Description
Book SynopsisIs the food we eat sustainable?
What are the problems and challenges we face around the world when it comes to food and the materials we use to package it? How can we produce food without causing pollution and habitat destruction? How do we eat healthily and minimise food waste?
This book is part of a cross-curricular series centred on sustainability and climate change, with hands-on projects linking science and design and technology. Interactive 'Solve It!' design challenges give readers the information they need to develop sustainable solutions to the problems discussed, and step-by-step 'Test It!' activities encourage them to explore putting principles into practice.
Table of Contents
- 1: Food, waste and climate change
- 2: The big issues
- 3: Challenge: Animal farming impacts
- 4: Diet and nutrition
- 5: Solve it! Design a balanced menu
- 6: Test it! Make bean burgers
- 7: Challenge: Overfishing
- 8: Food chains and ecosystems
- 9: Solve it! Sustainable fish farming
- 10: Test it! Grow lettuces in water
- 11: Challenge: Problems with packaging
- 12: Properties of plastics
- 13: Solve it! Plastic pollution
- 14: Test it! Make corn plastic
- 15: Challenge: Food waste
- 16: Decomposition
- 17: Solve it! Waste-free sugar
- 18: Test it! Make compost
- 19: Food in the future
- 20: Asnwers and glossary
- 21: Further reading and index
