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| It's Easy Being Green: A Handbook for Earth-Friendly Living |
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 Crissy Trask
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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| The Green Book: The Everyday Guide to Saving the Planet One Simple Step at a Time |
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 Elizabeth Rogers
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. |
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| True Green at Work: 100 Ways You Can Make the Environment Your Business |
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 Kim Mckay
Now, from the authors of the quintessential how-to-go-green guide for individuals and households, this definitive do-it-yourself manual is for the working world–businesses, workers, and day-to-day life at the office. Positive and practical, True Green at Work tells everyone who holds a job, from top executives on down the ladder, how to help minimize their company’s carbon footprint. The book is accessible and actionable, with its signature, crisp design and lively text. Each page contains a single tip for reducing waste, making it easy for anyone in any job to take small steps toward a healthier planet. Suggestions run the gamut, from obvious recycling to innovative strategies that encourage sustainability. |
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| Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature |
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 Janine M. Benyus
Innovations, whether in farming, composite science, or computing, are a product of human creativity. Science writer Benyus (Beastly Behaviors, LJ 9/1/92) uses these subjects and others to demonstrate how nature's solutions to situations have been the creative jumping-off points for individuals seeking solutions, developing, or simply revitalizing processes or products. The first seven chapters are a prelude to the final chapter, which tackles industrial ecology. Here, Benyus proposes "ten lessons" that an ecologically astute company, culture, or economy could practice to promote a healthier existence for us all. There is no grandstanding, just readable language and a simple awe at human creativity and the uses to which it can be put. |
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| Gorgeously Green: 8 Simple Steps to an Earth-Friendly Life |
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 Sophie Uliano
In Gorgeously Green, Sophie offers a simple eight-step program that is an easy and fun way to begin living an earth-friendly life. Find out how to:
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Green your entire beauty regime |
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Detoxify your home |
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Indulge in guilt-free shopping |
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Adopt a home fitness routine |
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Prepare eco-licious treats |
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Give your kitchen a green makeover |
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Become more aware of your impact on the earth |
The book's dozens and dozens of eco-friendly tips, products, and practices combine to form a treasure trove of practical advice for every possible way to become stylishly green. Your questions about dressing, makeup, eating, shopping, cleaning, travel, and more are all answered right here. Adopting a green lifestyle is among the most positive, forward-thinking, and personally fulfilling choices that anyone can make--and Gorgeously Green shows that it doesn't have to be tedious, time-consuming, or glamourless! |
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| The Green Baron: A Business Parable on Ecolution |
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 Richard R. Young
Baron, the CEO of a manufacturing firm, never thought of himself as an environmentalist, but rather a captain of industry. This story is a parable of how a business leader transforms his thinking about the natural environment, works to radically change the thinking of everyone in his organization, and increases profitability in the process.
A couple of events that hit close to home are the catalysts that cause Baron to look at his own actions through a different lens. It is his through this new lens that his disappointment at why things are no longer the way that he remembered them grows; coupled with his chagrin over the pervasive belief of his management team that short-term gains trump long-term benefits.
He asks "Why can't others see what I'm seeing?" Soon the reader joins Baron on a journey through the organization, meeting key managers, hearing how they conduct their areas of the business; ultimately witnessing their paradigm shifts that occur as a result of the green journey.
Baron, the CEO (aka The Green Baron), is a visionary in many ways but perhaps most compelling is how his story will inspire readers to start their own ecolution. |
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