New Books: Earth Day 2020

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Earth Day, New Books

Happy Earth Day! Although we’re not in our physical library right now, we work on keeping our collections strong all year. Check out our books when we return and for right now be sure to check our databases of articles, e-books, and videos online.

Every year we like to share some good news as the bad gets a lot more press than the good when it comes to ecology.

California Condor chicks make a soaring comeback.

The Farm Bureau share their accomplishments and plans for Ecology and Farming this year.

Amazon fires aren’t as bad as you think.

Kirkwood’s Newest Ecology Books

Earthdance by Joanne Ryder, Call Number: CL Easy Reading 577 R992e

Don’t Let Them Disappear: 12 Endangered Species Across the Globe by Chelsea Clinton, Call Number: CL Easy Reading 591.68 C641d

 

American Wolf: A True Story of Survival and Obsession in the West by Nate Blakeslee, Call Number: 599.773 B637a

Antarctica: What Everyone Needs to Know by David Day, Call Number: 998 D273a

A Bright Future: How Some Countries Have Solved Climate Change and the Rest Can Follow by Joshua S. Goldstein and Staffan A. Qvisit, Call Number: 363.738 G624b

Choked: Life and Breath in the Age of Air Pollution by Beth Gardiner, Call Number: 615.902 G221c

Climate and Society:Transforming the Future by Robin Leichenko and Karen O’Brien, Call Number: 304.2 L526c

Coal by Mark C. Thurber, Call Number: 333.822 T536c

Emperors of the Deep: Sharks – the Ocean’s Most Mysterious, Most Misunderstood, and Most Important Guardians by William McKeever, Call Number: 597.3 M154e

Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline by Darrell Bricker and John Ibbitson, Call Number: 304.62 B849

The End of Nature by Bill McKibben, Call Number: 304.28 M158e

Energy and Civilization: A History by Vaclav Smil, Call Number: 333.79 S641en

Everglades: America’s Wetland by Mac Stone, Call Number: 975.939 S879e

Exposure: Poisoned Water, Corporate Greed, and One Lawyer’s Twenty-Year Battle Against Dupont by Robert Bilott
NOTE: The story behind the movie Dark Waters.

Extinction: A Very Short Introduction by Paul B. Wignall, Call Number: 576.84 W661e

Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out? by Bill McKibben, Call Number: 909.83 M158f

The Fever: How Malaria Has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years by Sonia Shah, Call Number: 614.532 S525f

Giants of the Monsoon Forest: Living and Working with Elephants by Jacob Shell, Call Number: 599.67 S544g

Good Enough to Eat?: Next Generation GM Crops by Ian D. Godwin, Call Number: 631.523 G591g

Human Impact on the Natural Environment: Past, Present, and Future by Andrew S. Goudie, Call Number: 304.2 G688h

Indivisible Killer: The Rising Global Threat of Air Pollution – and How We Can Fight Back by Gary Fuller, Call Number: 363.739 F965i

The Living Forest: A Visual Journey into the Heart of the Woods by Joan Maloof, Call Number: 634.902 M257L

Losing Earth: A Recent History by Nathaniel Rich, Call Number: 363.738 R499L

Manual for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future by Kate Brown, Call Number: 323.179 B878m

The Pig: A Natural History by Richard Lutwyche, Call Number: 636.4 L974p

A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal by Kate Aronoff, Alyssa Battistoni, Daniel Aldana Cohen, and Thea Riofrancos, Call Number: 363.7 A769p

Plastic Soup: An Atlas of Ocean Pollution by Michiel Roscam Abbing, Call Number: 363.738 R791p

Sustainable Materials Without the Hot Air: Making Buildings, Vehicles and Products Efficiently and With Less New Material by Julian M. Allwood and Jonathan M. Cullen, Call Number: 620.11 S553s

The Thinking Person’s Guide to Climate Change (2nd ed.) by Robert Henson, Call Number: 363.738 H526t

The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells, Call Number: 304.2 W195u

Vanishing Fish: Shifting Baseline and the Future of Global Fisheries by Daniel Pauly, Call Number: 338.372 P333v

The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life by Nick Lane, Call Number: 576.83 L266v

Wading Right In: Discovering the Nature of Wetlands by Catherine Owen Koning and Sharon M. Ashworth, Call Number: 577.68 K824w

When Everything Beyond the Walls is Wild: Being a Woman Outdoors in America by Lilace Mellin Guignard, Call Number: 796.082 G951w

The Wind Power Story: A Century of Innovation that Reshaped the Global Energy Landscape by Brandon N. Owens, Call Number: 621.45 O976w

Sarah Uthoff is a reference library at Kirkwood Community College. LIKE the Kirkwood Community College Library on Facebook and find links to Sarah all over the web at her About Me Profile.

