environmental aspects

Presents the dimensions of consumption, including diapers worn as a baby, bread eaten in a lifetime, and recycled cans, and explains how to create a sustainable way of living.

Explores ethical and environmental issues in the food industry.

One day, Fin has a school day just like any other, filled with bluffing through class and trying to impress a beautiful and sophisticated girl; the next day, Fin wakes up to find his parents absent and nothing electronic working. Nuclear winter sets in as nations detonate bombs across the world, and Fin and his brother Max, along with their friends, are forced to survive in a new cruel world.

"... explores the ways the environment--the weather, climate, or geography--influences the outcomes of wars"--Provided by publisher.

Discusses fashion trends and inexpensive clothing retailers and how they lead consumers to be wasteful.

Explores all facets of salt as a natural resource in North America, investigating its natural history, human use, technology, environmental impact, and economic significance.

Explores all facets of iron as a natural resource in North America, investigating its natural history, human use, technology, environmental impact, and economic significance.

Explores all facets of gold and silver natural resources in North America, investigating the natural history, human use, technology, environmental impact, and economic significance.

"BLOOD AND EARTH is a gripping account of the deadly link between slavery and environmental destruction. Kevin Bales is a social scientist, human rights activist, and journalist -- and he's also one of the world's leading experts on modern slavery. In his work he began to notice the connection between environmental decline and slavery: the two almost always went hand-in-hand, whether in the hellish gold mines of Ghana or the miraculously beautiful mangrove forests of Bangladesh. But why? He set off to find the answer on a fascinating and moving journey that took him into the lives of modern day slaves and along a supply chain that leads directly to the cell phones in our pockets. He found solutions that redeemed both the lives of the slaves in the world's most threatened places and the environments they live in. This is a clear-eyed, inspiring, and profoundly hopeful book that brings us dramatic stories from the world's environmental and human rights hotspots and offers solutions to our most pressing crises"--.

Describes how people worldwide are wasting energy and threatening the environment. Also provides information on how to live more sustainably through such activities as recycling, using green sources of energy, car-sharing, and reducing air travel.