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• Plastiki

  Across the Pacific on Plastic : An Adventure to Save Our Oceans

  Rothschild, David de

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  Explorer, global green leader, and eco-TV host David de Rothschild recounts the extraordinary journey of the Plastiki, an innovative and mostly untested sixty-foot catamaran that floats on 12,500 reclaimed plastic bottles

• Outsmart Waste

  the Modern Idea of Garbage and How to Think Our Way Out of It

  Szaky, Tom

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  Eco-entrepreneur Tom Szaky says that to outsmart waste first we have to understand it, then change how we create it, and finally rethink what we do with it.

• A Plastic Ocean

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  An international team of adventurers, researchers, and Ocean ambassadors go on a mission around the globe to uncover the shocking truth about what is truly lurking beneath the surface our seemingly pristine ocean. The result will astound…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Eco Structures

  Forms of Sustainable Architecture

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  The rapid depletion of resources and the continuous demand for new buildings are key issues facing city planners, architects, and policy makers today. This portfolio of cutting-edge eco structures from the world's leading architecture…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Life Without Plastic

  the Practical Step-by-step Guide to Avoiding Plastic to Keep Your Family and the Planet Healthy

  Plamondon, Chantal,

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  Jay and Chantal show readers how to analyze their personal plastic use, find alternatives and create easy replacements in this step-by-step guide. Get your family healthier, spread consciousness and radiate positive plastic-free energy by…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Enclosure

  Goldsworthy, Andy, 1956-

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  This volume is a rich testament to Goldsworthy's lifelong interest in the land, its history and its inhabitants.

• Junkyard Planet

  Travels in the Billion-dollar Trash Trade

  Minter, Adam, 1970-

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  A veteran journalist with access to and insight on the waste industry traces the export of America's recyclables and reveals the huge profits that China and other rising nations earn from them, causing the decline of the U.S. economy and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Art and Survival : Patricia Johanson's Environmental Projects

  Kelley, Caffyn

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• Junk Raft

  An Ocean Voyage and a Rising Tide of Activism to Fight Plastic Pollution

  Eriksen, Marcus, 1967-

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  An exciting account of an activist scientist's unorthodox fight in the growing movement against plastic marine pollution and of his expedition across the Pacific on a home-made "junk raft".

• Plastic Purge

  How to Use Less Plastic, Eat Better, Keep Toxins Out of Your Body, and Help Save the Sea Turtles!

  SanClements, Michael

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  How to Use Less Plastic, Eat Better, Keep Toxins Out of your Body, and Help Save the Sea Turtles!

• Inside the Garbage of the World

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  Here is an informative, hard hitting and educational film about the environmental problem of plastic pollution inside the Oceans rising to a dangerous level for human safety and its solution. The film busts the myth of a plastic island…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet

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  As human-induced environmental change threatens multispecies livability, Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet puts forward a bold proposal: entangled histories, situated narratives, and thick descriptions offer urgent {28}arts of living.

• Recycling Reconsidered

  the Present Failure and Future Promise of Environmental Action in the United States

  MacBride, Samantha

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  MacBride offers a series of case studies in recycling that pose provocative questions about whether the current ways we deal with waste are really the best ways to bring about real sustainability and environmental justice. She does not aim…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• What Milly Did

  the Remarkable Pioneer of Plastics Recycling

  Moser, Elise

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  Milly Zantow wanted to solve the problem of her towns full landfill and ended up creating a global recycling standard the system of numbers you see inside the little triangle on plastics. This is the inspiring story of how she mobilized…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Plastic, Ahoy!

  Investigating the Great Pacific Garbage Patch

  Newman, Patricia

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  A team of scientists explores the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, where millions of pieces of plastic have gathered, having drifted there from rivers, beaches, and ocean traffic all over the world.

• The Zero Waste Solution

  Untrashing the Planet One Community at a Time

  Connett, Paul, 1940-

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  Shows activists, planners, and entrepreneurs how to reenvision a community's waste-handling process by consuming less, turning organic waste into compost, recycling, reusing, and demanding nonwasteful product design.

• Plastic Paradise

  the Great Pacific Garbage Patch

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  The invention of synthetic plastic created an era of disposable products. Watertight and endlessly malleable, plastic is the perfect invention yet, its miraculous durability is also its curse because it never goes away.

• Trash-to-Treasure Papermaking : Make Your Own Recycled Paper From Newspapers & Magazines, Can & Bottle Labels, Discarded Gift Wrap, Old Phone Books, Junk Mail, Comic Books and More

  Grummer, Arnold E., 1923-2012

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  Transform junk mail, newspapers, and old phone books into beautiful handmade paper in just minutes! With a simple technique that requires only a blender and some water, Trash-to-Treasure Papermaking shows you how to create unique sheets in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Plastic Ocean

  How a Sea Captain's Chance Discovery Launched a Determined Quest to Save the Oceans

  Moore, Charles, 1947-

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  In the summer of 1997, Charles Moore set sail from Honolulu for California after competing in a trans-Pacific race. When he and his crew took a shortcut through the seldom-traversed North Pacific Subtropical Gyre, a vast oceanic "desert"…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Eco-craft

  Recycle-recraft-restyle

  Wasinger, Susan

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  Who knew taking care of the planet could look so good?Eco Craft shows how, with 30 truly beautiful home décor projects that elevate environmental consciousness to stylish new heights.