Caring for the Earth is the biggest challenge facing us all today, but what can YOU do to help?
This practical, hands-on guide is filled with helpful checklists of actions to take and choices to make in your daily life. There are chapters on planet-friendly eating, shopping and travelling, and on ways to save energy and cut down on waste. There's also clear advice on getting drastic about plastic, and taking better care of the natural world, and links to recommended websites with more information.
With the help of this book, you can really make a difference to the future of our planet.
Chapters in this book include:
What's happening to our Planet
How planet-friendly are you?
The big energy challenge
Ten simple energy-saving moves
Reducing waste
Four important ways to cut own on waste
Four paper-saving tips
Four ideas for making the most of paper
Five new ways to think about your clothes
Four fabric-rescue plans
Reusing and recycling
What can and can't be recycled?
Getting drastic about plastic
Ten practical steps towards zero plastic
GIve moves to beat 'hidden plastic'
Shopping choices
Four simple shipping guidelines
Three greener ways to shop online
Food choices
Four planet-friendly eating choices
Six food-shopping guidelines
Four ways to fight food waste
Five energy-saving tips in the kitchen
Getting around
Four green travel choices
Looking after the earth's water
Seven water-saving moves
Five water clean-up guidelines
Caring for the natural world
Ten ways to help the natural world
Five wildlife safety tips
Building a better future
Ten steps towards planet action
Planet words and terms
This is Book 5 in the Usborne Life Skills Series. See all Usborne Life Skills books here.
Jane Bingham is an experienced children's author and editor. She specializes in history and contemporary issues.
More about Jane BinghamMiriam Edwards comes from a long line of dressmakers and tailors. Her mother taught her to make clothes for her dolls and then for herself, and alter she did the same for her own children. Miriam discovered patchwork when she went to the National Parchwork Championships with friends in 1992. She was enthralled by what she saw and came home weighed down with
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