The Green Year

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Go green one day at a time. Do something every day. Most of us want to do the right thing for the environment, but making the commitment to change our fast-paced, convenience-oriented lifestyles can be more than a little daunting. What’s the answer? Take that giant commitment and cut it up into 365 little commitments that get met one day at a time. The Green Year does just that. More than a calendar, it offers simple, practical, affordable, and engaging activities that make going green a blessing rather than a burden. In addition to these easy green suggestions, readers will find in The Green Year: • The “why” behind each activity—what makes it good for the environment and the reader? • A quick “how-to” for any activity that requires it • Room for readers to write in their own creative alternatives • Helpful illustrations

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Genre : Self-Help
Author : Jodi Helmer
Publisher : Penguin
Release : 2008-12-02
File : 388 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781101022085


The Green Years 1964 1976

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In The Green Years, 1964–1976, Gregg Coodley and David Sarasohn offer the first comprehensive history of the period when the United States created the legislative, legal, and administrative structures for environmental protection that are still in place over fifty years later. Coodley and Sarasohn tell a dramatic story of cultural change, grassroots activism, and political leadership that led to the passage of a host of laws attacking pollution under President Johnson. At the same time, with Stewart Udall as secretary of the interior, the Wilderness Act, the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act, and other land-protection measures were passed and the department shifted its focus from western resource development to broader national conservation issues. The magnitude of what was accomplished was without precedent, even under conservation-minded presidents like the two Roosevelts. The fast-paced story the authors tell is not only about the Democratic Party; in this era there was still a vital Republican conservation tradition. In the 1960s, Republicans were chronologically as close to Teddy Roosevelt as to Donald Trump. In both the House and Senate and in the Nixon and Ford administrations, Republicans played vital roles. It was President Nixon who established the Environmental Protection Agency and signed into law the 1970 Clean Air Act, revisions in 1972 to the Clean Water Act, and the 1973 Endangered Species Act. Under Nixon, actions were taken to protect the oceans, forests, coastal zones, and grasslands while regulating chemicals, pesticides, and garbage. The authors analyze the full range of transformations during the “Green Years,” from the creation of entirely new pollution-control industries to backpacking becoming mass recreation to how revelations about chemical exposure spurred the natural food movement. And not least, the tectonic shift in the political landscape of the United States with the western states becoming Republican bastions and centers of ongoing backlash against the federal government. The Green Years, 1964–1976 is the story of environmental progress in the midst of war and civil unrest, and of the lessons we can learn for our future.

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Genre : History
Author : Gregg Coodley
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Release : 2021-09-30
File : 382 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780700632343


The Green Years

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Originally published in 1945, The Green Years is one of A J Cronin’s best-loved novels. It tells the story of Robert Shannon, a young Irish Catholic boy, who, orphaned at the age of seven, is brought to live with his mother’s estranged family in Scotland. As he grows up in a dour Presbyterian town, only his great-grandfather, an incorrigible, swaggering, charming, larger-than-life character, seems able to rescue him from the narrow interests of the people who try to shape his life in their own image. Disappointed in love and in his burning ambition to study medicine, the eighteen-year-old Robert sees his future as a blank wall. But, once again, he is saved from despair by his fiery relative, much to the chagrin of the rest of the family. This compassionate story of a boy’s growth to manhood, set against the harsh reality of life at the turn of the century, shows A J Cronin at his masterly best, creating a vivid gallery of characters with his customary blend of imagination, insight and tenderness. In the magnificent narrative tradition of The Citadel, The Stars Look Down and Cronin’s other classic novels, The Green Years is a great book by a much-loved author

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Genre : Fiction
Author : A. J. Cronin
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Release : 2013-03-14
File : 350 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781447243762


The Green Years

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When eight-year-old Harry Spencer’s father returns from WWI with a missing arm, his father’s bitterness shatters their relationship. Though confused and brokenhearted, Harry is determined to make something of himself. Endeavoring with heart and sometimes-humorous results, he sets out on his path in life, working in his granddad’s store, selling medicinal salves, washing windows, and falling in love. This historical coming-of-age story set against the backdrop of small-town life will tug at your heartstrings as Harry discovers who he is, who his father is, and how to heal the past.

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Genre : Fiction
Author : Karen Wolff
Publisher : BHC Press
Release : 2019-11-21
File : 288 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781948540292


Wipo Green Year In Review 2018

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Year in Review 2018 report summarizes WIPO GREEN highlights and achievements as the network expanded both in membership, collaborations and events.

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Genre : Science
Author : World Intellectual Property Organization
Publisher : WIPO
Release : 2019-04-05
File : 16 Pages
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Green Arrow A Celebration Of 75 Years

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Armed with only his bow and quiver, Oliver Queen has been targeting the criminals of the DC Universe for seventy-five years as the Green Arrow. First appearing in 1941 as a twentieth-century Robin Hood in a tale by Mort Wesinger and George Papp, the Emerald Archer has grown to a be a wisecracking, hot-blooded, and sometimes radical counterpoint to more straight-laced superheroes. This collection features the Green Arrow in all his many forms, from the zany, boxing-glove-arrow wielding adventurer of the Silver Age to the gritty urban vigilante of the 1980s and beyond. GREEN ARROW: A CELEBRATION OF 75 YEARS is a crash course in the history of the Battling Bowman from origin to death to rebirth, featuring an all-star cast of comic talent including Mike Grell, Dennis O’Neil, Neal Adams, Jack Kirby, Alan Moore, Kevin Smith, Phil Hester, Brad Meltzer, Amanda Conner, Jeff Lemire and more.

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Genre : Comics & Graphic Novels
Author : Dennis O'Neil
Publisher : DC Comics
Release : 2016-07-05
File : 422 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781401270469


The American Annual Cyclopedia And Register Of Important Events Of The Year

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Genre : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Author :
Publisher :
Release : 1870
File : 820 Pages
ISBN-13 : UIUC:30112033766269


Transactions Of The Illinois State Horticultural Society For The Year

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Genre : Horticulture
Author : Illinois State Horticultural Society
Publisher :
Release : 1897
File : 542 Pages
ISBN-13 : UIUC:30112027938874


Annual Report Of The Iowa State Horticultural Society For The Year

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Genre : Horticultural societies
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Publisher :
Release : 1874
File : 288 Pages
ISBN-13 : NYPL:33433007788882


Transactions Of The Highland And Agricultural Society Of Scotland

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Genre : Agriculture
Author : Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland
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Release : 1880
File : 508 Pages
ISBN-13 : HARVARD:HNJZBX