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Terfex.com - The Green Book: The Everyday Guide to Saving the Planet One Simple Step at a Time
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Manufacturer: Three Rivers Press
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 333.72
EAN: 9780307381354
ISBN: 0307381358
Label: Three Rivers Press
Manufacturer: Three Rivers Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 224
Publication Date: 2007-06-19
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
Release Date: 2007-06-19
Studio: Three Rivers Press
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Editorial Reviews:
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Ellen DeGeneres, Robert Redford, Will Ferrell, Jennifer Aniston, Faith Hill, Tim McGraw, Martha Stewart, Tyra Banks, Dale Earnhardt, Jr., Tiki Barber, Owen Wilson, and Justin Timberlake tell you how they make a difference to the environment.
Inside The Green Book, find out how you can too:
- Turn your thermostat a degree lower in the winter; if every home in America did it we'd save enough energy to power all the home is Iowa for one whole year!
- Take a shorter shower; if America subtracted just one minute from their daily showers we'd save twice the amount of freshwater withdrawn from the Great Lakes every day!
- Reuse ribbon and wrapping paper; if two-thirds of Americans each saved an arm's length of ribbon this year, we could tie a bow around the earth!
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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Customer Rating:
Summary: Living Green at its best!
Comment: I would highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to know what they can do to make a difference and try to be greener! I would highly recommend this to everyone!
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Summary: Information most people wouldn't even think of. A must read!
Comment: I purchased this as a gift, but ended up reading to find out what it was about. I couldn't believe the things I read that most people would even think of that could save our environment. It is definitely worth purchasing to knowledge people on what they can do to help save the environment.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Highly Recommended!!!!
Comment: The Green Book: The Everyday Guide to Saving the Planet One Simple Step at a Time
This book is the best book on living green I have ever read. It is easy to understand, breaks down the why and how and is even printed in recycled materials. I think this is a must own in the new green economy!
Customer Rating:
Summary: It was alright
Comment: It wasn't as good as I thought it was going to be. 90% of the stuff in here was common sense or stuff our parents taught us years and years ago. I ended up passing it on to a friend who was talking about buying it herself. Thought I'd save her some cash and maybe save yet another book from going in the trash.
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Summary: Hop on the Green Bandwagon with the Poster Children of Trends: Celebrities!
Comment: This book is decent in the following ways:
--It's mostly a tip book; there are some irrelevant "essays" or blurbs provided by some of today's popular celebrities (like Tyra Banks, Ellen Degeneres) but fortunately, you can skip them
--For the most part, it's an optimistic book. It just offers ideas that make you more aware of the way you're living and ways you can change it. It means well enough
--The Book is printed with 100% postconsumer recycled paper/fiber
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This book is horrible in the following ways:
--In terms of Eco-Living Guides, this book is hands down awful! It's insulting to a reader who really wants to change their way of living (they want you to put down $13 to tell you that when you aren't in the room to shut off your lights to save energy.... Really?!).
--The book is 200 pages but more than a quarter of it is simply references for info like that above... honestly
--This book could've been written in 3 words: Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle. Instead this book beat those three magic words to death by nit picking every aspect of your life (ex. instead of just saying "buy recycled school supplies," each supply has its own tip, "buy recycled paper" "buy recycled binders")
--The tips are regurgitated throughout, for instance the same tip to "reuse your paper clips" is found in the sections for both the office
and school
--While it means well with its tips, it could have been much more helpful. For instance, if they recommend us to buy recycled office supplies, it would've been nice to provide the reader for some places or websited to actually BUY recycled office supplies. Instead, they stayed generic and offer the reader nothing
--Plus, it's so bad that it has to get some celebrity opinions so it could desperately draw an audience.
So overall, this book is terrible. This book was written for people who want in on the "Green" trend and get that warm fuzzy feeling without it really changing their current lifestyle. I would not recommend this book to someone who really wants to make a difference in their life and take the "Green" trend seriously.
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