You Can Save the Earth, Revised Edition: A Handbook for Environmental Awareness, Conservation and Sustainability

You Can Save the Earth, Revised Edition: A Handbook for Environmental Awareness, Conservation and Sustainability

You Can Save the Earth, Revised Edition: A Handbook for Environmental Awareness, Conservation and Sustainability

You Can Save the Earth, Revised Edition: A Handbook for Environmental Awareness, Conservation and Sustainability

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Overview

Finally—a hopeful book which empowers us to make the choices we need to make...not out of fear but out of love for ourselves, our Earth, and each other.

In its long-awaited revised edition, You Can Save the Earth, Revised Edition provides even more reasons and ways to pay attention to our planet by being stewards to sustainability. Including the latest information from climate studies, international policy and critical ecological issues, You Can Save the Earth, Revised Edition brings the same level of solution-centered discourse to the next level.

Includes inspirational quotes from influential environmentalists and thought leaders including Al Gore, Jacques-Yves Cousteau, Martin Luther King, Jr., Mother Teresa, Walt Whitman, Henry David Thoreau, Howard Zinn, E.F. Schumacher, William Shakespeare, Ayn Rand, and Mahatma Gandhi.

You Can Save the Earth, Revised Edition is the perfect book to pick up for your friends, your office, your home, and yourself. While many books on sustainability and climate change focus only on disasters and what has gone wrong–what we have lost–this one takes a new tack. You Can Save the Earth focuses on real-life, simple solutions to many of our global problems, and emphasizes steps that can be taken on an individual basis or on a local level to promote environmental awareness and conservation.

A portion of the proceeds from your purchase goes to good, designated for non-profit organizations specifically active in addressing the issues that face the survival of the Earth, including:
Wildlife Conservation Society
National Audubon Society
Save the Whales
Sierra Club
Waterkeeper Alliance
The Nature Conservancy
Cousteau Society
Earth Corps
Go Green Initiative
National Resources Defense Council
People and Planet
The Mountain Institute
The Rainforest Foundation-US

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781578266715
Publisher: Hatherleigh Press
Publication date: 07/16/2019
Sold by: Penguin Random House Publisher Services
Format: eBook
Pages: 160
File size: 365 KB

About the Author

Sean K. Smith is an author, journalist, and screenwriter. A graduate of Harvard University and Stamford University, he has authored numerous books and articles and has written and directed feature films. He lives in Los Angeles with his two sons.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Revised Edition vii

7 Reasons Why

All of Life is Interconnected 11

The Health of the Earth Defines Our Well-Being 19

Water is the Essence of All Life 27

The Air We Breathe 37

The Limits of Fossil Fuels 45

The Food that Nourishes 53

The Fragile Balance 63

7 Simple Ways

Love the Earth 77

Make Wiser Choices 87

Choose to Reduce 97

Embrace Green Technology 107

Recycle, Reuse, Repair 117

Think Local 127

Cherish the Earth's Precious Gifts 135

A Special Thank You 142

Notes 143

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