Earth Day Roundup 2019

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Earth Day, Earth Day Display, New Books

Every year Kirkwood Library Services put up a display in honor of Earth Day (April 22nd). We also do a post about new Earth Day related books the library has added over the previous year. These titles are available at the Cedar Rapids branch of Kirkwood Library Services, but you can request them to be sent to any other center. We hope to strive to make every day Earth Day and it’s always a good time to learn more. Check out the round up of books on ecology topics from this year and previous years below.

2019
https://kirkwoodlibrary.wordpress.com/2019/04/16/new-books-earth-day-2019

2018
https://kirkwoodlibrary.wordpress.com/2018/04/20/new-books-earth-day-2018

2017
https://kirkwoodlibrary.wordpress.com/2017/04/20/earth-day-books-2017

2016
https://kirkwoodlibrary.wordpress.com/2016/04/21/earth-day-books-2016

2015
https://kirkwoodlibrary.wordpress.com/2015/04/17/earth-day-books-2015

2014
https://kirkwoodlibrary.wordpress.com/2014/04/18/earth-day-2014

2013
https://kirkwoodlibrary.wordpress.com/2013/04/12/earth-day-books-2013

2012
https://kirkwoodlibrary.wordpress.com/2012/04/15/earth-day-2012

2011
https://kirkwoodlibrary.wordpress.com/2011/04/12/earth-day-books

Sarah Uthoff is a reference library at Kirkwood Community College. LIKE the Kirkwood Community College Library on Facebook and find links to Sarah all over the web at her About Me Profile.

New Books: Earth Day 2019

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Earth Day, New Books

Environmental Wins

It seems like environmentalists never take a win, but here’s a positive story to kick off Earth Day. One of the big pushes for clean energy is wind turbines. Iowa has been a leader in the Wind Energy Industry. Kirkwood has been helping lead the way.

Remember to Recycle

Do you know everything you can recycle just by dropping them in the blue Kirkwood yardies distributed around campus? Check out the information about the program, including a list of what can go in those familiar containers:
http://www.kirkwood.edu/site/index.php?d=1229

Check out these books on ecology related titles that the library has added in the last year. We have them on our Earth Day display in the library. Stop by before the end of April to see it.

Children’s Literature

The Water Walker by Joanne Robertson, Call Number: CL Easy Reading 304.209 R651w

Adult Books

Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America by Eliza Griswold, Call Number: 363.73 G871a

Antarctica: No Single Country – No Single Sea by Creina Bond and Roy Siegfried, Call Number: 998 B711a

Brave New Arctic: The Untold Story of the Melting North by Mark C. Serreze, Call Number: 577.27 S488b

Breakpoint: Reckoning with America’s Environmental Crises by Jeremy B.C. Jackson and Steve Chapple, Call Number: 363.7 J132b

Butterflies of the World by Adrian Hoskins, Call Number: 595.789 H826b

Buzz: The Nature and Necessity of Bees by Thor Hansen, Call Number: 595.79 H251b

Car Wars: The Rise, the Fall, and the Resurgence of the Electric Car by John J. Fialka, Call Number: 338.4 F438c

Chesapeake Requiem: A Year with the Watermen of Vanishing Tangier Island by Earl Swift, Call Number: 639.56 S977c

The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More, and Change the Way You Lead Forever by Michael Bungay Stanier, Call Number: 658.3 B942c

Coral Whisperers: Scientists on the Brink by Irus Braverman, Call Number: 577.7 B826c

The Cow with Ear Tag #1389 by Kathryn Gillespie, Call Number: 179.3 G478c

Desert Rivers: From Lush Headwaters to Sonoran Sands by Peter Aleshire, Call Number: 979.1 A371d

Earth Odyssey: Around the World in Search of Our Environmental Future by Mark Hertsgaard, Call Number: 363.7 H575e

Endangered Species by Jan A. Randall, Call Number: 578.68 R188e

Energy: A Human History by Richard Rhodes, Call Number: 333.79 R477e
NOTE: Illustrates how wood gave way to coal and coal made room for oil, as coal and oil are now making room for natural gas, renewable energy, and nuclear power. Looking back on 5 centuries of progress.

Growing a Sustainable City? The Question of Urban Agriculture by Christina D. Rosan and Hamil Pearsall, Call Number: 630.917 R788g

The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus by Richard Preston, Call Number: 614.57 P939h
NOTE: Just new copy, not new edition.

