environmentalism

Presents a guide that will help changes one's life and looks at how to make the world a better place.

Countless teenagers around the world are organizing, marching, and raising their voices to draw attention to the climate crisis. According to a 2019 Washington Post-Kaiser Family Foundation poll, one in four American teenagers were taking action against climate change.

"When the kids in room 5 write to Earth asking what they can do to help save our planet, they are delighted to get a letter back"--Publisher.

"The tiny house is too loud! Twig's participating in her school's read-a-thon, but it's hard to concentrate with Dad watching TV and Turtle trying to blow gum bubbles or showing off the tiny house to curious passersby. And when Twig's classmate Matteo starts logging more reading time than her, she's desperate to get back her lead. But how do you make alone time in a family that's so squished together?"--Provided by publisher.

"In July 2011, Rebecca Prince-Ruiz challenged herself to go plastic free for the whole month. Starting with a small group of people in the city of Perth, the Plastic Free July movement has grown into a 250-million strong community across 177 countries, empowering people to reduce single-use plastic consumption and create a cleaner future. This book explores how one of the world's leading environmental campaigns took off and shares lessons from its success"--Provided by publisher.

"Full of simple, achievable ways to help you reduce your carbon footprint and make environmentally-friendly choices--from tips on creating a more sustainable home to reducing your plastic use and shopping responsibly"--Back cover.

"Provides a . . . guide to help you embrace sustainable living as both a celebration of style and a necessary strategy for maintaining our everyday comforts despite increasingly limited resources"--Provided by publisher.

A class field trip to Camp Go Green inspires Hope Roberts to take up environmental causes, but getting busy grown-ups (or her older sister) to pay attention to a middle schooler can be something of a problem, and so is Hope's expectation that everyone will share her enthusiasm; her science club gets her school to add more recycling bins, start a carpooling program and create a garden, but it turns out that saving the world is more complicated than she realized.

". . . youth activist Hannah Testa, the founder of Hannah4Change, chronicles both her personal and political mission to save the Earth's oceans by limiting single-use plastic products"--Provided by publisher.

"In this personal . . . essay, environmental activist and hip-hop artist Xiuhtezcatl Martinez uses his art and his activism to show that climate change is a human issue that can't be ignored"--Provided by publisher.