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The Transformative Power of Children and Families. Edited by James F. Leckman, Catherine Panter-Brick, and Rima Salah

Part of the Let’s Read and Find Out Series, this will work for both primary and intermediate students. Step by step-Informative and well illustrated.

The story of what people did with waste before recycling.

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.)

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A sister project of The World's Largest Lesson, Comics Uniting Nations works with world-renowned comic book artists and story-tellers to bring the SDGs to life through Comics

Why the world’s water resources are at risk and how communities globally are finding innovative ways to quench their thirst and water their crops. Also, by this author Brilliant a welcoming introduction to alternative energy.

A sampling of what the UN and its agencies have accomplished since 1945, and the vast array of its undertakings. Online at http://www.un.org/en/un60/60ways

Printed three times annually, this newsletter contains articles, resources and websites focused on peace education, environment, diversity, conflict resolution and critical thinking. To receive by PDF contact jmckusick@charter.net

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.