This inspiring book presents the true stories of 12 people, most of them teenagers or younger adults, from across North America who have done great things for the environment. Heroes include a teenage girl who figured out how to remove an industrial pollutant from the Ohio River, a Mexican superstar wrestler who works to protect turtles and whales, and a teenage boy from Rhode Island who helped…
Apakah kamu khawatir akan masa depan planet kita? Kamu ingin ikut melestarikan lingkungan? Bagus, tetapi, kamu mungkin akan mengalami kesulitan untuk mengubah kebiasaanmu. Buku ini menyarankan berbagai tindakan sehari-hari yang bisa dilakukan untuk menyelamatkan bumi.
Learn about recycling from a new perspective! Peek into this diary of a plastic bottle as it goes on a journey from the refinery plant, to the manufacturing line, to the store shelf, to a garbage can, and finally to a recycling plant where it emerges into it's new life...as a fleece jacket! Told from the point of view of a free-spirited plastic bottle, kids can share in the daily experience…
Go Green! This book is packed with smart, practical, and fun things you can do make your home, school, neighborhood, and planet more environmentally friendly. *Find out what global warming and the greenhouse effect are. *Learn how to save water. *Devise a recycling system for your house. *Help save earth's plants and animals. *Discover useful ways to spread the word on saving the planet.
Developed in collaboration with the International Baccalaureate Organization, Oxford's Course Companions provide extra support for students taking IB Diploma Programme courses. They present a whole-course approach with a wide range of resources, and encourage a deep understanding of each subject by making connections to wider issues and providing opportunites for critical thinking. This Course …
It is worse, much worse, than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possible. In California, wildfires now rage year-round, destroying thousands of homes. Across the US, "500-year" storms pummel communities month after month, and floods displace tens of millions annually. This is only…