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Fourteen-year-old Jason can't work out how to get climate change fixed-until he saves the life of the mysterious and powerful Graham. Graham promises a reward, and Jason asks him to do something to stop climate change. The request is caught by the media, so Jason thinks the man's trapped and has to keep his word. But Graham's got other ideas.A battle of wits ensues as Jason tries to stop his captive from squirming out of his promise. Encounters that...
8) Fossil fuels
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"Readers may have heard the term fossil fuels, but they may not know exactly what they are. Oil, natural gas, and coal are fossil fuels, but they are not clean or renewable sources of energy. This book takes a look at the history of fossil fuels and how we burn them to make heat and electricity as well as what can be done to decrease our use of these fuels and why this change is important. Color photos, a glossary, a timeline, and easy-to-read text...
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The heat that comes from inside Earth is called geothermal energy. This clean energy source is used to heat or cool buildings and to make electricity. Readers will learn about this renewable energy source, how we do not pollute when we use it, and the future plans for using this geothermal energy on a wider level. Color photographs, a geothermal energy timeline, and a glossary round out this title.
10) Hydropower
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"Anyone who has been walloped by a large ocean wave or has watched water tumble down a tall waterfall knows the power of water. Readers will learn about hydropower throughout history and find out about the water cycle. Reading about how this clean energy source is used today and what the future of hydropower may look like will educate young readers about renewable energy fueled by water. Color photos and a glossary are also included"--From the publisher's...
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Kids Can Save the Planet volume 1
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What happens when you throw plastic away? Dylan D'Haeze, a 13-year-old filmmaker from the San Juan Islands, decides to find out by following plastic trash to its end source, which is the ocean. As the "downhill to everything", that great blue expanse serves as an unintentional dumping ground and a transportation system as countless pieces of plastic debris wash up on shores around the world. Marine life often ingest plastic debris which ends up affecting...
12) Nuclear energy
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Readers will delight in learning more about nuclear energy when they read about nuclear power plants, nuclear fusion, and nuclear fission. They will learn what nuclear energy is exactly, how safe it is, and how it is used to make electricity to power our world. A timeline covers the events in history related to nuclear energy, and color photos complement the easy-to-read text.
13) Solar Energy
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The sun, responsible for life on our planet, is a valuable clean energy source that can lessen our dependence on fossil fuels. With color photos, a glossary, and simple text, this book explains how solar panels work, what passive solar power is, and how the sun can be used to make electricity. Young readers will be excited to learn more about renewable energy.
14) Wind energy
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People have been harnessing the power of wind for a long time. This renewable, clean energy source can power our high-tech world without creating as much pollution as fossil fuels do. Readers will learn about wind turbines and how they make electricity and what the future of wind power looks like. A glossary, timeline, and color photos add to this easy-to-read addition to the series.
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Kids Can Save the Planet volume 3
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14-year-old filmmaker Dylan D'Haeze explores how communities can develop zero waste strategies and looks at building a sustainable lifestyle for today and for future generations. Beginning with the Industrial Revolution, advances in technological innovation lead to large population booms, which have lead to intense harvesting of environmental resources faster than they can be regenerated. More waste builds up as more resources are burned through,...
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Kids Can Save the Planet volume 2
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There is one issue that unites us all no matter what part of the world you live in: climate change. But what is climate change? What is being done about it? And what can you do to help? In "Tipping Point", 13-year-old filmmaker Dylan D'Haeze explores the ways in which humans have impacted the planet from the greenhouse effect causing ocean acidification to how industrial farming creates more methane. The film also goes over recent, drastic fluctuations...
17) Bike Rock
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In Book 3 of the Pedro the Water Dog Saves the Planet series, realizing the only way to end fossil fuels is to get rid of cars, best-friend athletes Tilly and Camas write a manifesto for their bicycle ride across the country, The Great Petal Pedal Ride. The elders of Burning Man are called upon, having just kicked cars out of the playa and the mayor of Netherland bike mecca, Utrecht. Add an ominous monopoly of oil barons, an elegant, musical, starlet...
18) Copper Cobra
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Two hip-hop-loving best friends work a salmon season in Alaska and, with the help of a humorous, sexy social-media vlogger and a 106-year-old pot-smoking resort matron, uncover a back-room side deal and unscrupulous dealings of a sinister lobbyist to thwart the poisonous acid runoff of an evil mine to save the largest wild salmon run in the world.
Copper Cobra is Book 4 of the Pedro the Water Dog Saves the Planet series, a read-in-an-afternoon novella-length...
19) One More Year
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"One More Year, keep your stuff longer, people" is Tilly's mantra and passion as she trains for her first Ironman with her best-friend-coach, Camas. Set in an idyllic northwest town on a pristine glacier-formed lake, Tilly sets out to tackle an Ironman for an environmental cause to convince people to curb their overconsumption to give the planet a fighting chance. She doesn't know all three sports, so she relies on a curmudgeon former cyclist, her...
20) Plastic Plankton
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Volcanoes and tropical waterfalls on the Big Island of Hawaii are the dramatic, stunning backdrop as Tilly trains for the Kona Ironman for an environmental cause. Concerned about plastic pollution, her estranged brother, Moore, and his quirky, stoner hip hop-loving best friend, Spit, set sail to the plastic scoop up machine at the Great Plastic Garbage Patch off the coast of Hawaii. Nemesis SodaCo has falsified the machine's results, and it takes...
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