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Ecoholic: Your Guide to the Most Environmentally Friendly Information, Products and Services in Canada

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Want to help save the planet one simple step at a time? Adria Vasil's highly entertaining and informative ECOHOLIC will supply all the advice and tips you could possibly need. Her informal and often humorous approach to some pretty grim facts about the amount of toxins we're wearing, inhaling, and decorating our homes with (and this is only a fraction of the big picture) is enough to make one want to stay in bed, except that most bedding is chemically saturated. Adria demonstrates how everything we buy, consume, and excrete, effects our planet's increasingly fragile ecosystem. But she also offers hope and practical solutions to coping with our toxic environment.

Although I've been recycling for years and shop as little as possible, I'm not a staunch environmentalist. Yet, this book made me realize there's many more eco-friendly things I can do. While plenty of information is given, Adria also provides many useful websites for further information, though how many of these websites will be around three years from now is anyone's guess. Still, given the growing concern for our planet, there will always good information somewhere on the Net. Do yourself and your children a huge favour. Buy the book, try some of those tips, and help make this planet a little better.

I love this book! I often refer to it as my go-to resource guide full of amazing resources and ideas on what to do to go green. I love that it's for the Canadian market too.
Tracy Lydiatt - The Green Families Guru
Author: Your Green Family Blueprint

At first glance this book appears to be fairly good. In all fairness much of the information in the book is sound. But page 142 recommends homeopathy and chiropracty for your pets and magical thinking and pseudo science is no way to save the environment.

Yes, I am addicted to the planet. So this January I purged books that were of no use to me. What a waste of money and storage space! This time, I borrowed Adria Vasil's guide book from my local public library. I decided that I was not going to invest in yet another book unless I knew for sure that it would be a blessing in my life. It is a book for people who want to do somehting to lighten their impact on the planet. It's about taking baby steps of change in order to build a more positive way
of doing everyday life on this earth. It has been a tremendous blessing in my life. It is the book I keep coming back to in my home to read up on everything from beauty purchases, to pharmaceuticals, to diapers, to travel, to pesticides, to homemaking. Anything in your home is in here. It would make a great housewarming gift or baby shower gift. Practical, helpful and user friendly advice. Ideas that I never thought of that make life simpler, easier and more sustainable to the environment. I love this book.

I read stipettes from our local Canadian newspaper and I love what this author has to say. I would like to buy a dozen copies to give as gifts, but not at the $29.99 price. Will this be available in paperback soon at a lesser price$. Thanks in advance for your reply
Sara at mthrtrkr@eastlink.ca