Ridgway Public Library

Farmer Tantoh Nforba is proud to call himself a farmer. He is an environmental leader, bringing clean water and bountiful organic gardens to Cameroon. He is also the founder of the international charity Save Your Future Association.

Twelve-year-old Ted will do anything to find a real live Truffula Tree in order to impress the girl of his dreams. As he embarks on his journey, Ted discovers the incredible story of the Lorax, a grumpy but charming creature who speaks for the trees. In a place where the brown Bar-ba-loots frisk and the Humming-Fish splash around, you will find the Lorax. The Lorax speaks of the trees, which the Once-ler is chopping down as fast as he pleases. Will...

With a contemplative tone, the author (In the Shadow of the Sabertooth, 2013) reflects on solo trips as well as adventures with his friends and family. Peacock's descriptions--whether of exploring the ranges and valleys of the Sonoran Desert, floating and fishing in a river in Montana, or studying grizzlies in Yellowstone and tigers in Siberia--are detailed and vivid, immersing the reader in the experience. Glimpses of his personal life, from preparing...

While the average parents spend almost $7,000 gearing up for a new addition, the authors each shelled out less than a thousand and they did it by going green. The authors prove that raising a baby can be easy on the pocketbook and the planet.

"An Indigenous environmental scientist breaks down why western conservationism isn't working--and offers Indigenous models informed by case studies, personal stories, and family histories that center the voices of Latin American women and land protectors."--

"From the author of Losing Earth, a deeply reported and beautifully told exploration of how we live in a post-natural world"--

"Chronic overachiever Prudence Daniels is always quick to cast judgment on the lazy, rude, and arrogant residents of her coastal town. Her dreams of karmic justice are fulfilled when, after a night out with her friends, she wakes up with the sudden ability to cast instant karma on those around her. Pru giddily makes use of the power, punishing everyone from public vandals to mean gossips, but there is one person on whom her powers consistently backfire:...

"As different as we all are in situations, needs, and views, we hold the world in common. In this brilliant ethnography, Colin Jerolmack vividly highlights this basic environmental conundrum with his compelling account of the local conflicts over fracking in the countryside around Williamsport, Pennsylvania." -- "A riveting portrait of a rural Pennsylvania town at the center of the fracking controversy. Shale gas extraction--commonly known as fracking--is...

An Air Force loadmaster in the Vietnam War is shot out of the sky, then saved by falling into a banyan. An artist inherits a hundred years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut. A hard-partying undergraduate in the late 1980s electrocutes herself, dies, and is sent back into life by creatures of air and light. A hearing- and speech-impaired scientist discovers that trees are communicating with one another. These four,...