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About World Book Living Green

Explore environmental issues and current efforts to reduce human impact on the environment.

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Key features

World Book offers this resource to complement their content on environmental issues. Living Green includes:

  • Examinations of the causes and consequences of pollution;
  • Overviews of major ecosystems and the current threats they face;
  • Explanations of green building and transportation issues;
  • Investigations of green issues in food production and food consumption;
  • Room by room explorations of possible green practices at home.

More information

Living Green is especially relevant to students and classroom settings as it also contains:

  • Videos and animations, interactive activities and links to the World Book online encyclopedia;
  • Text-to-speech features which allow you to highlight text and hear it read aloud;
  • Printable worksheets and reading comprehension questions.

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