environmental protection

Explains environmental pollution and gives suggestions on how to help save the planet.

In the early 1900s, thirteen-year-old Tyler encounters vicious hunters whose actions threaten to destroy the Everglades ecosystem and, as a result, joins the battle to protect that fragile environment.

Two boys from a small town on the Chesapeake Bay help a scientist interested in cleaning up the water for the benefit of animals, plants, and people, while risking parental disapproval of people with too much education and of outsiders' interference in their means of earning a living.

Provides a simple introduction to the kinds of fuels, both fossil fuels and alternative energy sources, used throughout the world, and discusses the problems of fuel shortages and environmental safety.

Text and accompanying photographs discuss how people have polluted the environment, threatened animals with extinction, exhausted natural resources. Suggests environmental projects for individuals and groups to maintain and protect the natural world.

When Brother's class studies birds, the citizens of Bear Country end up choosing sides in a battle between environmentalists and those who want to cut down the trees in Birder's Woods to build houses.

With help from her Grandma Barb, Marty builds a habitat for worms in her school cafeteria as part of the Save the Earth Project.

When Arthur starts talking about his school project involving a Big Green Machine, D.W. imagines a scary contraption that will turn everyone green.

Teaches children the importance of reusing things, reducing the amount of garbage they produce, recycling materials, and respecting the world around them.