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Resources

These are some excellent resources we found on the web.

Special note:

Anyone can publish anything on the web, so use caution when surfing the web for information about environmental concerns and issues. Double check to make sure the information you receive comes from reliable sources and doesn't represent strong personal biases or vendettas.

Organizations that have done extensive research concerning our environment and ecology.

Excellent recycling sites

Waste Paper Recycling

Environmental issues
(composting, biographies, educational issues etc.)

Books for Educators

    The American Forest Institute. Project Learning Tree. Washington D.C., 1977.

    Polpresert, Chongrak. Organic Waste Recycling. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1989.

    Spizman, Robyn and Marianne Garber, Ph.D. What on Earth You Can Do with Kids: Environmental Activities for Every Day of the School Year. Carthage: Good Apple, 1991.

Other Books for You and Your Students

    Leon, Warren and Micheal Brower, Ph.D. The Consumer's Guide to Effective Environmental Choices: Practical Advice from the Union of Concerned Scientists. New York: Three Rivers Press, 1999.

    The World Resource Institute. The 1993 Information Please Environmental Almanac. Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1993.

    Carlson, Rachel, Silent Spring. Boston & New York Houghton Mifflin Company, 1962 (reissued 1987).

    Young, John, Sustaining the Earth: The Story of the Environmental Movement-Its Past Efforts and Future Challenges. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1991.

    Krull, Kathleen. It's My Earth, Too. New York: Delacorte Press, 1992.

    Williams, Christopher. Environmental Victims. London Earthscan publications, 1998.

    Palmer, Joy. Recycling Plastic. New York: Franklin Watts, 1990.

    Skidmore, Steve. What a Load of Trash: Rescue Your Household Waste. Brookfield: The Millbrook Press, 1991.

    Weir, Sam and Mary Weir. How We Made a Million Dollars Recycling Old Houses. Chicago: Contemporary Books, Inc., 1979.

    Wilcox, Charlotte. Trash! Minneapolis: Carolroda Books, Inc., 1988.

Books On Recycling

    Asimov, Isaac. Where Does Garbage Go? Milwaukee: Gareth Stevens Children's Books, 1992.

    Blashfield, Jean and Wallace Black. Recycling. Chicago: Childrens Press, 1991.

    Earth Works Group Inc. 50 things you can do to save the earth. Berkeley: Earthworks Group 1989.

    Earth Works Group Inc. The Recycler's Handbook: Simple Things You can Do. Berkeley: The Earthworks Group, 1990.

    Gibbons, Gail. Recycle! Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1992.

    Goodman, Billy. How to save the Planet. New York: Avon Books, 1990.

    Hadingham, Evan and Janet Hadingham. Garbage! Where it Comes From, Where it Goes. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1990.

    Jacobs, Francine. Follow That Trash! All About Recycling. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1996.

    Lefkowits, R.J. Save It! Keep It! Use It Again! A Book About Conservation and Recycling. New York: Parents' Magazine Press, 1977.

    MacEachern, Diane. Save our Planet. New York: Dell Publishing, 1990.

    Robinson, Fay. Recycle That! Chicago: Childrens Press, 1995. (good for children ages 4-7)

    Schwartz, Linda. Earth Book for Kids. Santa Barbara: The Learning Works Inc., 1990.

    Woodburn, Judith. Garbage and Recycling. Milwaukee: Gareth Stevens Publishing, 1992.

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