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Heroes of the Environment: True Stories of People Who Are Helping to Protect Our Planet
Part of our NRDC publishing program, this book presents the true stories of 12 people from across the United States, Canada, and Mexico who have done great things for the environment. Heroes include a teenage girl who figured out how to remove an industrial pollutant from the Ohio River, a Mexican superstar wrestler who works to protect turtles and whales, and a teenage bo...more
Hardcover, 110 pages
Published
August 12th 2009
by Chronicle Books
(first published 2009)
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I thought the stories that Harriet Rohmer compiled in this book were very inspiring and the message that one person can make a difference comes through loud and clear.
This book would be an excellent resource for teachers or anyone working with young children. Or just for the average person who feels slightly depressed or irritable and cranky from reading about corrupt CEOs and billion dollar bail-outs. This book could help restore your faith in mankind (for a moment or two anyway ...more
This book would be an excellent resource for teachers or anyone working with young children. Or just for the average person who feels slightly depressed or irritable and cranky from reading about corrupt CEOs and billion dollar bail-outs. This book could help restore your faith in mankind (for a moment or two anyway ...more
Mary Ann
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interesting book that will appeal to kids - especially empowering them to take action locally that has a big impact. I liked that it was written in short chapters - I think I'd like to put a copy in the science classroom for school-wide DEAR time.
My one problem is that the writing didn't seem to carry me through - didn't make me want to turn the page to the next chapter. But it was full of interesting examples of people taking action to change their lives and their communities fo...more
My one problem is that the writing didn't seem to carry me through - didn't make me want to turn the page to the next chapter. But it was full of interesting examples of people taking action to change their lives and their communities fo...more
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This is great book for kids about how "regular" people, including kids, can make a difference as advocates and organizers on behalf of the environment. There are profiles of 12 activists some of whom quietly engaged in activities that made their communities healthier as well as others who publicly took on powerful special interests and challenged government action. This book inspires all who read it to become aware of what may be happening in their neighborhoods and to take action wh...more
Emerson School Library
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read to 4/5s in January 2011
read chapter about Erica Gonzales, who was an activist against natural gas drilling off the California coast.
worked well with nonfiction unit
read chapter about Erica Gonzales, who was an activist against natural gas drilling off the California coast.
worked well with nonfiction unit
This is very uplifting and inspirational. One person can make a difference!
This book features people of all ages and backgrounds and their efforts to help the environment from establishing ways for city-dwellers to grow vegetables to installing solar panels on rural dwellings to starting a program for proper disposal of e-waste. This may not be a first choice for browsing material, but it would certainly make a good addition to classroom units on the environment and may inspire kids to look for ways in which they, too, can help the environment.
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