Barber, Shirley. 1993. Waste Education Series. http://www.extension.umn.edu/distribution/naturalresources/DD5569.html Accessed: July 15, 2010. This is a great website for teachers to retrieve background information on the life cycles of consumer products. It also gives great lesson plan and project ideas.
Brower, Michael and Leon, Warren. The Consumer's Guide to Effective Environmental Choices. New York: Random House, 1999. This guide provides useful information for teachers to share with their students about how to make environmentally friendly consumer choices.
Canham, Jennifer. Try This at Home, Planet Friendly Projects for Kids. Canada: Bayard Books, 2008. This is a great book to use to kick off your unit with your students by showing them eco-friendly ideas that are fun and useful.
Cartlidge, Cherese. Alternative Energy. Yankton: Ericson Press 2008. This children's resource gives information about energy at work: solar, nuclear, wind, water and biofuel.
Christenson, Karen. Home Ecology. London: Arlington Books. 1990. This text explores the various eco-friendly products you can make in your home for cleaning without chemicals. It also discusses water, energy and food conservation.
Dunn, Colin. Paper Bags or Plastic Bags, Everything you need to Know. 2008. Accessed: July 15, 2010. This website is run by environmentalists to give consumers information on how to make informed decisions.
Dupler, Douglas. Conserving the Environment. New York: Greenhaven Press, 2006. This teacher resource provides a series of articles by scientists that have opposing viewpoints on what is best for conserving our environment.
Fisher, Debra. Trash: Past, Present and Future. Cleveland Public Schools. Accessed: July 15, 2010. This website develops lessons and resources that teach giving and volunteerism, civics and character through service learning.
Fitoussi, Jean Paul and Sen, Amartya and Stiglitz, Joseph. Mismeasuring Our Lives.
New York: The New Press. 2010. This text is written to show the inadequacy of GDP growth as an indication of overall economic health.
Hildering, Jackie. Stream to Sea: What is your Ecological Footprint? 2006.
http://wwwheb.pac.dfompo.gc.ca/community/education/lessonplans/ecofootprint Accessed: July 15, 2010. This website provides elementary and secondary school teachers with terrific eco friendly activities and background knowledge.
Kent, Jennifer and Myers, Norman. The New Consumers. Washington: Island Press, 2004. This teacher resource outlines the change in consumer trends throughout history. It shows how consumerism is economically and environmentally influential.
Lamb, Annette. Reduce, Reuse, Recycle 2002.
Accessed: July 15, 2010. This teacher website gives great ideas for teaching the necessity of "reduce, reuse and recycle" in your classroom.
McGrath, Jane. Which is More Environmentally Friendly? Paper or Plastic? 1998.
Accessed: July 15, 2010. This website examines the amount of environmental damage cause by the creation of plastic and paper bags from conception to landfill.
Pollution Issues, 2010. Accessed: July 15, 2010. This website gives teacher background information about waste and pollution.
Schor, Juliet. Born To Buy. New York: Scribner, 2004. This text describes how the marketing culture toward children tricks them into believing that what they buy defines them as persons.
Shah, Anup. 2005. Effects of Consumerism. Accessed: July 15, 2010. This is a great online resource that outlines, graphs and compares the rise in consumerism trends with that of landfill waste and pollution.
Strasser, Susan. Waste and Want: A Social History of Trash. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1999. This work is an effective resource for adapting this unit for middle school students. It outlines 19
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Tammemagi, Hans. The Waste Crisis. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. This book parallels the population growth and rise in consumption trends with the amount of garbage being produced from the conception of a good to the landfill.
Teacher's Resource Guide for Solid Waste and Recycling Education, 1999. http://www.deq.state.or.us Accessed: July 15, 2010. This website is a wonderful guide for environmentally friendly lesson plans and projects
Vogel, Carole. Human Impact. New York: Franklin Watts, 2003. This is a student resource that shows children how to conserve water, energy and food.
Walker, Niki. Biomass- Fueling Change. New York: Crabtree Publishing Company, 2007. This is a student-friendly resource that shows them how to conserve energy by seeking alternative forms such as through biofuel and biomass.
