During Earth Month, the Library has all you need to get started learning about Environmental Science and Environmental Policy!
This year's theme is "Protect Our Species." Here at Georgetown University Library, we know that access to accurate and up to date information on environmental issues such as climate change, air quality, deforestation, endangered species, and more, are crucial as you grow as future leaders in the field through your research and studies.
To jumpstart your research, Blommer Science Library has selected its top 10 resources to check out this Earth Month.
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In this follow-up documentary, former Vice President Al Gore presents evidence that the negative effects of global warming have increased since the release of the film "An Inconvenient Truth" a decade earlier.
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Rainbow Warriors: Legendary Stories from Greenpeace Ships
Following the lives of the three ships with the name Rainbow Warrior, this book, written by a long-serving Greenpeace activist, tells the inside stories of life on board and recounts some of the ship's most exciting adventures and actions.
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Marjorie Harris Carr: Defender of Florida's Environment
Marjorie Harris Carr is an intimate look at this remarkable woman who dedicated her life to conserving Florida's wildlife and wild places. It is also a revelation of how the grassroots battle to save a small but vitally important river in central Florida transformed the modern environmental movement.
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Islamic Environmentalism: Activism in the United States and Great Britain
Islamic Environmentalism examines Muslim involvement in environmentalism in the United States and Great Britain. The book focuses on Muslim activists and Islamic organizations that approach environmentalism as a religious duty: offering environmental readings of Islamic scriptures, and integrating religious ritual and practice with environmental action.
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Our Native Bees: America's Endangered Pollinators and the Fight to Save Them
Honey bees get all the press, but the fascinating story of North America's native bees—an endangered species essential to our ecosystems and food supplies—is just as crucial. Our Native Bees is the result of Paige Embry's yearlong quest to learn more about these forgotten, yet fundamental, creatures.
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In Wild Things, Wild Places, Jane Alexander movingly, with a clear eye and a knowing, keen grasp of the issues and on what is being done in conservation and the worlds of science to help the planet's most endangered species to stay alive and thrive, writes of her steady and fervent immersion into the worlds of wildlife conservation. She also discusses how she came to know the scientists throughout the world—to her, the prophets in the wilderness—who are steeped in this work, and her travels with them and on her own to the most remote and forbidding areas of the world as they try to save many species, including ourselves.
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Handbook of Research on Global Environmental Changes and Human Health
The faster climate change affects the globe, the faster individuals will see the negative consequences, which include the decline of general human health. Comprehension of all climate change-related etiologies is essential to understanding the importance of global environmental stability. The Handbook of Research on Global Environmental Changes and Human Health is a collection of innovative research to manage the ensuing and numerous climate and anthropogenic threats to human health.
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Spanning 50 years of grassroots and global activism, this Sundance documentary brings to light the vital stories of the environmental movement where people fought, and succeeded, against enormous odds.
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Don't Even Think About It: Why our Brains are Wired to Ignore Climate Change
Most of us recognize that climate change is real, and yet we do nothing to stop it. What is this psychological mechanism that allows us to know something is true but act as if it is not? George Marshall's search for the answers brings him face-to-face with Nobel Prize-winning psychologists and the activists of the Texas Tea Party; the world's leading climate scientists and the people who denounce them; liberal environmentalists and conservative evangelicals. Don't even think about it is both about climate change and about the qualities that make us human and how we can grow as we deal with the greatest challenge we have ever faced.
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Discover a wide range of journals, ebooks, and research reports in the field of sustainability. The subjects of resilience and sustainability are explored broadly, covering research on environmental stresses and their impact on society.
Want to dig a little deeper? Visit our Environmental Policy and Environmental Science Subject Guides or stop by the Blommer Science Library to speak with subject specialist Holly Surbaugh. There you will also find other incredible resources that will both inspire you and make you think!