Ned informs, entertains, and inspires readers with stories of the rich history of this area, growing up around the Bay, and ideas on how you can help restore the bay to the national treasure it once was. The book makes a great gift to volunteers, sponsors, family and friends who care about the Bay. The book has received the following National Book Awards: 
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<li>2010 Winner of the Excellence in Journalism Award chosen by the Renewable Natural Resource Foundation</li>
<li>2010 Winner of the Best Book on Environmental and Natural Resources selected by The American Society for Public Administration.</li>
<li>2010 Recommended by the National Science Teachers Association</li>
<li>2011 Recommended by the Izaak Walton Conservation League of America</li>
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Chesapeake Watershed: A Sense of Place and a Call to Action

Science & Math

Tillman, Ned

Biological Sciences

Chesapeake Book Company

"The often shrill politics of ‘Save the Bay’ is replaced by a calm and positive outlook on the realistic actions individuals and businesses can take to move toward sustainability,” wrote a National Science Teachers Association reviewer of Ned Tillman’s award-winning The Chesapeake Watershed: A Sense of Place and a Call to Action (2009). Now, in a second uplifting book, readers follow Tillman to some of the country’s most beautiful places, learn what threatens them, and discover what each of us can do about it. We all know the threats—climate change, fossil fuels, fracking, chemicals, stormwater runoff, ocean dumping, industrial agriculture, and waste disposal—but do we know how much we can correct if we start, literally, in our own back yards? Designed to meet the needs of the Common Core curriculum, Saving the Places We Love combines history and science with lively first-person anecdotes to engage the reader in some of the 21st century’s big ideas. Tillman encourages readers to evaluate the evidence and choose their own paths to preserving the country’s natural treasures.

Saving the Places We Love: Paths to Environmental Stewardship

Nature & Ecology

If you have concerns about the future, then read this book. It addresses the question, "Now that climate change is happening, what do we do?" It will help you develop a better picture of the future. If you like nature, animals, weather, and the outdoors, then it's likely you'll love this book and its characters who are trying to deal with many of the impacts of global weirding.If you like Abbey, Atwood, Bacigalupi, Doyle, Hiaasen, Kingsolver, Garcia Marquez, or Nichols, you might enjoy this book as well. It's Cli-Fi at its best with a bit of magical realism that engages and inspires.When you read this book you might find that Sleepy Valley is similar in many ways to the town where you live. Things seem fine, but no one is thinking about the future. Are you ready for what is about to happen to you, and to towns all across the country and around the world? Marley and Brianne are not, and neither are their parents, their neighbors, or anyone else in Sleepy Valley. When they wake up the day after their high school graduation, their lives are turned upside down, and their plans for the future changed forever. A series of climate catastrophes descends on Sleepy Valley, and Marley and Brianne must struggle to save their town and the world as they know it. Through their struggles, they find their voices and purposes for living. The Big Melt challenges us to confront what is rapidly becoming the greatest threat of the 21st century - the climate crisis. This work of contemporary fiction will inspire you to care, more than ever, about what could happen in your town in the not-too-distant future. This is a great book for discussion and to pass on to friends, neighbors, schools, politicians, and bookclubs.

The Big Melt

History

Americas

South Branch Press

In this historical novel full of colorful characters, Ned Tillman conjures up five generations of his family in an engaging look at how they might have dealt with the critical social, economic, and political issues of their time. 
The book, centered on the 300-year-old Good Endeavor homestead (where the author grew up) incorporates a slew of family stories, unusual family traits, and artifacts passed down through time. 
The protagonist discovers artifacts which inflames a desire to know more about this past. The book takes the reader through the lives, the loves, and the losses of five generations and brings the reader right up to the present day. Along the way the family members encounter vigilante justice, piracy, bounty hunters, abolitionists, suffragettes, land conservationists, barnstorming, union strikes, integration, and war and climate protests. 
The novel humanizes our collective ancestors and brings their stories, our touchstones to the past, to life. These examples of their lives throughout the great American experiment might help us all find our better selves in the struggles we face in the twenty-first century.

Good Endeavour: A Maryland Family's Turbulent History 1695-2002

Literature & Fiction

United States

Sustainable Growth, LLC

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