Can you imagine what our lives would be like after a devastating asteroid strike? What effect would the resulting tsunami, storms, and dust cloud have? What would happen to the climate, wildlife, and our food supplies? This book traces the possible consequences of a global event on this scale, with ideas and evidence based on similar scenarios that are a part of fact and fiction.
Rachel Carson (Up Close) (Up Close (Puffin))
by Ellen S. Levine
Rachel Carson combined her love of science and writing in her award-winning and controversial book Silent Spring. Revealing the dangers of pesticide use, it brought readers a new awareness of humankind’s contamination of the environment and ultimately led to the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency.
CHILDREN'S BOOK OF THE WEEK – The Independent"A brilliant botany book for the scientists of the future wanting to fight climate change" - The RHSIn the ongoing fight against climate change, plastic pollution, and diseases, scientists are turning to an unlikely ally – Plants to the Rescue!Everyone knows plants are pretty cool. They create oxygen for us to breathe (fairly essential), provide us with trees to climb, and give us pretty flowers to put in vases. But it turns out that plants can do a w...
Transport Networks (Maps of the Environmenta) (Maps of the Environmental World)
by Jack Gillett and Meg Gillett
Each title in the series addresses an environmental topic and illustrated its aspects with the help of maps. An introductory spread presents the topic and explains key ideas, concepts and vocabulary. Twelve spreads each introduce an area of the world, including a map locating relevant sites, graphs offering comparative data and photography. A spread at the back of the book provides further study and comparison exercises.
Beyond Recycling critically explores unasked questions around recycling and its prominent position in contemporary thinking about sustainability. It examines and challenges assumptions about why we appear to have so wholeheartedly committed to recycling as a cultural project. Recycling has become a commonplace notion and widespread practice. Yet its social, cultural and even environmental value has not been considered carefully enough. This book considers recycling as a contemporary cultural id...
Today, an ancient world is vanishing right before our eyes: the age of giant animals. Over 40,000 years ago, the earth was ruled by megafauna: mammoths and mastodons, saber-toothed tigers and giant sloths. Of course, those creatures no longer exist, due to the evolution and arrival of the wildly adaptive human species, among other factors. Many more of the world's biggest and baddest creatures - including the black rhino, the dodo, giant tortoises, and the great auk - have vanished since our wor...
A collection of children's poetry by Bengali authors, exploring a deep cultural and personal connection with water.
Enviro-Challenge (Enviro-Challenge: a compilation of the best of Green Olympiad, #2)
by Teri
Wind, Waves, and the Sun (History of Conservation: Preserving Our Planet)
by Cathleen Small
Oxford International Sustainability: Project Book 8 (Lower Secondary)
by Rebecca Tudor
The Oxford International Sustainability course is a year-on-year structured, comprehensive programme for 5-14-year-olds. It has been designed to inspire and educate about sustainable living on planet Earth, while also strengthening students' connections to their local community and to nature. Based on an international curriculum for sustainability, the Project Books provide an interdisciplinary approach integrating science, English, mathematics, and many other subjects. The project-based learni...
Young Entrepreneurs Club: Green Technology (Young Entrepreneur's Club)
by Mike Hobbs
Find out what it takes to become a successful green technology innovator, from coming up with an idea all the way to launching the next big thing. Get tips from those who have succeeded and follow our challenges to join the Young Entrepreneurs Club!
Tim Flannery’s international bestseller The Weather Makers has sold over a million copies and influenced politicians, movie stars, even business leaders - after reading it, Sir Richard Branson pledged more than 3 billion dollars towards developing sustainable energy sources. We Are the Weather Makers is a concise and revised edition that will allow readers aged from nine to ninety to learn the real facts about the biggest question of our generation. Flannery takes us on a journey through history...
To power our homes we need New Kinds of Energy. Learn about how coal and gas can be replaced by the wind and waves. New Kinds of Energy is a low level phonics reading book. Illustrated throughout with beautiful photographs, this non-fiction title features a fully decodable text, suitable for struggling teen and adult readers. New Kinds of Energy uses a carefully limited set of letters and sounds to make up all the words. (For UK schools this relates to Phase 5 of Letters and Sounds, the UK Gove...
Re-Greening the Environment: Careers in Cleanup, Remediation, and Restoration (Green-Collar Careers (Crabtree)) (Green-Collar Careers)
by Suzy Gazlay
Green Ways of Getting Around: Careers in Transportation (Green-Collar Careers) (Green-Collar Careers (Crabtree))
by Diane Dakers
The quality of life we enjoy today is largely due to Earth's rich natural resources. It is important that our natural resources continue to be available for future generations - which will be possible only if people learn how to conserve them now. ""Natural Resources"" is an eye-opening new set that focuses on the diverse natural wealth Earth has given us and the relationship between the environment and society. Packed with full-color photographs and illustrations, each title highlights a specif...