Making Good Choices About Nonrenewable Resources

by Paula Johanson

There are two kinds of energy sources from nonrenewable fossil fuels and radioactive energy sources. Your readers will learn about a variety of products made from nonrenewable resources such as clay. Students also learn about the effects of nonrenewable resources on the local ecology. They will discover that exploiting a resource raises its price (Hotelling's Rule), and because nonrenewable resources can be used up, it's important to spend wisely the profit earned by using these resources (Hartwick's Rule). Practical tips for making good choices about nonrenewables are also covered in this engaging book.

64 pages, Library Binding

First published August 15, 2009

About the author

Paula Johanson is a writer and editor of both fiction and non-fiction books. A long-time member of SF Canada, she has been nominated twice for the national Prix Aurora Award for Canadian Science Fiction.

Reviews

[Heather Brown · Rating 1 out of 5]

I am always looking for good non-fiction for my Middle School Library, so I read a lot of that type. Making Good Choices About Nonrenewable Resources contains a lot of information, but is somehow too simplistic and simultaneously very dense. It seems to be written for small children, with short, simple, pedantic sentences. "Riding a bicycle takes some work. It is much harder to use bike pedals to try to move a large, heavy load." There is paragraph after paragraph like this. I slogged through, but regretted every second. It just keeps going on and on and on. It also doesn't contain enough USEFUL information. "One substance is aniline (also called phenylamine or aminobenzine)." Who cares? Not the five-year-old that this is written for.