Green Living For Dummies (For Dummies (Home & Garden)) [Bargain Price] [Paperback]

Yvonne Jeffery (Author), Liz Barclay (Author), Michael Grosvenor (Author)

Book Description

Series: For Dummies (Home & Garden) | Publication Date: February 19, 2008

Want to do your part to reduce energy consumption, waste, and pollution; clean up the environment, and save the planet? Green Living For Dummies is packed with practical suggestions you can follow to make your lifestyle greener by doing as little damage as possible to the planet and the animal and plant life that depend on it.

This practical guide delivers an array of realistic practices and changes you can undertake to help the environment and create a better home for yourself and your loved ones. You’ll discover easy and innovative ways to make a difference by reducing energy use and waste, scaling back reliance on your car, and even making minor adjustments to your diet. You’ll also find how to live green at work and in your community, and you’ll develop a deeper understanding of how these changes benefit both the environment and your own health and well-being! Discover how to:

• Go green gradually
• Make eco-friendly home improvements
• Work greener transportation into your lifestyle
• Save money by going green
• Eat locally and organically
• Raise your children’s environmental awareness
• Reduce waste by repairing, restoring, and reusing
• Become a green consumer
• Invest in green companies for fun and profit

Complete with handy lists of things you can do to make a difference right away and down the road Green Living For Dummies is the resource you need to start taking steps toward shrinking your footprint.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Like many of the Dummies guides, this audiobook gives the listener an introductory exploration into how one becomes "greener." From the dinner table or the bathroom to the office, the authors provide practical tips and small changes people can make to decrease their waste and environmental footprint. While at times the reading feels like one long bulleted list, listeners can still cull a decent number of ideas to integrate into their lives. However, the authors falter on providing a cohesive approach or method to greener living and occasionally even contradict themselves (encouraging water conservation and then encouraging people to take showers at work). Brett Barry provides the congenial voice one expects from a good salesman or tour guide, which is a significant feat considering the aforementioned listings. The major problem with an audio like this is it either requires repeated listening or lots of pausing in order to write down useful tips. A quick reference guide along with the audiobook would have been greatly beneficial. A For Dummies paperback.
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Review

"Green lifestyle advice for the eco-aware." (Ethical Corporation Magazine, March 2007)

"Essential reading" (Mature Times, Tuesday 16th May)

 

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Product Details

• Paperback: 384 pages
• Publisher: For Dummies (February 19, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0470227427
• ASIN: B001U3YQAG
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.3 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,811,997 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Soup to Nuts Guide, March 13, 2008

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Norma Lehmeierhartie (New York, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Green Living For Dummies (Paperback)

This book covers a vast amount of information in the typical Dummy fashion. If you know nothing about living a green lifestyle, Green Living for Dummies will teach you the basics and lots more. Because of the breadth of this book, virtually everyone will learn from it.

The book begins like most green living books do, with an overview of the importance of being green for our deeply troubled Earth.

However, unlike most eco-friendly books I've read, this one covers the gamut:

Green at Home: includes a section on detecting and banishing health hazards like asbestos and lead.Basics on green remodeling and building and on green cleaning.

Chapter on garbage. This was great, as part of the problem is the proper disposal of unwanted stuff. Includes how and what to recycle, including what to do with the problematic computers and cell phones.

Chapter on growing your own food.

The chapter on how to purchase the best green and ethical food was excellent.

Subsequent chapters included green clothing, ethical investments, donations and banking.

Transportation, green travel...

Even working in a green environment was covered.

Like I said, a green soup to nuts books. Lots of good, current information. Highly recommended.

Author of award winning book, Harmonious Environment: Beautify, Detoxify and Energize Your Life, Your Home and Your Planet

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Get into Your Own Green Living Plans today, June 17, 2009

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Pamela Steele "ravishingrhia" (Ennis TX) - See all my reviews
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This book gives so much information on tips for living greener. From saving on your utility bills, using the latest CFL bulbs, sustaining a small green garden, to shopping greener, just about anything you can think of this book gets into. The main savings, money wise and green wise are simple, for the most part no cost things all of us can do to make our planet cleaner, and greener. If you want to help your children live a greener lifestyle, it goes into a chapter about raising "greener" children, and teaching them how to conserve energy, help in the gardens, help with recycling, and much more. It also has a chapter about "greening your finances, from how to decide on a "greener checking account", doing bill pay online, rather than have paper statements and bills, to conserving water, electricity, and gas. Most as I said are things you can start immediately, without any cost to do them. I highly recommend this book for an individual or family that want to learn ways they can conserve, recycle, reuse, saving our planet, reducing greenhouse gases, and save money doing it all.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars green living for dummies, September 5, 2008

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Robert A. German (PENN VALLEY CA.) - See all my reviews
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A must for parents and grandparents , who want to leave a clean living place for their children and grandbabys . I try to live green , but even I, have learned much more I can do to help planet earth,. Written in an easy to read format ,;; reccomended. From growing your own vegetables ,to renewable energy sources.