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Author
Publisher
Running Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Presents project ideas and instructions to transform everyday things into whimsical objects, explaining how to transform leather belts into a doormat, CD jewel cases into photo frames, potato chip bags into a "silver leafed" mirror, and more, and providing tips and advice on tools and materials.
8) Recycling
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Carefully leveled text and vibrant photographs introduce early fluent readers to the science and engineering behind recycling. Includes infographics, activity, glossary, and index--
10) Ship breaker
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
In a futuristic world, teenaged Nailer scavenges copper wiring from grounded oil tankers for a living, but when he finds a beached clipper ship with a girl in the wreckage, he has to decide if he should strip the ship for its wealth or rescue the girl.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Modern waste-management systems are integrating a variety of recycling processes. Transforming waste into energy and waste into new products is at the forefront of new technologies. For example, light is used to separate glass from minerals, while magnets and whirlstreams separate metals from non-metals. Inside the eponymous rotting boxes', organic waste is recycled by organic materialeating micro-organisms into re-usable products. Understanding the...
12) The upcycle
Author
Publisher
North Point Press, a division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Barron's
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Discusses a variety of environmental issues, with suggestions for things that organizations, governments, and individuals can do to help, covering topics such as energy efficiency, climate change, recycling, and population growth.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ecosystems require balance to survive, and when that balance is compromised, disaster can befall the whole system. To keep a balance in our global ecosystem, we need to use resources efficiently, equitably, and sustainably. In both nature and economics, we observe that when a healthy distribution of resources is achieved, systems can not only function but flourish.
The United States recycles roughly 34% of its waste and has been stuck at this level...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Reduce, reuse, recycle," urge environmentalists; in other words, do more with less in order to minimize damage. As William McDonough and Michael Braungart argue in their provocative, visionary book, however, this approach perpetuates a one-way, "cradle to grave" manufacturing model that dates to the Industrial Revolution and casts off as much as 90 percent of the materials it uses as waste, much of it toxic. Why not challenge the notion that human...
Author
Publisher
M. Cavendish
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Minna has a school assignment to make a poster about recycling, her entire rabbit family spends the week practicing various kinds of recycling and suggesting ideas for her poster.
18) Cartoneros
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Cartoneros follows the paper recycling process in Buenos Aires from the trash pickers who collect paper informally through middlemen in warehouses, to executives in large corporate mills. The process exploded into a multimillion dollar industry after Argentina's latest economic collapse. The film is both a record of an economic and social crisis and an invitation to audiences to rethink the value of trash. Filmmaker: Ernesto Livon-Grosman.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Traces the problem of world hunger along the length of the food chain, arguing that consumers in North America and Europe discard half their food while crops in developing countries rot because there is no way to process and/or get them to market, and offering a plan of rectify the problem by reducing, redistributing, and recycling.
Author
Publisher
C&T Publishing
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Consume less and create more -- by turning old T-shirts into new treasures. Kid-friendly projects included! Did you know the average American throws away more than sixty-eight pounds of clothing each year? Join the revolution to reduce your carbon footprint -- one T-shirt at a time! Widely known for her recycling efforts, environmental crafter Jenelle Montilone will show you how to upcycle tees into fun and fanciful quilts, accessories, toys, and...
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