Product Description: Human activity often leaves a trail of harmful carbon behind that directly impacts our planet. This informative book describes how every individual produces a carbon footprint by using energy made by burning fossil fuels and by creating waste from packaging that gets thrown away...read more

What does living green mean? For some, it means making a commitment to reduce, reuse, and recycle every day. For others, it also means respecting and conserving our natural resources, so they will be available in the future. In Living Green: The Ultimate Teen Guide, readers learn why protecting the environment is such a crucial undertaking and why and how young adults should take up this important cause.Living Green demonstrates how reckless indifference to our planet’s needs jeopardizes not only plants and animals but the existence of mankind. This volume addresses such concerns as leaving a low carbon footprint, protecting wildlife, saving natural resources, conserving trees and gardens, and fighting for environmental justice. Most importantly, Living Green explores the many ways that teens can make a difference—in their homes, communities, and in the world at large. While some of the teen efforts described here may be familiar, the author also focuses on issues seldom addressed, such as dumping toxic waste on poor and powerless communities. The book includes quotes from green advocates and teens who consider themselves eco-friendly, as well as useful advice that will help young adults embrace a lifestyle that will positively affect generations to come.

Product Description: Examines major developments in the Green Movement. Readers will discover the people and events that shaped the Green Movement, and the challenges that the future holds.

Product Description: Looks at the ways that human beings depend on the resources that the Earth offers, and ways that they can intelligently conserve those resources.Title: How Do Humans Depend on Earth?Author: Lundgren, Julie K.Publisher: Rourke Pub GroupPublication Date: 2012/08/01Number of Pages: 24Binding Type: LIBRARYLibrary of Congress: bl201204378...read more

Product Description: This book gives readers tips on how they can make simple lifestyle choices to help keep the environment clean and protected. The text also explains why people need to change their habits to keep Earth a clean, healthy place to live.

Product Description: This book shows readers what actions they can take to protect animals in their daily lives and how those specific actions make a difference. The text also explains how global warming and other environmental issues endanger animals in their natural habitats.

We all know we need to eat healthy foods to have healthy bodies. However, consumers are paying more attention than ever before to what they are putting into their bodies. They want to know where their food comes from, how it was grown, and to feel confident that food producers are using sustainable practices that will not harm the Earth or their health. Young readers learn about the controversies behind growth hormones and about ways each of us can take an active role in our health and the health of our planet.

Product Description: Explains the importance of "leaving a light footprint" or making lifestyle choices that make the smallest impact on the environment, and discusses biodiversity, energy conservation, limiting waste, and related topics.

Product Description: FROM A TRUSTED SOURCEIN THE FIELD OF SCIENCE. Our planet's resources need to be protected not only for our children but by them, as well. Each volume describes how people use the Earth's natural resources and what can be done to protect them...read more

Product Description: Starting with statistics and building toward real and achievable solutions for the planet. With features such as Planet Watch sidebars, New Technology summaries and Facts and Records almanac pages, this book explores the opportunities and dangers within resource management, as well as the pros and cons of the issues that are at the center of the world-at-risk debate...read more

Product Description: Examines the impact that shopping has on the environment and offers examples of ways to reduce its negative effects, including buying food online, recycling, and buying things that are locally grown and manufactured.Title: How Big Is Your Shopping Footprint?Author: Mason, PaulPublisher: Marshall Cavendish CorpPublication Date: 2009/09/01Number of Pages: 32Binding Type: LIBRARYLibrary of Congress: 200804809...read more

Product Description: How do science, and decisions that scientists make, affect us? What are the universal problems facing modern science? How are these issues dealt with in different societies? This series explores our role in monitoring, developing, and controlling scientific advances in a wide range of topics...read more