Living Green
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Go Green, Live Rich: 50 Simple Ways to Save the Earth and Get Rich Trying by David Bach 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. Catalog Link |
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Don't Throw It Out: Recycle, Renew and Reuse to Make Things Last by Lori Baird 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. Catalog Link |
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Living Like Ed: A Guide to the Eco-Friendly Life by Ed Begley, Jr. 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. Catalog Link |
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Green, Greener, Greenest: A Practical Guide to Making Eco-Smart Choices a Part of Your Life by Lori Bongiorno 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. Catalog Link |
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Green House: Eco-Friendly Disposal and Recycling at Home by Norm Crampton 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. Catalog Link |
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The Lazy Environmentalist: Your Guide to Easy, Stylish, Green Living by Josh Dorfman 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. Catalog Link |
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Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution — and How It Can Renew America by Thomas L. Friedman 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. Catalog Link |
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An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It by Al Gore 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. Catalog Link |
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Ready, Set, Green: Eight Weeks to Modern Eco-Living by Graham Hill & Meaghan O'Neill 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. Catalog Link |
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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver 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. Catalog Link |
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You Are Here: Exposing the Vital Link Between What We Do and What That Does to Our Planet by Thomas M. Kostigen An environmental journalist describes his visits to vulnerable places throughout the world to shed light on the actual costs of everyday choices. Catalog Link |
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Easy Green Living: The Ultimate Guide to Simple, Eco-Friendly Choices for You and Your Home by Renée Loux A definitive guide to an eco-friendly lifestyle shares sensible suggestions for using an array of “green” home, garden, and beauty products and routines. Catalog Link |
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Live an Eco-Friendly Life: Smart Ways to Get Green and Stay That Way by Natalia Marshall 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. Catalog Link |
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The Everything Green Living Book: Easy Ways to Conserve Energy, Protect Your Family's Health, and Help Save the Environment by Diane Gow McDilda 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. Catalog Link |
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True Green: 100 Everyday Ways You Can Contribute to a Healthier Planet by Kim Mckay 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. Catalog Link |
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Confessions of an Eco-Sinner: Tracking Down the Sources of My Stuff by Fred Pearce 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. Catalog Link |
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The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan 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. Catalog Link |
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Plenty: Eating Locally on the 100-Mile Diet by Alisa Smith & J. B. MacKinnon 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. Catalog Link |
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Go Green: How to Build an Earth-Friendly Community by Nancy H. Taylor A comprehensive resource for those interested in promoting an eco-friendly lifestyle offers a host of user-friendly suggestions and case studies. Catalog Link |
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Gorgeously Green: 8 Simple Steps to an Earth-Friendly Life by Sophie Uliano 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. Catalog Link |
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Made from Scratch: Discovering the Pleasures of a Handmade Life by Jenna Woginrich 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. Catalog Link |