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Green Living For Dummies |  | Authors: Yvonne Jeffery, Liz Barclay, Michael Grosvenor
Publisher: For Dummies
Category: Book
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Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 533469
Media: Paperback
Pages: 384
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.7
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 7.3 x 0.9
ISBN: 0470227427
Dewey Decimal Number: 640
EAN: 9780470227428
ASIN: 0470227427
Publication Date: February 19, 2008
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Want to do your part to reduce energy consumption, waste, and pollution; clean up the environment, and save the planet? Green Living For Dummies is packed with practical suggestions you can follow to make your lifestyle greener by doing as little damage as possible to the planet and the animal and plant life that depend on it. This practical guide delivers an array of realistic practices and changes you can undertake to help the environment and create a better home for yourself and your loved ones. You’ll discover easy and innovative ways to make a difference by reducing energy use and waste, scaling back reliance on your car, and even making minor adjustments to your diet. You’ll also find how to live green at work and in your community, and you’ll develop a deeper understanding of how these changes benefit both the environment and your own health and well-being! Discover how to: - Go green gradually
- Make eco-friendly home improvements
- Work greener transportation into your lifestyle
- Save money by going green
- Eat locally and organically
- Raise your children’s environmental awareness
- Reduce waste by repairing, restoring, and reusing
- Become a green consumer
- Invest in green companies for fun and profit
Complete with handy lists of things you can do to make a difference right away and down the road Green Living For Dummies is the resource you need to start taking steps toward shrinking your footprint.
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 Soup to Nuts Guide March 13, 2008
Norma Lehmeierhartie (New York, USA)
14 out of 14 found this review helpful
This book covers a vast amount of information in the typical Dummy fashion. If you know nothing about living a green lifestyle, Green Living for Dummies will teach you the basics and lots more. Because of the breadth of this book, virtually everyone will learn from it.
The book begins like most green living books do, with an overview of the importance of being green for our deeply troubled Earth.
However, unlike most eco-friendly books I've read, this one covers the gamut:
Green at Home: includes a section on detecting and banishing health hazards like asbestos and lead.Basics on green remodeling and building and on green cleaning.
Chapter on garbage. This was great, as part of the problem is the proper disposal of unwanted stuff. Includes how and what to recycle, including what to do with the problematic computers and cell phones.
Chapter on growing your own food.
The chapter on how to purchase the best green and ethical food was excellent.
Subsequent chapters included green clothing, ethical investments, donations and banking.
Transportation, green travel...
Even working in a green environment was covered.
Like I said, a green soup to nuts books. Lots of good, current information. Highly recommended.
Author of award winning book, Harmonious Environment: Beautify, Detoxify and Energize Your Life, Your Home and Your Planet
green living for dummies September 5, 2008
Robert A. German (PENN VALLEY CA.)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
A must for parents and grandparents , who want to leave a clean living place for their children and grandbabys . I try to live green , but even I, have learned much more I can do to help planet earth,. Written in an easy to read format ,;; reccomended. From growing your own vegetables ,to renewable energy sources.
Get into Your Own Green Living Plans today June 17, 2009
Pamela Steele (Ennis TX)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book gives so much information on tips for living greener. From saving on your utility bills, using the latest CFL bulbs, sustaining a small green garden, to shopping greener, just about anything you can think of this book gets into. The main savings, money wise and green wise are simple, for the most part no cost things all of us can do to make our planet cleaner, and greener. If you want to help your children live a greener lifestyle, it goes into a chapter about raising "greener" children, and teaching them how to conserve energy, help in the gardens, help with recycling, and much more. It also has a chapter about "greening your finances, from how to decide on a "greener checking account", doing bill pay online, rather than have paper statements and bills, to conserving water, electricity, and gas. Most as I said are things you can start immediately, without any cost to do them. I highly recommend this book for an individual or family that want to learn ways they can conserve, recycle, reuse, saving our planet, reducing greenhouse gases, and save money doing it all.
Green Living book May 4, 2009
Sheri J. Rowley
Great ideas for how to live a green life by improving aspects of your home
 This is one of the most absurd books I have read! March 31, 2009
M. Donnelly (Canada)
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
The ridiculousness of this book can be seen by a few quotes from chapter 7: Getting Green in the Yard.
"... in addition to chemicals for killing weed and pests, you're likely to find gas-powered lawn mowers and electric tools. Gasp!"
How do you remedy this deplorable situation?
"Replace This... [an] electric drill, With This... [a] Drill with rechargeable batteries"
What, pray tell, do you use to recharge the batteries?!
"Replace This... [an] electric or gas chainsaw With This... Manual pocket chainsaw"
Are you serious?! This is a backing tool for cutting up branches for firewood. If you had to do some yard clean-up, a hand saw, for the most part would be more practical. For anything mildly heavy duty, this would not replace a chainsaw by any means.
"...sell or give away the electrical and gas-powered tools so that they're reused."
Shouldn't you throw them away so they don't continue to pollute? Or does that just produce more garbage? Well, then why not just keep using your filthy power mower until it gives up the ghost?
Just a further comment on recharging batteries with solar panels: The only reason this may be remotely affordable for the average household is because the production of these units is heavily subsidized by the government (which means, of course, our tax dollars). It is very similar to the bio fuel situation where it is absolutely unsustainable without huge tax breaks and government cash. This is simply the way things are folks! I could say more, but if you're really curious about this book, check it out of the library. Spend your money on authors more deserving of your hard-earned cash.
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