Picture Yourself Going Green: Step-by-Step Instruction for Living a Budget-Conscious, Earth-Friendly Lifestyle in Eight Weeks or Less (Environmental Issues)

Picture Yourself Going Green: Step-by-Step Instruction for Living a Budget-Conscious, Earth-Friendly Lifestyle in Eight Weeks or Less (Environmental Issues) Review

Are you looking for simple, budget-friendly ways to help you and your family live a healthier, more planet-friendly lifestyle? Picture Yourself Going Green: Step-by-Step Instruction for Living a Budget-Conscious, Earth-Friendly Lifestyle in Eight Weeks or Less provides you with uncomplicated solutions to help you conserve, reduce, reuse, recycle, and, thus, minimize our impact on the planet. You'll discover that even small changes make a difference and that going green is good for our health, the planet, and even our budgets. This book starts off with ten quick and simple changes that will green your lifestyle immediately; you can then follow an eight-week plan that will green everything from your energy use, transportation, and food choices to your wardrobe, beauty supplies, and travel. As you work through the suggestions and changes in the book, you'll find that simple efforts like turning off lights that aren't in use, carpooling to work, notching the thermostat down one degree, and taking a shorter shower can be beneficial to your family and the planet. Featuring simple instructions and a colorful layout full of pictures and illustrations, Picture Yourself Going Green is packed with helpful eco facts, tips, and ideas to help you along in your journey to become green.

Green: home improvement guide: use this blueprint to save money with eco-friendly renovations.(CONSUMER LIFE): An article from: Black Enterprise

Green: home improvement guide: use this blueprint to save money with eco-friendly renovations.(CONSUMER LIFE): An article from: Black Enterprise Review

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Title: Green: home improvement guide: use this blueprint to save money with eco-friendly renovations.(CONSUMER LIFE)
Author: Tamara E. Holmes
Publication:Black Enterprise (Magazine/Journal)
Date: April 1, 2011
Publisher: Earl G. Graves Publishing Co., Inc.
Volume: 41 Issue: 9 Page: 78(4)

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Shades of Green: A guide to going green for the rest of us

Shades of Green: A guide to going green for the rest of us Review

What Shade of Green Are YOU?

Want to live a greener lifestyle but not sure where to start?

Today, it's not a matter of whether we want to be green-it's more about how green we can be and where we start.
Shades of Green is a practical guidebook that allows you to become green-at a pace and in a way that fits your lifestyle and individual starting point. The ideas in this book are reasonable, achievable and arranged in such a way that you can become greener when and how you want. Become your shade of green!

Learn about environmental problems and challenges we face today. Then learn solutions YOU can apply to those problems, personally, at home.

This book is by the different rooms in your home.

• How you can do to make your kitchen greener
• How to adopt greener laundry practices
• How and what to recycle in your home

But that's not all. Tips are arranged by degree of difficulty, starting with ideas anyone can do, all the way to tips for a totally committed green lifestyle.

Start today! Learn how to go to the next shade of green or merely catch up. There has never been a better time to get started! With Shades of Green as your guide, you'll make changes that matter-to you, to your family, to the future and to the planet.

It's time to go green-pick your shade.

We Can All Live Green: Simple Steps to Save Money, Stay Healthy, and Support the Planet

We Can All Live Green: Simple Steps to Save Money, Stay Healthy, and Support the Planet Review

We Can All Live Green: Simple Steps to Save Money, Stay Healthy, and Support the Planet Feature

• ISBN13: 9780980028829
• Condition: New
• Notes: BRAND NEW FROM PUBLISHER! 100% Satisfaction Guarantee. Tracking provided on most orders. Buy with Confidence! Millions of books sold!

This is the green book for Americans who'd like to be shown why and how "going green" makes economic sense. With simple tips, a friendly voice, and step-by-step practical information, the book offers smart consumer choices that benefit health, pocketbook, and the environment. A gift book, its pages have high visual interest, with sidebars, "in a nutshell" factoids, action items, and buyer's guides. Appendices include product source lists, green lifestyle websites, and a science and environment section for 101-style background information.

