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We are three eco-activists that have put forward positive and meaningful ideas on how you can contribute to saving the earth. We know that you can be part of the solution rather than part of the problem.
“This book is a practical, lucid, passionate, call to action”
Xanthe Gresham-Knight, Author and international storyteller
“A fantastically clear compendium of environmental issues… and simple ways to solve them. Anyone who wants to help save the world should read it”
Nathalie Fee, founder of City to Sea

About Your Planet Needs You!
If there was ever an urgency to stand up for your planet, for Mother Earth, this is the time.
What exactly are carbon emissions, fast- fashion, pandemics – among other things – doing to our world?
What are the most pressing global, environmental issues affecting us today?
What are the new resilience innovations and ecological trends?
What actions can individuals and communities take?
From plastic waste to pesticides, food production and chemicals, from the climate emergency to species extinction, this book is the essential guide to ethical living.
Your Planet Needs You! will show how you can be part of the solution to help make a better world, whatever age you are.
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Meet the authors 
Meet the authors
More about Bernadette Vallely
Bernadette’s favourite thing: “I love living near the sea, the ocean cheers and nourishes me.”
Among the many awards she has won for her ecological and community work includes being a United Nations Global 500 Environmental Laureate.
Bernadette has encouraged and mentored many young eco-activists around Britain and across the world. Her books include 1001 Ways to Save the Planet (Penguin) and she has written many books, reports and papers on environmental, women’s and community issues. She has worked for the Women’s Environmental Network (WEN, which she founded in 1994), Greenpeace International, Friends of the Earth and Save the World Club (which she co-founded as a charity in 2000). She is co-author of Gender & the Climate Change Agenda: The impacts of Climate Change on women and public policy published by WEN for the 2010 UN Climate Conference, COP 15.
From 2000-2010 Bernadette was instrumental in creating a multi-award winning urban arts project for Kingston Borough Council involving 15,000 local people and covering hundreds of metres of unsightly graffiti with community mosaic.
In 2012, Bernadette and her husband Alexander, started the Shakti Sings Choir, with the aim of bringing people together to honour the earth through song. Since then, thousands of members, of all ages and abilities, have sung to the earth, including at the opening ceremony at Glastonbury Festival, at the Stonehenge Summer and Winter Solstice celebrations and at concerts indoors and outside throughout the country.
Bernadette is a mother of two wonderful grown-up children, she is married and lives in Wales. She is actively living a green lifestyle and aims to plant 4,000 trees in the next decade.
These days Bernadette is also researching and writing about the history of women’s religion with a new series due in 2021 detailing the hidden history of Goddess worship in London.
Favourite walk: The Pembrokeshire National Coastal Path

Harvest time in the countryside, we made a winter vitamin C syrup from hedgerow berries
More about Amy Charuy-Hughes
Amy is particularly interested in the environmental impacts of the fashion and beauty industries, women’s menstrual products and litter pollution. Amy works to inform the general public regarding these environmental and health issues through public speaking. Amy fuses this information with comedy through the contents of her eco-handbag. Watch Amy’s Ocean Mic Night talk.
In her fashion work, Amy works as a Shoot Stylist and Production Assistant and offers a unique service to deliver environmentally-friendly and sustainable photoshoots. Amy is available to work on any creative shoots which focus on sustainability or with a brand who would simply like to work more sustainably.
Within her local area of South West London, Amy volunteers for Refill, a City to Sea campaign. The campaign works with local businesses to help tackle the plastic pollution problem by encouraging the general public to refill water bottles and to drink tap water instead of buying bottled water by promoting free tap water refills.
Amy’s favourite organisations and charities which Amy supports and follows include: Friends of the Earth, Surfers Against Sewage and City to Sea.

