This is your story, today, and twenty years from now.
Climate Change and the Oceans
tells seven stories, set in seven locations around the world,
today, and twenty years from now.
Based on meticulous research, this book dramatizes
the changes coming soon to your world.
This is the book that your children
hope you will read.
John Slade
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Device: tablets, laptops, eReaderseBook Price: $9.99 eBook Price: $9.99 John Slade has done a masterful job of casting the effects of global change in diverse cultural and environmental contexts. He confronts us with the options we face—two alternative pathways that represent either optimistic or pessimistic trajectories for our future. The rigorous science—which is presented in a very clear manner—and the diversity of participants in this broad drama provide compelling accounts of what global change will mean to humanity writ large. “Climate Change and the Oceans” shows what we must do in order to direct our future down the optimistic, rather than the pessimistic, pathway. This excellent book truly “humanizes” the effects of global change—it appeals at once to our intellects and our emotions.
The book should be required reading, especially for younger readers who will control which of the two pathways represents the future of humanity and the biosphere on which we depend.
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Mercator Projection of Your Home
Story Locations
1. Dekalb, Illinois, USA 8. Norwegian Sea 2. Juno Beach, Florida, USA 9. Barents Sea 3. New York City, USA 10. Guovdageaidnu, Norway 4. Copenhagen, Denmark 11. Caribbean Sea 5. Maldive Islands, Indian Ocean 12. Shanghai, China 6. Palmer Station, Antarctic Peninsula 13. Omaha, Nebraska, USA 7. Lofoten Islands, Norway 14. Murmansk, Russia ***
From the seven stories
Tom stood in his desert camouflage behind a barbed wire fence, staring at a vast field of corn, the young green stalks about a foot high. He had been back from Iraq for twelve days, and hadn’t yet traded his camouflage uniform for his old denim shirt and jeans. The soldier wasn’t able yet to become a farmer again, because the soldier hadn’t yet found a way home.
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Wind turbines on an Illinois farm
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ON A STARRY NIGHT: 56 POEMS WAITING TO GO FOR A WALK is a collection of crystal-clear poems that balance the extraordinary beauty of life on planet Earth ... with the challenges that face us in a troubled world.Click on the cover to hear the author read six of the poems.
ADIRONDACK GREEN, Volume I of the ADIRONDACK GREEN trilogy, tells the story of a small American town which decides, after much debate, to put a wind turbine on top of the local ski mountain.
In Global Warming and War, Volume II of the ADIRONDACK GREEN trilogy, the people of a small American town respond to the dying of their forest, and the death of one of their sons in Iraq.
In ARCHITECTS OF PEACE, the third volume in the ADIRONDACK GREEN trilogy of novels, the town of Balsam Corners hosts over one hundred disabled veterans from the war in Iraq, and their families, for one week in July. On adaptive bikes, the New American Veterans ride on highways free of motorized traffic, through the forested hills and welcoming villages of the Adirondack Park.
A Portrait of America as it could be
What if a small American town put up a wind turbine that powered the entire town?
What if a small American town invited blind and disabled veterans to participate in a week of adaptive skiing on the local ski hill?
What if a small American town decided to build a better America?
Weaving extensive research into a vibrant story, Dr. Slade has created a trilogy of novels that portray America as it could be. The people of Balsam Corners erect a wind turbine atop a local ski hill. At the same time, a boy who graduated from the high school two years ago, the town’s champion on skis, comes home from the war in Iraq in a coffin. The people of Balsam Corners now understand that we Americans have a choice: we can either join other countries around the world in the urgent production of clean energy, or we can continue to fight alone our devastating wars for oil.
The senior class attends Bobby Dyson’s funeral, then decides to honor him by inviting disabled veterans to participate in a week of adaptive skiing on Bobcat Mountain. The 32 seniors host 32 wounded warriors from across America, some of them African-American, some of them women, all of them struggling to find a way to come home.
The ADIRONDACK GREEN trilogy tells the story of people who decide to take a big step forward. They will tap the wind. They will tap the economic benefits of clean energy. And they will tap the enormous determination in people around the world to move from war toward genuine cooperation and peace.
As a professor of English in Norway and Russia, Dr. Slade has worked with students from around the world. A global generation is coming that has no patience with pollution and war. Most European countries are at least twenty years ahead of America in responding to global warming. Europeans are creating thousands of jobs, and they are weaving universities and corporations together in an unprecedented effort to become far smarter than mankind has ever been.
The ADIRONDACK GREEN trilogy explores the great challenges in the world today, and offers a blueprint toward the America that could be.
A Viking who sailed to America with Leif Eriksson in the year 1000 A. D. returns to the world today. He finds much that is good, but he is stunned by the twin evils of global warming and modern warfare. In this unusual and powerful story, LEIF THE BELIEVER changes the course of history.
OSLO IN APRIL This unique novel, set in Norway, follows eight musicians from early morning on the first Saturday in April, to the symphony concert which they perform that evening in the Oslo Concert Hall.
BOOTMAKER TO THE NATION is an historical novel set during the entire American Revolution. A married couple tell their story about life in General Washington's army.
DANCING WITH SAMUEL is a love story set in the Adirondack wilderness. The novel is also an examination of American education, and a proposal of three strategies that would greatly contribute to our wallowing system.
CHILDREN OF THE SUN is a love story set on a beautiful Caribbean island. This novel is also a powerful tale about inter-racial love, about veterans and their families as they struggle to find peace after the war in Vietnam, and about the threat of nuclear weapons in a world where 32,000 nuclear weapons still exist.
A JOURNEY OUT OF DARKNESS is a love story set in the wild mountains of northern Norway. This novel is also a highly unusual journey into the field of global ecology.
HERBERT'S MOUNTAIN, 21stories about people becoming better people. Clear, vibrant, positive short stories.
THE NEW ST.PETERSBURG Daily life for real people in St. Petersburg, Russia, during the first decade of the New Russia. Written by an American teacher who lived there and visited homes, schools, market places, and newly opened churches.
ACID RAIN, ACID SNOW A clear and vibrant description of acid rain and global ecology. The book examines many solutions. Used as a lively text in high schools and universities.
A DREAM SEEDED IN THE EARTH A play about the choice between marriage or career.
COVENANT, a poem in both English and Russian on facing pages, about the creation of our world, the evil of war, and our challenge today.
GOOD MORNING DADDY! is a children's book, with snapshots of a child's father when she first greets him in the morning.
A lively book for grade school classes.
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