Fresh Air, Clean Water: Our Right to a Healthy Environment
About this ebook
- Fresh Air, Clean Water profiles kids taking action on environmental rights around the world and gives young readers an understanding of their right to a healthy environment, how environmental rights are tied to human rights and the tools needed to take action.
- This is a timely topic, given news coverage of climate protests and youth activists such as Greta Thunberg and Autumn Peltier. Many countries have now protected the right to a healthy environment in their constitutions, and there is discussion at the United Nations about creating a global right to a healthy environment.
- Introduces critical environmental and social justice questions and connects them to recent history for context.
- Details environmental rights cases from around the world, many featuring children and youth; for example, from Columbia, the Philippines, the United States and Canada.
- With her background in environmental activism and social justice, the author is an authoritative guide on this topic.
- Features full-color illustrations and photos throughout.
- Free Activity Sheet is available for download at orcabook.com.
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About the author
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.
