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Easy Green Living: The Ultimate Guide to Simple, Eco-Friendly Choices for You and Your Home [Bargain Price] [Paperback]

Renée Loux
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Book Description

April 1, 2008

We are what we eat, but we also are what we use to clean our homes, pamper our skin, and decorate our rooms, according to Renée Loux, accomplished raw food chef, award-winning author, and host of Fine Living TV's Easy Being Green. In her new book, Easy Green Living, she applies her whole-foods philosophy to home, garden, and beauty routines.

Renée Loux demonstrates that being green at home is easy, affordable, and better in every sense of the word. She discusses the daily choices we face that can keep the home, personal care, and beauty routines free of toxins. She exposes the dirt on cleaning products and common hazardous ingredients and reveals her recommendations for greener options, including her "Green Thumb Guides" for choosing non-toxic, eco-smart, and human-friendly products. Peppered with compelling and inspiring facts, Easy Green Living is full of "5 Step" lists, products and recipes for green cleaning, helpful charts, safer choices for every room, and inspirational advice so we can save the planet--one cleaning spritz at a time.

As recent special issues of Vanity Fair, Time, Newsweek, and other major publications have demonstrated, going green is an idea whose time has come. Whether addressing big-picture topics like renewable energy, or offering simple suggestions for everyday living, this complete lifestyle guide shows that healthier choices don't mean a radical or complicated life change--it is, after all, easy to be green.


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About the Author

Renée Loux, author of Living Cuisine and the Gourmand Award-winning The Balanced Plate, is a celebrated (and celebrity) raw foods chef. Host of the TV show Easy Being Green,she works as an eco-advisor for companies, spas, and hotels. Renée lives with her husband Shep Gordon in a house run on solar energy in Maui, Hawaii. Visit reneeloux.com.

Product Details

  • Paperback: 416 pages
  • Publisher: Rodale Books; First Edition edition (April 1, 2008)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1594867925
  • ASIN: B001UE71FC
  • Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 7.5 x 1.2 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (53 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #504,664 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.8 out of 5 stars
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4.8 out of 5 stars
Easy Green Living, by Renee Loux is an exhaustive guide to eco-friendly living for the home and person. Norma Lehmeierhartie  |  38 reviewers made a similar statement
The book is well written and an easy read. John Henry  |  14 reviewers made a similar statement
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56 of 56 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Every day I have questions about how to have a healthier household and family--how do I choose sunblock, do my laundry, be a responsible home owner, feed my children, choose a shampoo, a car, carpet, sheets....?? Phew, it is endless. But Renee Loux, in her book Easy Green Living, presents you with all of the information and choices so you can make the most informed decision possible. Nobody wants to expose their children to toxic chemicals or dump toxins into the ocean, for example, but unwittingly, we continuously do. While reading Easy Green Living, instead of inciting a major freak-out (in me!) or sounding didactic, Loux takes a heartfelt, gentle, and passionate approach--encouraging baby steps (and grand leaps, if possible) of change towards a healthy, vitality-filled life.

I have already changed my household cleaning products and rituals. (My children now lovingly wipe the counters with citrus-smelling spray, because they like the smell.) And I am so motivated to change the other things in my life that are possible to change. Loux covers everything from linens and face cream, where to dump old cell phones to retrofitting toilets, safe cookware to curbing waste, deodorant, plastics, and energy efficient appliances.

Easy Green Living truly is an encyclopedia of knowledge, soundly researched (30+ pages of footnotes..Yikes!) that will stay in my kitchen for quick reference, when it's not on my bedside table for devouring before bed.
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58 of 60 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars Pretty basic... June 6, 2009
Format:Paperback
I bought this book because I was looking for recipes for homemade cleaning products. It does have a few of those, but far more pages are devoted to product listings. That would be OK, except the author basically repeats information that is on the manufacturer's website - no actual reviews or opinions are given. A large part of the book seems to be ads for Seventh Generation - I like their stuff too, but I didn't need a book to tell me so. I find I'm spending a lot at the natural foods store on cleaning products, and my attempts to concoct my own from vinegar and lemon juice often come out scary. I really just wanted some advice on cleaning the old-fashioned way, but the author clearly favors buying expensive, pre-made products from suppliers who probably sponsor her.

