The Reindeer Chronicles

Author : Judith D. Schwartz
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1603588655
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Reindeer Chronicles written by Judith D. Schwartz and published by Chelsea Green Publishing. This book was released on 2020-08-19 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a time of uncertainty about our environmental future—an eye-opening global tour of some of the most wounded places on earth, and stories of how a passionate group of eco-restorers is leading the way to their revitalization. Award-winning science journalist Judith D. Schwartz takes us first to China’s Loess Plateau, where a landmark project has successfully restored a blighted region the size of Belgium, lifting millions of people out of poverty. She journeys on to Norway, where a young indigenous reindeer herder challenges the most powerful orthodoxies of conservation—and his own government. And in the Middle East, she follows the visionary work of an ambitious young American as he attempts to re-engineer the desert ecosystem, using plants as his most sophisticated technology. Schwartz explores regenerative solutions across a range of landscapes: deserts, grasslands, tropics, tundra, Mediterranean. She also highlights various human landscapes, the legacy of colonialism and industrial agriculture, and the endurance of indigenous knowledge. The Reindeer Chronicles demonstrates how solutions to seemingly intractable problems can come from the unlikeliest of places, and how the restoration of local water, carbon, nutrient, and energy cycles can play a dramatic role in stabilizing the global climate. Ultimately, it reveals how much is in our hands if we can find a way to work together and follow nature’s lead.

Author : Judith D. Schwartz
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1603584331
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cows Save the Planet written by Judith D. Schwartz and published by Chelsea Green Publishing. This book was released on 2013-05-20 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Cows Save the Planet, journalist Judith D. Schwartz looks at soil as a crucible for our many overlapping environmental, economic, and social crises. Schwartz reveals that for many of these problems—climate change, desertification, biodiversity loss, droughts, floods, wildfires, rural poverty, malnutrition, and obesity—there are positive, alternative scenarios to the degradation and devastation we face. In each case, our ability to turn these crises into opportunities depends on how we treat the soil. Drawing on the work of thinkers and doers, renegade scientists and institutional whistleblowers from around the world, Schwartz challenges much of the conventional thinking about global warming and other problems. For example, land can suffer from undergrazing as well as overgrazing, since certain landscapes, such as grasslands, require the disturbance from livestock to thrive. Regarding climate, when we focus on carbon dioxide, we neglect the central role of water in soil—"green water"—in temperature regulation. And much of the carbon dioxide that burdens the atmosphere is not the result of fuel emissions, but from agriculture; returning carbon to the soil not only reduces carbon dioxide levels but also enhances soil fertility. Cows Save the Planet is at once a primer on soil's pivotal role in our ecology and economy, a call to action, and an antidote to the despair that environmental news so often leaves us with.

Author : Alan Salisbury
Publisher : Hillcrest Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 1626523339
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Legend of Ranger written by Alan Salisbury and published by Hillcrest Publishing Group. This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In "The Legend of Ranger," Alan Salisbury's words and Roberta Baird's whimsical artwork create the magic of the Christmas season with the tale of a young reindeer named Ranger who has a big dream--to be part of the reindeer team that pulls Santa's big sleigh. Ranger searches all over Santaland for someone who can teach him the secret of flying, but everyone he asks, including the oldest and wisest elves, Mrs. Claus, and even his brother Rudolph, gives him the same advice: "The secret lies within." Determined to fulfill his dream, Ranger must figure out the secret for himself. An emergency trip to Krystalwite to help the sick reindeer at the North Pole offers Ranger the opportunity to play a part in saving Christmas and, along the way, learn what it is that lies within. "The Legend of Ranger" contains a heartening and inspirational message about the power of believing in yourself no matter what challenges lie ahead.

Author : Lori Evert
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0385379218
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Reindeer Wish written by Lori Evert and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Another breathaking adventure featuring the main character from the New York Times bestseller The Christmas Wish! When Anja discovers an abandoned reindeer baby in the woods, she cares for it and raises it as her own. They become dear friends and have many adventures together, but as the reindeer grows he wishes to rejoin his kind. So Anja leads him to join the greatest reindeer of all—those of Santa’s sled team. Don't miss the other "Wish" books: The Christmas Wish The Tiny Wish The Brave Little Puppy The Puppy's Wish -- coming soon!

Author : David M. F. Powers
Publisher : Pants On Fire Press
ISBN 13 : 0982727100
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Catching Santa written by David M. F. Powers and published by Pants On Fire Press. This book was released on 2014-08-26 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 2011 Indie Award-Winner is the first in a new series. This Christmas, read a story unlike any other about a boy whose destiny will force you to forget everything you know about Santa because it¿s just not true! In Franco¿s book it is six days before Christmas in Winter Garden and weird things are happening in 11-year-old Jakob's Florida neighborhood. His friends are convinced their Christmas is in danger, and then live snowmen strangely appear and confirm the threat. Jakob dismisses the bizarre events as an elaborate hoax concocted by the neighborhood bully. But when the bully turns into smoke, a devilish stranger appears as the mastermind behind the mayhem demanding that Jakob catch Santa...or else!

Author : Roger Took
Publisher : Westview Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813342108
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Running with Reindeer written by Roger Took and published by Westview Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Documents his exploration of the wilderness of the Russian Lapland, discussing his experiences in a harsh but beautiful and pristine world among a community of indigenous Saami who make their living as hunters and reindeer herders and assessing the impact of the new economy on their lives. 30,000 first printing.

Author : Tim Slover
Publisher : Bantam Dell Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 0553808109
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Christmas Chronicles written by Tim Slover and published by Bantam Dell Publishing Group. This book was released on 2010 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 14th-century woodworker dedicates his life to making children happy, but when age and infirmity catches up with him, he is made a saint and moves north to make children happy forever.

Author : Anita Laughlin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780982051832
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reindeer with King Gustaf written by Anita Laughlin and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author presents an entertaining account of how her family adjusts to the news that her husband, Robert, had been named a recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1998. From tickets to Stockholm to clothing measurements, Nobel lecture preparations, attach assistance and a quick trip to the White House, this tale will have readers laughing out loud while gasping in awe.

Author : John Townsend
Publisher : Scribblers
ISBN 13 : 9781913971335
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Christmas Chronicles written by John Townsend and published by Scribblers. This book was released on 2021-10 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Christmas Chronicles is a magical collection of 24 Christmas-themed short stories - around 500 words each - taking place at the North Pole from 1st to 24th December as Santa Claus prepares to launch his sleigh to deliver the presents. Perfect for bedtime reading.

Author : Noah Nelson
Publisher : Erica Lippy
ISBN 13 : 9781736076316
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chance The Blue-Nosed Reindeer written by Noah Nelson and published by Erica Lippy. This book was released on 2020-11-27 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once upon a time, two of the most unwanted of creatures helped save Christmas for a little girl. They were a blue nose pitbull named Chance and an alley rat named Gary.