Everyone depends on clean air to breathe, safe water to drink and healthy soil for growing food. But what if your drinking water is dangerous, your air is polluted and your soil is toxic?
What can you do about that? Do you have the right to demand change?
Fresh Air, Clean Water: Defending Our Right to a Healthy Environment explores the connections between our environment and our health, and why the right to live in a healthy environment should be protected as a human right. The book features profiles of kids around the world who are taking action and important environmental rights court cases. Hear the powerful stories of those fighting for change.
The epub edition of this title is fully accessible.
CCBC Best Books for Kids & Teens, starred selection | 2022 | Commended
The Nature Generation Green Earth Book Award (GEBA) - Children's Nonfiction | 2023 | Winner
BC Books for Schools | 2022 | Commended
Download the Fresh Air, Clean Water Classroom Activity Sheet (PDF).
Discover the connections between our health and our environment and how human rights can protect both people and our planet!
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“Explores the connections between our living environment and our personal health. Like other books in the Orca Think series, readers are introduced to current world issues through the experiences of young activists featured in an engaging layout with coloured photographs and drawings, sidebars with interesting facts, and an invitation for readers to take action.”