Rescue Mission Planet Earth: A Children's Edition of Agenda 21.

• Author: Fruchtbaum, Harold

UN Children's Fund, UN Development Programme, UN Environment Programme, UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, Foundation for Environmental Awareness Grisewood & Dempsey, London and New York, 1994 96 pp. $9.95. ISBN 1-85697-175-9 (paperback)

The 28 young editors from 21 countries are correct when they write, "No--this isn't another doom and gloom book about eco-disasters with some kindly advice at the end about how to sort your garbage." They have created a colourful and spirited book about Agenda 21. "What we've done is to put it into a language that ordinary people can understand." Written, designed, typeset and illustrated by the Children's Task Force on Agenda 21, this intelligent volume synthesizes the work of more than 10,000 young people in 75...