One Makes the Difference: Inspiring Actions that Change our World

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Harper Collins, 16/11/2010 - 208 páginas

After her record-breaking two year tree sit, Julia Butterfly Hill has ceaslessly continued her efforts to promote sustainability and ecologically-minded ways to save the old-growth redwoods she acted so valiantly to protect. Here she provides her many young fans with what they yearn for most -- her advice on how to promote change and improve the health of the planet, distilled into an essential handbook. This book will be accessible to school-aged children, while accomodating the audience of parents and teachers who look to Julia as an example of how one person can "change the world." Packed with a variety of charts, diagrams, and interesting factoids, the book will be broken down into a series of steps and easy-to-follow lessons. It will be written broadly so as to accommodate all kinds of activism, though its core focus will be on environmental issues.

 

Índice

MAKING THE DIFFERENCE
7
INDISPOSABLE SOCIETY
14
WE NEED A SOLUTION TO AIR POLLUTION
48
GET TO KNOW YOUR H2O
78
FOOD AND FIBERS FOR THOUGHT
117
ENVIRONMENTAL INEQUALITY
163
SPEAKING UP MAKES THE DIFFERENCE
169
Direitos de autor

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Página 8 - Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
Página 8 - Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation) there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves, too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred.
Página 14 - I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble.
Página 142 - This Land Is Your Land This land is your land, this land is my land From California to the New York Island From the redwood forest to the Gulf Stream waters This land was made for you and me...
Página 100 - Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Página 11 - These, then, are my last words to you: Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
Página 35 - We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads, and along these sympathetic fibers, our actions run as causes and return to us as results.
Página 60 - Life only avails, not the having lived. Power ceases in the instant of repose ; it resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state, in the shooting of the gulf, in the darting to an aim.
Página 2 - Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.

Acerca do autor (2010)

Julia Butterfly Hill, twenty-six, is a writer, a poet, and an activist. She helped found the Circle of Life Foundation to promote the sustainability, restoration, and preservation of life. The foundation is sponsored by the nonprofit Trees Foundation, which works toward the conservation and preservation of forest ecosystems. Hill has been the recipient of many honors and awards, and is a frequent speaker for environmental conferences around the world.

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