You Are the Earth Know Your World So You Can Help Make It Better

This revised and updated edition of You Are the Earth includes expanded discussion of some of the leading The Sacred Balance for kids-updated and expanded with new content and artSince You Are the Earth was first published in 1999, there has been a dramatic rise in concern about the environment. Through media, the Internet, and school, kids today are more aware of issues such as climate change, pollution, and energy shortages as well as recycling and other conservation measures.This revised and updated edition of You Are the Earth includes:an expanded discussion of leading environmental issuesinformation on new environmental technologiesmore ways kids can protect the environmentnew sidebars offering facts, tips, and examples of what kids can do to be more greencompletely new, full-colour art by award-winning children's artist Wallace Edwards"[The authors'] eloquent plea to see ourselves and the Earth as interdependent will inspire readers to sit up, look around, and take a little less for granted." School Library Journal

David Suzuki is the acclaimed geneticist and environmentalist, the host of The Nature of Things, the founder and chair of the David Suzuki Foundation, and the author of more than forty books. He is the recipient of the UNESCO Kalinga Prize for Science, the United Nations Environmental Medal, and the UNEP's Global 500 award, and he has been named a Companion of the Order of Canada. He was selected as the 35th most important green campaigner of all time by the British newspaper, The Guardian. In addition, he holds eighteen honorary degrees and has been adopted into three First Nations clans. Suzuki lives in Vancouver, British Columbia. Kathy Vanderlinden is a writer and an editor with an extensive background in children's literature. She is the author or co-author of four previous children's books, including Eco-Fun (also written with David Suzuki), which was nominated for a Silver Birch Award. One of the many titles she edited, Transformed, won the prestigious Norma Fleck Award for children's non-fiction in 2006. She lives in Victoria, B.C. Wallace Edwards was raised in Ottawa, and is a graduate of the Ontario College of Art. He is an award-winning illustrator and won a Governor General's Children's Literature - Illustration Award in 2002 for his book Alphabeasts. Wallace lives in Toronto and is working on a number of children's books.

Acknowledgments and Credits
About This Book
Introduction

Chapter 1 Walking on Air
Chapter 2 Welcome to Planet Water
Chapter 3 Getting Down to Earth
Chapter 4 Fire Power
Chapter 5 Depending on Our Relatives
Chapter 6 Love Story
Chapter 7 Beyond Awesome
Chapter 8 It's Your World Now

Glossary