A Pedro the Water Dog Saves the Planet Primer Series

"One More Year, keep your stuff longer, people" is Tilly's mantra and passion as she trains for her first Ironman with her best-friend-coach, Camas. Set in an idyllic northwest town on a pristine glacier-formed lake, Tilly sets out to tackle an Ironman for an environmental cause to convince people to curb their overconsumption to give the planet a fighting chance. She doesn't know all three sports, so she relies on a curmudgeon former cyclist, her irreverent, tattooed, best-friend, Camas, a group of maverick mountain bike guys, an old pirate, and her water dog, Pedro, to overcome her obstacles and save the town.    One More Year is Book 1 of the Pedro the Water Dog Saves the Planet series, an adventure filled with lovable, quirky characters in a candy wrapper of laughter, irreverence, kisses, friendship, satire, mountain bike jumps, love, and magnificent scenic beauty.   "In these wonderful stories, Kalfsbeek addresses important environmental issues through the loving, gentle hands of a cast of characters that are easy to connect with. One wants to be part of this healthy gang; it is easy to fall in love with one or two of them. She has found an avenue to address these critical issues that must be talked about but without a heavy hammer.  A delightful read that will fill you with hope and a forgotten bounce in your step, or pedal."                 —Chris White, author of Wind, Waves and a Suicidal Boat   Avis Kalfsbeek has an immense love of nature and can be found with her own water dog, Teo, swimming, hiking, and biking wherever their human and canine feet lead them. She encourages you to keep your stuff longer to slow down our overconsumption and give the planet a fighting chance.

Volcanoes and tropical waterfalls on the Big Island of Hawaii are the dramatic, stunning backdrop as Tilly trains for the Kona Ironman for an environmental cause. Concerned about plastic pollution, her estranged brother, Moore, and his quirky, stoner hip hop-loving best friend, Spit, set sail to the plastic scoop up machine at the Great Plastic Garbage Patch off the coast of Hawaii. Nemesis SodaCo has falsified the machine's results, and it takes a spunky insider, an old French sailor, the Sandglass bike-surfer dudes, a large lovable Hawaiian, and a cape-wearing pug hero named Plastic, to slow the tsunami of ocean plastic and save the day.   Plastic Plankton is Book 2 of the Pedro the Water Dog Saves the Planet series, a read-in-an-afternoon novella-length outdoor cli-fi adventure, filled with lovable, quirky characters in a candy wrapper of laughter, irreverence, kisses, friendship, satire, athleticism, love, and magnificent scenic beauty.   "In these wonderful stories, Kalfsbeek addresses important environmental issues through the loving, gentle hands of a cast of characters that are easy to connect with. One wants to be part of this healthy gang; it is easy to fall in love with one or two of them. She has found an avenue to address these critical issues that must be talked about but without a heavy hammer.  A delightful read that will fill you with hope and a forgotten bounce in your step, or pedal."                                                                 —Chris White, author of Wind, Waves and a Suicidal Boat   Avis Kalfsbeek is author of One More Year, Book 1 of the Pedro the Water Dog Saves the Planet Series. She has an immense love of nature and can be found with her own water dog, Teo, swimming, hiking, and biking wherever their human and canine feet lead them. She encourages you to shift your lifestyle from single-use anything and everything to a zero-waste existence (it is possible!) to stop the tsunami of disposable plastic and give the oceans and planet a fighting chance.

