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The Next Eco-Warriors

The Next Eco-Warriors is a powerful collection of first person accounts of environmental struggles being fought by young activists from around the globe. Although they vary widely in focus, strategy and outcome – from oceans, to mining, to deforestation – the central theme concerns every living being on the planet. This is a very real fight happening right now. Through her opening and closing words in this collection, editor Emily Hunter demonstrates clearly that, as the daughter of Greenpeace founder Robert Hunter, she is living and breathing her father’s lasting environmental legacy, while also making the case that the next generation of eco-warriors has come of age to be smarter and even more determined than its predecessors. The stakes are higher than ever and these young people are fighting for our lives.
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Video: Surrey Central City Go Green Flash Mob

Surrey’s Chimney Hill Elementary is hoping to spread a positive message about preserving our planet, the fragility of our planet and our personal responsibility in conserving her precious resources. Having 580 students work together for one common cause, and demonstrate an incredible amount of enthusiasm and teamwork was a testament to our society’s future. This event showed that many different components of a society can work together to send a message in a creative, well-organized and child-centred manner. Way to light up the fireworks! Continue reading Video: Surrey Central City Go Green Flash Mob

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Evolution: The view from the cottage

Using the natural landscape around his Southern Quebec cottage as the central theme, author Jean-Pierre Rogel explores topics as diverse as genetically modified corn and whale taxonomy. He has much practice in engaging people in nature appreciation: As the host of the Radio-Canada science program Découverte, Rogel has been a public figure in Quebec for years. He has also written about genetics and evolution, although he is not yet well known among Anglophones. This, his fourth book, has been translated effectively to give English-speaking readers a taste of his engaging style. Reading this book immerses the reader in his cottage experiences, fleshed out by strong factual analysis.
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Poisoned For Profit

In Poisoned for Profit: How Toxins Are Making Our Children Chronically Ill, Philip and Alice Shabecoff present an impeccably researched parallel between the proliferation of environmental toxins and the dramatic increase in chronic childhood disease in the US. Through the voice of a prosecutor giving evidence to a jury, they present a criminal case of chemical assault on children. The victims’ stories are woven through the book, as is the complex web of chemical corporations, government agencies, politicians, scientists, lawyers and lobbyists that are perpetrators and co-conspirators in this heinous crime. The book asks: Where is the justice for the children?
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Green Giveaways are back!


Heads-up, green book lovers! Because we like ya, and because Spring’s here, and because it’s hump day, we’re bringing back our regular giveaways. Hurrah!
Just click on the Green Giveaways button to the right and find out how you can win this month’s gift: an updated and expanded edition of Hot, Flat, and Crowded, the bestseller by Thomas L. Friedman.
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EcoBooks – Alternatives Journal Issue: 37.3

Whether it’s made of paper or pixels, the latest issue of Alternatives Journal is essential reading. Fresh from his legacy tour, David Suzuki reveals his inner-most thoughts; tar sands decrier Andrew Nikiforuk rips into “ethical oil;” the country’s top green writers tell us what they keep by their bedsides; we look at last year’s bestsellers; and publishing-industry guru Nic Boshart gives you the lowdown on e-books. Accompanied by 22 reviews of ecobooks and eco-films as well as beautiful art from Robert Bateman, David Blackwood and others, this issue ofAlternatives is one read you won’t put down. Continue reading EcoBooks – Alternatives Journal Issue: 37.3

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Global Warming for Young Minds

Flemming Bermann, a software developer in Southampton, England, was frustrated at the lack of good books about climate change and sustainability aimed at children, so he wrote one. Global Warming for Young Minds is intended to be a politically neutral primer on climate change and environmental stewardship for kids between the ages of six and 10. Interspersed throughout the book are games and puzzles meant to build on the ideas presented. Bermann’s intentions are certainly unassailable and he has good ideas, but that is nearly sunk by the book’s cheap and amateurish design and illustrations.
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