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- FindHow - Energy Conservation Tips by Ted IvesFindHow, the How-To Search Engine, indexes information from "Names You Trust", with a particular emphasis on Home Improvement topics such as Energy Conservation
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Not sure where to start? Begin at the library!
- Decorate your office walls with framed pictures from our Art Prints collection
- Keep up with corporate news by looking through our full-text magazine and newspaper holdings
- Recycle your office‘s printer cartridges, cell phones, and eyeglasses by dropping them off in the library‘s entryway
- Donate your unwanted books to the Friends of the Library
- Check out the library's collection of eBooks and eAudiobooks
Books
Global Warming Survival Handbook
This book is great for doing what few others do: making fun of global warming.
Green Clean: The Environmentally Sound Guide to Cleaning Your Home
Get rid of your green guilt and go squeaky clean with this guide to green cleaning.
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle - Barbara Kingsolver
This book chronicles the year that the author, along with her husband and two daughters, made a commitment to become locavores. Part diary, part encyclopedia, it reads as easily as any of her novels.
True Green @ Work
Spells out 100 strategies for greening the workplace, and highlights other companies who have done the same. Chapters cover everything from the low man on the totem poll to the big cheese.
Walden - Henry David Thoreau
One of the original environmentalists, Thoreau writes simply and clearly, with an obvious passion for nature‘s beauty.
Simple Green Parties - Danny Seo
Easy, trendy, and environmentally friendly ways to hold a "green" party with non–green themes.
eResources
Get out your library card for this one; you're going to need it!
- Pros & Cons of Environmental Issues Learn about both sides of the environmental argument, including topics such as Land and Water Use, Natural Disasters, Pollution and Pollutants, Population and Wildlife and Animal Rights.
- GreenFILE Search for scholarly articles on various environmental topics.
Movies to Watch
An Inconvenient Truth
Former Vice President Al Gore explains the facts of global warming, presents arguments that the dangers of global warning have reached the level of crisis, and addresses the efforts of certain interests to discredit the anti-global warming cause. Between lecture segments, Gore discusses his personal commitment to the environment, sharing anecdotes from his experiences.
Who Killed the Electric Car?
Investigates the birth and death of the electric car, as well as the role of renewable energy and sustainable living in the future.
Search Starters
- Activism & Getting Involved
- Composting
- Consumer Education
- EcoTourism
- Energy Conservation
- Environmental Policy
- Environmental Responsibility
- Environmentalism
- Environmentalists
- Free Trade
- Global Warming
- Green Movement
- Green Products
- Human Ecology
- Organic Living
- Recycling
- Recycled Clothing Projects
- Reuse
- Simple Living
- Social Responsibility of Business
- Solar Power
- Sustainable Architecture
- Sustainable Living
Green Activism
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