Food and Agriculture

Jeffrey Sachs is director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University and advisor to the UN Secretary-General on the Sustainable Development Goals. This book is an impassioned diagnosis of the US's economic ills, and an urgent call for Americans to restore the core virtues of fairness, honesty and foresight as the foundations of national prosperity. It has been rated one of the year’s best books by Publisher’s Weekly and the Guardian, and he was called by the NY Times Magazine, "probably the most important economist in the world." See also his The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time. (Both are available on Amazon.)

Part of the Tunza (Swahili for treating with care & affection) Series sponsored by the United Nations Environment Programme http://www.unep.orgto inspire awareness and caring for the Earth in children, parents and teachers. On her way to find water for her family who live in a desertified community, Trishna hits her head and falls unconscious. In this state she imagines, the Wind, Water, Earth and Sun talking to her of how to treat them as her ancestors did. When she awakens and is found, her family and neighbors conclude that something must be done to restore water to their village, and eventually Trishna’s dream becomes a reality. Fiction P/I

An onlinr, easy-to-read magazine covering a range of UN activities, suitable for high school and above.

Founded by chef Alice Waters to assist educators worldwide in building and sharing an edible education curriculum. Provides 3-5 days on site professional development w/ongoing coaching and planning assistance, and a site license to their Curriculum Resource Center, a subscription based digital library of resources with lesson plans tied to common core standards.  Info at Edible Schoolyard

A learning by doing workbook on water for children; colorful self-teaching tool that includes quizzes, puzzles, stories and activities. Students learn the word for water in many languages, calculate their own family’s daily use of water, and the amount of freshwater compared to salt on earth, how to measure rainfall, the army of water pollutants and where they come from and so much more. It comes with an interactive CD.