Good book with as promised 23 ways to show our planet some love. From growing your own vegetables to recycling old clothes, plastic bags, plastic bottles and cardboard into ecology friendly useful reusable items such as grocery bags, purses, stools, mini rainbarrels, etc. The book gives facts as to why these items help the planet and what the cost is to humans, animals and the earth when these items are trashed after 1 use and go to landfills or are burned creating more methane gas buildup or toxicity put into our air. The book offers easy to do projects that give new life to items like wrapping paper, old wood, perishable fruits and vegetables once they go soft and are often tossed again creating more greenhouse gasses on the planet when by simply halving an orange, scooping out the fruit and eating it for a treat then adding a little softened lard (let it sit out in a bowl for a couple of hours) adding some birdseed, nuts or dried fruit, and sticking the fresh fruit in the lard inside the orange half and leaving it out for wild birds to eat (easily hung from a tree by inserting a string into the orange rind as the book tells the reader. Loads of ideas for making simple backyard ponds, planting trees from a sapling or even tips on how to plant a small tree that is already started for you. Craft ideas for making draft blockers out of old socks that the mates have been lost, a craft project to make a grabber, how to make a bag to put on your bicycle handlebars to carry stuff and the book also teaches you how to decoupage. The book also covers the importance of having at least one meatless day a month and discusses what that means to the environment. There are some really terrific projects here that would be great family projects to do together. Kudos Isabel Thomas thanks for these great ideas to save our planet and the creatures that dwell on it. Loads more great ideas besides the ones I mentioned. An excellent DIY book for the whole family.
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