Life in the Cold: An Introduction to Winter Ecology (4th ed.) by Peter J. marchand, Call Number: 578.42 m315L

Living Green: Your Questions Answered by Amy Hackney Blackwell, Call Number: 640 H123L

Lyme: The First Epidemic of Climate Change by Mary Beth Pfeiffer, Call Number: 616.9 P527L

Nature and Young Children: Encouraging Creative Play and Learning in Natural Environments (3rd ed.) by Ruth Wilson, Call Number; 372.35 W752n

Off the Grid: My Ride from Louisiana to the Panama Canal in an Electric Car by Randy Denmom, Call Number: 917.204 D397o

The Organic No-Till Farming Revolution: High-Production Methods for Small-Scale Farmers by Andrew Mefferd, Call Number: 631.581 M495o

Peak Plastic: The Rise or Fall of Our Synthetic World by Jack Buffington, Call Number: 363.738 B929p

The Poisoned City: Flint’s Water and the American Urban Tragedy by Anna Clark, Call Number: 363.6 C592p

The Psychology of Climate Change by Geoffrey Beattie and Laura McGuire, Call Number: 155.9 B369p

Reduce, Reuse, Reimagine: Sorting Out the Recycling System by Beth Porter, Call Number: 363.72 P844r

Renewable Energy: A Primer for the Twenty-First Century by Bruce Usher, Call Number: 333.794 U851r

Return of the Wolf: Conflict and Coexistence by Paula Wild, Call Number: 599.773 W668r

Seaweed Chronicles: A World at the Water’s Edge by Susan Hand Shetterly, Call Number: 579.8 S554s

Shaping Sustainable Fashion: Changing the Way We Make and Use Clothes, Edited by Alison Gwilt and Timo Rissanen, Call Number: 746.92 S529s

Spying on Whales: The Past, Present, and Future of Earth’s Most Awesome Creatures by Nick Pyenson, Call Number: 599.5 P995s

This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate by Naomi Klein, Call Number: 363.738 K644t

This is the Way the World Ends: How Droughts and Die-offs, Heat Waves, and Hurricanes Are Converging on America by Jeff Nesbit, Call Number: 363.7 N458t

Three Revolutions: Steering Automated, Shared, and Electric Vehicles to a Better Future by Daniel Sperling, Call Number: 388.342 S749th

Tomorrow’s Table: Organic Farming, Genetics, and the Future of Food by Pamela C. Ronald and Raoul W. Adamchak, Call Number: 664 R768t

Understanding Animal Behavior by Rory Putman, Call Number: 591.5 P988u

Wear No Evil: How to Change the World With Your Wardrobe by Greta Eagan, Call Number: 746.92 E115w

What We Know About Climate Change (Updated Edition) by Kerry Emanuel, Call Number: 363.738 E531w

Wind Energy for the Rest of Us: A Comprehensive Guide to Wind Power and How to Use It by Paul Gipe, Call Number: 621.31 G514w

Your Water Footprint: The Shocking Facts About How Much Water We Use to Make Everyday Products by Stephen Leahy, Call Number: 333.91 L434y

Sarah Uthoff is a reference library at Kirkwood Community College. LIKE the Kirkwood Community College Library on Facebook and find links to Sarah all over the web at her About Me Profile.

New Books: Earth Day 2018

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Earth Day, Earth Day Display, New Books

Do you know everything you can recycle just by dropping them in the blue Kirkwood yardies distributed around campus? Check out the information about the program, including a list of what can go in those familiar containers:
http://www.kirkwood.edu/site/index.php?d=1229

Check out these books on ecology related titles that the library has added in the last year. We have them on our Earth Day display in the library. Stop by before the end of April to see it.

Environmental Wins

It seems like environmentalists never take a win, but here are two positive stories to kick off Earth Day.

Ecologists Take a Win:
https://www.britannica.com/spotlight/what-happened-to-acid-rain

More Good News Farmers Work on the Dead Zone:
https://www.iowafarmbureau.com/Article/Gulf-of-Mexico-Dead-Zone-What-Where-Why

Children’s Literature

Earth-Friendly Living by Miriam Coleman, Call Number: CL 640 C692e

One Plastic Bag: Isatou Ceesay and the Recycling Women of the Gambia, Call Number: CL Easy Reading 363.728 P3240

Touch the Earth by Julian Lennon with Bart Davis, Call Number: CL 813.6 K567t

What a Waste! Where Does Garbage Go! by Claire Eamer, Call Number: CL 363.72 E121w

Adult Books

The Politics of Water Scarcity: Opposing Viewpoints, Call Number: Debate 333.91 P769
NOTE: You can’t check this one out, but it’s definitely worth a read anyway. Find it in our Debate section. Water scarcity is going to be one of the major issues for this century.

