 The Green Book
By Elizabeth Rogers & Thomas Kostigen
Three Rivers Press
Retail price $12.95
Amazon price: $5.99
Book description:
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:
- 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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This book was very enlightening. Not only did it give you
tips on how to do your part to "save the planet", but it also
explained the many ways we unwittingly pollute the environment
without even realizing it. The chapter on "e-waste" was very eye
opening to me. I never thought of how much waste technology
produced.
What I liked most about The Green Book is that it didn't
give a "dooms day" message like many "green" books do, but gives
practical tips on how you can do your part to make a difference.
I'd like to see every family read this book and start
implementing some of its suggestions that are a good fit for them.
If we all do our part, what a difference it will make!
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