citizen participation

This book describes how green living is a lifestyle and shows you how to be eco-friendly by conserving water, reducing consumerism, reusing items, and recycling things into useful ingredients.

The irrepressible Olivia participates in environmentally responsible initiatives with her family, but she must devise a clever solution to the problem of her brother needing a nightlight in order to keep everyone in the family happy.

Looks at what governments, businesses, farmers, communities, consumers, and individuals can do to stop global warming.

Discusses the importance of reducing waste, recycling, and reusing products in the context of grocery shopping.

An artistic orphan moves to London to follow her dream of becoming a mime and forges friendships with an illegal alien, a good-looking bum, and an old drunk after moving onto a longboat in a canal.

"HEROES IN THE NIGHT traces journalist Tea Krulos's journey into the strange subculture of Real Life Superheroes, random citizens who have adopted comic book-style personas and hit the streets to fight injustice--helping the homeless, gathering donations for food banks, or patrolling their neighborhoods looking for crime to fight. Through historic research, extensive interviews, and many long hours walking on patrol in Brooklyn and Seattle, San Diego, Minneapolis, and Vancouver, British Columbia, Krulos discovered what being a RLSH is all about. HEROES IN THE NIGHT profiles dozens of RLSHs and shares not only their shining, triumphant moments but some of their ill-advised, terrifying disasters as well"--.

Presents fifty-one low-cost and no-cost tips designed to help individuals protect the environment, preventing the emission of more than 25,000 pounds of carbon dioxide every year, as well as save them money.

Gives ideas for environmentally sound living both at home and in the workplace.

The Green Patriot Working Group details fifty simple suggestions that can help to reduce the effects of global warming, and includes drinking fair trade coffees, buying green energy, checking the tire pressure of cars, recycle old shoes, and more.