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Earth Day 2024 - NW Library: In the Library

Explore our Earth Day LibGuide, offering a curated selection of resources including books, eBooks, and educational videos to empower sustainable action and environmental awareness.

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Earth Day Books in the Library

Book cover for 'Green utopias: environmental hope before and after nature' by Garforth, Lisa

Green utopias: Environmental Hope Before and After Nature

Environmentalism has relentlessly warned about the dire consequences of abusing and exploiting the planet's natural resources, imagining future wastelands of ecological depletion and social chaos. But it has also generated rich new ideas about how humans might live better with nature. Green Utopias explores these ideas of environmental hope in the post-war period, from the environmental crisis to the end of nature. 

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Book cover for 'A Better Planet: 40 Big Ideas for a Sustainable Future' by Daniel C., editor.; Burke, Ingrid C., writer of foreword.

A Better Planet: 40 Big Ideas for a Sustainable Future

A practical, bipartisan call to action from the world's leading thinkers on the environment and sustainability... This book offers fresh thinking and forward-looking solutions from environmental thought leaders across the political spectrum. The book's forty essays cover such subjects as ecology, environmental justice, Big Data, public health, and climate change, all with an emphasis on sustainability.

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Book cover for 'Getting to Green: Saving Nature: a Bipartisan Solution' by Rich, Frederic C.

Getting to Green: Saving Nature: a Bipartisan Solution

An international corporate lawyer and environmental leader, with a clear understanding of past failures and a realistic view of the future, argues that progress on environmental issues is within reach and presents a pragmatic and non-ideological program that is rooted in the way America is, not in a utopian vision of what it could become.

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Gardening Makers Kit!

Available at the TCC Northwest Walsh Library

Photo of a green and beige tote bag which contains gardening tools. More context below.

What's inside?

  • Gardening gloves
  • Gardening hand tools
  • Knee pads
  • Spray bottles
  • Seeds
  • Weeder tools

Related Reading: Connect with Nature!

Book cover for 'How to suffer outside: a beginner's guide to hiking and backpacking' by Helmuth, Diana; Dunston, Latasha

How to Suffer Outside: A Beginner's Guide to Hiking and Backpacking

Humorous, approachable guide for aspiring backpackers, part critique of modern backpacking culture and part how-to guide.

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Book cover for 'The field to table cookbook: gardening, foraging, fishing & hunting' by Ebert, Susan L.; Griffiths, Jesse

The Field to Table Cookbook: Gardening, Foraging, Fishing & Hunting

The complete guide to growing, procuring, and preparing local and seasonal foods for the home cook.

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Book cover for 'DIY hydroponic gardens: how to design and build an inexpensive system for growing plants in water' by Baras, Tyler

DIY Hydroponic Gardens: How to Design and Build an Inexpensive System for Growing Plants in Water

No soil? No sunlight? No problem. A hydroponic growing system gives you the power to grow plants anywhere.

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The Tarrant County College District Libraries are pleased to provide a wide assortment of digital displays and online exhibits designed to educate, inform, entertain, and engage our entire community, and to help support the learning experience outside of the traditional classroom environment.  To view more of these web-based displays, visit our Digital Display Archive page.