Product Description: These books provide a range of opinions on a social issue; each volume focuses on a specific issue and offers a variety of perspectives, e.g., eyewitness accounts, governmental views, scientific analysis, newspaper accounts, to illuminate the issue...read more

Product Description: If our planet could speak for itself, what would it say to us? This new title in this continuing series focuses on sustainable cities. Issues are explored from negative and positive points of view, and five related topics are explored in each book, supplemented by case studies...read more

Product Description: This book for middle schoolers examines the newest technologies and strategies for sustainable living. Worldwide examples, charts and graphs, and first person perspectives provide a multisource approach to the hows and whys of creating sustainable cities.

Discusses how cities fit into the ecological balance of nature, and describes the problems that cities must contend with, including air quality and waste disposal

Examines the relationship of our cities to the environment and suggests ways to build new cities on ecologically sound principles