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confronting issues of ecology and conservation, I can often feel hopeless that no matter what I do, it's not enough, Or my efforts make little effect at all, This book made me feel that one person can and should do what she can to help save the planet, Not only were there hundreds of ideas on how to make small changes, the impact of those changes was clearly spelled out, Now I now that by skipping the beef in one meal, I savegallons of water, The same kinds of comparisons are made in each and every section of this fabulous book, I have already recommended it to a dozen people! Amazing book on how to save our planet from Global Warming by taking small baby steps, Like Atomic Habits type book for ecofriendly habits,Practical book.

For example ATM receipts are one of the top sources of litter on the Planet, If everyone in USA left their receipt in the machine, it would save a roll of paper more thanbillion feet long enough to circle the equator fifteen times.


This book containschapters withshort paragraphs on how to save our planet from our home to office, Short tips can create huge impact like turn off water while brushing your teeth,

Stop using plastic products use glass or ceramic products, We should use edocuments rather than paper for bank statements, mail letters etc,

This book will open your eyes and many business ideas for futuristic thinkers, Highly Recommended

Together we can do this, Go Green

Dil Nawaz Before I get too far into this review I should make clear that I'm a huge fan of sustainability and conservation, I'm even pursuing a

graduate certificate in Environmental Sustainability right now, This is a good book and I definitely learned some things but I think this is another of those science books that needs to be dusted off every ten years in order to remain relevant with the stats.
The book was honestly good enough that I would have given it a four star rating had they stuck to science and science based research, but they let a reference to homeopathic medicine i.
e. snake oil, voodoo, magic slip into the book and that's an automatic negative one star, It also makes the other more seemingly science fact things that they talk about seem more and more like some crappy Facebook post from a pseudoscience website as a result.
So, there is a lot of good stuff here, but I'm forced to say that you should validate what you take away from the book and make sure that it's accurate before you implement any significant changes to your lifestyle based on all of that.


It's a short read though and you should be able to get through it in a couple days at the most, I'll admit, I skipped the chapter on make up and cosmetics, . . you know, since I'm a dude and all, This book does so little and wastes too much paper recycled or not, It's so disappointing. Its "Simple Steps" are silly and don't offer much useful information, Likewise, the suggestions made in each chapter are almost goofy, For instance, there was a whole paragraph about which type of inflammatory device was best for the environment plastic lighters vs, wood matches vs. paper matches. Also, every single suggestion was concluded with an outlandish ifweallpitchedin statement like I'm making this up, "If we all saved the clippings from our pets' fur, rather than throwing it out, we could use it to make clothes for all the children in Africa.
" It's ridiculous.

At a minimum, what this book needs is:
a major reorganization
actual steps that can help readers green their lives
reallife examples of how greening can save the reader time and/or money and
reallife examples of how other people have greened their lives.


And, for goodness' sake, lose the celebrity endorsements about going green, They're lame and absurd.

I wouldn't recommend this book to anyone,
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This holiday season, I received two books detailing how we can help the environment,

The first one, the New York Times' green book, was a disappointment, The celebrity vignettes are wellintentioned, if at times bizarre William McDonough and Cameron Diaz

Some of the advice in this book isn't very good, Take the following Travel tip:

Seek out locations that aren't overexposed, overcrowded, or in environmenmentally sensitive areas, Overcrowding in already densely populated areas can lead to increased pollution by wastewater, garbage, heating, noise, and traffic emissions,

Unfortunately, the impact of tourism on the environment is more complicated,

As any trail designer will tell you, concentrating visitors in certain areas can actually be good for the environment, because it limits overall damage, Similarly, it hurts the environment less to ride the teacups at "overexposed, overcrowded" Disney World than it does to ride an airboat through the environmentally sensitive Everglades,

But you can also visit the Everglades without particularly hurting the environment, provided you stay on the boardwalks and paved paths, In fact, you might become so enchanted with the amazing bird, alligator, and otter populations that you are moved to reduce your environmental impact upon returning home,

In fact, income from legitimate ecotourism empowers some communities to avoid unsustainably harvesting their natural resources!

We generate pollution everywhere, In a denselypopulated city, the larger shared buildings waste less heat, Destinations are closer together, so we don't have to drive as far, That means less pollution, not more,

The chapter on school advises:

Try using a digital library or the World Wide Web instead of traveling to your local branch to do research.
You'll save time and money, The circulation of books from public libraries is,billion a year, or aboutitems checked out per person, If every American checked out and researched online a single book a year, we would save three hundred million trips to the bookshelves,

These numbers sound fishy to me, but let's assume they're right, Let's further assume that no one ever walks or bikes to the library, which has minimal environmental impact,

I'm all for the Internet, but do we really want to discourage kids from using the library The Internet is a gigantic but profoundly nonauthorive source of information.
Information published in books has to pass a higher threshhold of quality and suitability,

Electronic books are great, but the availability of titles remains limited, And ebook delivery platforms are still pretty expensive,

In order to function as citizens of a participatory democracy, it is imperative that we remain wellinformed, Without resources like libraries we wouldn't be able to cope effectively with the challenges that affect our environment,

Then the chapter on work goes on to give this contradictory advice:

More than two hours of the average office worker's time is used per day sending emails and surfing the Internet.
Internet data servers use as much energy in the United States as is used by all U, S. TVs combined.

And the final fiftyone pages of the book are, you guessed it, references to Internet data servers! Why pulp trees to print web addresses that will already be out of date when the book is published Why not set up a single web site, include the URL at the end of the book, and maintain links to everything from there

Clearly, there is work to be done improving the energy efficiency of Internet server farms.
Instead, the authors of the green book would have us to communicate and read less! Unless we're using the Internet to avoid a trip to the library,

It is unreasonable to expect that we should stop living our lives to help the environment, Ultimately, the whole point of environmentalism is to enrich our lives by securing the wonder of nature for ourselves and our descendants,

The O Livro Verde's saving grace is a page on which Will Ferrell recounts the "limitless joy" that driving his electric car to the hazardous waste facility affords him.
For my money, they should have let Ferrell write the whole book,

I'm glad to say that I really did enjoy Living Like Ed, A Guide to the EcoFriendly Life, by Ed Begley Jr, late of Real Genius fame, Ed is the real deal, His book is full of great information, much of which I had never read anywhere else, .