In Book 3 of the Pedro the Water Dog Saves the Planet series, realizing the only way to end fossil fuels is to get rid of cars, best-friend athletes Tilly and Camas write a manifesto for their bicycle ride across the country, The Great Petal Pedal Ride. The elders of Burning Man are called upon, having just kicked cars out of the playa and the mayor of Netherland bike mecca, Utrecht. Add an ominous monopoly of oil barons, an elegant, musical, starlet riding for the cause on Route 66, a glacier wedding proposal, and the beloved cast of quirky, irreverent, humorous friends on the Great Ride to a bike-first car-out world.   Bike Rock is Book 3 of the Pedro the Water Dog Saves the Planet series, a read-in-an-afternoon novella-length outdoor cli-fi adventure, filled with lovable, quirky characters in a candy wrapper of laughter, irreverence, kisses, friendship, satire, bicycles, love, and magnificent scenic beauty.   "In these wonderful stories, Kalfsbeek addresses important environmental issues through the loving, gentle hands of a cast of characters that are easy to connect with. One wants to be part of this healthy gang; it is easy to fall in love with one or two of them. She has found an avenue to address these critical issues that must be talked about but without a heavy hammer.  A delightful read that will fill you with hope and a forgotten bounce in your step or pedal."                                                                 —Chris White, author of Wind, Waves and a Suicidal Boat   Avis Kalfsbeek is author of One More Year and Plastic Plankton, Books 1 and 2 of the Pedro the Water Dog Saves the Planet seres, environmental climate adventure fiction. She has an immense love of nature and can be found with her own water dog, Teo, swimming, hiking, and biking wherever their human and canine feet lead them. For a most beautiful life, she encourages you to ride your bicycle every single day, whether you live in a tiny town or a large city, with or without your dog, rain or shine, to the market, to the post office, to see a dear friend or loved one, to stop the plume of destructive CO2 of your footprint and give the planet a fighting chance.

Two hip-hop-loving best friends work a salmon season in Alaska and, with the help of a humorous, sexy social-media vlogger and a 106-year-old pot-smoking resort matron, uncover a back-room side deal and unscrupulous dealings of a sinister lobbyist to thwart the poisonous acid runoff of an evil mine to save the largest wild salmon run in the world.   Copper Cobra is Book 4 of the Pedro the Water Dog Saves the Planet series, a read-in-an-afternoon novella-length environmental, cli fi adventure, filled with lovable, quirky characters in a candy wrapper of laughter, irreverence, kisses, friendship, satire, fishing, love, and magnificent scenic beauty.   "In these wonderful stories, Kalfsbeek addresses important environmental issues through the loving, gentle hands of a cast of characters that are easy to connect with. One wants to be part of this healthy gang; it is easy to fall in love with one or two of them. She has found an avenue to address these critical issues that must be talked about but without a heavy hammer.  A delightful read that will fill you with hope and a forgotten bounce in your step or pedal."                                                 —Chris White, author of Wind, Waves and a Suicidal Boat   Avis Kalfsbeek is author of One More Year, Plastic Plankton, and Bike Rock, Books 1, 2, and 3 of the Pedro the Water Dog Saves the Planet series, environmental climate adventure fiction. She has an immense love of nature and can be found with her own water dog, Teo, swimming, hiking, and biking wherever their human and canine feet lead them.

Planeteering is Book 5 of the Pedro the Water Dog Saves the Planet series, a novella-rama length (short novel) environmental climate adventure, filled with lovable, quirky characters in a candy wrapper of laughter, irreverence, kisses, friendship, satire, adventure racing and love.   On a global One More Year tour of the greenest countries to reduce overconsumption, Tilly and Camas discover orienteering. Between running through forests and over streams and mountains, an Icelandic sage suggests Tilly also visits the least environmental countries. Orienteering leads Camas to adventure racing. She competes on a team with three smelly men in the Parklands Enviro-Climate Challenge, a televised adventure race covering ten national parks in twenty-one days that tests her strength, relationships, and spirit. With the help of a spunky Bohemian activist, a rhyming green lobbyist, and an ancient Harvard professor, who are working to stop racial injustice with the passage of a Green Amendment, Camas reveals fossil fuel threats looming over each of the nation's natural treasures. "In these wonderful stories, Kalfsbeek addresses important environmental issues through the loving, gentle hands of a cast of characters that are easy to connect with. One wants to be part of this healthy gang; it is easy to fall in love with one or two of them. She has found an avenue to address these critical issues that must be talked about but without a heavy hammer.  A delightful read that will fill you with hope and a forgotten bounce in your step or pedal."                                                 —Chris White, author of Wind, Waves and a Suicidal Boat   Avis Kalfsbeek is author of One More Year, Plastic Plankton, Bike Rock, and Copper Cobra, Books 1 through 4 of the Pedro the Water Dog Saves the Planet series, environmental climate adventure fiction. She has an immense love of nature and can be found with her own water dog, Teo Panadero Pescadero, swimming, hiking, and biking wherever their human and canine feet lead them, especially treasured national parks.