The Aliens Among Us: How Invasive Species Are Transforming The Planet — and Ourselves by Leslie Anthony, Call Number: 578.62 A628a

Animal Liberation: The Definitive Classic of the Animal Movement (Updated ed.) by Peter Singer, Call Number: 179.3 S617a

Are We Screwed?: How a New Generation is Fighting to Survive Climate Change by Geoff Dembicki, Call Number: 363.738 D374a

The Carbon Code: How You Can Become A Climate Change Hero by Brett Favaro, Call Number: 363.738 F272c

Chemical Lands: Pesticides, Aerial Spraying, and Health in North America’s Grasslands Since 1945 by David D. Vail, Call Number: 363.17 V129c

Children and Environmental Toxins: What Everyone Needs to Know by Philip J. Landrigan and Mary M. Landrigan, Call Number: 616.9 L262c

Cooler Smarter: Practical Steps for Low-Carbon Living by Seth Shulman, Jeff Deyette, Brenda Ekwurzel, David Friedman, Margaret Mellon, John Rogers, and Suzanne Shaw, Call Number: 363.7 C774

Curbing Catastrophe: Natural Hazards and Risk Reduction in the Modern World by Timothy H. Dixon, Call Number: 363.34 D621c

Dawn of the Solar Age: An End to Global Warming and to Fear by Prem Shankar Jha, Call Number: 333.792 J599d
NOTE: All about how solar power can provide a bright new tomorrow for us and the planet.

The Death and Life of the Great Lakes by Dan Egan, Call Number: 577.63 E282d

Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming edited by Paul Hawken, Call Number: 363.738 D767

Drinking Water: A History (Revised and Updated) by James Salzman, Call Number: 363.6 S186d
NOTE: Water scarcity is going to be one of the major issues for this century.

Encyclopedia of Whales, Dolphins, and Porpoises by Erich Hoyt, Call Number: 599.503 H869

Enviromedics: The Impact of Climate Change on Human Health by Jay Lemery and Paul Auerbach, Call Number: 613 L552e

Extreme Conditions: Big Oil and the Transformation of Alaska by John Strohmeyer, Call Number: 338.2 S921e

The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease and the End of an Empire by Kyle Harper, Call Number: 937 H294f

Frack This! The Untold Story About Earthquakes Caused by Humans by Christian D. Klose, Call Number: 551.22 K663f

Gasping for Air: How Breathing is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It by Kevin Glynn, Call Number: 616.2 G568g

The Ground Beneath Us: From the Oldest Cities to the Last Wilderness What Dirt Tells Us About Who We Are by Paul Bogard, Call Number: 631.4 B674g

High and Dry: Meeting the Challenges of the World’s Growing Dependence on Groundwater by William M. Alley and Rosemarie Alley, Call Number: 628.1 A435h

Land on Fire: The New Reality of Wildfire in the West by Gary Ferguson, Call Number: 634.9 F352L

Making Local Food Work: The Challenges and Opportunities of Today’s Small Farmers by Brandi Janssen, Call Number: 338.209 J352m

The Marine World: A Natural History of Ocean Life by Frances Dipper, Call Number: 577.7 D596m

Monarchs and Milkweed: A Migrating Butterfly, A Poisonous Plant, and their Remarkable Story of Coevolution by Anurag Agrawal, Call Number: 595.78 A227m

National Geographic The Photo Ark: One Man’s Quest to Document the World’s Animals by Joel Sartore, Call Number: 779 S251p

Rainforest by Lewis Blackwell, Call Number: 333.75 B632r

Resurrection Science: Conservation, De-Extinction and the Precarious Future of Wild Things by M.R. O’Connor, Call Number: 591.68 O187r

A Sugar Creek Chronicle: Observing Climate Change from a Midwestern Wooland by Cornelia F. Mutel, Call Number: 577.3 M992s
NOTE: Ecologist Connie Mutel talks about what she sees of climate change in Iowa.

Thank You Fossil Fuels and Good Night: The Twenty-First Century’s Energy Transition by Gregory Meehan, Call Number: 621.042 M494t

Toxic Cocktail: How Chemical Pollution is Poisoning Our Brains by Barbara Demenex, Call Number: 612.4 D376t

Travels in Alaska by John Muir, Call Number: 508.798 M953t

Understanding Veganism: Biography and Identity by Nathan Stephens Griffin, Call Number: 641.3 G852u

Whales: Their Biology and Behavior by Philip Hammond, Sonja Heinrich, Sascha Hooker, and Peter Tyack, Call Number: 599.5 H227w

What’s So Controversial about Genetically Modified Food? by John T. Lang, Call Number: 664 L269w

When the Hills Are Gone: Frac Sand Mining and the Struggle for Community by Thomas W. Pearson, Call Number: 622 P362w

Wolf Nation: The Life, Death, and the Return of Wild American Wolves by Brenda Peterson, Call Number: 599.773 P485w

Sarah Uthoff is a reference library at Kirkwood Community College. LIKE the Kirkwood Community College Library on Facebook and find links to Sarah all over the web at her About Me Profile.

Earth Day Books 2017

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Earth Day, Earth Day Display, New Books

Do you know everything you can recycle just by dropping them in the blue Kirkwood yardies distributed around campus? Check out the information about the program, including a list of what can go in those familiar containers:
http://www.kirkwood.edu/site/index.php?d=1229

Check out these books on ecology related titles that the library has added in the last year. We have them on our Earth Day display in the library. Stop by before the end of April to see it.

