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Archive for January, 2012
Often, books for kids about the environment or any complex issue are touted as “conversation starters.” At worst this notion results in books that barely scratch the surface of their subject matter and leave kids scratching their heads and their parents to fill in the blanks. At best, as in the case of E Is For Environment, the book is really designed to introduce a series of topics and supply the tools for further discussion
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Pamela Blais’ first book targets the (all too) well-known phenomenon of urban sprawl – the low-grade fabric of cookie-cutter subdivisions, big-box power centres, remote office parks and tawdry commercial strips – none of which can be accessed without a car. Sprawl, Blais points out, is an extremely inefficient way of building communities. It sucks up enormous quantities of non-renewable resources (such as energy, land, building materials and water) and spits out a stream of wastes (greenhouse gases, air pollutants, garbage) that choke the planet’s survival systems.
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