The book spans a wide range of topics - including beauty products, cleaning products, linens and mattresses, and home improvement. If you are going to make any large-scale eco-friendly investments (on-demand water heater, organic mattress, hybrid car, solar panels) you're going to need to do much more research than what is in this book. If you're just looking for a primer covering a lot of topics and don't mind it when it states the obvious (bring your own bags to the store, recycle your trash) or hawks products, then you might find this book useful.
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35 of 35 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Comprehensive and Well Researched April 1, 2008
Format:Paperback
Easy Green Living, by Renee Loux is an exhaustive guide to eco-friendly living for the home and person. Each chapter reveals the hazardous products to avoid, complete with detailed findings from research. Next, green products to use instead of dangerous ones are described. Finally, each chapter provides resources to find green products.

I like that the introduction included the following, with explanations:
Being green is not black and white
Consider the life cycle of a product
Start small
Green living is a process

The first chapter includes a basic introduction to green living and hazardous materials to avoid.

Chapter two covers the basics of green cleaning; what to avoid, 6 basic ingredients to use for cleaning and recipes and resources for purchasing green cleaning supplies.

Chapter three continues on the cleaning theme, for the kitchen and chapter four covers the bathroom.

Chapter five is about personal care products. In addition to makeup and body cleaning products to avoid and use, Loux presents the hazards of conventional antiperspirants, tampons and hair dye and more and provides
safe alternatives.

Chapter six discusses how to have an eco-friendly laundry.

Chapter seven covers green bedding and chapter 8, lightbulbs.

Chapter nine discusses furnishings and materials, including paint, flooring and carpeting, kitchen and bath counters, cabinets and candles. Of all chapters, this could be more comprehensive--however, as Loux explains in the introduction, understanding the life cycle of products should make it easy to determine how green any product is.

This guidebook will leave few questions about basic green living unanswered, particularly green cleaning.

By the author of the award winning book, Harmonious Environment: Beautify, Detoxify and Energize Your Life, Your Home and Your Planet.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Easy Green Living Book
Good Book. Helpful Information for anyone trying to go green. Has dangers of mainstream products and it gives you alternative resources.
Published 1 day ago by Dee
3.0 out of 5 stars Great ideas.... But really dense reading....
I think Renee Loux is amazing, and I love her show and her cookbook the Balanced Plate, but this book is really dense reading. Read more
Published 15 days ago by S.M.F.
5.0 out of 5 stars Easy Green Living
I really like this book, it has great tips on products to buy as a safer alternative to the mainstream products society and the media tend to force upon us which are often more... Read more
Published 1 month ago by Jacquelynn Hornick
4.0 out of 5 stars Great Book!
I really like this book! It's not one where you sit through and read it in a weekend. I take it chapter by chapter and start making little changes to be more responsible for the... Read more
Published 3 months ago by J. A. Buongiorno
5.0 out of 5 stars Happy I found this...
I have read other books geared toward greening one's lifestyle and appreciated the tone and content of this item. Read more
Published 3 months ago by maryf4
5.0 out of 5 stars excellent book!
This is by far the most comprehensive resource book for people who want to live a sustainable, green life. Read more
Published 6 months ago by Alexis W. Blaess
5.0 out of 5 stars Great book with great ideas.
I found this book to be extremely helpful in finding ways to save money and go green. The instructional tips are easy to follow and the book addresses many issues we are facing... Read more
Published 11 months ago by Tracie T Hummel
5.0 out of 5 stars Best & most helpful book I have read on natural cleaning & toiletries
This book has been a God send to me. I developed severe chemical allergies a couple years ago and was devouring books on clean living, natural cleaners and toiletries from my... Read more
Published 14 months ago by Gidget
5.0 out of 5 stars PERFECT start to the rest of your green life
Thank you Renee for such a wonderful guide to green living. This is one of first books I have read on the subject (which was about 1.5 years ago). Read more
Published 14 months ago by neatnicole
5.0 out of 5 stars Great book
This is a very nice book that gives simple, everyday advice on how to make a few or many changes to better the environment and to put less toxic materials into your body, home,... Read more
Published 16 months ago by Lisa S
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