Big Green Purse: Use Your Spending Power to Create a Cleaner, Greener World
By Diane MacEachern
MacEachern argues that the best way to fight the industries that pollute the planet is to mobilize the most powerful consumer force in the world--women. If women intentionally shift their spending money to commodities that have the greatest environmental benefit, they can create a cleaner, greener world.
Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution--And How It Can Renew America
By Thomas L. Friedman Friedman's bestseller "The World Is Flat" has helped millions of readers to see globalization in a new way. Now the author brings a fresh outlook to the crises of destabilizing climate change and rising competition for energy.
The Urban Homestead: Your Guide to Self-Sufficient Living in the Heart of the City
By Kelly Coyne and Erik Knutzen
"The Urban Homestead" is the essential handbook for a fast-growing new movement: urbanites are becoming gardeners and farmers. Rejecting both end-times hand wringing and dewy-eyed faith that technology will save us from ourselves, urban homesteaders choose instead to act. By growing their own food and harnessing natural energy, they are planting seeds for the future of our cities.
The Environmental Equation: 100 Factors That Can Add to or Subtract From Your Total Carbon Footprint
By Alex Shimo and Christopher J Maron
100 Factors That Determine Your Impact on the Earth
Living Like Ed: A Guide to the Eco-Friendly Life
By Ed Begley Jr
Hollywood's it man for all things green offers large and small ways to live a greener, better life. Packed with eco-ideas from standard to quirky to ingenious, this guide also comes with workbook pages to record readers' progress.
Green Chic: Saving the Earth in Style
By Christie Matheson
Welcome to the world of GREEN CHIC. Being green-thoughtfully,
consciously green-makes a real difference in the fight against &
global warming. But did
you know that it's
also hip, classic,
and stylish?
--Look gorgeous
--Love your wardrobe
--Feel amazing
--Travel in style
--Create a home that's an oasis
--Host fun parties
--Eat incredible food and drink phenomenal wine &
--Feel more connected to your friends, family, and nature.
(And did we mention that green women don't get fat?)
Offering up dozens of author-tested,
earth-friendly ideas, lifestyle writer Christie
Matheson reveals that being chic and saving the
planet aren't mutually exclusive. Can living a chic green lifestyle TRULY makes a difference? You bet your organic sheets it can. It's a calmer, more relaxed, more fabulous path that's about quality and quality of life. Embrace the fabulousness of green living. Being green isn't a fad it's timelessly chic.
Living on Two Wheels: The Complete Guide to Buying, Commuting, and Touring
By Dennis L. Coello
This book explains how the average family can live with no car. A bicycle is all you need. Dennis Coello lives that life and he explains how it is done and what you need.
A Leaky Tent Is a Piece of Paradise: 20 Young Writers on Finding a Place in the Natural World
By Bonnie Tsui
This collection features original essays by 20 young and gifted writers. Brimming with insight and humor, these compositions reward readers with new perspectives on personal identity in relation to nature, and on the impact of landscape and place on everyone's lives.
It's Easy Being Green: A Handbook for Earth-Friendly Living
By Crissy Trask
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:
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Install rain gutters and rain barrels to collect rainwater from your roof to use in the garden.
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Shift appliance use to off-peak hours. Some utility companies offer off-peak rates!
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Make your own household cleaners instead of relying on toxic commercial products.
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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!
The Clean Tech Revolution: The Next Big Growth and Investment Opportunity
By Ron Pernick and Clint Wilder
In this groundbreaking and insightful book, the authors show how clean technologies such as hybrid electric cars, solar power, and nanotechnology have opened up opportunities for entrepreneurship, investing, and high-growth careers.
The Natural Step for Communities: How Cities and Towns Can Change to Sustainable Practices
By Sarah James and Torbjrn Lahti
"The Natural Step for Communities" provides inspiring examples of communities that have made dramatic changes toward sustainability and explains how others can emulate their success.
The Newman's Own Organics Guide to a Good Life: Simple Measures That Benefit You and the Place You Live
By Neil Newman
Refreshingly free of high-minded, self-righteous hysterics, "The Newman's Own Organics Guide to a Good Life" encourages people to do what is within reach, allowing them to easily identify what areas of change are viable for them.
The World Without Us
By Alan Weisman
Weisman, an award-winning journalist, offers readers a penetrating--and sometimes terrifying--take on how the planet would respond without the relentless pressure of the human presence.
Your Green Home: A Guide to Planning a Health, Environmentally Friendly New Home
By Alex Wilson and Jon Abrams
Written for homeowners planning a new home, this text answers some of the big-picture questions relating to having a home designed and built that is healthy to live in and causes minimal damage to the environment.
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Green Book Store
Be sure to stop by the book store at the show and pick up many of your favorite sustainable book titles.
