- Genre:education
- Sub-genre:Teacher & Student Mentoring
- Language:English
- Series Title:The world Needs Super Heroes - Teachers and Students Answer the Call.
- Series Number:1
- Pages:132
- eBook ISBN:9798902133179
Book details
Overview
UNSTOPPABLE is a 4‑book series created for middle and high school students—and the teachers who support them—who want to move from awareness of environmental and climate challenges to meaningful, student‑led action.This first eBook in the series introduces the reader to some important resources to guide their journey to Environmental Activism. Imagine walking into your school and seeing students, teachers, staff, administrators, parents and community members, all working side by side, transforming empty spaces into vibrant gardens, organizing clean-up drives, selecting sustainable options for the school community and launching creative campaigns to protect the planet. This isn't just a dream—it's a movement waiting to happen, and it can start with YOU.
My goal in writing this first book (using a Typeset template) in the series is to help you start a CONVERSATION. This first book is a brief introduction to get the conversations started. If you find the content of interest and useful, please consider purchasing the remaining three books. EBooks 2 and 3 are much more comprehensive and much more organized around important themes that are directed at high school and middle school students and teachers. Book 4 is a soft covered workbook that will help you to organize 10 meetings of your Environmental Action Club. The goal of the series is to move you from conversation to action- from DOOMERISM to DOMOREISM! This first book is your guide to turning inspiration into convenient actions. Whether you're a teacher eager to empower your students, or a student ready to make a difference, you'll find practical steps, real-life stories, and creative ideas and resources to help you launch and grow a thriving Environmental Action Club.
To all of the readers who buy this book- Do YOU feel that there is nothing that you can do as an Environmental Activist? Are you thinking – I am just one person– what can I do that can help? Let this book start you on your journey to find your "swarm" and to start taking realistic and effective actions! We all have a responsibility, to humankind, to do better as individuals to take climate action by modifying our personal habits and behaviors. And even more importantly, we have a responsibility to take climate action by making our voices heard, reaching out to the media, government representatives and corporate leaders. We must vote with our voices, our actions and vote with our dollars, supporting the people, organizations and companies that embrace a relevant and realistic environmental agenda. As individuals and collectively, we can and must make a difference.
"The greatest threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it" – Robert Swan, historian, explorer and activist.
"The greatest danger to our future is apathy" – Dr Jane Goodall, primatologist and anthropologist. Let's get started!
Description
This first book in the series is designed to inform you about the basics of climate change and many of the important issues surrounding it. Have you heard about Prager U? Please check it out. Have you heard about the textbooks in some states that are dropping certain words like climate change and sustainability under pressure from corporate and political lobbyists. The misinformation and disinformation is spreading quickly through social media. This book will hopefully empower you to learn more and to push back! Start with conversations and then find others who feel the same way as you. Start an Earth Action Club in your school or in your community.
You are indeed the solution you have been waiting for!
Did you ever sit down to calculate your carbon footprint? If you have, you’ll undoubtedly know that heart-breaking feeling of adding up how much carbon pollution you produce daily through even your simplest actions. Think of your commute to school or work, what you eat, traveling on a plane, or running your appliances (AC). It all adds up to more carbon pollution in the air. And in the United States, that comes to about 15 tons of carbon pollution per person, one of the highest rates in the world. India, by contrast, is 1.89 tons of carbon pollution per person.
It can certainly provoke a lot of guilt. It might also spur you to imagine how you could stop climate change by turning off that extra light, eating more plant-based food, less meat, changing your bulbs to LED's, or by walking or bike-riding instead of driving locally. These are changes you can and should take take- but they are difficult to scale as effective solutions.
Now, here’s something you may not know. The idea of a “carbon footprint” was developed by Ogilvy & Mather, a New York City-based British advertising and public relations firm working for British Petroleum, or BP, as they’re better known. Their $20,000,000.00 campaign was to rebrand the company in the age of global warming. The BP team brilliantly concocted the idea of an “individual carbon footprint,” which would lay the responsibility for climate change squarely on the shoulders of individuals and consumers. That’s right—you and me, and not on the corporate giants, where it belongs.
There are influencers out there you should pay attention to. Even better - become an influencer your self!
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
― Margaret Mead
Here are some important influencers and their quotes to get your conversation started:
Billie Eilish emphasizes urgent climate action, advocating for plant-based diets and sustainable fashion (thrifting), stating, "Climate change is a huge threat... especially frightening for young people" and that "shifting our diets towards more plant-based foods can have a major impact". She also calls for demanding change from politicians and corporate leaders. She stresses that we must stand together and speak up to save our planet".
At the Met Gala in 2021: She demanded Oscar de la Renta stop using fur for her to wear their gown.
She offered free tickets to climate activists through Global Citizen for taking action.
At the "Hit Me Hard and Soft" Tour: She created the Climate Impact Fund for environmental causes and decarbonization efforts.
"You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference and you have to decide what kind of a difference you want to make." — Jane Goodall
"The greatest threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it" – Robert Swan, historian, explorer and activist.
"The greatest danger to our future is apathy" – Dr Jane Goodall, primatologist and anthropologist.
"The environment is where we all meet; where we all have a mutual interest; it is the one thing all of us share." — Lady Bird Johnson
Check out Waterbear- WaterBear is a free, interactive streaming platform with a mission to utilize documentary storytelling to inspire, educate, and empower viewers to take direct action on environmental and humanitarian crises. Focused on the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), it aims to turn "doomerism into do-more-ism" by connecting users with over 80 non-profit partners.
Taylor Swift could be a true PLANET HERO! She needs to do more! Imagine if she did! Can you influence her? Let's get started...
