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The Earthshot Prize: A Handbook for Dreamers and Thinkers: Solutions to Repair our Planet
An empowering and practical handbook for young changemakers who want to save the planet! Published in collaboration with the prestigious Earthshot Prize, featuring an introduction from HRH Prince William and contributions from environmental activists including Sir David Attenborough, Christiana Figueres and Shailene Woodley.
The mission is to repair our planet.
Our home is in trouble. The good news is we can fix it - but we need YOUR help. So let's put our heads together and dream up ways to BUILD, CREATE and SHOUT about solutions to repair our planet.
In the Earthshot Handbook for Future Dreamers and Thinkers, young readers will travel round the world, celebrating the diverse and rich habitats, amazing animals and wonderful landscapes that make up our planet. They'll learn about the problems and challenges facing those habitats. They will meet Earthshot innovators, entrepreneurs and game changers from the past and present from Wangari Maathai to David Attenborough. And importantly, they'll discover how they can become the changemakers of the future, helping to develop solutions to the world's biggest problems. Because even the smallest idea or Earthshot, has the power to change everything.
Full of simple practical things young people can do or make to help save the planet, even from home, as well as big ideas and contributions from people around the globe, this is the ultimate handbook for future innovators and activists who want to make a difference.
Contributors to this
HRH Prince William
Naturalist Sir David Attenborough
Former UN Climate Chief Christiana Figures
Actor Shailene Woodley
Astronaut Naoko Yamazki
Environmental Activist Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim
The mission is to repair our planet.
Our home is in trouble. The good news is we can fix it - but we need YOUR help. So let's put our heads together and dream up ways to BUILD, CREATE and SHOUT about solutions to repair our planet.
In the Earthshot Handbook for Future Dreamers and Thinkers, young readers will travel round the world, celebrating the diverse and rich habitats, amazing animals and wonderful landscapes that make up our planet. They'll learn about the problems and challenges facing those habitats. They will meet Earthshot innovators, entrepreneurs and game changers from the past and present from Wangari Maathai to David Attenborough. And importantly, they'll discover how they can become the changemakers of the future, helping to develop solutions to the world's biggest problems. Because even the smallest idea or Earthshot, has the power to change everything.
Full of simple practical things young people can do or make to help save the planet, even from home, as well as big ideas and contributions from people around the globe, this is the ultimate handbook for future innovators and activists who want to make a difference.
Contributors to this
HRH Prince William
Naturalist Sir David Attenborough
Former UN Climate Chief Christiana Figures
Actor Shailene Woodley
Astronaut Naoko Yamazki
Environmental Activist Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim
240 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 12, 2023
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January 1, 2024
In the 1960s, American president John F. Kennedy set the Moonshot challenge to put a person on the moon.
Sixty years later, we have the Earthshot prize (presented in Singapore in November) backed by HRH Prince William, and this empowering handbook for our young readers.
“Right now, we need to shoot for the EARTH. Our planet is the only home we have, and we must think big and dream bigger if we are to protect it.”
This book maps succinctly our early history, leading up to industrialisation, the invention of the car, the drilling of fossil fuels and the climate change movement in the last two decades.
It then seeks early on, to talk about not just role models who made small steps to make big change but also determining myths and truths about the issue. It speaks frankly about greenwashing, raising awareness on all sides.
There are quite a few kid-friendly charts mapping out the related problems and solutions for points like emissions, deforestation and oceans.
Best of all, at the end, it projects to 2050 — what it would look like if Earth was changed by “the power of a million earthshots”, when today’s every child has tried his or her shot for the earth.
📚: @definitelybookskids
Sixty years later, we have the Earthshot prize (presented in Singapore in November) backed by HRH Prince William, and this empowering handbook for our young readers.
“Right now, we need to shoot for the EARTH. Our planet is the only home we have, and we must think big and dream bigger if we are to protect it.”
This book maps succinctly our early history, leading up to industrialisation, the invention of the car, the drilling of fossil fuels and the climate change movement in the last two decades.
It then seeks early on, to talk about not just role models who made small steps to make big change but also determining myths and truths about the issue. It speaks frankly about greenwashing, raising awareness on all sides.
There are quite a few kid-friendly charts mapping out the related problems and solutions for points like emissions, deforestation and oceans.
Best of all, at the end, it projects to 2050 — what it would look like if Earth was changed by “the power of a million earthshots”, when today’s every child has tried his or her shot for the earth.
📚: @definitelybookskids
November 6, 2025
Awesome book! Would make a great anxiety-free and action-filled introduction to eco-friendly living and why we need it.
January 28, 2024
Until A Handbook For Dreamers and Thinkers arrived in the postbag I had never heard of The Earthshot Prize. I am sorry that I hadn’t, glad that I now have and want to make sure more people hear about it and the amazing work it does. It’s been three years since the prize was founded and it aims to change the pessimistic attitude of so many towards the environment into an optimistic one. It helps to nurture talent, to find those with a vision for the future and solutions that are going to make a difference. So what does the book do and how do the two relate? It’s a handbook for young people, encouraging them to want to work to save our planet. Explaining to them some of the ‘how we got where we are’ alongside the ‘this is where we are now’ and then ‘this is where we could be in the future.’ It offers practical, simple advice that could make a profound difference.
Introducing all the reasons why we should be thinking about how we can save our planet the book explains the award and the five key areas that we all need to focus on to save our planet. These are to protect and restore nature; revive our oceans; clean our air; fix our climate and build a waste-free world. There is a section in the book, a chapter if you will, for each of these areas. After skimming through twelve thousand years of history (it only needs to be brief) we are brought up to date with the situation and then led through a series of considerations that we can, every one of us, put into action. We could all eat greener, eat food produced locally, walk or cycle instead of using the car. Businesses, farmers, scientists can all play their parts too and this amazing book gives us plenty of information not only about what is already being done but what more we can all do. Let’s get creative. Let’s save our world.
Introducing all the reasons why we should be thinking about how we can save our planet the book explains the award and the five key areas that we all need to focus on to save our planet. These are to protect and restore nature; revive our oceans; clean our air; fix our climate and build a waste-free world. There is a section in the book, a chapter if you will, for each of these areas. After skimming through twelve thousand years of history (it only needs to be brief) we are brought up to date with the situation and then led through a series of considerations that we can, every one of us, put into action. We could all eat greener, eat food produced locally, walk or cycle instead of using the car. Businesses, farmers, scientists can all play their parts too and this amazing book gives us plenty of information not only about what is already being done but what more we can all do. Let’s get creative. Let’s save our world.
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