Call Number: CL 333.75 M111p Title: Wangari Maathai: The Woman Who Planted Millions of Trees Author: Franck Prevot,

Call Number: Easy Reading CL 635.092 S493 Title: The Tree Lady Author: H. Joseph Hopkins

Call Number: CL 813.54 A565k Title: The Kid Who Changed the World Author: Andy Andrews
NOTE: Iowans Norman Borlaug, Vice President Henry Wallace, and George Washington Carver are described in this book.

Call Number: 304.2 B262t Title: Tipping Point for Planet Earth: How Close Are We to the Edge? Authors: Anthony D. Barnosky and Elizabeth A. Hadly

Call Number: 304.2 B587 Title: The Unnatural World: The Race to Remake Civilization in Earth’s Newest Age Author: David Biello

Call Number: 304.2 M123m Title: The Moth Snowstorm: Nature and Joy Author: Michael McCarthy

Call Number: 333.7 N426b Title: Beyond Earth Day: Fulfilling the Promise Authors: Gaylord Nelson, Susan Campbell and Paul Wozniak

Call Number: 333.8 H468o Title: Our Renewable Future: Laying the Path for One Hundred Percent Clean Energy Authors: Richard Heinberg and David Fridley

Call Number: 333.91 S399w Title: Water in Plain Sight: Hope for a Thirsty World Author: Judith D Schwartz
NOTE: One of the big fights of this century will most likely be over water rights.

Call Number: 333.917 P639r Title: Retreat from a Rising Sea: Hard Choices in an Age of Climate Change Authors: Orrin H. Pilkey, Linda Pilkey-Jarvis, and Keith C. Pilkey

Call Number: 333.95 L313g Title: Grizzlies Grizzled Old Men: A Tribute to Those Who Fought To Save the Great Bear Author: Mike Lapinski

Call Number: 333.8 H468o Title: Our Renewable Future: Laying the Path for One Hundred Percent Clean Energy Authors: Richard Heinberg and David Fridley

Call Number: 363.7 N669n Title: Nature’s Allies: Eight Conservationists Who Changed Our World Author: Larry A. Nielsen
NOTE: One of them is Iowan Ding Darling.

Call Number: 363.738 F585a Title: Atmosphere of Hope Searching for Solutions to the Climate Crisis Author: Tim Flannery

Call Number: 363.738 H381f Title: Frackopoly: The Battle for the Future of Energy and the Environment Author: Wenonah Hauter

Call Number: 582.16 W846h Title: The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate, Discoveries from a Secret World Author: Peter Wohllben

Call Number: 539.2 J827s Title: Strange Glow: The Story of Radiation Author: Timothy J. Jorgensen

Call Number: 582.16 E592t Title: Trees: A Complete Guide to Their Biology and Structure Author: Roland Ennos

Call Number: 591.509 F634a Title: American Serengeti: The Last Big Animals of the Great Plains Author: Dan Flores

Call Number: 591.56 B711w Title: Wild Sex: The Science Behind Mating in the Animal Kingdom Author: Dr. Carin Bondar

Call Number: 591.56 S128b Title: Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel Author: Carl Safina

Call Number: 598 A182g Title: The Genius of Birds Author: Jennifer Ackerman
NOTE: This is research about the intelligence and activities of birds around the world.

Call Number: 613.1 L817h Title: Heat Advisory: Protecting Health on a Warming Planet Author: Alan H. Lockwood, MD

Call Number: 616.9 K127o Title: One Health and the Politics of Antimicrobial Resistance Author: Laura Kahn

Call Number: 621.31 L989e Title: Electricity from Wave and Tide: An Introduction to Marine Energy Author: Paul A. Lynn
NOTE: About tidal power.

Call Number: 621.45 B832w Title: Wind Power Generation Author: Paul Breeze

Call Number: 621.47 B832s Title: Solar Power Generation Author: Paul Breeze

Call Number: 635 R286a Title: Reader’s Digest Quintessential Guide to Gardening: An A to Z of Flowers, Friends, Herbs, and Vegetables Author: Reader’s Digest Association

Call Number: 635.9 M369g Title: The Greenhouse Gardener’s Manual Author: Roger Marshall

Call Number: 638.1 Y546v Title: Vanishing Bees: Science, Politics, and Honeybee Health Authors: Sainath Suryanarayanan and Daniel Lee Kleinman

Call Number: 638.5 B627g Title: Gardening for Butterflies: How You Can Attract and Protect Beautiful, Beneficial Insects Authors: Scott Hoffman Black, Brianna Borders, Candace Fallon, Eric Lee-Mader, and Matthew Shepherd

Call Number: 978.7 S645y Title: Yellowstone and the Smithsonian: Centers of Wildlife Conservation Author: Diane Smith

Sarah Uthoff is a reference library at Kirkwood Community College. LIKE the Kirkwood Community College Library on Facebook and find links to Sarah all over the web at her About Me Profile.

