All I can tell you, is this book is an eye opener. My book club meets on the 20th to discuss our thoughts and also do a sustainable cooking class. What this book has done already, is make me think about buying more locally. Click on the link below, and if you live on Cape Cod I made an "eating locally" cheat sheet of information for you, EATING LOCALLY!
This is a MUST READ for parents! Change the way you clean and keep your family's home wholesome and healthy with the help of expert and activist Deirdre Imus.
A great site to find local farmers markets and neat products is www.localharvest.org/
If you live on Cape Cod, pick up this magazine (it is also a national magazine...edible communications. Edible Cape Cod is a quarterly magazine that promotes the abundance of local foods in the Cape Cod area and its surrounding communities.
National Geographic's latest enterprise. Really good read and great ideas. Check out the web site too.
Bookworm Magazine: www.bookworm-mag.com
"...a magazine by and for kids, published four times a year. Bookworm was started in 2004 by eleven-year-old Sophie McKibben, who wanted to give kids a place to have their writing and art published and shared. Since then, Bookworm has published kids from all over the United States, as well as from a number of foreign countries. Contributors have been as young as seven and as old as sixteen. They have learned about the magazine from friends and teachers, writers-in-the-schools programs and the internet."
William the garbage truck, eventually transforms to a green hybrid recycling truck committed to the fight against global warming. Cute book, great for younger kids, 4-8.
50 Simple Things is one of our family favorites
You gotta love The Berenstain Bears. This book is great for kids all the way up to age 10 as far as I am concerned. Publisher Synopsis: An environmental history of the Nashua River, from its discovery by Indians through the polluting years of the Industrial Revolution to the ambitious clean-up that revitalized it. Ages 6 -10. For those of us that live in New England this is a great book for our children to read! Your Big Backyard is a great nature magazine for the younger kids on your home. National Geographic For Kids is a favorite of Colin and Jamie's This is the magazine Jamie gets monthly. This is probably best for kids under 6. Been around forever and still a family favorite! We borrow this one from our library!
Two great books for younger kids! Ages 4 to 8
Explains the process of recycling from start to finish and discusses what happens to paper, glass, aluminum cans, and plastic when they are recycled into new products. Best for ages 5 - 8
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