Generate a list of ways to make a positive impact in the environment with emphasis on being a better consumer, thus reducing your carbon footprint. Each student can add up to 5 ideas to our growing list, with an extra point given if your idea actually protects or improves the environment.
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A Lighter Footprint by
Climate change is perhaps the most important issue facing the world today. A Lighter Footprintcompiles the latest research, statistics and information specifically for Australians on how to minimise our impact on the environment and counteract climate change. A Lighter Footprintuses a tool called the ecological footprint to estimate the resources an individual consumes compared with the amount that nature can sustain. It debunks the myth that green living is not for everyone by detailing simple, practical, day-to-day actions that all Australians can take to reduce not only the costs to the environment but also to our wallets. This book provides a practical means of addressing the very serious environmental problems we face today. It empowers every individual and helps them to be an active part of the solution to this global issue.
Garbage Land by
- In the vein of Stiff, Nickel and Dimed, and Fast Food Nation, GARBAGE LAND takes us behind the scenes and into the corners of our own lives, revealing the fantastic truth behind what we've taken for granted or never even thought about.- Royte's last book, The Tapir's Morning Bath, was a New York Times Notable Book, praised widely for Royte's keen observations and narrative skill.
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by
Author Barbara Kingsolver and her family abandoned the industrial-food pipeline to live a rural life—vowing that, for one year, they’d only buy food raised in their own neighborhood, grow it themselves, or learn to live without it. Part memoir, part journalistic investigation, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle is an enthralling narrative that will open your eyes in a hundred new ways to an old truth: You are what you eat.
An Inconvenient Truth by
An Inconvenient Truth--Gore's groundbreaking, battle cry of a follow-up to the bestsellingEarth in the Balance--is being published to tie in with a documentary film of the same name. Both the book and film were inspired by a series of multimedia presentations on global warming that Gore created and delivers to groups around the world. With this book, Gore, who is one of our environmental heroes--and a leading expert--brings together leading-edge research from top scientists around the world; photographs, charts, and other illustrations; and personal anecdotes and observations to document the fastpace and wide scope of global warming. He presents, with alarming clarity and conclusiveness--and with humor, too--that the fact of global warming is not in question and that its consequences for the world we live in will be disastrous if left unchecked. This riveting new book--written in an accessible, entertaining style--will open the eyes of even the most skeptical.
