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And might we also add:
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If we each can do a little, together we can do a lot! Variety of Earth Day topics, all ages; local event April 27

April 25, 2022 By Library Staff

“Invest in our Planet” is the theme for Earth Day, April 22, 2022.

Use the following reading list for adults, young adults, and children to find a way you can help!

 

But first, how you can invest in our community ~

Learn about local efforts to reduce climate change and positively influence our collective health and sustainability on a local level:

What: Presentations by Accelerate Neighborhood Climate Action (ANCA), Redlands Conservancy, and CA Climate Action Group. Table presentations by Citizens’ Climate Lobby, Friends of A.K. Smiley Public Library, Redlands Conservancy, and ANCA

When: Wednesday, April 27, at 6:30 pm (doors open at 6:00 pm)

Where: A.K. Smiley Public Library Contemporary Club, 173 S. Eureka St., Redlands

It’s free to the public; no registration is required.

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Also, enjoy the Great Outdoors in a state park in honor of Earth Day ~

Visit participating California state parks for free with your library card by checking out a vehicle’s day-use state park pass! Some restrictions apply; give us a call at 909-798-7565 for more information.

  • California State Library Parks Pass / California State Library, Parks Pass Program, 2022

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READING LIST OF BOOKS FOR ADULTS:

Activists, Innovators, & Inspiration

  • A bigger picture : my fight to bring a new African voice to the climate crisis / Nakate, Vanessa, 2021
  • Diary of a young naturalist / McAnulty, Dara, 2021
  • As the world burns : the new generation of activists and the landmark legal fight against climate change / Van der Voo, Lee, 2020
  • Natural rivals : John Muir, Gifford Pinchot, and the creation of America’s public lands / Clayton, John, 2019
  • Visionary women : how Rachel Carson, Jane Jacobs, Jane Goodall, and Alice Waters changed our world / Barnet, Andrea, 2018
  • The wizard and the prophet : two remarkable scientists and their dueling visions to shape tomorrow’s world / Mann, Charles C., 2018
  • Nature’s allies : eight conservationists who changed our world / Nielsen, Larry A., 2017
  • Engineering Eden : the true story of a violent death, a trial, and the fight over controlling nature / Smith, Jordan Fisher, 2016
  • Rachel Carson and her sisters : extraordinary women who have shaped America’s environment / Musil, Robert K., 2014
  • The genius of Earth Day : how a 1970 teach-in unexpectedly made the first green generation / Rome, Adam, 2013
  • On a farther shore : the life and legacy of Rachel Carson / Souder, William, 2012
  • A force for nature : the story of NRDC and the fight to save our planet / Adams, John H. (John Hamilton), 2010
  • The man from Clear Lake : Earth Day founder Gaylord Nelson / Christofferson, Bill, 2004

Animals & Plants

  • The nation of plants / Mancuso, Stefano, 2021
  • Hurricane lizards and plastic squid : the fraught and fascinating biology of climate change / Hanson, Thor, 2021
  • Garden allies : the insects, birds, & other animals that keep your garden beautiful and thriving /Lavoipierre, Frédérique, 2021
  • Born to rewild : triumphs of a now fearless woman / Kalimian, Manda, 2021
  • How to love animals : in a human-shaped world / Mance, Henry, 2021
  • Iwígara : American Indian ethnobotanical traditions and science / Salmón, Enrique, 2020
  • Stronghold : one man’s quest to save the world’s wild salmon / Malarkey, Tucker, 2019
  • Fraser’s penguins : a journey to the future in Antarctica / Montaigne, Fen, 2010

Climate Change, Global Warming, and the effects on our environment

  • Fire and flood : a people’s history of climate change, from 1979 to the present / Linden, Eugene, 2022
  • The Greatest Polar Expedition of All Time : The Arctic Mission to the Epicenter of Climate Change / Rex, Markus/ Pybus, Sarah (TRN), 2022
  • The last winter : the scientists, adventurers, journeymen, and mavericks trying to save the world / Fox, Porter, 2021
  • Disasterology : dispatches from the frontlines of the climate crisis / Montano, Samantha, 2021
  • Overheated : how capitalism broke the planet–and how we fight back / Aronoff, Kate, 2021
  • Our house is on fire : scenes of a family and a planet in crisis / Thunberg, Greta, 2020
  • The fragile earth : writing from the New Yorker on climate change / Remnick, David, 2020
  • The uninhabitable earth : life after warming / Wallace-Wells, David, 2019
  • Wild at heart : America’s turbulent relationship with nature, from exploitation to redemption / Outwater, Alice, 2019
  • Drawdown : the most comprehensive plan ever proposed to reverse global warming / Hawken, Paul, 2017
  • A climate of crisis : America in the age of environmentalism / Allitt, Patrick, 2014
  • An inconvenient truth : the planetary emergency of global warming and what we can do about it / Gore, Al, 2006

Environmental Toxins

  • Toxic legacy : how the weedkiller glyphosate is destroying our health and the environment / Seneff, Stephanie, 2021
  • Our daily poison : from pesticides to packaging, how chemicals have contaminated the food chain and are making us sick / Robin, Marie-Monique, 2014
  • Silent spring / Carson, Rachel. Published 1962.

