From Junk to Funk!

What: The Otesha book is a behind-the-scenes look at how our daily actions change the world! Packed with cool graphics and interesting and inspiring stories, it is designed to match the Otesha Morning Choices Play, with one phenomenal chapter for each scene of the play:

  1. Water
  2. Clothing
  3. Media
  4. Coffee
  5. Food
  6. Transportation

These chapters are then sub-divided into four sections: "removing the blinders", "holding up the mirror", "empowerment", and "action." (see: Being The Change).

How: We distribute The Otesha Book to individuals (click here for How to Order) and to groups of individuals. In the latter case, Otesha audience members are invited to make thier own covers using reused materials (aka from "Junk" to "Funk") - and obtaining an awesome follow-up tool! Click here to see How to Make these funky post-consumer-waste packages. Entered into the book-crossing system (www.bookcrossing.com), each book will also be tracked, as it travels from reader to reader picking up better ideas and even more good karma as it travels!

Why: We want the Otesha message to travel even farther than we can, and we want to provide a follow-up tool with more information, more inspiration, and more fun (!) to the thousands of people who share our vision for a better future.

"I find this resource extremely useful for teaching ESD (Environmental Science). It is geared specifically to a teen audience. The aesthetic is 'urban-trendy' and funky. The language it uses is at the level of high school students. And it is written as though a narrator is speaking to the student directly. Therefore it engages students right away because it has a 'youth to youth' feeling. This resource also focuses on several relevant issues that can appeal to high school students – clothing, coffee, media, food, water and transport. Each issue is examined from the perspective of how this teen might interact with these things in 1 day. Therefore it transforms what could be seen as enormous, global catastrophes into a manageable size, a tangible scope – 1 day. The book weaves together social, environmental and economic issues seamlessly. In so doing, it doesn't ever set up the idea that these things are separate and maintains that you must view these factors as inextricably interconnected."

- High school teacher

*Due to high demand, French softcover books are unfortunately no longer available. However, those interested in the French version of the book can order French homemade books.

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