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Explains how to get rich while helping save the planet, with fifty easy-to-accomplish suggestions on how to promote an eco-friendly lifestyle while promoting a sound financial plan.

Provides tips and advice for extending the functional life of such items as household appliances, clothing, and automobiles, and offers suggestions for repairing or mending items and disposing or donating unwanted possessions.

The actor-turned-environmental activist presents a do-it-yourself guide to “green” living that explains how to incorporate environmentally friendly products and practices into one’s everyday life.

Furnishing flexible tips for everyday living, a guide to living an eco-friendly lifestyle categorizes its suggestions according to “green,” “greener,” and “greenest,” with tips designed to help readers select the advice that fits their individual schedule, budget, and interests.

This A-to-Z guide to disposing and recycling all varieties of common household trash discusses the most environmentally friendly methods of dealing with household waste.

Presents a guide to fashionable eco-conscious products and services, covering topics such as clothing and accessories, travel, architecture and construction, furniture, electronics, animal accessories, office supplies, and garden and lawn products.

Proposes an ambitious national strategy to address key issues in climate change and energy shortages, identifying the factors that have contributed to current circumstances while outlining an American-led revolution of clean technology solutions.

Details the factors contributing to the growing climate crisis, describes changes to the environment caused by global warming, and discusses the shift in environmental policy that is needed to avert disaster.

A practical, do-it-yourself guide to green living explains how to incorporate an eco-friendly approach to every aspect of one’s life while promoting a healthier lifestyle — and bank account.

Follows the author’s family’s efforts to live on locally- and home-grown foods, an endeavor through which they learned lighthearted truths about food production and the connection between health and diet.

An environmental journalist describes his visits to vulnerable places throughout the world to shed light on the actual costs of everyday choices.

A definitive guide to an eco-friendly lifestyle shares sensible suggestions for using an array of “green” home, garden, and beauty products and routines.

Designed to help readers save time, money, and the earth at the same time, a practical handbook offers more than fifty simple but effective ideas on how to develop a “green” lifestyle.

Provides information on ways to live a “green” lifestyle, covering such topics as building a green house, using nontoxic cleaning supplies, eating organic foods, recycling, ecotourism, and transportation.

A practical, easy-to-use manual introduces a series of simple but effective changes that readers can make to their everyday lives that can make a big difference in terms of the health of the planet.

A fascinating portrait of the effects the world’s more than 6 billion inhabitants have on our planet, and of the working and living conditions of the people who produce most of these goods.

Offers insight into food consumption in the twenty-first century, explaining how an abundance of unlimited food varieties reveals the responsibilities of consumers to protect their health and the environment.

Concerned about the vast distances food travels before it hits the dinner plate, the authors describe their determination to eat only foods grown locally or produced within a one-hundred-mile radius of their home.

A comprehensive resource for those interested in promoting an eco-friendly lifestyle offers a host of user-friendly suggestions and case studies.

A practical reference for style-conscious women identifies accessible steps for making environmentally friendly choices in such areas as beauty care, diet and fitness, shopping, home maintenance, and transportation.

The author describes her escape from consumer-driven culture by moving from the city to a farmhouse in northern Idaho and offers practical suggestions for readers in any setting or of any experience on how to achieve one’s own self-reliance through the development of simple skills ranging from knitting to window-box gardens.