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Love the Earth: Understanding climate change, speaking up for solutions, and living an earth-friendly life
This book is packed with ideas and information for girls who care about the earth to help them understand climate change, speak up for solutions, and live an earth-friendly life. It's full of quizzes, crafts, party ideas, and a science experiment to help girls learn how they can use their unique passions and talents to make a difference. With a focus on interactive activities, this book proves that fighting climate change doesn't have to be scary—it can be a lot of fun!
88 pages, Paperback
Published December 31, 2020
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Mel Hammond
9 books17 followersMel Hammond is an award-winning author of fiction and nonfiction for kids and young adults. Whether she’s writing about murderous multi-level marketing cults, road trip shenanigans, or climate change activism, she likes to keep things a little silly. She lives in Madison, Wisconsin, where she writes in a tangerine-orange office with two feline assistants.
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April 3, 2024
Adorable, educational, inspirational. All of the central tenets of AG. I definitely got some new ideas from this book that I’ll be putting into practice ASAP!
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March 8, 2024What a fun, beautiful book!
February 27, 2021
Read it in an afternoon; Think about it in a lifetime
I read this well-written, wonderfully illustrated book in an afternoon, but I'm going to think about it for a long time. When I see a hamburger, I'm going to think, "It took 1300 gallons of water to produce that burger." If I'm tempted to buy one-use plastic, I'm going to remember that only 9% of the plastic in this country is recyclable. The micro-plastics that get in the ocean and are eaten by fish, I learned, might end up in my body. And gum! The next time I unwrap a stick, I'll remember that it takes hundreds of years for gum to decompose. And, if it ends up in the ocean, it'll make fish sick. I'll also be more aware of greenwashing, or companies pretending to be conscious of the environment by doing things like emblazoning a leaf on a plastic bottle. Buyer beware.
The author, Mel Hammond, encourages us to be kind as we educate people. We can be firm, ask for change, and write letters, but it's not helpful to shame people. We can focus on the positive changes we see and encourage one another to continue improving. It might be as much fun as making totes out of old t-shirts or giving vegies fun names. I'll no longer be serving my grandsons carrots and celery. Now they'll be called dinosaur tails and X-ray vision sticks.
Thank you, Mel Hammond, for sharing this important book with the world.
I read this well-written, wonderfully illustrated book in an afternoon, but I'm going to think about it for a long time. When I see a hamburger, I'm going to think, "It took 1300 gallons of water to produce that burger." If I'm tempted to buy one-use plastic, I'm going to remember that only 9% of the plastic in this country is recyclable. The micro-plastics that get in the ocean and are eaten by fish, I learned, might end up in my body. And gum! The next time I unwrap a stick, I'll remember that it takes hundreds of years for gum to decompose. And, if it ends up in the ocean, it'll make fish sick. I'll also be more aware of greenwashing, or companies pretending to be conscious of the environment by doing things like emblazoning a leaf on a plastic bottle. Buyer beware.
The author, Mel Hammond, encourages us to be kind as we educate people. We can be firm, ask for change, and write letters, but it's not helpful to shame people. We can focus on the positive changes we see and encourage one another to continue improving. It might be as much fun as making totes out of old t-shirts or giving vegies fun names. I'll no longer be serving my grandsons carrots and celery. Now they'll be called dinosaur tails and X-ray vision sticks.
Thank you, Mel Hammond, for sharing this important book with the world.
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