Description
Everyone depends on clean air to breathe, safe water to drink and healthy soil for growing food. But what if your drinking water is dangerous, your air is polluted and your soil is toxic?
What can you do about that? Do you have the right to demand change?
Fresh Air, Clean Water: Defending Our Right to a Healthy Environment explores the connections between our environment and our health, and why the right to live in a healthy environment should be protected as a human right. The book features profiles of kids around the world who are taking action and important environmental rights court cases. Hear the powerful stories of those fighting for change.
The epub edition of this title is fully accessible.
Author Bio
Megan Clendenan enjoys learning about how people ate throughout history and hopes that the foods of the future will be more sustainable and just. She is the author of Cities: How Humans Live Together and the Green Earth Award winner Fresh Air, Clean Water: Our Right to a Healthy Environment. She is a co-author of Design Like Nature: Biomimicry for a Healthy Planet, part of the Orca Footprints series. Megan lives near Vancouver, British Columbia, with her family, where she likes growing vegetables in her backyard.
Julie McLaughlin is an award-winning illustrator of numerous children’s books, including Pride Puppy!; Little Cloud; Breaking News; Fresh Air, Clean Water; Plant Attack! and Why We Live Where We Live, winner of the 2015 Norma Fleck Award for Canadian Children’s Non-Fiction. Her work with various editorial, advertising and publishing clients can be seen around the world. Julie grew up on the Prairies and now resides on Vancouver Island.
Prizes
- CCBC Best Books for Kids & Teens, starred selectionCommended 2022
- The Nature Generation Green Earth Book Award (GEBA) - Children's NonfictionWinner 2023
- BC Books for SchoolsCommended 2022
Review Quotes
“Explores the connections between our living environment and our personal health. Like other books in the Orca Think series, readers are introduced to current world issues through the experiences of young activists featured in an engaging layout with coloured photographs and drawings, sidebars with interesting facts, and an invitation for readers to take action.”
— BC Books for SchoolsBiographical note
Megan Clendenan has worked for women’s rights, mental health and youth empowerment nonprofits as well as for an environmental law group, where she realized for the first time that the court system could be a way to help protect human health from pollution and toxic chemicals. She is the author of Cities: How Humans Live Together and What Do We Eat? How Humans Find, Grow and Share Food, both part of the Orca Timeline series. She is also a co-author of Design Like Nature: Biomimicry for a Healthy Planet. Megan lives near Vancouver, British Columbia, with her family.
Julie McLaughlin is an award-winning illustrator of numerous children's books, including Pride Puppy, Little Cloud, Breaking News and Why We Live Where We Live, winner of the 2015 Norma Fleck Award for Canadian Children’s Non-Fiction. Her work with various editorial, advertising and publishing clients can be seen around the world. Julie grew up on the Prairies and now resides on Vancouver Island.
