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Washington, D.C. — First held on April 22, 1970, in San Francisco, Earth Day is now celebrated every year in over 175 countries. On this day, more than one billion people around the globe will participate in Earth Day 2012 and help Mobilize the Earth. People of all nationalities and backgrounds will voice their appreciation for the planet and demand its protection. To support the celebration of Earth Day, the U.S. Government Printing Office offers for sale new and classic official environmental publications that present both scientific and practical information to protect and improve the nation's air, foster the protection of plant and animal species and their habitats, help protect human health, and promote a cleaner and healthier environment for the American people.
Publisher: Agriculture Dept., Forest Service, Northeastern Area State and Private Forestry
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This handy guide explains how to prune trees to produce strong, healthy, attractive plants. It fully describes, in text and illustrations, how when and why to prune to achieve healthier and more beautiful trees. Year/Pages: 1996: 29 p.; ill. Price: $4.00
Publisher: Environmental Protection Agency, Consumer Product Safety Commission; and Housing and Urban Development Description: Official government publication describing the hazards of lead based paint in homes built before 1978. Shows how lead gets into the body. Discusses how to recognize and prevent lead hazards, especially dangerous to young children. Presents options for removing lead paint and treating the effects of high levels of lead in the bloodstream. Lists State health and environmental agencies; EPA regional offices; and Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) regional offices. Also available in Spanish. Year/Pages: 2003: 13 p.; ill.
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$53.00
Publisher: Environmental Protection Agency Description: Official government publication describing the hazards of lead based paint in homes built before 1978. Shows how lead gets into the body. Discusses how to recognize and prevent lead hazards, especially dangerous to young children. Presents options for removing lead paint and treating the effects of high levels of lead in the bloodstream. Lists State health and environmental agencies; EPA regional offices; and Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) regional offices. Also available in Spanish. Year/Pages: 2003: 13 p.; ill.
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$55.50
Publisher: Environmental Protection Agency Description: Designed for contractors, property managers and maintenance personnel working in homes and child-occupied facilities built before 1978. This handbook summarizes requirements of EPA's 2008 Lead-Based Paint Renovation, Repair and Painting Program Rule (as amended in 2010 and 2011), aimed at protecting against lead-based paint hazards associated with renovation, repair and painting activities. The rule requires workers to be trained to use lead-safe work practices and requires renovation firms to be EPA-certified; these requirements became fully effective April 22, 2010. Year/Pages: 2010: 36 p.; ill.
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$7.00
Publisher: Agriculture Dept., Forest Service, Northern Research Station Description: This guide is intended to serve as a quick reference to selected, common macrofungi (fungi with large fruit bodies such as mushrooms, brackets, or conks) frequently encountered in four broadforest ecosystems in the lake states: aspen-birch, northern hardwoods, lowland conifers, and upland conifers. Although this guide provides information about edibility, do not eat any mushroom unless you are absolutely certain of its identity: many mushroom species look alike and some species are highly poisonous. Year/Pages: 2011: 52 p.; ill.
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$10.00
Publisher: Agriculture Dept., Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station Description: State-of-knowledge review of information on relationships between wildland fire and nonnative invasive plants can assist fire managers and other land managers concerned with prevention, detection, and eradication or control of nonnative invasive plants. The 16 chapters in this volume synthesize ecological and botanical principles regarding relationships between wildland fire and nonnative invasive plants, identify the nonnative invasive species currently of greatest concern in major bioregions of the United States, and describe emerging fire-invasive issues in each bioregion and throughout the nation. Designed to help increase understanding of plant invasions and fire and can be used in fire management and ecosystem-based management planning. Year/Pages: 2008: 363 p.; ill.
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$59.00
Publisher: Agriculture Dept., Forest Service, Northern Research Station Description: Offers a starting point for a multidisciplinary understanding of Restorative Commons. Focuses on open space and its interface with the built environment. Considers sites restorative if they contribute to the health and well-being of individuals, communities, and the landscape. Individual health includes physical, mental, emotional, and social health; community health is considered in terms of rights, empowerment, and neighborhood efficacy; and landscape health is measured by ecosystem function and resilience, all of which act together in a complex web of relationships. Year/Pages: 2011: 287 p.; ill.
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$39.00
Publisher: Congress, Congressional Budget Office Description: Official Congressional Budget Office (CBO) paper presents an overview of the current understanding of the impacts of climate change in the United States. This paper describes the wide range potential impacts on the physical environment (temperature, precipitation, severe storms, ocean currents, climate oscillations, sea level, and ocean acidification); biological systems (ecosystems and biological diversity, agriculture, forestry, and fisheries); and the economy and human health (water supply, infrastructure, human health, and economic growth). Year/Pages: 2009: 31 p.