Hope

  • The book of hope : a survival guide for trying times / Goodall, Jane, 2021
  • Saving us : a climate scientist’s case for hope and healing in a divided world / Hayhoe, Katharine, 2021
  • Hope matters : why changing the way we think is critical to solving the environmental crisis / Kelsey, Elin, 2020
  • No one is too small to make a difference / Thunberg, Greta, 2019
  • Climate of hope : how cities, businesses, and citizens can save the planet / Bloomberg, Michael, 2017
  • Being the change : live well and spark a climate revolution / Kalmus, Peter, 2017
  • Atmosphere of hope : searching for solutions to the climate crisis / Flannery, Tim F. (Tim Fridtjof), 2015

Mitigation, Preparation

  • Electrify : an optimist’s playbook for our clean energy future / Griffith, Saul, 2021
  • The new climate war : the fight to take back the planet / Mann, Michael E., 2021
  • The climate diet : 50 simple ways to trim your carbon footprint / Greenberg, Paul, 2021
  • How to avoid a climate disaster : the solutions we have and the breakthroughs we need / Gates, Bill, 2021
  • Cómo evitar un desastre climático : las soluciones que ya tenemos y los avances que aún necesitamos / Gates, Bill, 2021
  • Simply climate change / DK Publishing, Inc., editor, 2021
  • How to prepare for climate change : a practical guide to surviving the chaos / Pogue, David, 2021
  • What can I do? : my path from climate despair to action / Fonda, Jane, 2020
  • The (almost) zero waste guide : 100+ tips for reducing your waste without changing your life / Mannarino, Melanie, 2020
  • Extreme conservation : life at the edges of the world /Berger, Joel, 2018
  • Climate-wise landscaping : practical actions for a sustainable future / Reed, Sue, 2018
  • Sustainability made simple : small changes for big impact / Byrd, Rosaly, 2017
  • Getting to green : saving nature : a bipartisan solution / Rich, Frederic C., 2016
  • The planet remade : how geoengineering could change the world / Morton, Oliver, 2016
  • Renewable : the world-changing power of alternative energy / Shere, Jeremy, 2013
  • Growing food in a hotter, drier land : lessons from desert farmers on adapting to climate uncertainty / Nabhan, Gary Paul, 2013
  • The atlas of climate change : mapping the world’s greatest challenge / Dow, Kirstin, 2011
  • Urban homesteading : heirloom skills for sustainable living / Kaplan, Rachel, 2011

Plastics & Recycling

  • Can I recycle this? : a guide to better recycling and how to reduce single-use plastics / Romer, Jennie, 2021**
  • Plastic : an autobiography / Cobb, Allison, 2021
  • Living without plastic : more than 100 easy swaps for home, travel, dining, holidays, and beyond / Allen, Brigette, 2021
  • **For more information on recycling in the City of Redlands, visit the City’s website,  https://www.cityofredlands.org/solid-waste-recycling-services

Pollinators: why birds, bats, butterflies, moths, flies, beetles, wasps, small mammals, and most importantly, bees are vital to our environment

  • 100 plants to feed the monarch : create a healthy habitat to sustain North America’s most beloved butterfly : the Xerces Society / Lee-Mader, Eric, 2021
  • Where have all the bees gone? : pollinators in crisis / Hirsch, Rebecca E., 2020
  • How to attract birds to your garden / Rouse, Dan, 2020
  • The pollinator victory garden : win the war on pollinator decline with ecological gardening : how to attract and support bees, beetles, butterflies, bats, and other pollinators / Eierman, Kim, 2020
  • Our native bees : North America’s endangered pollinators and the fight to save them/ Embry, Paige, 2018
  • 100 plants to feed the bees : provide a healthy habitat to help pollinators thrive / Lee-Mäder, Eric, 2016

The Science: let’s figure this out

  • The physics of climate change / Krauss, Lawrence M., 2021
  • Unsettled : what climate science tells us, what it doesn’t, and why it matters / Koonin, Steven E., 2021
  • Brave green world : how science can save our planet / Forman, Christopher, 2021
  • The field guide to citizen science : how you can contribute to scientific research and make a difference / Cavalier, Darlene, 2020
  • Unstoppable : harnessing science to change the world / Nye, Bill, 2015

Trees & Forests

  • The treeline : the last forest and the future of life on earth / Rawlence, Ben, 2022
  • Ever green : saving big forests to save the planet / Reid, John W., 2022
  • Trees in trouble : wildfires, infestations, and climate change / Mathews, Daniel, 2021

MAGAZINES

  • Audubon / National Audubon Society, <1953-current>
  • Environment / Helen Dwight Reid Educational Foundation, <1993-current>
  • The Mother earth news / The Mother Earth News, Inc., <1973-current>
  • National Geographic / National Geographic Society (U.S.), <1905-current>
  • Natural history / American Museum of Natural History, <1921-current>
  • Sierra [serial (magazine)] : the Sierra Club bulletin / Sierra Club, <1985-current>

