How to Make a Better World by Keilly Swift

$19.99 AUD

Category: Gardening, environment, sustainability

If you are a kid with big dreams and a passion for what is right, you're a world-changer in the making. There's a lot that can be changed by just one person, if you know what to do. Start by making yourself into the awesome person you want to be by learning all about self-care and kindness. Using those skills, work your way up to creating activist campaigns to tackle climate change or social injustice. This fun and inspiring guide to making the world a better place and becoming a good citizen is packed with ideas and tips for kids who want to know how to make a difference. Through ideas as small as creating a neighbourhood lending library to as important as public speaking and how to talk about politics, How to Make a Better World is a practical guide to activism for awesome kids. ...Show more

How to Save the Whole Stinkin' Planet by Lee Constable

$19.99 AUD

Category: Gardening, environment, sustainability | Reading Level: 8.5 Kids Non Fiction

How to Save the Whole Stinkin' Planet will take you on a garbological adventure like no other. From diving into the rubbish bin and delving around in the landfill, to rummaging through the recycling and digging about in compost. As a waste warrior in training, you will earn points and badges as you work your way through each chapter, completing activities, DIYs and eco-experiments. Whether you are conducting your own bin audit, creating a landfill model or making a mini compost heap - all this waste warrior training will be enhancing your understanding of waste management and the impact our household rubbish is having on the planet. ...Show more

Be Plastic Clever by Amy and Ella Meek

$9.99 AUD

$12.99 (23% off)

Category: Gardening, environment, sustainability

Learn about the dangers of single-use plastics and pick up tips on what you can do to help through teenage activists Amy and Ella. This environmental book will teach young activists about the dangers of plastic pollution and climate change, but also to help them find their voice. Amy and Ella want thei r book to help young readers shout about the issues they are passionate about and inspire them to become young activists in their own right. Filled with facts about the dangers of plastics, as well as tips on what you can do to help, it's the ultimate practical guide to ridding the world of single-use plastics from two young activists. ...Show more

Recycle and Remake

$19.99 AUD

Category: Gardening, environment, sustainability

Kids are on a mission to save the Earth! Recycle and Remakeis the hands-on, practical guide you need to get started. This gentle, but empowering book is full of creative making activities, information, and ideas that give young eco-warriors (like you!) the know-how to really help the environment. With R ecycle and Remake, you will soon be saving trees by making your own seeded recycled paper from junk mail, cleaning up the oceans by turning old carrier bags into kites, friendship bracelets, and colourful weaved baskets, and repurposing a cardboard box into a periscope. You'll also learn about sustainable energies by creating a simple solar oven, cutting down on cling-film by making a food wrap from scrap cotton and beeswax, and turning an old tshirt into a reusable tote bag so you never need to buy a plastic carrier bag again. You can even grow new plants to clean the air in your own upcycled milk bottle planters and using homemade compost. As you make and create, you will learn kid-friendly facts about the big issues our planet is facing. Each of the activities directly relates to an environmental hot topic, such as plastic pollution, food waste, or deforestation. Budding environmentalists all over the world are feeling inspired to do their bit for our unique planet. This future-friendly book is here to guide you with all the information, ideas, tips, and tools you need to be part of the solution. ...Show more

HOPE: 50 Ways to Help Our Planet Every Day by Penguin Random House Australia

$14.99 AUD

Category: Gardening, environment, sustainability

Think you can't do anything about the world's problems? Have HOPE! Having hope means that we can make a change. And the kids of Australia have heaps of HOPE! Open your eyes, take a look around and Help Our Planet Every day. From the city to the country to the coast, we all live in different ways but we share this one world and together we can make it better. Full of case studies from kids, practical tips and easy activities that can involve your school, family and community, this book provides a simple guide to making a difference. Don't be afraid to start! ...Show more