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$10.00
Publisher: National Aeronautics and Space Administration Description: This colorful book provides concise explanations and descriptions-easily read and readily understood-of what is now known as the chain of events and processes that connect the Sun to the Earth, with special emphasis on space weather and sun-climate. Year/Pages: 2009: 311 p.; ill.
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$63.00
Publisher: Commerce Dept., NOAA, and NASA Description: This colorful learning activities guide is designed to help students understand variations in environmental parameters by examining connections among different phenomena measured on local, regional and global scales. It demonstrates the connections between and among environmental data, they will see that the environment is the result of interplay among many processes that take place on varying time and spatial scales. Also helps students understand that environmental processes are not bound by oceans, mountains, or country delineations-but are truly global in scope. Year/Pages: 2007: 17 p.
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$3.50
Publisher: Commerce Dept., NOAA, Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment Description: Created to make the GLOBE Earth System Poster Learning Activities more user-friendly. Complete packet of colorful images from the GLOBE Earth System Poster created to allow the use of the images without having to cut the poster into its various components. Year/Pages: 2010: 38 p.
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$7.50
Publisher: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Earth Observing System Aura, Goddard Space Flight Center Description: This booklet details discoveries from the Earth Observing System Aura, which was launched July 15, 2004. Aura is part of the Earth Science Projects Division, a program dedicated to monitoring the complex interactions that affect the globe using NASA satellites and data systems. Year/Pages: 2010: 57 p.; ill.
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$10.00
Publisher: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA History Division, Office of External Relations Description: Monograph in Aerospace History, No. 38. This report describes how in the late 1980s, NASA sought to plan and establish a new environmental effort that eventuated in the 1990s with the Earth Observing System. Chronicles the stages NASA went through in its efforts to study and provide information on the depletion of the ozone. Year/Pages: 2005: 72 p.; ill.
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$12.50
Publisher: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, spinoff Program Office, NASA Center for AeroSpace Information, Office of the Chief Technologist Description: Highlights the Agency's most significant research and development activities and the successful transfer of NASA technology, showcasing the cutting-edge research being done by the Nation's top technologists and the practical benefits that come back down to Earth in the form of tangible products that make our lives better. Year/Pages: 2010: 315 p.; ill.
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$37.00
Publisher: Health and Human Services Dept., Public Health Service, National Institute on Environmental Health Sciences Description: : Publishes cutting-edge research articles and news of the environment. Issued 19 times per year. Includes monthly periodical with one annual review and two special issues and quarterly Toxicogenomics edition. Subscription service covers issues for 1 year. Single copy, $25.00, Annual Review & Special Issues, $26.00, Toxicogenomics edition, $15.00; foreign single copy, $35.00, Annual Review & Special Issues, $36.40, Toxicogenomics edition, $21.00. Copies of the last 6 issues, one Annual, 2 Special, and 2 Quarterly issues will be retained in stock for individual purchase. List EHPM. File Code 2B. Price: $282.00
Title 40, Code of Federal Regulations (40 CFR). Title 40: Protection of Environment Title 40, Code of Federal Regulations (40 CFR). Title 40: Protection of Environment is the section of the CFR that outlines the regulations pertaining to the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) mission of protecting human health and the environment. CFR Title 40 EPA is the codification of the permanent rules published in the Federal Register. EPA Title 40 CFR is updated once a year. CFR Title 40 EPA is revised annually on July 1st. Title 40 - PROTECTION OF ENVIRONMENT is composed of thirty-three volumes. The parts in these volumes are arranged in the following order: parts 1-49, parts 50-51, part 52 (52.01-52.1018), part 52 (52.1019-End), parts 53-59, part 60 (60.1-End), part 60 (Appendices), parts 61-62, part 63 (63.1-63.599), part 63 (63.600-1-63.1199), part 63 (63.1200-1439), part 63 (63.1400 to 6175), part 63.6580 63.8830), part 63.8980-end), parts 64-71, parts 72-80, parts 81-85, part 86 (86.1-86.599-99) part 86 (86.600-1-End), parts 87-99, parts 100-135, parts 136-149, parts 150-189, parts 190-259, parts 260-265, parts 266-299, parts 300-399, parts 400-424, parts 425-699, parts 700-789, parts 790 to 999, and parts 1000 to end. The contents of these volumes represent all current regulations codified under this title of the CFR as of July 1, 2011. CFR Title 40, EPA is available in single volumes at various prices. For more information please visit GPO's Bookstore at http://bookstore.gpo.gov. Publisher: National Archives and Records Administration, Office of the Federal Register Year/Pages: 2011: 926 p. Price: $66.00 Publisher: National Archives and Records Administration, Office of the Federal Register Year/Pages: 2011: 682 p. Price: $51.00 Publisher: National Archives and Records Administration, Office of the Federal Register Year/Pages: 2011: 860 p. Price: $64.00 Publisher: National Archives and Records Administration, Office of the Federal Register Year/Pages: 2011: 1272 p. Price: $70.00 [ Top ]
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