All Consuming: Shop Smarter for the Planet
About this ebook
- This book examines the things young people like to buy (and throw away), what those shopping habits mean for the planet and how they can use their purchasing power to do their part for the climate crisis.
- Asks young people to think critically about their shopping habits and the effect they have on the environment in four key areas––clothing, technology, food and gifts.
- The clothing industry creates 1.3 billion tons (1.2 metric tons) of greenhouse gas emissions every year. Thirty-eight billion plastic water bottles end up in US landfills every year. The average American keeps their cell phone for 34 months before getting a new one.
- A study in the UK involving 2,000 parents found that, on average, their kids had four toys they had never played with. In the US each person produces 234 pounds (106 kilograms) of plastic waste per year, and 91% of plastic isn't recycled. Food takes up more space in US landfills than anything else (1.4 billion tons (1.3 metric tons) a year).
- Erin Silver is an award-winning children's author. She has written Good Food, Bad Waste and In It to Win It, also in the Orca Think series, as well as Rush Hour in the Orca Footprints series.
About the author
Erin Silver is an award-winning children’s author. Her books include Just Watch Me (Krystal Kite Award nominee), What Kids Did: Stories of Kindness and Invention in the Time of COVID-19 (Hackmatack Award nominee), Proud to Play: LGBTQ+ Athletes Who Made History, Rush Hour: Navigating Our Global Traffic Jam (Blueberry Award winner), Sitting Shiva (Vine Award finalist, TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award finalist) and Good Food, Bad Waste: Let’s Eat for the Planet (2024 American Association for the Advancement of Science/Subaru SB&F Prize for Excellence in Science Books finalist). Erin was chosen to tour during Canadian Children’s Book Week in 2023 and is a sought-after speaker at schools, libraries and conferences. She has an MFA in creative nonfiction and a postgraduate journalism degree. Erin lives in Toronto.
Suharu Ogawa is a Toronto-based illustrator. Her love for drawing started in a kindergarten art school after being kicked out of calligraphy class for refusing to convert to right-handedness. Formally trained in art history and cultural anthropology, she worked for several years as a university librarian until her passion for illustration called her out of that career and into the pursuit of a lifelong dream. Since then, Suharu has created illustrations for magazines, public art projects and children's books, including Why Humans Work: How Jobs Shape Our Lives and Our World in the Orca Think series. She also teaches illustration at OCAD University in Toronto.
