Based on actual events, this picture book tells the story of the first Earth Day through the eyes of a young girl named Sam.

"'We should have known the end was near.' So begins Imbolo Mbue's exquisite and devastating novel How Beautiful We Were. Set in the fictional African village of Kosawa, it tells the story of a people living in fear amidst environmental degradation wrought by a large and powerful American oil company. Pipeline spills have rendered farmlands infertile. Children are dying from drinking toxic water. Promises of clean up and financial reparations to the...

While in a New Orleans recovery unit, detective Dave Robicheaux meets a Creole girl whose subsequent disappearance prompts his search for the girl's sister against a backdrop of a bayou-threatening oil well rupture in the Gulf of Mexico.

A man rescues a penguin off the coast of Brazil and finds a lifelong connection in this delightful true story about the power of friendship. When an oil-covered penguin washes up in Brazil, Seu Jo�o saves the penguin's life. Soon man and penguin are friends, and Dindim the penguin won't return to the wild. At last Dindim swims away, only to return four months later! For seven years, Dindim the penguin lived with Seu Jo�o in Brazil for eight...

"Cuando Dindim, un joven pingüino, se encuentra varado en una playa de Brasil, Joao lo rescata y lo cuida hasta que recupera la salud. Así comienza esta extraordinaria amistad que empuja a Dindim a nadar miles de kilómetros cada año para reunirse con Joao y fortalecer el insólito vínculo entre un hombre y un pingüino. Inspirada en una historia real, esta es una celebración sincera del poder de la amistad, la belleza de la naturaleza, y lo...

Three years in the making, Crude tells the epic story of one of the largest and most controversial legal cases on the planet: the infamous {dollar}27 billion “Amazon Chernobyl” lawsuit pitting 30,000 rainforest dwellers in Ecuador against the U.S. oil giant Chevron. Winner of 19 international awards, Crude takes you inside a riveting, high stakes drama steeped in global politics, the environmental movement, celebrity activism, human rights advocacy,...

After the infamous Santa Barbara Oil Blowout and Spill of 1969, Marc McGinnes organized the first Environmental Rights Day, on January 28, 1970, that ignited the environmental movement, and led to the first Earth Day observances on April 22, 1970. Marc co-founded the Community Environmental Council, the Environmental Defense Center, the Peaceful Resolutions Institute, and the Community Mediation Council, and taught Environmental Law and Studies at...