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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Language
English
Description
The world's nuclear power plants have generated an estimated 300,000 tons of high-level radioactive waste that must be safely stored for 100,000 years or more. Every year, they generate another 12,000 metric tons of high-level waste. Into Eternity is the first feature documentary to explore the mind-boggling scientific and philosophical questions long-term nuclear waste storage poses. Structured as a message to future generations, the film focuses...
2) The appeal
Author
Language
English
Description
Wall street millionaire Carl Trudeau purchases an unsuspecting Mississippi State Supreme Court judge candidate when a lower court rules against one of his chemical companies for dumping toxic waste into a small town's water supply causing a cancer cluster.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Peter opens a restaurant, fulfilling a life-long dream. When their church congregation believes Stewie is possessed, the family flees to Texas. After Chris is expelled from school, he's admitted into his grandfather's fancy alma mater. When a local oil refinery dumps waste into Lake Quahog, Lois is compelled to run for mayor. Brian moves out and he and his girlfriend get a place of their own. Joe's on cloud nine after leg-transplant surgery. Stewie...
Author
Publisher
Flashlight Press
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
The Mess That We Made explores the environmental impact of trash and plastic on the ocean and marine life, and it inspires kids to do their part to combat pollution. Simple, rhythmic wording builds to a crescendo ("This is the mess that we made. These are the fish that swim in the mess that we made.") and the vibrant digital artwork captures the disaster that is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Children can imagine themselves as one of the four multi-ethnic...
5) Waste land
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Language
English
Description
Filmed over nearly three years, WASTE LAND follows renowned artist Vik Muniz as he journeys from his home base in Brooklyn to his native Brazil and the world's largest garbage dump, Jardim Gramacho, located on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. There he photographs an eclectic band of "catadores" -- or self-designated pickers of recyclable materials. Muniz's initial objective was to "paint" the catadores with garbage. However, his collaboration with...
8) Dump dog
Author
Publisher
Red Cygnet Press
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
The squeaky clean town of Lumpville, located in the middle of a huge, smelly dump where a monster and a little dog live, learns a lesson on the value of cleanliness when the dog accidentally causes the monster to destroy the town.
10) Trash vs. Trucks
Author
Series
Down in the dumps volume 2
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Westerfield Dump is scheduled to be relocated by the Trucks, so Nana, Ms. Kettle, and Moreland come up with a plan to save their smelly home.
11) Half lives
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Follows the lives of two unlikely teenaged heroes, mysteriously linked and living hundreds of years apart, as both struggle to survive and protect future generations from the terrible fate that awaits any who dare to climb the mountain.
Author
Publisher
Storey Publishing
Edition
35th anniversary edition.
Language
English
Description
Don't let your food waste go to waste! With a little help from a family of worms, you can turn all your kitchen scraps and leftovers into rich, valuable vermicompost for your garden and houseplants. Keeping a self-contained worm bin and harvesting the compost your worms produce is clean, easy, and productive with this classic guide, fully updated.
16) The war on waste
Author
Series
Publisher
Creative Education and Creative Paperbacks
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
An examination of the various types of waste produced by people, exploring how much of it exists and where it goes, as well as how waste can be remade into useful items to contribute to a healthier planet.
Author
Series
Down in the dumps volume 3
Publisher
Harper
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Santa who? Nana has never heard about Christmas until the old toys of the Westerfield Waste Transfer and Recycling Center tell her about the most magical night of the year! In A Very Trashy Christmas, the third book in the Down in the Dumps series, Nana learns that Santa Claus delivers toys to all the good boys and girls and so she insists on writing him her own letter. But when Santa arrives with their gifts in tow, the Forklift of Doom mistakes...
18) La apelación
Author
Publisher
Plaza Janés
Edition
First edition en Estados Unidos.
Language
Español
Description
In a crowded courtroom in Mississippi, a jury returns a shocking verdict against a chemical company accused of dumping toxic waste into a small town's water supply, causing the worst "cancer cluster" in history. This shocking thriller of political and legal intrigue will leave readers unable to think about America's judicial system in quite the same way ever again.
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"From the New York Times best-selling journalist, the staggering, hidden story of an unlikely band of mothers who discovered the deadly secret of Love Canal, and exposed one of America's most devastating environmental disasters. Lois Gibbs, Luella Kenny and Barbara Quimby thought they had found a slice of the American dream when they and their families moved onto the quiet streets of Love Canal, a picturesque middle-class hamlet by Niagara Falls in...
Author
Publisher
Spiegel & Grau
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"A panoramic investigation of the subterranean landscape, from sacred caves and derelict subway stations to nuclear bunkers and ancient underground cities--an exploration of the history, science, architecture, and mythology of the worlds beneath our feet. When Will Hunt was sixteen years old, he discovered an abandoned tunnel that ran beneath his house in Providence, Rhode Island. His first tunnel trips inspired a lifelong fascination with exploring...
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