Hey Mr. Green: Sierra Magazine's Answer Guy Tackles Your Toughest Green Living Questions

Hey Mr. Green: Sierra Magazine's Answer Guy Tackles Your Toughest Green Living Questions Review

When is the right time to replace an old refrigerator? Is it okay to knit a sweater with acrylic yarn? Is it more environmentally correct to buy beer in bottles or cans? For the last several years, Bob Schildgen’s popular “Hey Mr. Green” column has tackled real-world questions from real people. Readers trust his answers, which are backed by Sierra Club’s research, but they also enjoy his realism and irreverent humor. This book distills the best of the column into one enormously useful and entertaining resource. It’s organized by subject — household issues, food and drink, transportation, reuse and recycling, and “big picture” environmental questions — making it easy to find answers to common questions. Whether puzzling over the intricacies of product life cycles or taking a reader to task for blasting his air conditioner, Hey Mr. Green is an indispensable, opinionated, and authoritative guide to minding one’s environmental footprint.

Living Green (Green Guides)

Living Green (Green Guides) Review

Worried about the planet, but not sure what to do about it? Want to lead a more environmentally friendly lifestyle, but don't know where to start? This book is the complete guide to green living. Informative and accessible text gives clear, practical and realistic advice about all areas of your life, including home, garden, shopping, food and getting around. Whether you live in a rural idyll or in the centre of a big city there is action you can take. Written by an expert in the field, this guide will help you make a real difference.

Building Green, New Edition: A Complete How-To Guide to Alternative Building Methods Earth Plaster * Straw Bale * Cordwood * Cob * Living Roofs (Building Green: A Complete How-To Guide to Alternative)

Building Green, New Edition: A Complete How-To Guide to Alternative Building Methods Earth Plaster * Straw Bale * Cordwood * Cob * Living Roofs (Building Green: A Complete How-To Guide to Alternative) Review

The best-selling and highly regarded reference to sustainable construction gets an update! It’s refreshed with a completely revised introduction, a bright new cover, and extensive online resource tie-ins. Plus, it’s now printed on recycled paper with agri-based inks, so it’s greener than ever!

This groundbreaking book doesn’t just tell you about “green” house-building techniques: it actually shows you, with more than 1,200 step-by-step photographs that follow the actual erection of an alternative building from site selection to final-touch interior details. Readers will get a clear sense of the real world challenges as Snell and Callahan create a lovely country cottage using four methods: straw bale, cob, cordwood, and modified stick-frame.

Along with sidebars throughout, there’s a thorough discussion of the fundamentals of building construction, alternative approaches, and designing a beautiful yet environmentally responsible home. Building Green was the first book of its kind—and it remains heads and shoulders above other titles in this field.  

 

Profit from Building Green: Award Winning Tips to Build Energy Efficient Homes

Profit from Building Green: Award Winning Tips to Build Energy Efficient Homes Review

Develop an effective green home building business with the NAHB Research Center's resident expert, Jeannie Leggett Sikora. She has combed through hundreds of annual contest entries and talked to past award winners to develop specific examples and tried-and-true techniques to give home builders the inside track to create successful green building practices, for choosing products to marketing energy efficient homes.

Building Green: A Complete How-To Guide to Alternative Building Methods Earth Plaster * Straw Bale * Cordwood * Cob * Living Roofs

Building Green: A Complete How-To Guide to Alternative Building Methods Earth Plaster * Straw Bale * Cordwood * Cob * Living Roofs Review

Clarke Snell and Timothy L. Callahan, whose popular Good House Book helped environmentally-minded readers create an earth-friendly home, have returned with a photo-packed, amazingly complete, start-to-finish guide to "green" housebuilding.

