When is the right time to replace an old refrigerator? Is it okay to knit a sweater with acrylic yarn? Is it more environmentally correct to buy beer in bottles or cans? For the last several years, Bob Schildgen’s popular “Hey Mr. Green” column has tackled real-world questions from real people. Readers trust his answers, which are backed by Sierra Club’s research, but they also enjoy his realism and irreverent humor. This book distills the best of the column into one enormously useful and entertaining resource. It’s organized by subject — household issues, food and drink, transportation, reuse and recycling, and “big picture” environmental questions — making it easy to find answers to common questions. Whether puzzling over the intricacies of product life cycles or taking a reader to task for blasting his air conditioner, Hey Mr. Green is an indispensable, opinionated, and authoritative guide to minding one’s environmental footprint.
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Fun and quirky advice for green living,
This review is from: Hey Mr. Green: Sierra Magazine's Answer Guy Tackles Your Toughest Green Living Questions (Paperback)
I've read Mr. Green's advice column in Sierra Magazine for years, and was eager to get a copy of his book. Just as I expected, it's chock full of answers to questions that have been on my mind for years, "How much paper do you really have to recycle in order to save one tree?" as well as new green quandaries that I'd never even considered "Is it better to buy your beer in bottles or in cans?" The book is written in a friendly, chatty style, answering real letters that readers have written in to Mr. Green over the years, and Mr. Green's quirky humor shines through. Instead of being a preachy book, it tackles tough questions in a light way, and helps give you good realiable ammunition to convince your friends & family to make greener choices (my favorite is when he does the cost benefit analysis of turning off your lights when you leave a room-- over 10 years, you will save over $2,600! If that doesn't convince your relatives & friends to save electricity, I don't know what will!). This would be a good gift for anyone you know who is trying to live a more green lifestyle.
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Just the facts,
This review is from: Hey Mr. Green: Sierra Magazine's Answer Guy Tackles Your Toughest Green Living Questions (Paperback)
One review of "Hey Mr. Green!" is incredibly unfair, as anybody can see by scanning the book's 28 pages of references to sources.
In his terrific book, Schildgen cites hundreds of academic, government, industry, and news publications, while also listing experts in various fields with whom he personally communicated by phone or e-mail, even giving the dates when he got in touch with them. All this clearly involves more than Googling, and since there's not a single reference to Wikipedia, how on Earth can anybody accuse him of relying on it? One wonders if this reviewer ever spent more than a minute or two with this carefully documented volume. By the way, "Hey Mr. Green!" is a great read.
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This review is from: Hey Mr. Green: Sierra Magazine's Answer Guy Tackles Your Toughest Green Living Questions (Paperback)
Good, straight forward tips for greening our lives. Bob Schildgen mixes in some humor and doesn't get preachey.
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When you get home after a hard day at work and a twenty-mile commute, turn on the lights, toss the clothes in the washer, crank up the heat, put a roast in the oven, grab a beer from the refrigerator, flip on the TV, and kick back, probably the last thing you worry about is energy. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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When you get home after a hard day at work and a twenty-mile commute, turn on the lights, toss the clothes in the washer, crank up the heat, put a roast in the oven, grab a beer from the refrigerator, flip on the TV, and kick back, probably the last thing you worry about is energy. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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United States, San Francisco, Sierra Club, New York, Department of Energy, Energy Star, World War Browse Sample Pages:
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