Great Ideas for Becoming Greener

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	• The Green Book: The Everyday Guide to Saving the Planet One Simple Step at a Time Elizabeth Rogers, Thomas M. Kostigen Three Rivers Press, 2007 - 224 pages average customer review:based on 50 reviews view larger image
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small actions make a difference

As the green movement grows momentum, people are seeking instruction and help on little things they can do to make a larger environmental impact. _The Green Book_ is just such an "environmental self-help" manual. Without being preachy, forecasting an environmental apocalypse or lecturing, Rogers and Kostigen provide hundreds of small, everyday actions people can take to reduce the amount of waste being produced and limit the size of one's environmental footprint.

These little things: like re-using a paperclip, buying post-consumer recycled products, purchasing soy-based rather than parafin crayons - all serve to ease the environmental impact we have. These helpful tips cover a suprisingly wide range of activities from entertainment to work, to leisure activites. What I was most impressed with is how small (and therefore easy) many of the changes that can be made are. Ideally we would all consume less (how much does a person NEED after all?) but this is another issue; the strength of the book is its recognition that many people will continue to consume, and therefore it seeks to show how to consume smarter, and with fewer ecological consequences.

Why, then, do I give it four stars? The book is peppered with celebrity accounts of their environmental activism and the things they do to help the environment. I was neither impressed nor moved by thier words. To some extent this relates to the point of consuming less: celebrities by their very nature are conspicuous consumers; to some extent I felt it a bit "preachy" - who are they (the individuals who recieve thousands, tens of thousands of free products as gifts at awards and talk shows) to give the rest of us advice or be used as examples of "green living"?

Celebrities aside, I was impressed with the information presented, and the extensive references provided at the back of the book with websites for further information. A recommended read for everyone, as the advice and examples are both practical and simple, facts the environmental movmement should embrace to a greater extent.

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Think Green

I gave this book out as Christmas gifts this year to family and friends. It gives easy ways to help mother earth even for the lazy human.

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Okayish

I'm not sure about this book. It contains and explains a nice collection of easy to implement 'green' actions, but I don't think any of it will stick. It doesn't really make you think about the whole process of production and consumption and therefore only hands some tips for people that want an easy way out of their wasting consumption pattern.
I think awareness about the intricacies behind consumption en production will leave you with a more motivated state of mind about changing your habits. If you think you agree I recommend the WorldChanging book.
But nevertheless, any book that hands tips for a greener future is a beneficial waste of trees ;)
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Great Ideas for Becoming Greener

This is a great book, really simple with easy to follow ideas to make your life greener. The way it is written really puts things in perspective and you will read how little things you can do, like using one less paper napkin per day, can really make a big difference. Buy it for someone who thinks that leading an eco-friendly life is too hard, this may be the book that changes their mind. Anyone who reads this book will surely be able to make at least on change in their habits.

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