It's Our Business to Make a Better World: Be inspired by 12 real-life children building a more sustainable future
Author: Rebecca Hui
Illustrator: Anneli Bray
Publisher: Magic Cat Publishing
Print Length: 32 pages
Genre: Children’s Book
Topic: Activism, Culture & Society, Environmental Justice, Social Justice, Ecology & Climate, Poverty, Social Entrepreneurship, Sustainability
Be Inspired by 12 Real-Life Children Building a More Sustainable Future!
Meet kids just like you whose acts of social enterprise are raising awareness around our responsibility to people and the planet. Learn about the work they do and discover how the future of our world starts here… with you.
This non-fiction picture book includes a how-to-help section, with simple steps to inspire young readers to take action at home and at school. With a foreword from crochet prodigy Jonah Larson.
Rebecca Hui is the co-founder/CEO of Roots Studio. Instead of forced urbanization upon the rural, she envisions the Rurban by formalizing the skills and assets of villages, and providing the infrastructure for them to do so. She is a MIT-TATA Fellow and an Echoing Green Global Fellow, and has over five years of experience working in rural India as a Fulbright researcher and a National Geographic Explorer. She graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a B.S. in Business Administration and a B.A. in Urban Studies, and is currently working towards a Masters in City Planning, City Design and Development at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is a social entrepreneur whose important work has been recognized by Forbes 30 Under 30, TechCrunch, Stanford Social Innovation Review, Echoing Green, Girlboss Foundation, Unreasonable Institute, Stanford-StartX and WGSN.
Source: https://d-lab.mit.edu/about/people/rebecca-hui & https://www.magiccatpublishing.co.uk/products/its-our-business-to-make-a-better-world
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Anneli Bray is an artist and illustrator from Lancashire. She graduated from Norwich University of the Arts with a degree in Illustration in 2013. Since then she has worked as a bookseller. Her work is influenced by her love of reading, nature and travel.
Source: https://www.magiccatpublishing.co.uk/products/its-our-business-to-make-a-better-world
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