Earth Day Books 2016

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Earth Day, Earth Day Display, Ecology, Ecology Books, Enviromentalism, Environment, New Books

Do you know everything you can recycle just by dropping them in the blue Kirkwood yardies distributed around campus? Check out the information about the program, including a list of what can go in those familiar containers:
http://www.kirkwood.edu/site/index.php?d=1229

Check out these books on ecology related titles that the library has added in the last year. We have them on our Earth Day display in the library. Stop by before the end of April to see it.

Call Number: 331.91 S449w Title: Water 4.0: The Past, Present, and Future of the World’s Most Vital Resource Author: David Sedlak

Call Number: 333.109 W752a Title: America’s Public Lands: From Yellowstone to Smokey Bear and Beyond Author: Randall K. Wilson

Call Number: 333.72 H946s Title: Saving the Earth as A Career: Advice on Becoming A Conservation Professional (2nd ed.) Authors: Malcolm L. Hunter, Jr., David B. Lindenmayer, anD Aram J. K. Calhoun

Call Number: 333.91 C516w Title: Water, Peace, and War: Confronting the Global Water Crisis (Updated edition) Author: Brahma Chellaney

Call Number: 333.91 P665p Title: The Price of Thirst: Global Water Ineqality and the Coming Chaos Author: Karen Piper

Call Number: 338.3 B838o Title: The Oyster War: The True Story of a Small Farm, Big Politics, and the Future of Wilderness in America Author: Summer Brennan

Call Number: 338.6 L863o Title: Out of Sight: The Long and Disturbing Story of Corporations Outsourcing Catastrophe Author: Erik Loomis

Call Number: 338.9 S797 Title: Confronting Hidden Threats to Sustainability Directors: Gary Gardner, Tom Prugh, and Michael Renner

Call Number: 363.701 D897s Title: Seeing Green: The Use and Abuse of American Environmental Images Author: Finish Dunaway

Call Number: 363.738 H918h Title: The Human and Environmental Impact of Fracking: How Fracturing Shale for Gas Affects Us and Our World Editor: Madelon L. Finkel

Call Number: 363.738 R766c Title: Climate Change: What Everyone Needs to Know Author: Joseph Romm

Call Number: 394.12 M167a Title: The American Way of Eating: Undercover at Walmart, Applebee’s, Farm Fields, and the Dinner Table Author: Tracie McMillan

Call Number: 509.2 W961i Title: The Invention of Nature: Alexander Von Humboldt’s New World Author: Andrea Wulf

Call Number: 551.6 G648h Title: How to Cool the Planet: Geoengineering and the Audacious Quest to Fix Earth’s Climate Author: Jeff Goodell

Call Number: 551.68 F854c Title: Chemtrails, HAARP, and the Full Spectrum Dominance of Planet Earth Author: Elana Freeland

 

Call Number: 577.27 N962c Title: Climatology Versus Pseudoscience: Exposing the Failed Predictions of Global Warming Skeptics Author: Dana Nuccitelli

Call Number: 577.7 W426m Title: Marine Pollution: What Everyone Needs to Know Author: Judith S. Weis

Call Number: 581.68 R727q Title: The Quiet Extinction: Stories of North America’s Rare and Threatened Plants Author: Kara Rogers

Call Number: 591.68 S529h Title: How to Clone a Mammoth: The Science of De-Extinction Author: Beth Shapiro

Call Number: 974.02 C947c Title: Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England Author: William Cronon

Sarah Uthoff is a reference library at Kirkwood Community College. LIKE the Kirkwood Community College Library on Facebook and find links to Sarah all over the web at her About Me Profile.

Earth Day Roundup 2015

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Earth Day, Earth Day Display

Every year Kirkwood Library Services put up a display in honor of Earth Day (April 22nd). We also do a post about new Earth Day related books the library has added over the previous year. These titles are available at the Cedar Rapids branch of Kirkwood Library Services, but you can request them to be sent to any other center. We hope to strive to make every day Earth Day and it’s always a good time to learn more. Check out the round up of books on ecology topics from this year and previous years below.

2015
https://kirkwoodlibrary.wordpress.com/2015/04/17/earth-day-books-2015

2014
https://kirkwoodlibrary.wordpress.com/2014/04/18/earth-day-2014

2013
https://kirkwoodlibrary.wordpress.com/2013/04/12/earth-day-books-2013

2012
https://kirkwoodlibrary.wordpress.com/2012/04/15/earth-day-2012

2011
https://kirkwoodlibrary.wordpress.com/2011/04/12/earth-day-books

Sarah Uthoff is a reference library at Kirkwood Community College. LIKE the Kirkwood Community College Library on Facebook and find links to Sarah all over the web at her About Me Profile.

