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Inside The Green Book, find out how you can too:
- Don’t ask for ATM receipts. If everyone in the United States refused their receipts, it would save a roll of paper more than two billion feet long, or enough to circle the equator fifteen times!
- Turn off the tap while you brush your teeth. You’ll conserve up to five gallons of water per day. Throughout the entire United States, the daily savings could add up to more water than is consumed every day in all of New York City.
- Get a voice-mail service for your home phone. If all answering machines in U.S. homes were replaced by voice-mail services, the annual energy savings would total nearly two billion kilowatt hours. The resulting reduction in air pollution would be equivalent to removing 250,000 cars from the road for a year!
With wit and authority, authors Elizabeth Rogers and Thomas Kostigen provide hundreds of solutions for all areas of your life, pinpointing the smallest changes that have the biggest impact on the health of our precious planet.
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Posted September 19, 2007
Decads ago, Kermit the frog said that 'it ain't easy being green.' The writers of this book present green living in an easy to read and easy to live format. It CAN be easy to be green. I've incorporated several 'green ways' into my family life, and this book has taught me new ways to expand on them.
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Posted May 25, 2009
Enjoyed the book very much.
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Posted September 25, 2008
When I read the first chapter, I was like 'well these are interesting facts,' but each chapter was nearly an emulation of the last, using the same grammar each time. On top of that, the ideas are painfully obvious, stating things like 'take shorter showers.' They also give 'dreamworld' stats claiming how much we would save if x number of people used their idea. Their stats a merely a pipedream, and do not come close to reality.
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Posted August 1, 2008
I was very disappointed with this book and I'm very glad I borrowed it from the library instead of buying it. I gives VERY basics tips on how to 'go green' but after each over simplified tip, it lists how that tip can add up (ie. If everyone in the world changed one light bulb,....) and it got really old after the 200th tip and matching world changing statistic. I wished they would have gone into more detail with each tip. I felt the book lacked the 'meat' and was just fluff. The whole last 40 pages or so are just the resources used to write the book. I'd say skip this book and read something with more substance like 'Organic Housekeeping'.
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Posted March 5, 2008
Great book with easy to implement ideas. I just returned from living in Germany for 6 months and they are so far ahead in recycling etc. It made me want to be more earth friendly when I returned to the US. We have made some small but high impact changes in our home and you can too!
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Posted January 4, 2008
I loved this book! When I looked at the book, I thought to myself that one little deed a day is not going to affect the environment. After I looked further into the book I realized that almost everyone of these deeds saves yourself money and can make you healthier! I loved the ideas and there are many tips in there that can take five minutes to set up and can save you over $50 (electricity bill)!
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Posted September 6, 2007
its is a very useful and informative source as to how you can do little things everyday to benefit yourself as well as the planet
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Posted July 23, 2007
This book takes a holistic approach to suggesting environmentally sustainable practices regarding, for example, the purchases we make, the food we eat, the money we invest, the vacations we take. Some are very simple suggestions, some more involved and complex. Readers may be overwhelmed by the sheer number of suggestions the book makes and think, 'I can't do ALL this.' Keep in mind, however, that the bottom line is to do something - to do what you can within your means to reduce conspicuous consumption. The book is very insightful for a reader who wonders, maybe for the first time, how to make environmentally sound choices. The internet addresses the book lists are particularly helpful for those seeking more information on the particulars of adopting certain practices.
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Inside The Green Book, find out how you can too:
- Don’t ask for ATM receipts. If everyone in the United States refused their receipts, it would save a roll of paper more than two billion feet long, or enough to circle the equator fifteen ...