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            9 Articles Categorized Under First-Year Reading: The Environment

            First-Year Reading: The Environment
            March 16 2022

            Elizabeth Kolbert on Our Changing Climate and the Future Today’s Students Will Inherit

            Contributed by Elizabeth Kolbert, author of Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future “I’m a realist,” Ruth Gates was saying. “I cannot continue to hope that our planet is not going to change radically. It already is changed.” Gates, then the head of Hawaii’s Institute of Marine Biology, had taken me out to

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            Elizabeth Kolbert on Our Changing Climate and the Future Today’s Students Will Inherit

            First-Year Reading: The Environment
            March 16 2022
            First-Year Reading: The Environment
            January 20 2022

            Women Climate Leaders Provide Truth, Courage, and Solutions in All We Can Save

            Contributed by Katharine K. Wilkinson, co-editor of All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis “I was shaking as I read the opening essay because I felt so empowered,” one of my students shared at the start of the fall 2020 semester. I’d spent the previous nine months co-editing the bestselling

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            Women Climate Leaders Provide Truth, Courage, and Solutions in All We Can Save

            First-Year Reading: The Environment
            January 20 2022
            First-Year Reading First-Year Reading: The Environment General
            September 23 2021

            In The Water Defenders, Victory Reminds Us That Water Is More Precious Than Gold

            Left: Robin Broad; right: John Cavanagh   In the early 2000s, many people in El Salvador were at first excited by the prospect of jobs, progress, and prosperity that the Pacific Rim mining company promised. However, farmer Vidalina Morales, brothers Marcelo and Miguel Rivera, and others soon discovered that the river system supplying water to

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            In The Water Defenders, Victory Reminds Us That Water Is More Precious Than Gold

            First-Year Reading First-Year Reading: The Environment General
            September 23 2021
            First-Year Reading: The Environment
            June 4 2021

            Titles for World Environment Day

            For World Environment Day, we are providing resources to help students gain an awareness of the varying threats to the environment. Through this understanding, we hope to give them the tools to take action to help protect the planet.   Finding the Mother Tree From the world’s leading forest ecologist who forever changed how people

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            Titles for World Environment Day

            First-Year Reading: The Environment
            June 4 2021
            First-Year Reading: The Environment
            April 26 2021

            David Wallace-Wells on What We Can Do to Combat the Climate Crisis

            The Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace-Wells was an instant bestseller when it was published in 2019, and its messages about the threat of global warming have only become more relevant in the proceeding two years. In this video, the author looks at possible side-effects of our changing climate, and offers hope for what we can do to mitigate

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            David Wallace-Wells on What We Can Do to Combat the Climate Crisis

            First-Year Reading: The Environment
            April 26 2021
            First-Year Reading: The Environment
            March 18 2021

            Bill Gates provides a guide to fight climate change

            In How to Avoid a Climate Disaster, Bill Gates shares what he’s learned in more than a decade of studying climate change and sets out a vision for how the world can build the tools it needs to get to zero greenhouse gas emissions.   Bill Gates explains what needs to be done to make

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            Bill Gates provides a guide to fight climate change

            First-Year Reading: The Environment
            March 18 2021
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            First-Year Reading: The Environment
            June 6 2017

            University of Montana Selects LENTIL UNDERGROUND as Griz Read 2017

            A protégé of Michael Pollan, native Montanan Liz Carlisle shares the story of a group of renegade farmers who defied corporate agribusiness by launching a unique, sustainable farm-to-table food movement.

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            University of Montana Selects LENTIL UNDERGROUND as Griz Read 2017

            First-Year Reading: The Environment
            June 6 2017
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            First-Year Reading: The Environment
            May 19 2017

            DRAWDOWN Offers Real Solutions to Climate Change

            The solutions exist, are economically viable, and communities throughout the world are currently enacting them with skill and determination. If deployed collectively on a global scale over the next thirty years, they represent a credible path forward.

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            DRAWDOWN Offers Real Solutions to Climate Change

            First-Year Reading: The Environment
            May 19 2017
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            First-Year Reading: The Environment
            February 24 2017

            Ken Ilgunas’ TRESPASSING ACROSS AMERICA Now in Paperback

            Ken Ilgunas delivers an unforgettable tribute to the Great Plains and the people who live there with this account of his journey along the proposed Keystone XL route.

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            Ken Ilgunas’ TRESPASSING ACROSS AMERICA Now in Paperback

            First-Year Reading: The Environment
            February 24 2017
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