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CM . . . . Volume XVI Number 37. . . .May 28, 2010. 
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Managing Green Spaces: Careers in Wilderness and Wildlife Management. (Green-Collar Careers).
Suzy Gazlay.
St. Catharines, ON: Crabtree, 2010.
32 pp., pbk. & hc., $12.95 (pbk.), $22.36 (RLB.).
ISBN 978-0-7787-4866-3 (pbk.), ISBN 978-0-7787-4855-7 (RLB.).
Subject Headings:
Wilderness areas-Management-Vocational guidance-Juvenile literature.
Natural areas-Management-Vocational guidance-Juvenile literature.
Wildlife management-Vocational guidance-Juvenile literature.
Outdoor recreation-Vocational guidance-Juvenile literature.
Grades 5-8 / Ages 10-13.
Review by Suzanne Pierson.
****/4
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Learning Green: Careers in Education. (Green-Collar Careers).
Suzy Gazlay.
St. Catharines, ON: Crabtree, 2010.
32 pp., pbk. & hc., $12.95 (pbk.), $22.36 (RLB.).
ISBN 978-0-7787-4865-6 (pbk.), ISBN 978-0-7787-4854-0 (RLB.).
Subject Headings:
Environmental education-Vocational guidance-Juvenile literature.
Teaching-Vocational guidance-Juvenile literature.
Grades 5-8 / Ages 10-13.
Review by Suzanne Pierson.
****/4
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Growing and Eating Green: Careers in Farming, Producing, and Marketing Food. (Green-Collar Careers).
Ruth Owen.
St. Catharines, ON: Crabtree, 2010.
32 pp., pbk. & hc., $12.95 (pbk.), $22.36 (RLB.).
ISBN 978-0-7787-4864-9 (pbk.), ISBN 978-0-7787-4853-3 (RLB.).
Subject Headings:
Organic farming-Vocational guidance-Juvenile literature.
Natural foods industry-Vocational guidance-Juvenile literature.
Green movement-Vocational guidance-Juvenile literature.
Grades 5-8 / Ages 10-13.
Review by Suzanne Pierson.
****/4
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Building Green Places: Careers in Planning, Designing, and Building. (Green-Collar Careers).
Ruth Owen.
St. Catharines, ON: Crabtree, 2010.
32 pp., pbk. & hc., $12.95 (pbk.), $22.36 (RLB.).
ISBN 978-0-7787-4863-2 (pbk.), ISBN 978-0-7787-4852-6 (RLB.).
Subject Heading:
Sustainable design-Vocational guidance-Juvenile literature.
Grades 5-8 / Ages 10-13.
Review by Suzanne Pierson.
****/4
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excerpt:
Introducing Cow Dung Bricks!
In Indonesia, a group of green-thinking young business people have started a company, EcoFaeBrick, that makes bricks from cow dung! The bricks are strong, clean, healthy to use, and very good for the environment. Cow dung is a highly renewable resource-in fact, farmers end up with too much of it-whereas the excavation of clay to make bricks destroys large areas of land that would be better used for growing food. In addition to using the dung as the main ingredient in the bricks themselves, the bricks are fired (baked) using bio gas as the energy source. The bio gas is made from methane released by cow dung.
This series, “Green-Collar Careers,” presents a very good overview of careers in energy-efficient facilities, food, education and wilderness and wildlife management. The examples are well chosen to capture readers’ interest and to motivate them to seek further information.
Each book also includes a table of contents, a simple glossary and index, and a list of web sites. The body of each book ends with a summary page to help the readers put some of the ideas in the book into action. Although the summary in each book is unique, reflecting the focus of the book, each book includes the same safety warning.
BE SMART, BE SAFE!
Please get permission from the adult who cares for you before making trips to new places or volunteering in your free time. Always let him or her know where you are going and who you are meeting.
The books are beautifully illustrated with photographs on every page, and the text is attractively placed on the page in a very reader-friendly presentation. Green careers from around the world are highlighted with specific career profiles from Canada, the United States, Great Britain, and New Zealand. It is hard to find anything to criticize about this outstanding series. It is a very readable introductory resource, useful to those who are beginning to research career information.
Building Green Places: Careers in Planning, Designing, and Building includes not just a look at physical buildings, but also green outdoor places. Marilyn Brownlee, Urban Agriculture Manager, Greenest City Environmental Organization, Toronto, is the subject of one of the career profiles in this book.
Growing Green Cities: Managing Community Gardens
My core role is to oversee the community gardens run by Greenest City and to manage the activities that take place in the gardens.
I spend about half my day on the computer answering emails and planning the children’s program, youth drop-in, workshops, and English as a second language drop-in. I also spend a few hours a week in various meetings. And the rest of the time is spent outside in the garden!
Growing and Eating Green: Careers in Farming, Producing, and Marketing Food goes beyond a simple examination of food production and looks at the energy used to produce, package and transport food from the farm to the table. A review of organic food production, fair trade practices, genetically modified organisms, and early environmentalists such as Rachel Carson, provide a context for career choices in Growing and Eating Green.
Learning Green: Careers in Education looks at academic classroom teaching careers and beyond. Career profiles include environmental education and youth programs coordinator, manager of interpretations and graphics at a zoo, marine mammal research scientist, storyteller and songwriter, wildlife photographer, and writer.
Managing Green Spaces: Careers in Wilderness and Wildlife Management examines some of the most exciting and dramatic green-collar careers. Photos in this book show individuals at the top of mountains, holding a baby alligator, protecting elephants from poachers, involved in search and rescue, and putting out a fire in a mountainous desert area.
Hotshots-The Best of the Best
Hotshot crews consist of approximately 20 highly trained, well-disciplined firefighters. Their specialty is working at the hottest part of the largest, most serious wildfires, often in remote areas and without outside support.
Many countries, including the United States, Canada, and Russia, have hotshot crews ready to go wherever a major fire erupts. When they are not fighting fires, hotshots may be assigned to other jobs such as disaster response or search and rescue.
Whether purchased separately or as a series, these books will be an excellent addition to libraries looking for green-collar career information.
Highly Recommended.
Suzanne Pierson, a retired teacher-librarian, is currently instructing Librarianship courses at Queen’s University in Kingston, ON.
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