Earth Day is an annual celebration that honors the achievements of the environmental movement and raises awareness of the need to protect Earth’s natural resources for future generations. Earth Day is celebrated on April 22 in the United States and on either April 22 or the day the spring equinox occurs throughout the rest of the world.
Earth Day is widely recognized as the largest secular observance in the world, celebrated by more than a billion people each year as a day to change human behavior and create global, national and local policy change.
Our collections team has curated a list of inspiring reads about caring for the planet.
This Book Will (Help) Cool the Climate: 50 Ways to Cut Pollution and Protect Our Planet by Isabel Thomas
Practical tips and projects to help reduce your carbon footprint, cool the Earth, and make a difference!
The Wild World Handbook: How Adventurers, Artists, Scientists — and you — Can Protect Earth’s Habitat by Andrea Debbink
An inspiring guide for the next generation of climate activists, conservationists, and nature lovers. This book offers a roadmap for change and an invitation to explore the outdoors while offering hands-on activities and spotlighting adventurers, scientists and artists who used their skills to become champions for the natural world.
Portraits of Earth Justice: Americans Who Tell the Truth by Robert Shetterly
Stunning profiles and portraits of 50 American environmental and climate activists who have brought warnings, offered solutions, and organized movements to restore ecological health.
Can I Recycle This: A Guide to Better Recycling by Jennie Romer
Recycling rules seem to differ in every municipality, leaving the average American scratching her head at the simple act of throwing something away. Taking readers on a quick but informative tour of how recycling actually works, this helpful book gives straightforward answers to whether dozens of common household objects can or cannot be recycled.
The Climate Book by Greta Thunberg
A collection of short essays by more than 100 experts — meteorologists, oceanographers, engineers, historians, philosophers, Indigenous leaders, and more — analyzing the causes, consequences and challenges of the world’s climate situation.
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