Children’s / Teenage social topics: Environment, sustainability and green issues

Fossil fuels such as coal, oil, and gas create many types of pollution.

Everyone needs to eat, yet farming is a major cause of pollution around the world.

Do you ever worry about the environment?

Do you want to experience what it's like to chart new territory and survive the unexpected?

Are you fascinated by wide open spaces and like NOT knowing where a path might lead?

Do you want to be your own naturalist and watch animals out there where they belong?

What happens when you find yourself stranded in the big outdoors, without a phone or computer in sight?

Find out what a Galapagos tortoise has in common with a shingleback lizard.

Discover the inspiring true story of Isatou Ceesay, an African woman who started a recycling movement to combat the pollution caused by plastic bags in her community.

When the Little Prince and Fox arrive, the ocean is nothing but a vast carpet of garbage.

There's something fishy going on in the lake at Camp Dakota .

Do you want to be your own naturalist and watch animals out there where they belong?

What happens when you find yourself stranded in the big outdoors, without a phone or computer in sight?

Do you want to experience what it's like to chart new territory and survive the unexpected?

Are you fascinated by wide open spaces and like NOT knowing where a path might lead?

Discover the inspiring true story of Isatou Ceesay, an African woman who started a recycling movement to combat the pollution caused by plastic bags in her community.

Plastic: it's used to make everything from drink bottles and bags to toys and toothbrushes.

When the Little Prince and Fox arrive, the ocean is nothing but a vast carpet of garbage.

Did you know that the same wind that messes up your hair can be used to create energy?

Did you know that the sunlight that warms your skin on a sunny day can be used to produce energy?

Did you know that tiny atoms that make up all matter hold huge amounts of energy?

Did you know people can turn the energy in rushing water into electricity?

Did you know people can dig underground and use Earth's heat to make energy?

Did you know that most of the energy we use comes from coal, oil, and natural gas?

How do you organize a big project?

What steps can you take to help the environment?

Plastic: it's used to make everything from drink bottles and bags to toys and toothbrushes.

Short-nosed sea snakes and blue iguanas are two examples of endangered reptiles.

Asian elephants and Mexican long-nosed bats are two examples of endangered mammals.

Oahu tree snails and pink velvet worms are two examples of endangered invertebrates.

Cape seahorses and speartooth sharks are two examples of endangered fish.

Northern rockhopper penguins and colorful pufflegs are two examples of endangered birds.

Hewitt's ghost frogs and arroyo toads are two examples of endangered amphibians.

As a child, David watches his grandfather, a Torah scribe or sofer, finish a Torah scroll for the synagogue.

Young Waluk is all alone.

Happy Tu B/Shevat!

Always busy doing good deeds like recycling, feeding birds, working in the garden and donating items to others, a little boy has earned the nickname "e;Tikkun Olam Ted.

There's something fishy going on in the lake at Camp Dakota .

On a walk along the ocean shore in Maine, a little girl finds a variety of objects left behind by the sea.

2018 Red Maple Award - Shortlisted * 2017 Sigurd F.

2018 Red Maple Award - Shortlisted * 2017 Sigurd F.

A special ravine and its revered history with First Nations people inspires Jak to save the ravine from demolition.

Short-listed for the 1999 Silver Birch Award and for the 2001 Manitoba Young Readers' Choice Award Fifteen-year-old Rowan, the daughter of foreign correspondents in Africa, finds herself beached for a summer with her cousins near Tofino, British Columbia.

Imagine sharing your world with the trees, like koalas do.

Peter can't wait to join his parents on an expedition to the ice caps of Greenland to study global warming.

Grace put out her hand, almost touching the mirror.

When teen adventurer Beck Granger finds himself stranded on a Himalayan mountainside, he has to draw on all his strength and skill to survive.

Young adventurer Beck Granger is invited to South Africa by an old friend of his parents' to help out on a project to prevent rhino poaching.

A gripping adventure story from Bear Grylls, packed with real survival details and dangers at every turn!

A gripping Australian adventure story from Bear Grylls, packed with real survival details and dangers at every turn!