This absolutely groundbreaking manual doesn't just talk about eco-friendly building techniques, but actually shows every step! More than 1,200 close-up photographs, along with in-depth descriptions, follow the real construction of an alternative house from site selection to the addition of final-touch interior details. Co-authors Clarke Snell and Timothy Callahan (a professional builder and contractor) provide thorough discussions of the fundamental concepts of construction, substitutes for conventional approaches, and planning a home that's not only comfortable and beautiful, but environmentally responsible. Then, they roll up their sleeves and get to work assembling a guest house that incorporates four different alternative building methods: straw bale, cob, cordwood, and modified stick frame. The images show every move: how the site is cleared, the basic structure put together, the cob wall sculpted, the bales and cordwood stacked, a living roof created, and more. Most important, the manual conveys real-world challenges and processes, and offers dozens of sidebars with invaluable advice. It's head and shoulders above all others in the field.

It's Easy Being Green: A Handbook for Earth-Friendly Living

It's Easy Being Green: A Handbook for Earth-Friendly Living Review

Surveys find that over 80 percent of Americans agree with the goals of the environmental movement. Sadly, most Americans admit to doing little more than basic recycling when it comes to acting on that disposition. What is the reason for this great divide between environmental sentiment in this country and individual actions? Author and environmental consultant Crissy Trask seeks to answer this question-and solve the disparity-with a new book that makes it easy to be an environmentalist, no matter how busy or hectic your lifestyle. This is a day to day guide with simple, practical suggestions that anyone can put into action, like:
Install rain gutters and rain barrels to collect rainwater from your roof to use in the garden.
Shift appliance use to off-peak hours. Some utility companies offer off-peak rates, so you'll save money!
How to make effective household cleaners instead of relying on toxic commercial products.
Submerge a plastic bottle in your toilet tank to save one quart of water per flush and thousands of gallons a year.
This is what the busy person needs to start making changes today. Get informative, comprehensive and practical information for adopting greener buying habits and identifying earth-friendly products; shopping for green products online; participating in online activism; and learning from tips for cultivating a sustainable environment.

The Queen of Green Tells All; or How to Go Green, Use Energy Wisely, Save Money, Be Happy, Live an Exciting Life, Help America and Avoid Calamity

The Queen of Green Tells All; or How to Go Green, Use Energy Wisely, Save Money, Be Happy, Live an Exciting Life, Help America and Avoid Calamity Review

Let's go Green! Now what? Why is all this green/ alternative energy stuff so confusing? Maybe there are too many engineers involved and not enough members of royalty. We're glad there are so many brilliant engineers in the world, but wouldn't it be nice to have things explained in regular speak so we could all understand? The Queen of Green is here to Tell All! Read the book and find out what power source we have in abundance in the US but rarely use, which kills more birds cats or wind turbines, what's the difference between PV and solar thermal, and how you might be able to heat your home with... olive pits? Yes! see page 43.

Borrowing power: financing energy efficiency through "green" mortgages.(Money Matters): An article from: E

Borrowing power: financing energy efficiency through "green" mortgages.(Money Matters): An article from: E Review

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Title: Borrowing power: financing energy efficiency through "green" mortgages.(Money Matters)
Author: Roddy Scheer
Publication:E (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 1, 2005
Publisher: Earth Action Network, Inc.
Volume: 16 Issue: 3 Page: 46(2)

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Living Green: The Missing Manual

Living Green: The Missing Manual Review

Taking care of the earth is more important than ever, but the problems we're facing can seem overwhelming. Living Green: The Missing Manual helps make earth-friendly decisions more manageable by narrowing them down to a few simple choices. This all-in-one resource is packed with practical advice on ways you can help the environment by making simple changes in your home routine, work habits, and the way you shop and get around town. You don't have to embark on a radical new lifestyle to make a difference. Living Green: The Missing Manual shows you how small changes can have a big impact.With this book, you will:Learn how to make your home energy efficient and free of toxic chemicalsDiscover how to reduce waste, repurpose and recycle, and do more with lessBuild and remodel earth-friendly homes with new techniques and materialsLearn tips for buying organic food and what it takes to grow your ownGet helpful information on fuel-efficient cars, including hybrid and electric modelsMake your workplace greener and more cost-effective -- from changes at your desk to suggestions for company-wide policiesExplore how to choose renewable energies, such as wind and solar powerThe book also provides you with ways to connect with like-minded people and offers a survey of exciting new green technologies. Learn how you can help the planet with Living Green: The Missing Manual.

