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The environment is important to Canton Public Library and the Canton community. Canton Green Resources:Green Reading for Earth Week
The theme for Earth Day 2012 is Mobilize the Earth. Try some of the following titles from the Library's collection to help you get started!
Attracting birds, butterflies and other backyard wildlife by David Mizejewski
Backyard wildlife: how to attract bees, butterflies, insects, birds, frogs and animals into your garden by Christine and Michael Lavelle
Bats by M. Brock Fenton
The complete compost gardening guide by Barbara Pleasant and Deborah L. Martin
Compost by Ken Thompson
The compost specialist: the essential guide to creating and using garden compost, and using potting and seed composts by David Squire
Family vegetarian cookbook: 225 recipes everyone will love
Fresh and fast vegan: quick, delicious, and creative recipes to nourish aspiring and devoted vegans by Amanda Grant
Fresh & fast vegetarian: recipes that make a meal by Marie Simmons; photographs by Luca Trovato
The little book of compost by Allan Shepherd
The meat lover's meatless cookbook: vegetarian recipes carnivores will devour by Kim O'Donnel; photography by Myra Kohn
The National Wildlife Federation's guide to gardening for wildlife: how to create a beautiful backyard habitat for birds, butterflies, and other wildlife by Craig Tufts and Peter Loewer
One world vegetarian cookbook by Troth Wells
Walker's bats of the world by Ronald M. Nowak; introduction by Thomas H. Kunz and Elizabeth D. Pierson
Welcoming wildlife to the garden: creating backyard & balcony habitats for wildlife by Catherine J. Johnson, Susan McDiarmid; projects & illustrations by Edward R. Turner
The wildlife garden: planning backyard habitats by Charlotte Seidenberg; drawings by Jean Seidenberg
Your backyard wildlife garden: how to attract and identify wildlife in your yard by Marcus Schneck; foreword by Craig Tufts