McKibben
It’s the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, and of course we at BookPage have some reading suggestions to make! Anyone concerned about our planet’s future shouldn’t miss this Q&A with environmental activist Bill McKibben, who posits in his latest book, Eaarth, that climate change has already happened. Still, he says, it’s not too late: “[W]e’re going to need to be dealing with the ever-increasing effects of an unraveling climate, which will be costly and hard. But not impossible, not if we think clearly, calmly and as communities.”
Other Earth day highlights include a roundup of environmental books for kids. Since we believe that reading can encourage environmental awareness in children, we’re giving away three of the books from the roundup: Mary McKenna Siddals’ Compost Stew: An A to Z Recipe for the Earth; Frances Barry’s Let’s Save the Animals; and 31 Ways to Change the World, produced by We Are What We Do. To enter to win, read Bill McKibben’s Q&A and answer the following question in the comments section: What can we (as individuals) do to help our planet? The deadline is April 29 at 10 a.m.
We can consume less meat.
Respect the beauty of this wonderful land, the waters, the farms, the precious land that is ours to enjoy and take care of.
I just returned from a 2 week stay at the beach & after reading about the plastic dump in the middle of our oceans I vowed to pick up every piece of plastic trash I find left on our beaches…sad to say I picked up something every day.
Remember to take our reuseable shopping bags with us to the store so we don’t bring home plastic bags that will just end up in the trash.
Use reusuable totes at the grocery store, plant flowers and trees, and stop using plastic drink bottles.