Heroes of the Environment: True Stories of People Who Are Helping to Protect Our PlanetThis inspiring book presents the true stories of 12 people from across North America 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 boy from Rhode Island who helped his community and his state develop effective e-waste recycling programs. Plenty of photographs and illustrations bring each compelling story vividly to life. |
Contents
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Growing food is powerful It can change the world | 11 |
Technology helped create our problems and technology can help solve them | 20 |
If you have a use for something its no longer waste | 29 |
With solar energy we can be independent | 35 |
If you dont tell people the problem how can you expect them to solve it? | 43 |
We must work with nature instead of fighting it | 50 |
Todays technology should not become tomorrows toxic trash | 58 |
I need all the children to be on my team | 74 |
I want all my students to feel like heroes | 83 |
If you drill for oil here you will be drilling into the heart of our people | 90 |
We are the future The future is ours | 98 |
How You Can Get Involved | 106 |
Acknowledgments | 108 |
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It makes a lot more sense to build windmills than to blow up mountains | 67 |
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