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Book The Recycled Citizen

    Book Details:
  • Author : Charlotte MacLeod
  • Publisher : Overamstel Uitgevers
  • Release : 2012-10-02
  • ISBN : 9049983162
  • Pages : 288 pages

Download or read book The Recycled Citizen written by Charlotte MacLeod and published by Overamstel Uitgevers. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A homeless man’s murder threatens to destroy the Kelling family Boston and its suburbs are stuffed with Kellings, and the city is about to get one more. Sarah Kelling and her husband Max Bittersohn—a pair of amateur sleuths equally at home in back alleys as they are at black-tie balls—are about to have a baby. And if the child takes after his parents, he will be one of the cleverest infants in New England. But while Sarah is a month away from giving birth, she cannot let pregnancy slow her down—she has a murder to solve. A resident at one of Sarah’s Uncle Dolph’s homeless centers is found mugged and murdered on one of Boston’s seedier side streets. Someone at the shelter has been dealing drugs, and plans to frame Uncle Dolph for the murder. Now Sarah and Max must race to clear Dolph’s name, lest the newest Kelling arrive before his family honor can be restored.

Book The Recycled Citizen

    Book Details:
  • Author : Charlotte MacLeod
  • Publisher : HarperCollins
  • Release : 1987-01
  • ISBN : 9780002321150
  • Pages : 200 pages

Download or read book The Recycled Citizen written by Charlotte MacLeod and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 1987-01 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Recycled Citizen

    Book Details:
  • Author : Charlotte MacLeod
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2015
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 319 pages

Download or read book Recycled Citizen written by Charlotte MacLeod and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Recycled Citizen

    Book Details:
  • Author : Charlotte MacLeod
  • Publisher : Warner Books (NY)
  • Release : 1989
  • ISBN : 9780445406896
  • Pages : 274 pages

Download or read book The Recycled Citizen written by Charlotte MacLeod and published by Warner Books (NY). This book was released on 1989 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Sarah Kelling mystery.

Book The Convivial Codfish

    Book Details:
  • Author : Charlotte MacLeod
  • Publisher : Overamstel Uitgevers
  • Release : 2012-11-27
  • ISBN : 9049982867
  • Pages : 281 pages

Download or read book The Convivial Codfish written by Charlotte MacLeod and published by Overamstel Uitgevers. This book was released on 2012-11-27 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At Christmastime in Boston, a thief targets the local scrooge The angry old men of the Comrades of the Convivial Codfish club celebrate yuletide doing what they do best: eating, drinking, and greeting the season of giving with a spirited “bah, humbug!” Though well past sixty, Jem Kelling is a relative infant compared to some of the club’s elder statesmen, and he has waited decades to host their annual Christmas scowl. And during his first evening as Exalted Chowderhead, he is thrilled to find the wine abundant, the chowder superb, and the humbugs as lusty as ever. But as the night winds down, Jem is horrified to find that the ceremonial Codfish necklace has vanished—right off of his neck! His nephew-in-law, art investigator Max Bittersohn, is convinced his new uncle was the victim of a practical joke. But when the old man takes a hip-snapping tumble, Max is forced to conclude that one of the scrooges is trying to perpetrate a deadly Christmas jeer.

Book The Withdrawing Room

    Book Details:
  • Author : Charlotte MacLeod
  • Publisher : Overamstel Uitgevers
  • Release : 2012-11-27
  • ISBN : 9049982875
  • Pages : 266 pages

Download or read book The Withdrawing Room written by Charlotte MacLeod and published by Overamstel Uitgevers. This book was released on 2012-11-27 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Newly widowed Sarah opens a boardinghouse where death comes to stay Though the inheritance from her dearly departed Alexander was meant to set Sarah Kelling up for life, it vanishes quickly in the face of hounding from charitable organizations and the IRS. Facing the loss of her stately Back Bay brownstone, Sarah opens her home to lodgers—deciding she prefers a boardinghouse to the poorhouse. Soon she is cooking meals and serving tea for a cast of quirky residents, a cozy little family that would be quite happy were it not for the unpleasant presence of a certain Barnwell Augustus Quiffen—a man so rude that no one really minds when he is squashed beneath a subway car. Sarah replaces her lost boarder quickly, and the family dynamic is restored. But when another lodger dies suddenly, the boardinghouse appears to be cursed. Now it will take more than a glass of sherry to soothe Sarah’s panicked residents, and she must turn to detective Max Bittersohn for help before her boarders bolt.

