Green Living
By Lori Bongiorno, Frances Beinecke
How green can you be? Green: Drive the speed limit Greener: Drive a fuel-efficient car Greenest: Bike or walk The perfect guide to help readers decide how to best spend their time and money to protect the environment, Green, Greener, Greenest offers flexible tips for everyday living, all categorized as green, greener, and greenest. Cutting through the labeling and the hype, it helps readers choose the advice that fits their schedule, their budget, and their interests, with the understanding that there's never one right way to make a difference. This indispensable resource will grow with readers-whether a novice in green living or a veteran environmentalist-as their interests and needs change over time. More
By Tanya Ha
This title includes new Preface, new Chapter, and updated contacts from Tanya Ha, presenter of the SBS series "Eco-House" airing for 6 weeks starting April 2007. Being green is easier than you think. "Greeniology" is a practical, comprehensive and fun guide to local environmental action in your home, at work and on holiday. It's about living in comfort and style, and in harmony with the natural environment.
About the Author
Tanya Ha is an author, television presenter, environmentalist and internationally recognised sustainable living advocate. She has spent many years working for Planet Ark, a non-political, non-confrontational, unashamedly populist environment group that defines itself by what it's for. She also serves on the board of Sustainability Victoria. A science graduate and former model, she is a passionate advocate for the ways in which ordinary people can help save the planet.
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By Diane Gow McDilda
365 Ways to Live Green will educate, inspire, and motivate you to do your part. With easy-to-implement tips, you'll learn how to:
- Create biodegradable home cleaning products
- Find the hidden ingredients in bad-for-you-foods
- Invest in green technology and stocks
- Buy eco-friendly clothes and accessories
- Choose the right plants to nourish your yard
Saving the world is as easy as changing the way you think-so take the green movement's motto to heart. With 365 Ways to Live Green, you will learn what it really means to "think globally and act locally." More
About the Author
Diane Gow McDilda has been covering environmental issues for more than twenty years. She earned a master's degree in environmental engineering from the University of Florida and earned honors with a bachelor of science degree in civil engineering. McDilda has been an environmental journalist for the Florida Specifier since 2005; she has written technical articles on engineering and excavation projects. She lives in Gainesville, Florida.
By Anna Shepard
Ever wondered how you can be green with glamour? Or how to make the very best of life and feel virtuous too? "How Green Are My Wellies?" describes Anna's efforts to live a life that is both fun and sparkly green. And whether growing vegetables, throwing a clothes-swap party, concocting natural potions, or green speed-dating, she proves that being planet-friendly is surprisingly liberating, enriching, and it may even make you laugh. Month by month, Anna explores everything from avocado cleansers to guerrilla gardening to worm-racing in order to perfect the art of being green. Here are the tricks to slimming your waste in January; mastering cool camping in July; and celebrating the joy and satisfaction of making things at home as the evenings draw in. Charged with infectious enthusiasm, her yearbook is full of new ideas, reveals brilliant 'eco-cheats' for lazier moments, and demonstrates unequivocally that you can be green with style. More
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By Kelly Coyne, Erik Knutzen
The Urban Homestead is the essential handbook for a fast-growing new movement: urbanites are becoming gardeners and farmers. Rejecting both end-times hand wringing and dewy-eyed faith that technology will save us from ourselves, urban homesteaders choose instead to act. By growing their own food and harnessing natural energy, they are planting seeds for the future of our cities.
If you would like to harvest your own vegetables, raise city chickens, or convert to solar energy, this practical, hands-on book is full of step-by-step projects that will get you started homesteading immediately, whether you live in an apartment or a house. It is also a guidebook to the larger movement and will point you to the best books and Internet resources on self-sufficiency topics.
