So we’re doing it again for 2021, and this time, we’ve enlisted the expertise of six educators who specialize in the field of environmentalism. Photo-Illustration: The Strategist Photos: Retailersīack in 2017, writer and Strategist contributor Jen Doll put together a helpful list of 16 environmental education books to help turn kids into young environmentalists and “increase their sense of global connection and duty to the planet in myriad ways.” Almost four years later, the urgency to teach kids about the environment is just as relevant and perhaps even more pressing.
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