Adult
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| A
Civil Action
Jonathan Harr
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A
true story of a courtroom showdown in which two of the nation’s
largest corporations stand accused of causing the deaths of children
in Woburn Massachusetts. |
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| Clean
and Green
Annie Berthold-Bond
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Now
you can clean, polish and disinfect naturally. Clean and Green is
filled with new and traditional ideas for living free of hazardous
household products. |
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| Consumer
Guide to Home Energy Savings
Alex Wilson and John Morrill
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For
green--and budget-conscious--consumers, a comprehensive guide to
help you find and use energy-saving products. |
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| The
Ecology of Commerce
Paul Hawken
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Provides
a visionary blueprint for a marketplace where businesses and
environmentalists work together, showing companies how to redesign
and manufacture products in innovative ways, reeducate customers,
and work closely with government toward a profitable, productive,
and ecologically sound future. |
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| Guide
to Natural Baby Care
Mindy
Pennybacker and Aisha
Ikramuddin
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Emphasizing
ways to make natural baby care easy, practical, and low on guilt,
this guide includes hundreds of mail order sources for
environmentally friendly, nontoxic products. |
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| Having
Faith: An Ecologist's Journey to Motherhood
Sandra Steingraber
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This
October 2001 follow-up effort by the author of Living Downstream (see below) tells her very
personal story of pregnancy, childbirth and breastfeeding, but with an eye not only toward
sharing her experience and talking about the bonding process, but also tying it all into the
envrionment around us and how pollution can adversely affect the health of our offspring. |
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| The
Healthy Living Space: 70 Practical Ways to Detoxify the Body and Home
Richard Leviton
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The Healthy Living Space
is a primer for those who know that we’re polluting our planet and fear they’re polluting their
own bodies, providing 70 essential tips for achieving optimal health by cleaning the poisons out of
your body and home. |
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| Hope's
Edge: The Next Diet for a Small Planet
Frances Moore Lappé and Anna Lappé
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Both an
account of an intimate mother-and-daughter journey and their vision for social and environmental transformation,
as well as a guide to vegetarian, organic and whole-foods dishes from celebrated restaurants such as Chez Panisse
and Angelica Kitchen. |
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| Living
Downstream
Sandra Steingraber
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With
this eloquent and impassioned book, biologist and poet Sandra
Steingraber shoulders the legacy of Rachel Carson, producing a work
about people and land, cancer and the environment, that is as
accessible and invaluable as Silent Spring--and potentially
as historic. |
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| Living
Healthy in a Toxic World
Steinman and Wisner
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An
engaging, accessible guide to human health shares a collection of
strategies for reducing toxins in one's life, offering advice on
hazardous products, chemical-free housekeeping, making one's home
toxin-free, avoiding chemicals in cosmetics, and more. |
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| Our
Stolen Future
Colburn, Dumanoski, Myers
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Identifies
the various ways in which chemical pollutants in the environment are
disrupting human reproductive patterns and causing such problems as
birth defects, sexual abnormalities, and reproductive failure. |
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Prodigal Summer
Barbara Kingsolver
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A wildlife biologist observes coyotes from her isolated aerie
until the arrival of a young hunter who makes her even more
aware of the truth that humans are only an infinitesimal
portion in the ecological balance. |
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Raising Healthy Children in a Toxic World
Philip J. Landrigan and Herbert L. Needleman
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A thorough guide to 101 ways you can improve the well-being and safety of your
family at home, work, daycare, or even the local park. The main topics are
further subdivided into areas of special interest. Each chapter has a short
list of questions to help you identify which topics to focus on. Depending
on the answer, a list of topic numbers will assist in your
hunt for solutions. |
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A Small Dose of Toxicology
Steven G. Gilbert
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A thorough but accessible introduction to the toxicity of common chemicals in our lives, for those who want
to know more about the history and effects of substances we often take for granted, but which can have far-reaching
impacts on our health and our environment. |
