being Human, Martin Lee Mueller confronts Western culture's tragic alienation from nature by focusing on the relationship between people and salmon--weaving together key narratives to articulate a critique of human…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Blue Desert

  Bowden, Charles, 1945-2014,

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  Blue Desert presents a view of the Southwest that seeks to measure how rapid growth has taken its toll on the land.

• We Are the Middle of Forever

  Indigenous Voices From Turtle Island on the Changing Earth

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  A powerful, intimate collection of conversations with Indigenous Americans on the climate crisis and the Earth's future.

• The Right to Be Cold

  One Woman's Fight to Protect the Arctic and Save the Planet From Climate Change

  Watt-Cloutier, Sheila,

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  The Right to Be Cold is Sheila Watt-Cloutier's memoir of growing up in the Arctic reaches of Quebec. It is the human story of life on the front lines of climate change, told by a woman who rose from humble beginnings to become one of the most…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Climate Book

  Thunberg, Greta, 2003-

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  Greta Thunberg has gathered the wisdom of over one hundred experts: geophysicists, oceanographers and meteorologists; engineers, economists and mathematicians; historians, philosophers and indigenous leaders, to equip us all with the knowledge we…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Abalone

  the Remarkable History and Uncertain Future of California's Iconic Shellfish

  Vileisis, Ann,

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  As the first and only comprehensive history of these once-abundant but now tragically imperiled shellfish, Abalone guides the reader through eras of discovery, exploitation, scientific inquiry, fierce disputes between sport and commercial divers,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Water Defenders

  How Ordinary People Saved a Country From Corporate Greed

  Broad, Robin,

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  The David and Goliath story of ordinary people in El Salvador who rallied together with international allies to prevent a global mining corporation from poisoning the country's main water source.

• Warmth

  Coming of Age at the End of the World

  Sherrell, Daniel,

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  From a climate activist who has grown up in the decades in which climate change has transformed from abstract threat to urgent crisis, an exploration of how young people live in the shadow of catastrophe Warmth is a new kind of book about climate…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• As Long as Grass Grows

  the Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, From Colonization to Standing Rock

  Gilio-Whitaker, Dina,

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  Interrogating the concept of environmental justice in the U.S. as it relates to Indigenous peoples, this book argues that a different framework must apply compared to other marginalized communities, while it also attends to the colonial history and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Darkness Manifesto

  on Light Pollution, Night Ecology, and the Ancient Rhythms That Sustain Life

  Eklöf, Johan

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  The Darkness Manifesto is an insightful look at the hidden impact of light pollution, and a passionate appeal to cherish natural darkness for the sake of the environment, our own wellbeing, and all life on earth.

• Our Biggest Experiment

  An Epic History of the Climate Crisis

  Bell, Alice R.,

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  It was Eunice Newton Foote, an American scientist and woman's rights campaigner living in Seneca Falls, New York, who first warned the world that an atmosphere heavy with carbon dioxide could send temperatures here on Earth soaring. This was back in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Wild LA

  Explore the Amazing Nature in and Around Los Angeles

  Higgins, Lila M.,

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  A dynamic, fact-filled guide to the natural world of Los Angeles from the experts at the Natural History Museum.

• Wolf Nation

  the Life, Death, and Return of Wild American Wolves

  Peterson, Brenda, 1950-

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  Author Brenda Peterson tells the 300-year history of wild wolves in America. It is also our own history, seen through our relationship with wolves. The earliest Americans revered them. Settlers zealously exterminated them. Now, scientists, writers,…Read moreRead more of this annotation