Earth Day Books 2015

Tags

Earth Day, Ecology, Environment, Environmentalism, New Books

Do you know everything you can recycle just by dropping them in the blue Kirkwood yardies distributed around campus? Check out the information about the program, including a list of what can go in those familiar containers:
http://www.kirkwood.edu/site/index.php?d=1229

Check out these books on ecology related titles that the library has added in the last year. We have them on our Earth Day display in the library. Stop by before the end of April to see it.

Call Number: 304.209 M875b Title: The Big Muddy: An Environmental History of the Mississippi and Its Peoples From Hernando De Soto to Hurricane Katrina Author: Christopher Morris

Call Number: 306.309 J687c Title: Carbon Nation: Fossil Fuels in the Making of the American Culture Author: Bob Johnson

Call Number: 333.79 M478c Title: Careers in Renewable Energy (Updated 2nd ed.) Author: Gregory McNamee

Call Number: 333.823 G618 Title: The Boom: How Fracking Ignited the American Energy Revolution and Changed the World Author: Russell Gold

Call Number: 333.91 B261b Title: Blue Revolution: Unmaking America’s Water Crisis Author: Cynthia Barnett

Call Number: 363.179 D261b Title: Banned: A History of Pesticides, and the Science of Toxicology Author: Frederick Rowe Davis

Call Number: 363.19 D911e Title: Eat, Drink, and Be Wary Author: Charles M. Duncan

Call Number: 363.5 D457 Title: Design Like You Give a Damn (2 volumes) Editor: Architecture for Humanity

Call Number: 363.7 B199r Title: The Real Cost of Fracking Authors: Michelle Bamberger and Robert Oswald

Call Number: 363.738 D228a Title: The Age of Global Warming: A History Author: Rupert Darwall

Call Number: 363.738 M379c Title: Climate Change: A Very Short Introduction Author: Mark Maslin

Call Number: 363.738 N832c Title: The Climate Casino: Risk, Uncertainty, and Economics for a Warming World Author: William Nordhaus

Call Number: 363.738 R655o Title: Our Daily Poison: From Pesticides to Packaging, How Chemicals Have Contaminated The Food Chain and Are Making Us Sick Author: Marie-Monique Robin

Call Number: 551.5 M978t Title: To Follow The Water: Exploring the Ocean to Discover Climate from the Gulf Stream to the Blue Beyond Author: Dallas Murphy

Call Number: 551.6 C639g Title: Global Weirdness: Severe Storms, Deadly Heat Waves, Relentless Drought, Rising Seas, and the Weather of the Future Author: Climate Central

Call Number: 551.66 O159 Title: Oceans and Marine Resources in a Changing Climate: A Technical Input to the 2013 National Climate Assessment Editors: Roger Griffis and Jennifer Howard

Call Number: 551.682 H915c Title: Can Science Fix Climate Change?: A Case Against Climate Engineering Author: Mike Hulme

Call Number: 559.773 S645d Title: Decade of the Wolf: Returning the Wild to Yellowstone (Revised and Updated) Authors: Douglas W. Smith and Gary Ferguson

Call Number: 571.879 S964o Title: The Oldest Living Things in the World Author: Rachel Sussman

Call Number: 576.84 B262d Title: Dodging Extinction: Power, Food, Money, and The Future of Life on Earth Author: Anthony D. Barnosky

Call Number: 576.86 S334f Title: Frogs, Flies, and Dandelions: The Making of Species Author: Menoo Schilthuizen

Call Number: 577.097 B258g Title: The Ghosts of Evolution: Nonsensical Fruit, Missing Partners, and Other Ecological Anachronism Author: Connie Barlow

Call Number: 577.44 T148 Title: The Tallgrass Prairie Reader Editor: John T. Price

Call Number: 578.778 S549c Title: Coral Reefs: A Very Short Introduction Author: Charles Sheppard

Call Number: 582.216 N426t Title: Trees of Eastern North America Authors: Gill Nelson, Christopher J. Earler, and Richard Spellenberg

Call Number: 591.68 G52h Title: The Hunt for the Golden Mole: All Creatures Great and Small and Why They Matter Author: Richard Girling

Call Number: 598.909 L2554r Title: The Raptors of Iowa Authors: Dean M. Roosa, Jon W. Stravers, Bruce Ehresman, and Rich Patterson

Call Number: 599.773 B977w Title: The Wolf Almanac: A Celebration of Wolves and Their World (New and Revised) Author: Robert H. Busch

Call Number: 599.773 D975h Title: The Hidden Life of Wolves Authors: Jim and Jamie Dutcher

Call Number: 615.945 B725e Title: Eating Dangerously: Why the Government Can’t Keep Your Food Safe…And How You Can Authors: Michael Booth and Jennifer Brown

Call Number: 631.45 C755c Title: Conservation in Agriculture: Water Demands, Irrigation, and Drought Adaption Author: Alan S. Theiss

Call Number: 632.3 S392h Title: Hungry Planet: Stories of Plant Diseases Authors: Gail L. Schumann and Cleora J. D’Arcy

