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Surveys find that over 80 percent of Americans agree with the goals of the environmental movement. Sadly, most Americans admit to doing little more than basic recycling when it comes to acting on that disposition. What is the reason for this great divide between environmental sentiment in this country and individual actions? Author and environmental consultant Crissy Trask seeks to answer this question-and solve the disparity-with a new book that makes it easy to be an environmentalist, no matter how busy or hectic your lifestyle. This is a day to day guide with simple, practical suggestions that anyone can put into action, like:
Install rain gutters and rain barrels to collect rainwater from your roof to use in the garden.
Shift appliance use to off-peak hours. Some utility companies offer off-peak rates, so you'll save money!
How to make effective household cleaners instead of relying on toxic commercial products.
Submerge a plastic bottle in your toilet tank to save one quart of water per flush and thousands of gallons a year.
This is what the busy person needs to start making changes today. Get informative, comprehensive and practical information for adopting greener buying habits and identifying earth-friendly products; shopping for green products online; participating in online activism; and learning from tips for cultivating a sustainable environment.

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168 pages
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English
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Gibbs Smith, Publisher
Publication date

January 23, 2006
Reading age

16 years and up
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5.5 x 0.64 x 7.75 inches
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It's Easy Being Green is a handy tool to help you make better choices for the environment. This is what the busy person needs to start making changes today. Get informative, comprehensive and practical information for adopting greener buying habits and identifying earth-friendly products; shopping for green products online; participating in online activism; and learning from over 250 eco-tips for cultivating a sustainable environment.
Take the difficulty and guesswork out of greener living by learning the following:
Install rain gutters and rain barrels to collect rainwater from your roof to use in the garden.
Shift appliance use to off-peak hours. Some utility companies offer off-peak rates!
Make your own household cleaners instead of relying on toxic commercial products.
Submerge a plastic bottle in your toilet tank to save one quart of water per flush and thousands of gallons a year.
This book concurrently presents a plan, tips and an Internet resources list that you can use to follow-through on good intentions. An extensive product labels list is also provided to help interpret how some foods are produced. If you haven't invested in substantially greener behaviors, consumerism and politics because you didn't know how or thought it was difficult, help is here: It's Easy Being Green is a handbook for all those who aspire do more to protect the environment but want it to be simpler. You can make a difference!

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Introduction
Many Americans agree with the goals of the environmental movement. Yet, nearly as many Americans admit to doing little more than recycling when it comes to acting on that disposition. Both the number of people expressing support for environmental protection and their acknowledged lack of more meaningful efforts to back it up got me thinking, "Why is their such a great divide between environmental sentiment in this country and individual actions?" Clues to the answer came from my own inadequacies in the area of meaningful environmental stewardship. I was consumed by a career, my sensibilities weren't tuned to recognize opportunities for improvement, and I was unaware of simple, practical suggestions on which I could follow through. If other people were anything like me, a busy lifestyle, some unknowingness as to their role in the problems and solutions of today and a lack of guidance on what to do and how to do it was rendering many other "eco-minded" people predominantly "un-eco."
Everyone is leading busy lives and is therefore, to some extent, wrestling with how to balance better environmental stewardship with modern pressures and reliances. I became convinced that the way to increase the ranks of practicing environmentalists was to take the difficulty and guesswork out of greener living by adjusting expectations, stressing learning as a motivator and enabler, and above all else, providing constructive tips and resources to prepare the eco-inclined for action on terms they could live with. It made sense that if busy people were going to start doing more, they would need a lot more help.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B001FOR5ZS
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Gibbs Smith, Publisher; 1st edition (January 23, 2006)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 168 pages
Reading age ‏ : ‎ 16 years and up
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 4.8 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.64 x 7.75 inches

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Crissy's journey to becoming a green author and green living specialist started long before green living was as popular and talked-about as it is today. She recalls her early experiences with green living, which included everything from making her own natural cleaning concoctions to riding her bike to work (rain or shine) to eyebrow-raising examples of reuse (that's a whole other story!)--as gratifying, but lonely. Reducing, reusing and recycling back in the 1990s was looked upon as more hippy-dippy-trippy than ecologically imperative. And it was precisely these misconceptions about greener living---as well as complacency about choices and habits that were eroding environmental health---that prompted Crissy to launch GreenMatters.com, a unique website (this was the 90s, remember) that would debunk myths about greener living and would be a resource for busy, modern people looking for information on going green, practical green tips and trustworthy sources for earth-friendly products.