Keeping Chickens by Gordon Kerr

$29.95 AUD

Category: Birds

The ultimate guide to keeping chickens in your backyard. The more obvious rewards of chicken ownership - like delicious fresh eggs daily and fabulous cost-free fertiliser - are well known. Chickens even help keep the number of pest insects in your garden. But there are other benefits too, not least of w hich is the endless entertainment you get watching them scratch, peck, socialise and preen. This book includes all the information you need to keep your very own chickens- How to choose a breed suited to your needs, space and climate How to choose and build or buy a coop How to care for your chickens How to breed chicks successfully Keeping Chickenswill show you how easy, fun and satisfying owning chooks can be. ...Show more

Compost Stew : An A to Z Recipe for the Earth by Mary Elizabeth McKenna Siddals

$13.99 AUD

Category: Gardening, environment, sustainability

From apple cores to zinnia heads, readers will discover the best ingredients for a successful compost pile! Kids everywhere are knowledgeable about the environment and climate change. Not only is composting becoming more common in households and residential gardens, but many school gardens feature compo st piles, too. But how do you start a compost pile? What's safe to include? Perfect for an Earth Day focus or year-round reference, this inviting book provides all the answers for kids and families looking for simple, child-friendly ways to help the planet. "From the Hardcover edition." ...Show more

Our House Is on Fire: Greta Thunberg's Call to Save the Planet by Jeanette Winter

$29.99 AUD

Category: Gardening, environment, sustainability

From acclaimed picture book creator Jeanette Winter comes the urgent and powerful story of Greta Thunberg, the sixteen-year-old climate activist who has sparked a worldwide student movement and is demanding action from world leaders who refuse to address climate change. I don't want you to be hopeful. I want you to panic...I want you to act as if our house is on fire. Because it is. When she was fifteen years old, Greta Thunberg's teacher explained to her class that our climate is changing--the earth is getting warmer, the polar ice caps are melting, and life on earth is threatened. Greta was devastated. What could she do? If the grown-ups weren't doing enough to save the planet, Greta would have to demand change herself. So she went on strike, skipping school every Friday to sit outside of the Swedish Parliament building with a sign that read "School Strike for Climate." At first, Greta was the only one. But gradually, more and more students joined her, until her lone protest had sparked a worldwide student movement for action on climate change. Now, a year later, Greta is speaking to audiences of world leaders at important meetings like the United Nations Climate Conference and the World Economic Forum. She is leading the conversation on climate change and sparking worldwide conversation on how to save our planet. Greta is showing everyone that even the smallest person can make a big difference, and this picture book informs and inspires young readers who are beginning to learn about the world around them. ...Show more

Backyard Chickens: How to Keep Happy Hens by Dave Ingham

$35.00 AUD

Category: Birds

A henkeeping companion to the bestselling Backyard Bees, covering everything you need to know about keeping chickens even in urban areas.

Dr Karl's Little Book of Climate Change Science by Karl Kruszelnicki

$14.99 AUD

Category: Gardening, environment, sustainability

It's our Garden: From Seeds to Harvest in a School Garden by George Ancona

$9.95 AUD

Category: Gardening, environment, sustainability

Want to grow what you eat and eat what you grow? Visit this lively, flourishing school-and-community garden and be inspired to cultivate your own. Part celebration, part simple how-to, this close-up look at a vibrant garden and its enthusiastic gardeners is blooming with photos that will have readers re ady to roll up their sleeves and dig in. Timely with the increasing emphasis on obesity and growing your own kitchen garden. Fits into the Hollywood-izing of eating well i.e. Jamie Oliver and Alice Waters. Written with enough procedural direction that schools could use the book/ garden as a model for developing their own garden. ...Show more

Kids Fight Plastic: How to Be a 2 minute Superhero by Martin Dorey

$16.99 AUD

Category: Gardening, environment, sustainability

Have you got 2 minutes? That's all the time it takes to become a #2minutesuperhero. Plastic is everywhere. It is in the rivers and it is in the sea. We need superheroes to fight plastic and help save our oceans. Read this essential book and find out how you can become a #2minutesuperhero by completing 5 0 missions to fight plastic at home, school and on your days out. Informative, practical and positive, this guide for children is written by Martin Dorey, anti-plastic campaigner and author of the bestselling No. More. Plastic. Martin is the founder of the Beach Clean Network and the #2minutebeachclean movement and believes that small actions add up to make a big difference. ...Show more