Show Children how to Live in an Eco Friendly World with Books Made from Recycled Materials

A new series of books published by Simon & Schuster and Simon Says will debut in early 2009 targeted for the preschool to second grade aged child. Each book teaches children how to live and work in an eco friendly world through recycling and global warming among other topics. Little Green Books help even the youngest children learn how they can help the earth.

Titles include Easy to Be Green, by Ellie O’Ryan and illustrated by Ivanke and Lola, which has coloring pages, fun facts, eco friendly world tips, and more. The book will be published on 100% post-consumer waste recycled paper with soy-ink.

Alison Inches authored The Adventures of a Plastic Bottle: A Story About Recycling and illustrated by Pete Whitehead describes the story of one plastic bottle’s life. From its basic material production to the store and into a garbage can to finding its way to a recycling plant where it starts a brand new life, children will learn and delight that plastic bottles do have a place in an eco friendly world. The adventures of this plastic bottle are told from the first person viewpoint through diary entries. Children can imagine how this little bottle feels as it travels on its journey to live a new life in an eco friendly world. Kids will never look at another plastic bottle in the same way again.

The Polar Bears’ Home: A Story About Global Warming by Lara Bergen and illustrated by Vincent Nguyen has been out in bookstores and major book retailers since September 2008, which tells the story of an Arctic adventure of a girl and her father and the effects of global warming on polar bears. This book includes little ways that children can help the effects of global warming and make an eco friendly world for both wildlife and people.

These Little Green Books will teach children how to become more eco friendly in the world and help others to do the same. The green series of books from Simon Says will all be produced from recycled materials, which both supports an eco friendly world and sustainability. Other storylines include improving the environment, learning about endangered wildlife and more.

Start your child’s green lifestyle by introducing him or her to the Little Green Books series; they will both delight and teach eco friendly world living lifestyle for years to come.

Effects of Green Living Found in Prisons Where Inmates Help Reduce Carbon Footprint

Prison and their inmates throughout the country are working toward reducing energy use, water and waste by implementing green technology. With so much public policy about forcing businesses to reduce expenditures and the rapid increase of energy consumption costs, the effects of green living has had a positive reaction to many prisons from the west to the east coast.

No longer a detriment to society, prison inmates such as Robert Knowles are finding ways to help reduce prison costs and actually decrease its carbon footprint by creating composts, growing organic gardens and recycling water. Knowles, an inmate at Cedar Creek Corrections Center located near Olympia, Washington, works with other fellow inmates care for a small farm where 8,000 pounds of organic vegetables were grown this year. Being educated about the effects of green living, these inmates are being rehabilitated through hands-on work and helping society too.

Other prisons also have found the effects of green living can have a positive impact on both the prison and the community.

• Ironwood State Prison, in Blythe, CA is following orders to reduce its energy use by 20 percent with the installation of 6,200 solar panels. Their effects of green living have enough to power over 4000 homes a year.

• North Carolina Department of Corrections changed their cleaning regime with chemical-free cleaning products. Inmates also helped convert large pickle barrels into rain barrels, which helps their effects of green living on the prison’s cost of water usage.

• Oregon Department of Corrections is also facing pressure to increase its effects of green living by replacing old appliances with energy-efficient appliances. They also installed solar water heaters and geothermal well to heat water for inmate use. Effects of green living could also be found in the prison’s laundry facilities, where the washing machines were modified so that rinse water could be reused to wash its million pounds of clothing per month.

• Cedar Creek also has inmates work with an Italian bee hive to produce honey and beeswax to make lotion. Inmates work 6-8 hours a day as part of an economic force to reduce waste and energy consumption by the state. These effects of living green will likely carry over after the inmates have served their time and are released from prison, says prison counselors and officials.

Want to know more about other prisons who have realized the effects of green living? Check out this article from Yahoo! news.

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