There has been much debate whether global warming and Greenhouse Effect really exists. Library shelves are filled with
books debating every angle of this except what you can do to help it. Regardless of whether global warming exists.
Seven Wonders For A Cool World is a great resource for middle and junior high kids on the basics of what global warming is and how you can work to reduce and ideally reverse the effect. The books describes the seven primary things that contribute to the perceived notion of global warming and what can be done to reduce each one.
Major factors include transportation, population, fossil fuel efficiency, renewable energy, food production and distribution, resource conservation and reuse and the information economy. While not all of them create global warming, each plays an important part.
You can reduce the amount of greenhouse gases created by automobiles by riding a bicycle or help ease food production problems by growing your own vegetables. These are not complex actions that will leave you scratching your head and wondering how you are going to implement them in your daily life.
It's perfect for children learning about the environment and wanting do their part besides just taking out the recycling. Parents be careful because after reading this book, your children may call you out on your energy wasting ways and ask you to implement some of the actions as well. It's only fair that if you are going to encourage environmentalism then you also practice it.
