environmentalism

"Milly Zantow wanted to solve the problem of her town's full landfill and ended up creating a global recycling standard--the system of numbers you see inside the little triangle on plastics. This is the inspiring story of how she mobilized her community, creating sweeping change to help the environment"--Amazon.com.

This book surveys projects available to students interested in using service learning to find solutions to local and global environmental issues.

Curley Hines has lost his father, mother, and brother to coal mining, and now he lives with his grandfather in the Appalachian mountains of Wonder Gap, Kentucky--but when the mining company prepares to destroy their mountain he must use the words his grandfather has taught him to save Red Hawk Mountain, even if it means losing the life he loves.

Rhyming text describes how human beings have affected the the environment and shows ways in which we can care for the planet.

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.

Provides families with advice on how to maintain a green, sustainable lifestyle. Includes tips, facts, and activities.

Traveling to the mountains of 1929 North Carolina to forge a timber business with her new husband, Serena Pemberton champions her mastery of harsh natural and working conditions but turns murderous when she learns she cannot bear children.

"Torben Kuhlmann's ... nearly wordless tale offers a ... window into an imaginary yet hauntingly familiar world under our feet, where the moles suddenly recognize the precarious balance between progress and preservation. But is it too late?"--Dust jacket.

Explores the growth of the environmentalist movement in the fifty years since Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring" was published in 1962. Details the growth of environmental awareness and the place of this new trend of thinking in pop culture and political history and considers how the planet has changed in this time.

Offers an environmental wake-up call and a tool kit for decoding the barrage of conflicting information confronting readers today.