We all want to be a bit more vegan... and this book shows you how. Whether you're ready to commit to a fully plant-based lifestyle or you'd just like to add a few meat-free dishes to your weekly meal plan, this is the ideal guide. It explains the reasons behind going vegan, including environmental, health and animal welfare benefits, in clear and simple language that helps young people make up their own minds. It answers all the nagging questions about nutrition and ethics, as well as giving ban...
A collection of children's poetry by Bengali authors, exploring a deep cultural and personal connection with water.
With escalating concerns over the current state of our planet, the realization to work toward reducing our environmental footprint is gaining momentum. Scientists have realized that green chemistry is the key to reduce waste, rendering healthy environment, and improving human health. The 12 principles of green chemistry are the basic tenets that require understanding at the most fundamental level and implementation to promoting sustainable synthesis. This book discusses innovations in the form o...
This book focuses on Youth Climate Courts, a bold new tool that young people in their teens and twenties can use to compel their local city or county government to live up to its human rights obligations, formally acknowledge the climate crisis, and take major steps to address it. Tom Kerns shows how youth climate leaders can form their own local Youth Climate Court, with youth judges, youth prosecuting attorneys, and youth jury members, and put their local city or county government on trial f...
It's Getting Hot in Here: The Past, the Present, and the Future of Global Warming
by Bridget Heos
It's Getting Hot in Here illustrates how interconnected we are not just with everyone else on the planet, but with the people who came before us and the ones who will inherit the planet after us. This eye opening approach to one of today's most pressing issues focuses on the past human influences, the current state of affairs, the grim picture for the future and how young readers can help to make a positive change.
We all know about the Earth's environmental crisis, but there is someone who can truly make a difference: you. If you text your friends or chat with them online, download music to your iPod, or toss bottles and papers into recycling bins, you're already more eco-savvy than you think. It's just as easy to do even more to help save the earth, and Generation Green shows you how. This book: Lays out the inside scoop on the biggest issues affecting our planet, such as global warming and overflowing...
How to Manage Your Eco-Anxiety (10 Steps to Change)
by Anouchka Grose
"An essential mental-health handbook for the next generation" – Vanessa Nakate HOW DOES CLIMATE CHANGE MAKE YOU FEEL? SAD? AFRAID? POWERLESS? GUILTY? YOU'RE NOT THE ONLY ONE FEELING THIS WAY. Drawing on years of experience as a psychoanalyst, Anouchka Grose shares cutting-edge insights on how to manage your eco-anxiety. You’ll find out how to validate your emotions. You’ll learn how to build your resilience. You’ll even discover the comfort that can be found in your community. Ten accessible st...
Story of Seeds: Our Food Is in Crisis. What Will You Do to Protect It?
by Nancy Castaldo
As the world becomes more aware of the threats climate change, genetic modification, and deforestation has on the longevity of our natural resources, young readers must rally to preserve our food and world. Readers of Michael Pollen will thoroughly enjoy the depth and fascinatingly intricate social economy of seeds.