Community Focus
Green Lifestyles
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Web Sites
- Freecycle
- The Freecycle Network was started in May 2003 to promote waste reduction in Tucson's downtown and help save desert landscape from being taken over by landfills. The Network provides individuals and non-profits an electronic forum to "recycle" unwanted items. One person's trash can truly be another's treasure!
- FuelEconomy.gov
- Compare cars for gas mileage, emissions, and air pollution. Find out the latest news about fuel efficiency, lowering your gas mileage, getting a hybrid car, and finding the best gas prices.
- Green Power Locator
- Find out if green power options are available for you in your area. Information provided by the EPA.
- Trees for Tucson
- Trees for Tucson is a program of Tucson Clean and Beautiful. Trees for Tucson encourages and facilitates tree planting in the Tucson metropolitian area using desert-adapted trees such as mesquite and desert willow. Trees help beautify the community as well as conserve energy by shading buildings, provide habitat for wildlife, absorb air and water pollutants, control stormwater runoff, soil erosion and wind.
- Tucson Clean and Beautiful
- Tucson Clean and Beautiful conducts environmental volunteer programs in waste reduction and recycling, land stewardship, urban forestry, and beautification.
Books
- Petrini, Carlo. Slow food nation: why our food should be good, clean, and fair.
- 644 P4484s 2007
- Garrett, Leslie. The virtuous consumer: your essential shopping guide for a better, kinder, healthier world.
- 381.33 G1926v 2007
- Rogers, Elizabeth. The green book: the everyday guide to saving the planet one simple step at a time.
- 333.72 R6317g 2007
- McDilda, Diane Gow. The everything green living book.
- 363.7057 M144e 2007
- Pernick, Ron. The clean tech revolution: the next big growth and investment opportunity.
- 338.927 P423c 2007
- Steinman, David. Safe trip to Eden: 10 steps to save planet Earth from the global warming meltdown.
- 551.6 St36s 2007
- Dorfman, Josh. The lazy environmentalist: your guide to easy, stylish, green living.
- 640 D732L 2007
- Blanc, Paul D. How everyday products make people sick: toxins at home and in the workplace.
- 615.9 B591h 2007
- Imus, Deirdre. Greening your cleaning.
- 648.5 Im9g 2007
- Trask, Crissy. It's easy being green: a handbook for earth-friendly living.
- 333.72 T69i 2006
- McKay, Kim. True green: 100 everyday ways you can contribute to a healthier planet.
- 333.72 M4599t 2006
- Steffen, Alex. Worldchanging: a user's guide for the 21st century.
- 333.7 W89388 2006
- Bates, Albert K. The post-petroleum survival guide and cookbook: recipes for changing times.
- 333.7916 B3181p 2006
- Boschert, Sherry. Plug-in hybrids: the cars that will recharge America.
- 629.2293 B6508p 2006
- Berthold-Bond, Annie. Home enlightenment: practical, earth-friendly advice for creating a nurturing, healthy, and toxin-free home and lifestyle.
- 613.5 B4618h 2005
- Royte, Elizabeth. Garbage land: on the secret trail of trash.
- 363.7285 R816g 2005
- Newkirk, Ingrid. Making kind choices: everyday ways to enhance your life through earth-and animal-friendly living.
- 179.3 N46m 2005
- Bennett, Jennifer. Dryland gardening: plants that survive and thrive in tough conditions.
- 635.9525 B4395d 2005
- Loeb, Paul. The impossible will take a little while: a citizen's guide to hope in a time of fear.
- 361.2 Im77 2004
- Cromell, Cathy. Earth-friendly desert gardening: growing in harmony with nature saves time, money and resources.
- 635.9525 C8803e 2003
- Hobbs, Angela. The sick house survival guide: simple steps to healthier homes.
- 613.5 H6522s 2003
- Richardson, Rosamond. Home hints & tips: the new guide to natural, safe and healthy living.
- 640.41 R3959h 2003
- Newman, Nell. The Newman's Own Organics guide to a good life: simple measures to benefit you and the place you live.
- 640 N466n 2003
- Slobodkin, Lawrence B. A citizen's guide to ecology.
- 577 SL529c 2003
- Morgan, Sally. Alternative energy sources.
- 333.794 M8235a 2003
- Goodall, Jane. The ten trusts: what we must do to care for the animals we love.
- 333.95416 G61t 2002
Library Resources
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Environment & Nature
- Alternative Energy (eBook) — Issues surrounding both current energy sources and alternative energy options
- Encyclopedia of Animals — Easy-to-read entries about mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, dinosaurs and prehistoric animals
- Endangered Species (eBook) — Information about the many species threatened by extinction
- Environment Complete — Ecology and environment index with many full-text articles
- Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia (eBook) — Descriptions, distribution, habitat, behavior, and relationship to humans
- Plant Sciences (eBook) — All aspects of plant sciences, including articles on careers and important individuals
- Pollution A to Z (eBook) — Pollution issues including sources, disposal, remediation, legal & ethical issues, careers, and more
- Science Reference Center — Full text science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals, and other sources covering biology, earth science, environment, wildlife, and more