Many of us have heard about damage to the environment throughout the years: deforestation, climate change, animal species becoming endangered; it just doesn't seem to end! But what if there was something you could do to help?
The United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) have scheduled a day once every year where awareness can be raised through the help of governments, celebrities and events. Known as World Environment Day, it is a day where people around the world unite to help combat these ecological issues, while providing entertaining opportunities to learn for whoever attends them.
To find out what you can do, in little ways, every day, explore these titles at your local library:
Backyard bees: a complete guide for the beginner beekeeper or bee enthusiast
Our bees are in danger. They suffer from habitat loss and global warming and so much more. This book shows you through everything you need to know about bees. It provides a step-by-step guide on how to own your own bees; which hives to get, how to take care of them and how to harvest the honey, also including 20 recipes for your newly harvested honey. If you aren’t so keen on owning a hive, this book also gives tips on how to make your home more bee-friendly, and how to help out your local bees.
Planting for wildlife: a grower's guide to rewilding your garden
This book, published only last year, contains a guide to making your garden more attractive to wildlife, and making it more sustainable. You don’t need to a huge garden in the country to make a sanctuary for wildlife, a suburban backyard works well too! This book lists simple projects such as making a pond, to elevate your garden and for us to be kinder to the wildlife around us.
No-waste composting
Small-space waste recycling, indoors and out
Composting is a particularly important step for helping our environment and being sustainable. It helps keep millions of kilos of waste out of landfill and it can also help your garden. There are so many different ways to compost – from worm-farming to an under the sink composting system this book tells you them all. Whether you’ve never composted before, or you are a compost master, this book is super helpful for everyone.
Zero waste kitchen
Crafty ideas for sustainable kitchen solutions
This book, as it sounds, provides you with dozens of little crafty solutions to reduce waste from your kitchen. Ranging from handmade dishcloths to creating herb pots from empty bottles this book includes sewing, crocheting, upcycling and more. Using step-by-step instructions there is something for everyone. Join the zero-waste movement and let this book show you to reduce, reuse and recycle!
Junk genius
Stylish ways to repurpose everyday objects, with over 80 projects and ideas
Junk Genius will show you all the ways you can repurpose household items, and create something new and spectacular, while helping the planet. Using items already found in your house, these projects take old, unused things lying around, and transform them into something new. For beginners, or crafting pros there is something for everyone in this book, and it can teach you to see potential in even the smallest of things.
The complete guide to Australian birds
Featuring 'in the field' images from Australia's best wildlife photographers
This book is an up-to-date guide to all Australian birds. Paired with 1400 beautiful images taken by Australia’s best wildlife photographers, this book goes into depth about description, behaviour, habitat, breeding and much more for each Australian bird. Maps of where to find these birds are also included, for you to do some birdwatching yourself.