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The Green Book: The Everyday Guide to Saving the Planet One Simple Step at a Time
 
 
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The Green Book: The Everyday Guide to Saving the Planet One Simple Step at a Time [Paperback]

Elizabeth Rogers (Author), Thomas M. Kostigen (Author), Cameron Diaz (Foreword), William McDonough (Foreword)
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June 19, 2007
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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Environmental matters get the star treatment in The Green Book. Rogers and Kostigen address the fact that Americans endanger the balance of the ecosystem by the amount of waste we produce, the amount of water we use, and the amount of energy we consume, and celebrities, including Robert Redford, Ellen DeGeneres, Jennifer Aniston, Faith Hill, and Dale Earnhardt Jr., contribute observations and suggestions for living green. In the hope that the glamour of the A-list will make discussion of environmental challenges more palpable, Rogers and Kostigen establish 12 aspects of our habitat, such as home, work, and school, and suggest better lifestyle choices in each arena. Small adjustments in the way we consume and dispose of resources add up to significant and positive environmental effects. Illustrating the results of green actions with descriptive rather than numerical analyses, Rogers and Kostigen write, for example, that if everyone in the U.S. used one less paper napkin per day, in a year's time we would have saved one billion pounds of landfill waste. An outstanding resource, The Green Book offers hope and practical suggestions. Crossland, Pamela

Product Details

  • Paperback: 201 pages
  • Publisher: Three Rivers Press (June 19, 2007)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0307381358
  • ISBN-13: 978-0307381354
  • Product Dimensions: 5.1 x 0.5 x 8 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (67 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #85,674 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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97 of 110 people found the following review helpful
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"The Green Book" is not so much a cohesive manuel on how to save the planet as much as a collection of little paragraphs highlighting insignificant things which would have minimal positive impact on the Earth. While there are paragraphs on insulating your home and sustainable forest products most of the book focuses on such things as consuming fewer staples, buying unwrapped candy (wrappers are difficult to recycle) and using non-petroluem based lipstick. (After reading that section I had visions of a woman driving her Denali across town to Whole Foods to buy all new make-up.)
The book is also riddled with factual errors. For example, in the section on phone books the authors stated that "Telephone books make up almost 10 percent of waste at dump sites." A visitor to the dump would be hard pressed to find a single phone book amongst the thousands of tons of asphalt shingles, old carpet, construction debris and other household waste that really fill the nation's dumps.
Although somewhat dated a much better book on this subject is "The Consumer's Guide to Effective Environmental Choices: Practical Advice from the Union of Concerned Scientists." It details which consumer activities are the most harmful and least harmful and what everyday people can do to lessen their footprint on the environment. While it does not have cute little vignettes by Jennifer Aniston or Justin Timberlake it is written by real scientists who have provide a thought provoking analysis of environmental issues.
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59 of 67 people found the following review helpful
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This is great execution of a fantastic idea. It's non preachy and illustrates the million little things we can do to be greener without any real inconvenience. While it is a practical / how-to kind of a book, it also supports it's suggestions with statistics that are reminiscent of Freakonomics (or an even better book called Naked Economics by Charles Wheelan). Who would have known that if all vinyl floors were made of linoleum instead, we would have saved 600,000 barrels of oil?

There are 50 pages of web-site references, indexed by product and a well executed index for quick reference. The topics are broken down into bite sized pieces and the book just begs to be picked up again and again.

Even the celebrity comments are interesting and well written. Jennifer Aniston doesn't display an ounce of sanctimony when she points out that all we have to do is think about our consumption, and new, greener habits will develop. "If we all begin to learn from one another and sharesome of the things we do, we might just be able to affect the world for the better though these little rituals. In a curious way, this would be a great wave of awareness; doing the right thing without being told to or without having to think why."
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26 of 29 people found the following review helpful
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Can't afford a hybrid car? Don't have the funds to convert your house into a fully self-sustainable dwelling? Unfortunately, most of us can't help the environment as well as Bill Gates or Al Gore can. However, this book gives us the good news that we can all do our parts every day much more efficiently in little ways. Celebrities impart advice and tips are given to help you and me to make our lives a little greener. I highly recommend this book for anyone who wants to help save the world on a low budget!

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Most Recent Customer Reviews
Every action counts
I disagree with people who say the small green gestures do not matter. Being environmentally conscious is not just acting one way or making one action. Read more
Published 22 days ago by Michel Tourville
Just What I Needed
This book gives you tips and other information that helps with earth, one step at a time. It does not interfere with daily life and is actually kind of fun to read. Read more
Published 8 months ago by Charlie T.
A Waste Of Paper
Totally trite. Why have these people wasted the paper and their time to make this book? A much better book on choices you can make to help the environment: The Consumer's Guide to... Read more
Published 13 months ago by CecilWhite
It's Not that Hard to Make a Difference
"The Green Book" is full of practical advice on how to cut the world's waste a little at a time. It's not a lot of lists of things that are impractical or difficult to incorporate... Read more
Published 13 months ago by Ty Hyderally
Good ideas but....
Overall this is a good book. We should all be so moved to become a more sustainable society. Yet this book is half focused on what celebrities are doing to support the green... Read more
Published 16 months ago by ecogirl87
Great book! An easy read!
Great book with really easy ways to be green. The book also points out how conventional ways are not the best for the planet and gives "greener" alternatives. Read more
Published 19 months ago by CinemaParadiso
Great for the green beginner
While it's not exactly a perfect how-to guide, it's a great way to start thinking green. I have been interested in doing my part to reduce my footprint on the planet but didn't... Read more
Published 23 months ago by Jai
THE AUTHORS NEED TO STUDY MORE
i have three problems with this book.

first: it continuously misuses the word "biodegradable. Read more
Published 24 months ago by R. Tom
Great idea, basic info...
I've read a lot of the books in this genre and I must say, I was pretty underwhelmed by this one.

It lends itself to skimming, the general layout is ok, and if you value... Read more
Published on February 6, 2010 by Jeremy Moore
Leveraging celebrity and the "little things" to make a difference
This book sets no grand plans, nor will ever inspire anyone to do wonderful things to protect the Earth. Read more
Published on October 21, 2009 by Jason Stokes
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