Living Green: A Practical Guide to Simple Sustainability

Living Green: A Practical Guide to Simple Sustainability Review

Over 85% of Americans today express concern about health and
the environment, but only a small fraction say they know where to begin.
Whether you are concerned about climate change, personal health, or just
want to live more lightly on the planet, this book is for you. It helps you
get past the worry and take positive action to improve both your health and
the health of our environment.

Based on a lifetime of research and practice, this practical guide for
living green offers advice and solutions you can easily put into practice,
like:

*The 10 foods you should always eat organic to avoid pesticides,
herbicides, hormones and antibiotics.
*Affordable and practical ways to offset your "carbon footprint" and
neutralize your personal impact on global warming.
*The most chemically-intensive personal care, household cleaning and lawn
care products, and their effective natural alternatives.
*How soft plastic water bottles hurt your health, your pocket book and our
environment, with a simple and refreshing alternative.
*How a simple carbon filter can dramatically improve your everyday health
and potentially add years to your life.
*The truth about hybrids and flex fuels.
*Why an organic mattress is the most important health investment you can
make.
Foreword by Jordan Rubin, New York Times best-selling author of The Maker's
Diet.

Practically Green: Your Guide to Ecofriendly Decision-Making

Practically Green: Your Guide to Ecofriendly Decision-Making Review

Practically Green takes the guesswork out of reading labels and will show you how to make smart, healthy purchases for your family without spending tedious hours researching the pros and cons of all of the products available on the market today. Each chapter is broken down into "Buy It" and "Do It" sections. The "Buy-It" section provides key information about everyday purchasing decisions and includes clip-out checklists for you to reference while shopping. The "Do It" section gives DIY ideas for how to make things that are good for your family and good for the environment, such as simple sewing projects, non-toxic cleaning products and luxurious, homemade beauty products. Plus, the author shares some of her favorite recipes that are sure to please the entire family!

Ready, Set, Green: Eight Weeks to Modern Eco-Living

Ready, Set, Green: Eight Weeks to Modern Eco-Living Review

The time to save the planet is now.

Ready? Set? Green! Living green means reversing climate change, but it also means protecting your kids and pets, improving your own health, and saving money. And it doesn’t necessarily demand a radical overhaul of your life–just some simple adjustments, such as switching to healthier cleaning products and driving fewer miles each week.

Written by the visionaries at Treehugger.com, the most heavily trafficked site of its kind, Ready, Set, Green is the definitive (and recyclable) guide to modern green living. It offers solutions to make your home, office, car, and vacation more eco-friendly. For example:

• Using a dishwasher instead of hand washing will save you 5,000 gallons of water annually.
• Eating less beef will save you 250 pounds of CO2 per year.
• Washing your clothes in cold water instead of hot will save 200 pounds of CO2 annually.
• Replacing three of your home’s most frequently used lightbulbs with compact fluorescent bulbs will save 300 pounds of CO2 every year.

Including advice on how to properly insulate your house, cancel junk mail, and choose fruits and veggies wisely, Ready, Set, Green will help youchange the future of the planet and restore balance to your daily life.

Cheap and Easy! Dishwasher Repair: Written Especially for Do-It-Yourselfers, Trade Schools, and Other "Green" Technicians!

Cheap and Easy! Dishwasher Repair: Written Especially for Do-It-Yourselfers, Trade Schools, and Other "Green" Technicians! Review

How YOU can fix the most common problems with the most common dishwashers. Including: Whirlpool/Kenmore, GE/Hotpoint/JC Penney, Maytag, Frigidaire, Norge, Gibson, Kelvinator, Montgomery Ward/Signature, Westinghouse, Thermadore/Waste King AND MANY MORE! Written ESPECIALLY for Do-It-Yourselfers, trade schools, and other "green" technicians!