C is for carbon footprint

A Young Environmentalist’s Book of Conservation Tips is a lovely book for young readers, presenting the facts on carbon footprints and climate change clearly, with easy solutions to help.

Each letter from A to Z contains a lesson, on how to help improve our planet, for ideas way beyond recycling. Beautiful artwork assists the reader, to imagine a better future. Decrease your carbon footprint with these 26 tips to become a better environmentalists and improve your lifestyle.

The book begins with Sarah Lazarovic’s illustrated ‘Buyarchy of Needs‘:

  • Use What You Have
  • Borrow
  • Swap
  • Thrift
  • Make
  • Buy

Use no-dig gardening and fruit protection bags (over netting, which can trap birds and wildlife). Learn how to create gardens safe for pets (use humane slug/snail deterrents). Avoid facing indoor foliage to outdoor gardens, to help stop birds flying into windows.

Robert Donisch is an outdoor educator and teacher, who decided to use his knowledge and experience, to write an inspiring book for young readers, on how to help the planet.

An Inspiring Manifesto for a Better World

the children of the anthropocene

The Children of the Anthropocene is a beautifully written book, with stories from young people at the heart of the climate crisis. This book is by Bella Lack, who is kind of like England’s answer to Greta Thunberg. Still in her teens, she has already co-founded a conservation charity with free classroom resources.

Bella is one of the most inspiring people I’ve ever met. Bella and her fellow young voices are the best choices our planet has. I’ve seen Bella bring a theatre full of academics and conservationists to tears, and then to their feet. Bella believes she can change the world, and I believe her. This is a remarkable and important book. Steve Backshall

An urgent, thought-provoking, and beautifully written book from a brilliant young conservationist. We must stop and listen to these inspiring young people from around the globe. Extraordinarily moving, wild and engaging. Mary Robinson, former president of Ireland.

Bella Lack is a young conservationist and environmental activists, who is also ambassador for the Born Free Foundation and Jane Goodall Institute. Often called ‘England’s Greta Thunberg’, she helped to create the People’s Manifesto for Wildlife.

Habit, greed, vested interests…But I still don’t understand how people would put that above protecting the environment, above protecting future generations. Like, on a superficial level, I get it. But it’s short-termism. People looking at how they might profit in the next month… What’s the point in profit on a dead planet?

 

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