The Green Book: The Everyday Guide to Saving the Planet One Simple Step at a Time
By Elizabeth Rogers, Thomas M. Kostigen and Cameron Diaz
For anyone who cares about the health of our planet, this invaluable guide offers hundreds of simple, actionable steps readers can take to help save the Earth.
Water: A Natural History
By Alice Outwater
As a civil engineer, author Alice Outwater learned that although industry has stopped dumping toxins into the sewers, a third of our waterways have failed to rebound. Outwater takes readers on an incredible journey from the diaries of western explorers to the insides of modern wastewater treatment plants and argues that healthier, purer waterways can be created using natural, living systems.
Steve & Me
By Terri Irwin
From the woman who knew Steve Irwin best comes a loving, moving story of their life together, his astonishing legacy, and the man behind the Crocodile Hunter phenomenon. 16-page full-color photo insert.
A Good Life
By Leo Hickman and Sarah Drinkwater
This is a comprehensive guide on how to live ethically, recognizing the power of the consumer and the myriad ethical choices we face each day -- from the food we purchase to our place of employment, choice of entertainment, energy usage, etc.
Bringing Nature Home: How Native Plants Sustain Wildlife in Our Gardens
By Douglas W. Tallamy
As this revelatory book eloquently explains, there is an unbreakable link between native plant species and native wildlife. Indeed, most native insects cannot, or will not, eat alien plants. When native plant species disappear or are replaced by alien exotics, the insects disappear, thus impoverishing the food source of birds and other animals. In many parts of the world, habitat destruction has been so extensive that local wildlife populations are in crisis and may well be headed toward extinction.
Back to Basics: A Complete Guide to Traditional Skills
By Abigail R. Gehring
Anyone who wants to learn basic living skills--and enjoy a healthier, greener, and more self-sufficient lifestyle--need look no further than this eminently useful guide that features hundreds of projects and old-fashioned fun. Full-color and b&w photographs throughout.
Backwoods Ethics: A Guide to Low-Impact Camping and Hiking
By Laura Waterman, Guy Waterman and Bill McKibben
This new series highlights low-traffic scenic roads, both dirt and paved, suitable for riding on both mountain and road bikes.
The Sacred Balance: A Visual Celebration of Our Place in Nature
By David T. Suzuki, Amanda McConnell and Maria DeCambra
A moving collection of over 160 photographs and images that explores the web of life, this is a companion to the bestselling "The Sacred Balance: Rediscovering Our Place in Nature."
Ethical Travel
By Rough Rider
Make the most of your time on earth! Whether you’ re planning the trip of a lifetime, dreaming about going, or have already booked a trip, check out Rough Guides selection of the 25 ultimate ethical travel experiences to see how you can travel the world without harming the earth.
The Revenge of Gaia: Earth's Climate Crisis and the Fate of Humanity
By James Lovelock
The Key Insight of Gaia Theory is that the entire Earth functions as a single living superorganism. But according to James Lovelock, the theory's originator, that organism is now sick.
Green to Gold: How Smart Companies Use Environmental Strategy to Innovate, Create Value, and Build Competitive Advantage
By Daniel C. Esty and Andrew S. Winston
Based on the authors rich experience with forward-thinking companies around the world, "Green to Gold" demonstrates how corporations create value by building environmental thinking into their overall business strategies.
Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
By William McDonough and Michael Braungart
A manifesto for a radically different philosophy and practice of manufacture and environmentalism
"Reduce, reuse, recycle" urge environmentalists; in other words, do more with less in order to minimize damage. As William McDonough and Michael Braungart argue in their provocative, visionary book, however, this approach perpetuates a one-way, "cradle to grave" manufacturing model that dates to the Industrial Revolution and casts off as much as 90 percent of the materials it uses as waste, much of it toxic. Why not challenge the notion that human industry must inevitably damage the natural world, they ask.
In fact, why not take nature itself as our model? A tree produces thousands of blossoms in order to create another tree, yet we do not consider its abundance wasteful but safe, beautiful, and highly effective; hence, "waste equals food" is the first principle the book sets forth. Products might be designed so that, after their useful life, they provide nourishment for something new-either as "biological nutrients" that safely re-enter the environment or as "technical nutrients" that circulate within closed-loop industrial cycles, without being "downcycled" into low-grade uses (as most "recyclables" now are).
Elaborating their principles from experience (re)designing everything from carpeting to corporate campuses, the authors make an exciting and viable case for change.
Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Social Movement in History Is Restoring Grace, Justice, and Beauty to the World
By Paul Hawken
One of the world's most influential environmentalists--the author of "Natural Capitalism"--reveals a worldwide grassroots movement of hope and humanity to defend life on Earth. |