YOUNG ADULT

Fiction

  • My Chemical Mountain – Vacco, Corina (YA VAC)
  • The Crazy Things Girls Do for Love – Sheldon, Dyan (YA SHE)
  • Salvage – Duncan, Alexandra (YA DUN)

Nonfiction

  • An Inconvenient Truth: The Crisis of Global Warming – Gore, Al 363.738 G66in
  • Where Have All the Bees Gone? Pollinators in Crisis – Hirsch, Rebecca E. 595.79 H615w

Graphic Novels

  • How to Fake a Moon Landing: Exposing the Myths of Science Denial – Cunningham, Daryl 001.9 C917h

CHILDREN

Picture Books

  • Peppa Pig and the Earth Day Adventure – (JE PEP)
  • Be a Tree – Gianferrari, Maria (JE GIA)
  • Arthur Turns Green – Brown, Marc Tolon (JE BRO)
  • Biscuit’s Earth Day Celebration – Capucilli, Alyssa Satin (JE CAP)
  • Dear Earth…: From Your Friends in Room 5 – Dealey, Erin (JE DEA)
  • These Seas Count! – Formento, Alison (JE FOR)
  • A Small History of a Disagreement – Fuentes, Claudio (JE FUE)
  • We Are Water Protectors – Lindstrom, Carole (JE LIN)
  • Ballyhoo Bay – Sierra, Judy (JE SIE)
  • Miss Fox’s Class Goes Green – Spinelli, Eileen (JE SPI)
  • Greta and the Giants: Inspired by Greta Thunberg’s Stand to Save the World – Tucker Zoe (JEFO TUC)
  • Just a Dream – Van Allsburg, Chris (JEFO VAN)
  • Earth Day, Birthday – Wright, Maureen (JE WRI)
  • My Forever Dress – Ziefert, Harriet (JE ZIE)

Chapter Books

  • Willodeen – Applegate, Katherine (J APP)
  • Violet Mackerel’s Pocket Protest – Branford, Anna (J BRA)
  • Watch Out World, Rosy Cole is Going Green: Rosy Cole’s Bright, Though Not Exactly Popular, Ideas About Garbage, Worms, Dirt, and Other Gifts of Nature – Greenwald, Shelia (J GRE)
  • Scat – Hiaasen, Carl (J HIA)
  • Flush – Hiaasen, Carl (J HIA)
  • Hoot – Hiaasen, Carl (J HIA)
  • Save the Earth – Klein, Abby (J KLE)
  • Marty McGuire Digs Worms! – Messner Kate (J MES)

Mysteries

  • Nate the Great and the Earth Day Robot – Sharmat, Andrew (J M SHA)
  • Cam Jansen and the Green School Mystery – Adler, David (J M ADL)
  • Earth Day Escapade – Keene, Carolyn (J M KEE)

Graphic Novels

  • Luz Sees the Light – Davila, Claudia 741.5 D289L
  • Getting to the Bottom of Global Warming – Collins, Terry 363.738 C696g

Nonfiction

  • The Wild World Handbook: How Adventurers, Artists, Scientists – and YOU – Can Protect the Earth’s Habitats – Debbink, Andrea 333.95 D35w
  • It Starts with a Bee – Gallagher, Aimee 595.79 G135i
  • How to Change Everything: The Young Human’s Guide to Protecting the Planet and Each Other – Klein, Naomi with Stefoff, Rebecca 363.738 K672h
  • Earth Day – Cella, Clara 394.262 C33e
  • Earth Day – Hooray – Murphy, Stuart 513 M597e
  • What a Waste – French, Jess 363.72 F888w
  • The Brilliant Deep: Rebuilding the World’s Coral Reefs – Messner, Kate 333.95 M564b
  • Caillou: Every Drop Counts – Johanson, Sarah Margaret 333.91 J599c
  • Sustainable Water Resources – Rooney, Anne 363.61 R674s
  • One Child, One Planet: Inspiration for the Young Conservationist – Llewellyn, Bridget McGovern 363.7 L77o
  • Our House in on Fire: Greta Thunberg’s Call to Save the Planet – Winter, Jeanette 333.7 W734o
  • Trash Revolution: Breaking the Waste Cycle – Fyvie, Erica 363.72 F999t
  • Join the No-Plastic Challenge! A First Book of Reducing Waste – Ritchie, Scot 363.72 R51j
  • The Plastic Problem – Salt, Rachel 363.72 Sa37p
  • Discover It Yourself: Pollution and Waste – 363.73 D631
  • Taming Plastic: Stop the Pollution – Bates, Albert 363.738 B318t
  • Our Environment: Everything You Need to Know – Pasquet, Jacques 577 P265o
  • Climate Change: The Science Behind Melting Glaciers and Warming Oceans, with Hands-On Activities – Sneideman, Joshua 551.6 Sn26c
  • If Bees Disappeared – Williams, Lily 595.79 W673i

Easy Readers

  • Earth Day – McNamara, Margaret (JER MCN)

Spanish

  • El Guardian del Pantano – Garrett, Ann (JSPE GAR)
  • Calentamiento Global – Buchanan, Shelly (JSP 363.738 B851c)

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