Call Number: 635.048 D171s Title: Sacred Land: Intuitive Gardening for Personal, Political, Environmental Change Author: Clea Danaan

Call Number: 720.47 W 759s Title: Sustainable Design for Interior Environments (2nd ed.) Author: Susan M. Winchip

Call Number: 797.23 N468d Title: Deep: Freediving, Renegade Science, and What the Ocean Tells Us About Ourselves Author: James Nestor

Call Number: 994.3 M122r Title: The Reef: A Passionate History: The Great Barrier Reef from Captain Cook to Climate Change Author: Ianin McCalman

 

Earth Day Round Up 2014

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Earth Day, Earth Day Display, Ecology, Ecology Books

Every year Kirkwood Library Services put up a display in honor of Earth Day (April 22nd). We also post about new Earth Day related books at that time. We’re about ready to take down our display for the year, but we hope to strive to make every day Earth Day and it’s always a good time to learn more. Check out the round up of books on ecology topics from this year and previous years below.

Earth Day Display 2014

2014
https://kirkwoodlibrary.wordpress.com/2014/04/18/earth-day-2014

2013
https://kirkwoodlibrary.wordpress.com/2013/04/12/earth-day-books-2013

2012
https://kirkwoodlibrary.wordpress.com/2012/04/15/earth-day-2012

2011
https://kirkwoodlibrary.wordpress.com/2011/04/12/earth-day-books

Sarah Uthoff is a reference library at Kirkwood Community College. LIKE the Kirkwood Community College Library on Facebook and find links to Sarah all over the web at her About Me Profile.

Earth Day 2014

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Earth Day, Ecology, Enivroment

Once again Kirkwood Community College Library Services is helping to celebrate Earth Day! Come see the display at the Cedar Rapids campus or request these titles to be sent to your local center.

Call Number: 333.91 S449w Title: Water 4.0: The Past, Present, and Future of the World’s Most Vital Resource Author: David Sedlak

Call Number: 333.72 T953w Title: Last Stand: Ted Turner’s Quest To Save a Troubled Planet Author: Todd Wilinson

Call Number: 333.95 D191o Title: Oceana: Our Endangered Oceans and What We Can Do to Save Them Author: Ted Danson

Call Number: 333.95 P295b Title: Biodiversity Author: Dorothy Hinshaw Patent

Call Number: 338.2 B878f Title: Full Planet, Empty Plates: The New Geopolitics of Food Scarcity Author: Lester R. Brown

Call Number: 338.473 F982w Title: Windfall: The Booming Business of Global Warming Author: McKenzie Funk

Call Number: 363.179 G152r Title: Radiation: What It Is, What You Need to Know Authors: Robert Peter Gale, MD and Eric Lax

Call Number: 363.34 R777 Title: Room for the River: Summary Report of the 2011 Mississippi River Flood

Call Number: 363.738 B862 Title: The Britannica Guide to Climate Change

Call Number: 363.738 M821p Title: Plastic Ocean: How a Sea Captain’s Chance Discovery Launched a Determined Quest to Save the Oceans Authors: Captain Charles Moore and Cassandra Phillips

Call Number: 551.22 D988e Title: Earthquake Storms: The Fascinating History and Volatile Future of the San Andreas Fault Author: John Dvorak

Call Number: 551.46 H978o Title: Oceans: A Visual Guide Authors: Stephen Hutchinson and Lawrence E. Hawkins

Call Number: 551.46 R797o Title: Oceans: Exploring the Hidden Depths of the Underwater World Authors: Paul Rose and Anne Laking

Call Number: 551.6 C885e Title: The End of the Long Summer: Why We Must Remake Our Civilization to Survive on a Volatile Earth Author: Dianne Dumanoski

Call Number: 551.6 M148w Title: Waking the Giant: How a Changing Climate Triggers Earthquakes, Tsunamis, and Volcanoes Author: Bill McGuire

Call Number: 553.7 N672w Title: Water: The Essence of Life Author: Mark Niemeyer

Call Number: 576.84 K812s Title: The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History Author: Elizabeth Kolbert

Call Number: 577.5 C515L Title: Lost Land of the Dodo Authors: Anthony Cheke and Julian Hume

Call Number: 599.786 E47o Title: On Thin Ice: The Changing World of the Polar Bear Author: Richard Ellis

Call Number: 599.88 M875p Title: Planet Ape Author: Desmond Morris

Call Number:  658.4 2616L Title: Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don’t Author: Simon Sinek

Call Number: 779.092 D331v Title: Vanishing World: The Endangered Arctic Author: Fredrik Garnath

Call Number: 770.092 R327 Title: Reef Author: Scubazoo

And you hear so much bad news around Earth Day, here’s a little good news.

Sarah Uthoff is a reference library at Kirkwood Community College. LIKE the Kirkwood Community College Library on Facebook and find links to Sarah all over the web at her About Me Profile.