Dress and live greener | for tweens & young teens from Multcolib My Librarian KateLike this list

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• Fashion Forward

  Striving for Sustainable Style

  Delisle, Raina,

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  Explore the social and environmental issues within the fashion industry while reading about the history of fashion and learning about people, companies and organizations that are taking positive action on fashion.

• A Fair Deal

  Shopping for Social Justice

  Jones, Kari (Kari Lynne), 1966-

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  Looks at trade throughout history and the need for fair treatment for workers. The final chapter, Making Change, shares ideas for getting involved as a consumer and/or activitist. Visuals and fact boxes break up the text.

• Follow Your Stuff

  Who Makes It, Where Does It Come From, How Does It Get to You?

  Sylvester, Kevin,

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  Four products are tracked -- t-shirt, books, cell phones, asthma inhalers--and each section asks questions about that industry. What materials are needed to make a t-shirt and who makes them? How does a store owner decide about profit they need? …Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Fashionopolis

  the Secrets Behind the Clothes We Wear

  Thomas, Dana, 1964-

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  Introduces the complicated world of apparel manufacturing.

• Mad for Ads

  How Advertising Gets (and Stays) in Our Heads

  Fyvie, Erica, 1973-

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  A guide through an ad-saturated world. Learn how to decode and think critically about ads. Topics covered include the history of advertising, how ads are created, the anatomy of an ad from brand logo to tagline, how advertisers use psychological…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Zero Waste Kids

  Hands-on Projects and Activities to Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle

  Greenfield, Rob, 1986-

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  Fun and practical projects designed to help reduce waste, reuse materials, and recycle.

• Less Is More

  Join the Low-waste Movement

  Payne, Leah (Leah S.),

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  Explores the low-waste movement and how to get involved.

• Live Sustainably!

  Boyle, Angela (Illustrator),

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  When a boy vandalizes a community garden sign, he has to volunteer at the garden. One of the gardeners teaches him about the garden as well as how our decisions and lifestyles impact the planet, and how even a kid can make choices to live more…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Trash Revolution

  Breaking the Waste Cycle

  Fyvie, Erica, 1973-

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  Stuff has a life cycle--materials harvested, things are made, distributed, consumed, and trashed or recycled. This book answers questions such as: How long does it take for a cotton T-shirt to decompose in a landfill? Can a bike helmet be made from…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Trash Talk

  Moving Toward a Zero-waste World

  Mulder, Michelle (Author of Out of the box),

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  Our landfills are filling up. What can be reused, repaired or reformatted so we can reduce our waste? Insulating homes with jeans or weaving old fishing nets into carpeting are just a couple ideas that will spark readers' imaginations. Full-color…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Leaving Our Mark

  Reducing Our Carbon Footprint

  Dickmann, Nancy,

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  This book looks at energy made by burning fossil fuels and waste created from trashed packaging. Find out what your carbon footprint is, how it's affecting the Earth, and ways to reduce your footprint. Includes a short chapter on shopping.

• Maya's Sustainable Fashion

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  An April 2021article from Scholastic Math about a young entrepreneur. You will need your library card to access the article.

• Fast Fashion: The True Cost

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  This article from Skipping Stones magazine (July 2019) focuses on the impact of fast changing fashion industry which causes obsolete fashion products like clothes ending up in landfills. Topics discussed include safety and fair wages of garment…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Green Fashion? For sure!

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  A one-page article about the fashion industry and how you can help reduce waste. From New Moon Girls. Mar/Apr2020. You will need your library card to access the article.

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