Human footprint : everything you will eat, use, wear, buy, and throw out in your lifetime / by Ellen Kirk.
Shows kids the dimensions of consumption, including diapers worn as a baby, bread eaten in a lifetime, and recycled cans, and explains how to create a sustainable way of living.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781426307676 (pbk.) :
- ISBN: 1426307675 (pbk.) :
- Physical Description: 32 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 28 cm.
- Publisher: Washington, D.C. : National Geographic, [2011]
- Copyright: ©2011
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Citation/References Note: | Bklst 07/01/2011 SLJ Jun 2011 |
Target Audience Note: | 890 Lexile. |
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Subject: | Nature > Effect of human beings on. Human ecology. Sustainable living. |
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- 1 of 2 copies available at Evergreen Indiana.
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- 0 current holds with 2 total copies.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Barton Rees Pogue Mem. PL - Upland | J 304.2 KIR (Text) | 76277000029160 | Juvenile Nonfiction* | In transit | - |
Peabody PL - Columbia City | CHILD NF SCIENCE ENVIRONMT KIRK (Text) | 30403001873967 | Childrens - Non-Fiction | Available | - |
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- Baker & Taylor
Presents the dimensions of consumption, including diapers worn as a baby, bread eaten in a lifetime, and recycled cans, and explains how to create a sustainable way of living. - Grand Central Pub
What is your human footprint? Well, it's 13,056 pints of milk, 28,433 showers, 12,888 oranges, 14,518 candy bars, and $52,972 worth of clothes, all in one lifetime. Makes you want to step more lightly on the planet! Perfectly timed for Earth Day, this book doesn't preach or judge, but simply shows kidsâin an exciting, visual wayâhow humans interact with the environment and how we can lessen our impact. Astonishing photography captures the full picture of consumption, documenting all the diapers you wore as a baby, the bread you'll eat in a lifetime, and the cans you'll recycle, based on national averages. Tying in with a National Geographic Channel production, Human Footprint is colorful and funâyet also manages to be a powerful tool for kids to visualize the dimensions of consumption. - Random House, Inc.
What is your human footprint? Well, it's 13,056 pints of milk, 28,433 showers, 12,888 oranges, 14,518 candy bars, and $52,972 worth of clothes, all in one lifetime. Makes you want to step more lightly on the planet! Perfectly timed for Earth Day, this book doesn't preach or judge, but simply shows kids'in an exciting, visual way'how humans interact with the environment and how we can lessen our impact. Astonishing photography captures the full picture of consumption, documenting all the diapers you wore as a baby, the bread you'll eat in a lifetime, and the cans you'll recycle, based on national averages. Tying in with a National Geographic Channel production, Human Footprint is colorful and fun'yet also manages to be a powerful tool for kids to visualize the dimensions of consumption. - Random House, Inc.
What is your human footprint? Well, it's 13,056 pints of milk, 28,433 showers, 12,888 oranges, 14,518 candy bars, and $52,972 worth of clothes, all in one lifetime. Makes you want to step more lightly on the planet! Perfectly timed for Earth Day, this book doesn't preach or judge, but simply shows kidsâin an exciting, visual wayâhow humans interact with the environment and how we can lessen our impact. Astonishing photography captures the full picture of consumption, documenting all the diapers you wore as a baby, the bread you'll eat in a lifetime, and the cans you'll recycle, based on national averages. Tying in with a National Geographic Channel production, Human Footprint is colorful and funâyet also manages to be a powerful tool for kids to visualize the dimensions of consumption.