Projects include:
- How to grow food on a patio or balcony
- How to clean your house without toxins
- How to preserve food
- How to cook with solar energy
- How to divert your grey water to your garden
- How to choose the best homestead for you
Written by city dwellers for city dwellers, this illustrated, smartly designed, two-color instruction book proposes a paradigm shift that will improve our lives, our community, and our planet. More
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By Mick Winter
Sustainable Living for Your Home, Neighborhood and Community is about your home-inside and outside-and how you can use less energy, spend less money, and enjoy it more. It's filled with specific energy-saving and money-saving ideas that are either free or very low-cost. They'll help you and, without any additional effort, also help your environment. It's about your neighborhood. You'll learn how you and your neighbors can benefit from working and sharing together. And it's about your community. You'll learn how all of its neighborhoods and residents can benefit from cooperative effort. Sustainable Living isn't about buying greener things; it's about buying fewer things. It's about spending less money, and getting more out of life. And helping the planet at the same time. Most of all, Sustainable Living is a guide to saving money, improving your life, and giving you the tools you need to deal with an everchanging future. More
By David Gershon
How The Program Works
1. Using this handbook, you take action to develop sustainable lifestyle practices in five areas: garbage, water, energy, transportation, and consumption. The sixth action area, empowerment, enables you to help others take action for the planet.
2. You can do this program either with your household family members or as part of a peer support group of friends, neighbors, co-workers, or members of your faith community or civic organization an EcoTeam. A good size for an EcoTeam is 5 to 8 households. Doing it with other households is recommended as it strengthens motivation to complete the actions and is a lot of fun.
3. In either format, the program is designed to be completed in 7 meetings that take place every 14 days to 2 weeks. Different team members run the meetings using scripts located in the support section of this handbook. Meetings last 1.5 to 2 hours, with several hours needed between meetings to take the selected actions. If you do the program as an individual household and live with others, turn your household members into an EcoTeam and adapt the meeting scripts accordingly. If you live alone and choose to do this on your own, use the program s suggested time sequence to keep you motivated. More
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By Helen Coronato
Going green is a family affair Parents and kids making the world a better place. Eco-friendliness has grown into a way of life across the country. Eco-Friendly Families is the perfect guide to raising a family with agreena values, whether theyare celebrating their first Earth Day or are old hands at recycling, eating organic, and carrying a cloth bag to the supermarket. Parents and children can all live by eco-example by following the tips in this book, including:
* Start-up advice for going green as a family affaira motivating all family members to embrace change
* Family activities that can make every day Earth Day and living green fun
* A practical guide to growing up greenawhat everyone can do around the house, at school, at work, and on vacation
* Realistic ways to deepen family involvement through environmentalism, conservation, activism, and advocacy
* Effective suggestions for raising responsible, ecoconscious citizens. More
By David T. Suzuki, Amanda McConnell, Adrienne Mason
In this extensively revised and enlarged edition of his best-selling book, David Suzuki reflects on the increasingly radical changes in nature and science — from global warming to the science behind mother/baby interactions — and examines what they mean for humankind’s place in the world. The book begins by presenting the concept of people as creatures of the Earth who depend on its gifts of air, water, soil, and sun energy. The author explains how people are genetically programmed to crave the company of other species, and how people suffer enormously when they fail to live in harmony with them. Suzuki analyzes those deep spiritual needs, rooted in nature, that are a crucial component of a loving world. Drawing on his own experiences and those of others who have put their beliefs into action, The Sacred Balance is a powerful, passionate book with concrete suggestions for creating an ecologically sustainable, satisfying, and fair future by rediscovering and addressing humanity’s basic needs. More
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By Dave Bonta, Stephen Snyder
Green living begins at home, and New Green Home Solutions tells you how. Most of the energy-derived pollution we produce comes as a direct result of our homes-how we heat them, how we cool them, how we keep them well-lit and full of things that make our lives so comfortable. The good news is that we have tremendous power to create change. Renewable energy design, better insulation and more efficient appliances could reduce energy demands by 60 to 80 percent. By embracing conservation and renewable energy, we can win our energy independence and help save the planet. More
By Godo Stoyke
Most people are unaware that environmental problems such as climate change can be easily avoided, at a profit, through the intelligent application of appropriate technology. The Carbon Buster's Home Energy Handbook describes how to achieve this goal in the residential field.
The first book in North America to provide a detailed carbon accounting of a family's carbon emissions and how to reduce them, it systematically analyzes energy costs and evaluates which measures yield the highest returns for the environment and the pocketbook. It provides answers to questions such as:
Which measure is more effective: putting solar panels on your roof or buying a hybrid car?
Where do I need to invest first: in high-efficiency shower heads or solar tubes?
