Discover how people all around the world are putting the planet first and helping the environment in new and exciting ways!

All sorts of natural power can be harnessed to make energy, from the sun and the tide to wind and waves.

In PUTTING THE PLANET FIRST: RENEWABLE ENERGY, discover how people around the world are working all the time to find new ways to create energy without harming the environment or using fossil fuels. Learn too, what you can do to help the environment, and about small changes you can make that will have a real impact.

This book is a fascinating introduction to the positive changes people are making to try and live more sustainably, and will inspire children aged 7+ to think creatively about how they can put the planet first!

 

This book is part of a book series called Putting the Planet First .

There are 32 pages in this book. This book was published 2019 by Hachette Children's Group .

Nancy Dickmann is an experienced children's science writer, with books on topics including everything from the life cycle of turtles to surviving the South Pole.

This book has the following chapters:

• 1: What is renewable energy?
• 2: Problems with fossil fuels
• 3: Wind power
• 4: Offshore wind
• 5: Solar electricity
• 6: Solar heating
• 7: Electricity from water
• 8: Solar heating
• 9: Electrcity from water
• 10: Wave power
• 11: Using the tides
• 12: Heat from underground
• 13: Biomass energy
• 14: Hydrogen fuel cells
• 15: The future
• 16: Glossary