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<\/strong><\/em><\/a>From the Bottom Up: One Man’s Crusade to Clean America’s Rivers<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by Chad Pregracke with Jeff Barrow.\u00a0 Talk about a home-town hero! Chad started his river clean-up project right here on the Mississippi in the Quad Cities.\u00a0 His Living Lands & Waters<\/a><\/strong>, a not-for-profit organization, has received tons of corporate sponsorship and has now expanded its efforts to clean up other rivers.<\/p>\nApril 22 is Earth Day!\u00a0 This\u00a0holiday\u00a0has been celebrated in America since 1970, but due to the timeliness of this topic, there’s a vast array of newer materials on all things having to do with “green” and the environment.\u00a0 \u00a0Check out some of these titles: From the Bottom Up: One Man’s[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,15],"tags":[373,559,148,511,271],"class_list":["post-3057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-library-displays","tag-conservation","tag-earth-day","tag-environment","tag-environmentalists","tag-green"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-Nj","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3057"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3067,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3057\/revisions\/3067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"green-book\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/green-book.jpg?resize=81%2C122&ssl=1\")
<\/a>The Green Book:\u00a0the Everyday Guide to Saving the Planet<\/em><\/strong> <\/a>by Elizabeth \u00a0Rogers and Thomas Kostigen.\u00a0 This compact little book is clearly organized, which makes it easy to quickly check the areas you most interested in — be it home, work , school or travel.\u00a0 Another appealing addition (interspersed between chapters) is the series of quotes from celebrities, such as Robert Redford and Martha Stewart.<\/p>\n![\"hot-flat\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/hot-flat.jpg?resize=79%2C119&ssl=1\")
<\/a>Hot,\u00a0 Flat and Crowded<\/a><\/em><\/strong> by Thomas L. Friedman.\u00a0 This book by a Pulizter Prize winning author has received rave reviews and has been a number-one bestseller.\u00a0 Basically, the sub-title sums it up: Why We Need a Green Revolution — and How It Can Renew America. <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"