Book Review - Disney Go Green

About the Book
LEARN FROM MICKEY AND FRIENDS HOW TO GO GREEN

With Fun Arts And Crafts Activities As Well as Tips and Tricks, DISNEY GO GREEN Shows How To Live A More Sustainable Lifestyle

Many children are interested in sustainability and learning how their actions impact the planet. Now everyone can join Mickey and friends in living greener with DISNEY GO GREEN: A Family Guide To A Sustainable Lifestyle (Edda USA; $12.95/hardcover). The book explains how to create a more sustainable lifestyle in a simple, understandable way by exploring the Three R’s – Reduce, Reuse, Recycle – and discussing our ecological footprint – a measure of how much we take from the earth’s resources to produce the things we use. DISNEY GO GREEN includes interesting facts and great tips for sustainable living, and has lots of fun activities to try at home and school.

The purpose of the craft activities is to show children how to be artistic using items found in nature or reusing items, to reduce the impact on the planet. For instance, instead of going to the store to buy paint, children can make their own watercolors by boiling plants in water to release their natural dyes. Here are a few options:

• red onion peels: crimson red & burgundy
• pokeberries: deep red
• orange pekoe tea: brown
• black walnuts: black
• Queen Anne’s Lace: green
• marigolds: green
• blueberries: blue
• cayenne pepper: rust red
• yellow onion peels: yellow & tan
• coffee beans: brown & tan
• dandelions: mossy greens

Some suggestions for other projects that reuse materials are:

• turn an orange juice carton into a bird feeder
• use different tube-shaped materials to make a marble run
• notch old paper towel and toilet paper rolls to make Lincoln log structures

DISNEY GO GREEN also emphasizes making better food choices to reduce our ecological footprint. This includes planting container gardens and composting. There are also recipes for using locally grown ingredients. Here’s one for apples picked from a local orchard:

Easy applesauce
Peel, quarter, and core apples to remove the seeds. Cut into small chunks, place in a saucepan, and pour enough water to barely cover the apples. Squeeze a bit of lemon juice and as much raw sugar as you would like, but not too much. Simmer for about 20 minutes on low heat. When cooled, mash up your sauce with a fork and pour into a sterilized glass jar.

In the book, readers are reminded, “Sometimes making green choices takes us out of our comfort zone. It takes us away from the things we usually do and what’s comfortable to us. At these times, it’s good to remember that we’re doing what’s best for us, and what’s best for the environment.” For children looking for fun activities and great advice about sustainability, DISNEY GO GREEN is the perfect resource.





My Take on the Book
With Earth Day approaching, this book by Edda, USA is full of information on becoming more "green". It contains tips about living well, making green decisions, and giving the reader reasons to make decisions that not only help their family but help our Mother Earth.

You will read about composting, nurturing relationships, staying active all through your life, eating seasonally and locally, gardening , recycling, and even arts and crafts. So many details in the text for a family or individual to apply to their lives.I found this book to be very interesting. I also found some new ideas to put to use today in my own life of trying to become "greener".

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