More about Bethan Stewart-James
My hobbies are swimming (mainly in the sea), and animals of any size or shape. I also love cycling (but broke my bike recently). Also I love playing with my dog, art and litter picking, reading and of course, theatre.
This world is so beautiful and we need to learn to appreciate it and then we can save it.
I love going on long beautiful walks (especially if we get to see horses on the way) though I admit sometimes I get a bit moany, but deep down I really love it.
My favourite subject is probably history or languages, though I’m not in high school yet I love learning about history and what it was like before single use plastic was invented.
One thing you need to know about me is, I’m a real book-worm, especially Harry Potter but I can’t read one book at a time for some reason, it has to be at least two.
Some of my favourite charities are the World Wide Fund for Nature, because of their positive impact on the environment and the way they make us think, and how they are devoted to saving wildlife and all of Earth’s beautiful creatures. I also love the International Fund for Animal Welfare because of their work to save all animals. A charity that is helping stop global warming and preserving wildlife is the Wildlife Trust and I love how they are planting forests that will become ancient and precious to future generations.
One thing you can do for free to help with planting more trees is change your search engine to Ecosia. It is powered by Bing and every forty searches you do online they plant a tree for you. If you are more interested in saving the seas then I have heard of Ekoru which cleans a pound of plastic for every internet search and reforests sea beds with seagrass . Another search engine is Ocean Hero which collects one bottle out of the ocean for every five searches.
So in conclusion, I’m a crazy, happy activist, that’s very dramatic, that cries when they see a dead worm and spends at least 40 minutes of their day saving individual insects from either drowning in the sea or being trodden on a path. Some people call it wasting time but I say it is saving lives.
Keep on fighting,
Bethan

Buy Your Planet Needs You!
Please purchase a hardback signed copy of Your Planet Needs You! here for £12.99 (+P&P) and receive a free special edition pack of postcards with Stu McLellan’s wonderful artwork of one of the most important endangered species in the UK, the Shrill Carder Bee, only from this website.

The Schools Manifesto
Bethan’s Eco-Schools Manifesto has 20 good ideas for organisations and institutions of any size, sign up here to adopt the Manifesto in your school or group, company or home.

FIVE TOP TIPS TO REDUCE YOUR PLASTIC USE
Amy shows you how simple daily changes can reduce your day to day plastic use
SCHOOL READING GUIDE
9+ upwards including PSHE, English, Geography, Poetry and D&T with environmental questions and thoughtful discussion points
BRITISH SPECIES EXTINCTION
Beautiful banner with original artwork by Stu McLellan detailing 8 major species in Britain under threat
SPECIES EXTINCTION AND WHAT YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT
Chapter from the book detailing the importance of our living world and what you can do about it.
Learn More 
books to read
A Wild Child’s Guide to Endangered Animals by Millie Marotta (Particular Books, 2019)
Diary of a Young Naturalist by Dara McAnulty (Little Toller Books, 2020)
F**k Plastic: 101 Ways to Free Yourself from Plastic and Save the World by The F Team (Seven Dials, 2018)
How to Save the World for Free by Natalie Fee (Laurence, 2019)
Love Earth Now: The Power of Doing One Thing Every Day by Cheryl Leutjen (Mango, 2018)
No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference by Greta Thunberg (Penguin, 2019)
Six Weeks to Zero Waste: A Simple Plan for Life by Kate Arnell (Gaia, 2020)
The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben (William Collins, 2017)
The Joyful Environmentalist: How to Practise without Preaching by Isabel Losada (Watkins, 2020)
The Sustainable(ish) Living Guide by Jen Gale (Green Tree, 2020)
There is No Planet B: A Handbook for the Make or Break Years by Mike Berners- Lee (Cambridge University Press, 2019)
This is Not a Drill: An Extinction Rebellion Handbook by Extinction Rebellion (Penguin, 2019)
Marli’s Tangled Tale by Ellie Jackson, illustrated by Laura Callwood (Ellie Jackson, 2017)
Tidy by Emily Gravett (Two Hoots, 2016)
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