Thematic Reading List: Protecting our Environment

Our environment is changing at an alarming rate. These six books provide information on the current state of our environment, those who have contributions to preserving our environment, and discuss how we can improve our planet.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

	Bringing Back Our Deserts By: Clara MacCarald Bringing Back Our Deserts explains why deserts are at risk and how people are combating invasive species, restoring damaged areas, and preserving deserts for future generations. This title also explores the science behind nitrogen pollution and life in desert soil. Features include a cause-and-effect flow chart, a glossary, references, websites, source notes, and an index.
	The Environmental Movement By: Stuart A. Kallen When Rachel Carson described the dangers of DDT in the late 1950s, she launched a movement that continues to influence society. The Environmental Movement provides a fascinating eco-tour from Carson through Earth Day, the environmental decade of the 1970s, and the challenges facing a new generation of twenty-first-century environmentalists. This book examines how and why social change occurs and the lasting influence of the environmental movement.
	Mario and the Hole in the Sky: how a chemist saved our planet By: Elizabeth Rusch Illustrated by: Teresa Martinez Eight-year-old Mario wanted to learn all he could about chemistry. He examined everything under a microscope—from rotten lettuce to toothpaste. As an adult, Mario continued studying chemistry—and discovered something scary. CFCs, used in millions of refrigerators and spray cans, were destroying the earth’s protective ozone layer. Without ozone, deadly solar radiation would bombard our planet. Mario had to warn the world—and quickly. This is the true story of Mario Molina, the Mexican-American chemist who brought the world back from the brink of environmental catastrophe.
	Protecting Natural Environments By: Cheryl Jakab Discusses the global environmental issues we are dealing with and how to protect our natural environments, including working towards a sustainable future.
	Protecting the Environment Through Service Learning By: Don Rauf Get your hands dirty to make the world a better place. This book shows how to make the most of a service-learning opportunity and how to start your own program.
	Spring After Spring: How Rachel Carson inspired the environmental movement By: Stephanie Roth Sisson As a child, Rachel Carson lived by the rhythms of the natural world. Spring after spring, year after year, she observed how all living things are connected. And as an adult, Rachel watched and listened as the natural world she loved so much began to fall silent. Spring After Spring traces Rachel’s journey as scientist and writer, courageously speaking truth to an often hostile world through her book, and ultimately paving the way for the modern environmental movement.