Book Trash Revolution

Download or read book Trash Revolution written by Erica Fyvie and published by Kids Can Press Ltd. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Think you know all about how your stuff impacts the environment? Think again! Where did all our “stuff” come from? And where does it go when we’re done with it? Kids find out by tracking the life cycles of typical items in a school backpack — water, food, clothing, paper, plastic, metals and electronics. Though they all end as waste, there are lots of decisions to be made along the way. And kids will see that there’s an important, constructive role they can play by making choices that are good for them — and for the planet! A cotton T-shirt. A plastic water bottle. A cell phone. Kids will never look at their stuff the same way again!

Book What Milly Did

Download or read book What Milly Did written by Elise Moser and published by Groundwood Books Ltd. This book was released on 2016-08-01 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The extraordinary story of the woman who made plastics recycling possible. Milly Zantow wanted to solve the problem of her town’s full landfill and ended up creating a global recycling standard — the system of numbers you see inside the little triangle on plastics. This is the inspiring story of how she mobilized her community, creating sweeping change to help the environment. On a trip to Japan in 1978, Milly noticed that people were putting little bundles out on the street each morning. They were recycling — something that hadn’t taken hold in North America. When she returned to Sauk City, Wisconsin, she discovered that her town’s landfill was nearing capacity, and that plastic made up a large part of the garbage. No one was recycling plastics. Milly decided to figure out how. She discovered that there are more than seven kinds of plastic, and they can’t be combined for recycling, so she learned how to use various tests to identify them. Then she found a company willing to use recycled plastic, but the plastic would have to be ground up first. Milly and her friend bought a huge industrial grinder and established E-Z Recycling. They worked with local school children and their community, and they helped other communities start their own recycling programs. But Milly knew that the large-scale recycling of plastics would never work unless people could easily identify the seven types. She came up with the idea of placing an identifying number in the little recycling triangle, which has become the international standard. Milly's story is a glimpse into the early days of the recycling movement and shows how, thanks to her determination, hard work and community-building, huge changes took place, spreading rapidly across North America. Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.3.3 Describe the relationship between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts, or steps in technical procedures in a text, using language that pertains to time, sequence, and cause/effect. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.4.7 Interpret information presented visually, orally, or quantitatively (e.g., in charts, graphs, diagrams, time lines, animations, or interactive elements on Web pages) and explain how the information contributes to an understanding of the text in which it appears.

Book The Zero Waste Solution

Download or read book The Zero Waste Solution written by Paul Connett and published by Chelsea Green Publishing. This book was released on 2013 with total page 3 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "How cities and towns around the world are saying no to incinerators and wasteful product design and yes to radical recycling, reuse entrepreneurs, and the jobs they create"--Cover.

Book Community Governance and Citizen Driven Initiatives in Climate Change Mitigation

Download or read book Community Governance and Citizen Driven Initiatives in Climate Change Mitigation written by Jens Hoff and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-08-20 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most heartening developments in climate change mitigation in recent years has been the increasing attention paid to the principle of ‘thinking globally and acting locally’. The failure of the international community to reach significant global agreements on the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions has led local governments, environmental organisations and citizens themselves to focus increasingly on the local possibilities for action on climate change. This book analyses the strengths and weaknesses of the co-production of climate policies that take place where citizen engagement and local initiatives converge with public agencies. Case studies from Northern Europe, Australia/New Zealand and the USA reveal that traditional individualist approaches to promoting environmental behaviour epitomised by information campaigns and economic incentives cannot trigger the deep behavioural changes required to materially improve our response to climate change. Only by marshalling the forces of thousands, and eventually millions of citizens, can we manage to reach environmental sceptics, reinforce political action and create the new social norms that are sorely needed in our local, and global, response to climate change. This book will be of great relevance to scholars and policy makers with an interest in climate change politics and governance, community engagement and sustainable development.