Is a $500 fridge that uses 800 kWh of power per year a good buy? More
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Quick fix or permanent, local or imported, synthetic or natural? Everyday we are faced with a myriad of complex, often contradictory choices that have a bearing on the climate and sustainability. Yet whether at home or in business, without a method for understanding our thought processes we often default to behavior that is destroying the climate, natural environment and social wellbeing. How can we change our thinking and behaviors to protect the climate and move towards sustainability?
In this new book, renowned sustainability, business, and organizational change specialist Bob Doppelt provides both an easy to understand explanation and practical methods for transforming our climate-damaging, unsustainable ways into sustainable thinking and behaviors. Doppelt makes the case that global warming and today's other ecological and socioeconomic problems are not technical in nature, rather they represent a crisis of thought. Every society has a shared “mental frame”—core beliefs and assumptions—that shape the way people make decisions and behave. Effective solutions will emerge only when new, sustainable forms of thinking emerge. Sustainable thinking requires a clear understanding of the systems humans are part of, the use of proven strategies for facilitating personal, team, and organizational change, ethical rules to guide behavior, and a creative rather than problem-solving orientation. More
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By Donnachadh McCarthy
Many of us are concerned about environmental issues and try to incorporate a 'green' approach into our day-to-day lives - be it using energy saving lightbulbs, making use of recycling facilities or putting a brick in the toilet cistern. However, there is usually much more we can easily do if only if we give it enough thought. In "Saving the Planet Without Costing the Earth", Donnachadh McCarthy explains how to carry out an environmental audit of your life in areas such as waste disposal, gardening and home maintenance, food, work and travel to find out how 'green' you are. He then offers 500 ingenious yet practical suggestions you can follow to improve your score. What's more, for each idea, he details how much it will cost to implement (if anything) and also lists the benefits for the environment and your wallet. More
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By Kent Andersen
This book will take the reader on a journey through various alternate energy mechanisms from solar, thermal, electrostatic, Cold Fusion, Electromagnetic to even more exotic forms of power generation through plasma coupling to the zero point field. Unlike any other book out there this book will show the reader how these devices could help prevent global climate change and liberate humanity. Its all about saving the planet. Come join the possibilities. More
By Christina Park, Orville Powell
The population of the United States is projected to grow by almost 120 million people in the next 45 years. This growth, and change in population composition, 
will present local governments across the nation with unprecedented challenges. As cities and towns work to provide more services to their residents with fewer and fewer resources, managers and elected officials will be forced to face national issues such as transportation, food and fresh water supply, healthcare provision, and even global warming. Local governments will have to learn to rely less on their state and federal counterparts, and more on local resources. Services provided by local governments, more so than at any other level, are "people-driven," and the public will look to those officials closest to them for answers. In Earth is a Nice Little Planet: Who Will Save It? Christina Park and Orville Powell set out to look at some of the consequences of predicted population growth and identify connections to other large scale issues. What they discovered in researching these topics is that it is not really about the answers, but about the questions. The questions that every city and town in America should be asking themselves. How will we accommodate an increasing population? How will we provide for the financial and healthcare needs of the elderly and children? What can we do help combat climate change? The clock is ticking and we can not wait any longer to begin addressing these issues. It is time for local leaders to face these problems and begin the necessary discussions to look for ways to ensure a sustainable future for generations to come. Will you help save the planet? More
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By Stephen Hren, Rebekah Hren
Having weaned themselves completely from fossil fuels in their conventional 1930s urban house, Rebekah and Stephen Hren provide a map for others to do the same. Their book shows first how to reduce energy consumption, then to retrofit existing homes to obtain all heating, cooling, cooking, refrigeration, hot water, and electricity from renewable sources. The Hrens also provide advice on renewable methods of transportation and home gardening. These practical approaches fit anyone's budget and can be implemented over time to progressively liberate a home from fossil-fuel dependency.Read this book - then grab your handsaw, tape measure, and drill, and get started! A life powered by the sun is waiting for you. Meant as a guide for renovating existing homes, "The Carbon-Free Home" gives you the hands-on knowledge necessary to kick the fossil-fuel habit, with projects small and large listed by skill, time, cost, and energy saved. For every aspect of your life currently powered by fossil fuels, "The Carbon-Free Home" offers alternatives you can accomplish yourself to get started using renewable and sustainable sources of power. More
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