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Green Jolene and the neighborhood swap
\"A girl must part with her beloved rain boots and organizes a neighborhood swap to find them a new home\"-- Provided by publisher.
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This Is Our Land
In the last three decades of the twentieth century, the environmental movement experienced a quiet revolution. InThis is Our Land, Cody Ferguson documents this little-noted change as he describes the efforts of three representative grassroots groups-in Montana, Arizona, and Tennessee-revealing how quite ordinary citizens fought to solve environmental problems.
Here are stories of common people who, confronting environmental threats to the health and safety of their families and communities, bonded together to protect their interests. These stories include successes and failures as citizens learned how to participate in their democracy and redefined what participation meant. Equally important, Ferguson describes how several laws passed in the seventies-such as the National Environmental Policy Act-gave citizens the opportunity and the tools to fight for the environment. These laws gave people a say in the decisions that affected the world around them, including the air they breathed, the water they drank, the land on which they made their living, and the communities they called home. Moreover, Ferguson shows that through their experiences over the course of the 1970s, '80s, and '90s, these citizen activists broadened their understanding of \"this is our land\" to mean \"this is our community, this is our country, this is our democracy, and this is our planet.\" As they did, they redefined political participation and expanded the ability of citizens to shape their world.
Challenging us to see activism in a new way,This is Our Landrecovers the stories of often-unseen citizens who have been vitally important to the environmental movement. It will inspire readers to confront environmental threats and make our world a safer, more just, and more sustainable place to live.
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Love the Earth
Encourages the reader to join in an imaginary journey aboard a magical plane, the White Feather Flier, to help clean the plastic out of the ocean, build a school for girls, and create a sanctuary for gray whales.
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Romantic Ecologies and Colonial Cultures in the British Atlantic World, 1770-1850
By addressing these and other intriguing questions, Kevin Hutchings highlights significant intersections between Green Romanticism and colonial politics, demonstrating how contemporary understandings of animality, climate, and habitat informed literary and cross-cultural debates about race, slavery, colonialism, and nature in the British Atlantic world. Revealing an innovative dialogue between British, African, and Native American writers of the Romantic period, this book will be of interest to anyone wishing to consider the interconnected histories of transatlantic colonial relations and environmental thought.
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What matters
In this picture book, the ripple effect of one child's small action shows how we can all make a big environmental difference.
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A Labor of Love: WALL-E's Redemption
The film, with WALL-E as its central character, leaps from Old to New Testament, connecting the more obvious allusions to Genesis and the Garden of Eden to subtler nods at redemption and salvation, the nature of humanity, and our relationships with each other. [...]the relationship between love and labor will be viewed not through a capitalist, or environmentalist lens, but through a theological one. The trash-filled, garbage-ridden landscape, the lack of any plant life (other than the finding of the sapling that catapults the film's plot into action), and the dystopian narrative of an abandoned earth all resonate with a society conscious of its own environmental impact and destruction. \"13 She points to the hypocrisy of the film's marketing strategy, which included themed single-use plastics such as collectors cups and disposable plastic watches for its cinematic and later DVD releases, pointing to the parallel in the film itself of the literal rubbish WALL-E hoards in his home (his \"postmodern bricolage\") and the irony of what is considered \"collectible\" and what is considered \"garbage. \"16 Henry A. Giroux, in his second edition of 7he Mouse that Roared: Disney and the End of Innocence describes Disney's power to obfuscate its own role in corporate and consumerist monopolies as \"perhaps the most disturbing of all the film's implications.
Journal Article
The tree and me
After her nemesis gets stuck up the old oak tree on her school's property, concerned parents call the tree a danger and ask for it to be cut down, so Bea and her classmates come up with a great plan to save it.
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Oddly Radical
This essay reconsiders Clifford Simak’s Way Station as a nuanced exploration of environmental virtue ethics, challenging the conventional view of Simak’s ideology as conservative. It argues that Simak critiques anthropocentrism, including that in Aldo Leopold’s “Land Ethic,” by advocating for a more authentic ecocentric perspective. Through close analysis, the essay examines how Simak integrates ethical considerations into his portrayal of the ecosphere and his characters’ responses to it, emphasizing the intrinsic value of all beings. Additionally, it explores Simak’s anti-anthropocentrism and alignment with ecofeminism, underscoring his preference for non-human entities. The essay also delves into Simak’s empathy for the “other,” illustrating how he promotes environmental justice and respect for all beings, irrespective of ability, beauty, or corporality. By illuminating Simak’s environmental virtue ethics, this essay contributes to a deeper understanding of how his pastoral science fiction shapes environmental consciousness and promotes ethical engagement with the natural world. (JMB)
Journal Article