Book Bottle Cap Activities  Recreational Recycling

Download or read book Bottle Cap Activities Recreational Recycling written by Kathy Cisneros and published by Green Dragon Books. This book was released on 1998-09 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The wonderful ideas presented in Bottle Cap Activities are versatile enough for use in classrooms, parties, summer camps, boy and girl scout troops, projects at home, and even senior citizen homes. This book also includes the musical play “The Bottle Cap Kids,” which was performed at Disney World. The words, sheet music, and instructions for costume making are also included. Even the costumes are made from bottle caps! Activities include Bottle Cap Barnyard, Bottle Cap Band, a calendar of seasonal bottle cap crafts, and a variety of other fun environmental crafts.

Book Citizen Coke  The Making of Coca Cola Capitalism

Download or read book Citizen Coke The Making of Coca Cola Capitalism written by Bartow J. Elmore and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2014-11-03 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Citizen Coke demostrate[s] a complete lack of understanding about…the Coca-Cola system—past and present." —Ted Ryan, the Coca-Cola Company By examining “the real thing” ingredient by ingredient, this brilliant history shows how Coke used a strategy of outsourcing and leveraged free public resources, market muscle, and lobbying power to build a global empire on the sale of sugary water. Coke became a giant in a world of abundance but is now embattled in a world of scarcity, its products straining global resources and fueling crises in public health.

Book Nature Recycles   How About You

Download or read book Nature Recycles How About You written by Michelle Lord and published by Arbordale Publishing. This book was released on 2013-02-10 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes how different types of animals in different environments find ways to reuse the objects they encounter, from an elf owl in the desert nesting in an empty woodpecker hole to an elephant using a leaf as a fan before eating it.

Book The Balloon Man

    Book Details:
  • Author : Charlotte MacLeod
  • Publisher : Overamstel Uitgevers
  • Release : 2012-10-02
  • ISBN : 9049983170
  • Pages : 241 pages

Download or read book The Balloon Man written by Charlotte MacLeod and published by Overamstel Uitgevers. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long-lost relatives and priceless jewels turn a wedding upside down For all the Kellings’ quirks, no other family in Boston is more adept at throwing a wedding. So when Max Bittersohn’s wife, Sarah Kelling, offers to organize his nephew’s nuptials, Max is smart enough to stay out of her way. But when the art-fraud investigator stumbles onto a family mystery, he is drawn into something far more serious than the question of who will catch the bouquet. Stolen years earlier, the priceless Kelling jewels were last seen in Amsterdam, so how did they end up among the wedding gifts? Max is trying to answer that question when a talkative burglar wallops him with a shovel in a failed attempt to rip off the rubies. Then, as the reception winds down, a hot-air balloon lands on the wedding tent, spilling out the Zickerys, a branch of the Kelling clan who prove even odder than the original strain. Family weddings are never easy, but for Max Bittersohn, this one could be murder.

Book Citizen Action Guide to Energy Conservation

Download or read book Citizen Action Guide to Energy Conservation written by United States. Citizens' Advisory Committee on Environmental Quality and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book ScrapKins  Junk Re Thunk

Download or read book ScrapKins Junk Re Thunk written by Brian Yanish and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-03-29 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents information about using materials that people throw away, including empty soda bottles and cans, milk cartons, cereal boxes, and bottlecaps, to make Scrapkins, new things that are fun and useful.

Book Sixpence House

    Book Details:
  • Author : Paul Collins
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • Release : 2010-12-15
  • ISBN : 1608196828
  • Pages : 257 pages

Download or read book Sixpence House written by Paul Collins and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-12-15 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sixpence House is the bookworm's answer to A Year in Provence." -Boston Globe Paul Collins and his family abandoned the hills of San Francisco to move to the Welsh countryside-to move, in fact, to the village of Hay-on-Wye, the "Town of Books" that boasts fifteen hundred inhabitants-and forty bookstores. Taking readers into a secluded sanctuary for book lovers, and guiding us through the creation of the author's own first book, Sixpence House becomes a heartfelt and often hilarious meditation on what books mean to us. A #1 BookSense Pick "A delightful book."-Los Angeles Times "Collins' gift is that you don't care where you end up. The journey is enough."-Readerville "The real, engaging heart of the tale is Collins' love of books and other people who love them...Collins muses on antiquarian books the way the rest of us remember lost loves."-San Francisco Chronicle "Funny, informative, somewhat chaotic and full of interesting references...there are numerous meanders into peripheral subjects, seen through the astute eyes of an Anglophile American."-Washington Post