Since starting GreenMatters.com in 1998, Crissy has dedicated herself to helping people learn how to create greener spaces and adopt greener practices. Her first book, It's Easy Being Green: A Handbook for Earth-Friendly Living, was a labor of love that took two years to finish. Taking the title and the "handbook" angle seriously, Crissy created a book that shows how people living busy, complicated lives can do a lot more than just put their blue recycling box out on the curb each week.

Crissy's second book, Go Green, Spend Less, Live Better: The Ultimate Guide to Saving the Planet, Saving Money and Protecting Your Health, details the money-saving side of greener, healthier, simpler living. Crissy wrote this book because, while the message that we need to change the way we live has been out there for some time, voluntary change has increased only slightly since 2000. She knew that encouraging people to engage in more green behaviors would require powerful incentives--like saving money. With this in mind, Go Green, Spend Less, Live Better mobilizes readers to follow through on earth-friendly actions by showing how they can begin reaping economic rewards right away as a result of adopting a greener lifestyle.

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sun_shine8705

Pretty Good

Reviewed in the United States on May 7, 2008

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This book was good. It will help individuals get an idea of things they could be doing to become green or at least green up their lives. I wouldn't suggest this to anyone who wants to know the science behind some of the reasons certain chemical are "bad". This book is good for anyone who doesn't know much about the science. It is very helpful in guiding you to places that will help you to green up your life. I would suggest this as a starter book for those who want to know how to start helping the environment.

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Great Little Starter Guide to "Living Green"

Reviewed in the United States on May 19, 2008

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This little book is an easy and quick read. The best feature is the checklist items at the end, which gives you a lot to think about. It is also a great way to get started on the road to "living green". It has a lot of information and it isn't complicated at all. It actually has some cute drawings and it is so user friendly that my 12 year old niece read it as well. I would definitely recommend it.

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Meera or, usually, Alex

Well, the info is good, but widely available without this book

Reviewed in the United States on November 3, 2006

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If you need to have almost all the ideas for ways YOU can reduce your ecological damage of your lifestyle all in one easy to read place -- or know someone who you think is open to being greener but unaware of all the big and little changes one can fairly easily make, this might be a book for you.

If you've been paying attention to ecological, green, and sustainability issues for years there's not much point in this book. All the info in it is widely available on the 'net and other sources free.

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Jen

quick tips

Reviewed in the United States on October 14, 2009

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the book is good for some quick tips on where to get started with being green. Each tip has 3 empty boxes next to it so you can mark which one's you are working on, which one's you would like to work on and then rank yourself at how well you are doing. pretty useful for a place to start.

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L. Farner

Keeping being green easy for the uninformed

Reviewed in the United States on June 19, 2008

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I like to think I'm a bit more informed than the average American in regards to the environment (I'm Canadian and moved here 4 yrs ago) but I must give kudos to this book and suggest that every household keep one on their kitchen counter or coffee table. I'd like to see a page-a-day calendar like this as well. Easy to use, realistic tips.

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Jess

outdated

Reviewed in the United States on May 21, 2012

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Nothing that I haven't read elsewhere and most web links are no longer active because the book is 4 years old.

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tiffany319

Great Gift

Reviewed in the United States on July 16, 2013

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I bought this as a gift for a friend who is very eco-friendly. She loved it and was happy that it was environmentally friendly.

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Jill Griwatz

excellent beginner resource

Reviewed in the United States on September 22, 2013

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not for the already green - but great intro to living green for those needing a quick inspiration and easy beginning solutions

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Dominik T.

Not written in a way that makes the reader feel that he or she is doing is everything wrong.

Reviewed in Canada on August 4, 2015

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Good book filled with environmentally friendly ideas that is not written in a way that makes the reader feel that he or she is doing is everything wrong.

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