Green Living For Dummies by Yvonne Jeffery (PDF)

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Want to do your part to reduce energy consumption, waste, and pollution; clean up the environment, and save the planet? Green Living For Dummies is packed with practical suggestions you can follow to make your lifestyle greener by doing as little damage as possible to the planet and the animal and plant life that depend on it. This practical guide delivers an array of realistic practices and changes you can undertake to help the environment and create a better home for yourself and your loved ones. You’ll discover easy and innovative ways to make a difference by reducing energy use and waste, scaling back reliance on your car, and even making minor adjustments to your diet. You’ll also find how to live green at work and in your community, and you’ll develop a deeper understanding of how these changes benefit both the environment and your own health and well-being! Discover how to:Go green graduallyMake eco-friendly home improvementsWork greener transportation into your lifestyleSave money by going greenEat locally and organicallyRaise your children’s environmental awarenessReduce waste by repairing, restoring, and reusingBecome a green consumerInvest in green companies for fun and profitComplete with handy lists of things you can do to make a difference right away and down the road Green Living For Dummies is the resource you need to start taking steps toward shrinking your footprint.

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Editorial Reviews: Review “Green lifestyle advice for the eco-aware.” (Ethical Corporation Magazine, March 2007) “Essential reading” (Mature Times, Tuesday 16th May) From the Back Cover Features strategies to apply green principles in your daily lifeMinimize your impact on the world and enjoy a green lifestyleWant to join the worldwide environmental initiative? This practical guide is packed with realistic ways to help the environment and create a better home for you and your loved ones, from reducing energy use and waste and scaling back reliance on your car to making a difference in your diet, at work, and in your community. You’ll see how green living affects the environment — and why going green is great for your well-being!Discover how to:Make eco-friendly home improvementsWork greener transportation into your lifestyleEat locally and organicallyRaise green kidsRepair, restore, and reuseBecome a green consumer and investor About the Author Yvonne Jeffery is an author, editor, and award-winning feature writer with 15 years experience writing home and lifestyle stories, many of them focused on sustainable living. She credits the six months that she spent in Cambodia prior to that country’s democratic elections in 1993 with giving her a sense of how the world and its people are interconnected — and how small steps eventually can make a difference. Yvonne’s work has appeared in newspapers, magazines, and books around the world. Her credits include National Geographic Traveler, American Profile, The Sunday Telegraph (UK), and CanWest newspapers. She’s also a weekly columnist for the Calgary Herald newspaper. Liz Barclay has worked as an adviser, trainer, and manager with the Citizens Advice Bureau, a nonprofit organization in the United Kingdom that provides free, impartial advice to help individuals resolve legal, financial, consumer, and other problems. She still advises small businesses and sole proprietors on relationship management with staff and customers. Liz is well connected within the media; she hosts You and Yours, a BBC radio program, and has worked on a wide range of business and finance programs for the BBC, both on TV and radio. Liz has written for the News Of The World, The Express, Moneywise, Family Circle, Save Money, and the Mail On Sunday personal finance magazine and has also written UK Law and Your Rights For Dummies and Small Business Employment Law For Dummies.Michael Grosvenor is a leading urban planning professional and freelance writer on sustainability. Through his work and writing, Michael promotes the benefits of making sustainable lifestyle choices. Michael has particular expertise in transportation and advises the private sector and government on policies that promote increased public transportation, walking, and cycling facilities. Michael is a strong advocate for the important role that public transportation plays in cities and towns. Michael is the director of his own consulting firm and holds Masters degrees in Urban Affairs and Applied Social Research and a Degree in Town Planning. He’s also a member of the Planning Institute of Australia and provides advice to the Institute on integrated land use and transportation planning issues. Michael has lived and studied in New York City but currently enjoys an inner-city lifestyle in Sydney, Australia. Read more

Reviews from Amazon users which were colected at the time this book was published on the website:

⭐This book gives so much information on tips for living greener. From saving on your utility bills, using the latest CFL bulbs, sustaining a small green garden, to shopping greener, just about anything you can think of this book gets into. The main savings, money wise and green wise are simple, for the most part no cost things all of us can do to make our planet cleaner, and greener. If you want to help your children live a greener lifestyle, it goes into a chapter about raising “greener” children, and teaching them how to conserve energy, help in the gardens, help with recycling, and much more. It also has a chapter about “greening your finances, from how to decide on a “greener checking account”, doing bill pay online, rather than have paper statements and bills, to conserving water, electricity, and gas. Most as I said are things you can start immediately, without any cost to do them. I highly recommend this book for an individual or family that want to learn ways they can conserve, recycle, reuse, saving our planet, reducing greenhouse gases, and save money doing it all.

⭐Great!

⭐A must for parents and grandparents , who want to leave a clean living place for their children and grandbabys . I try to live green , but even I, have learned much more I can do to help planet earth,. Written in an easy to read format ,;; reccomended. From growing your own vegetables ,to renewable energy sources.

⭐This book covers a vast amount of information in the typical Dummy fashion. If you know nothing about living a green lifestyle, Green Living for Dummies will teach you the basics and lots more. Because of the breadth of this book, virtually everyone will learn from it.The book begins like most green living books do, with an overview of the importance of being green for our deeply troubled Earth.However, unlike most eco-friendly books I’ve read, this one covers the gamut:Green at Home: includes a section on detecting and banishing health hazards like asbestos and lead.Basics on green remodeling and building and on green cleaning.Chapter on garbage. This was great, as part of the problem is the proper disposal of unwanted stuff. Includes how and what to recycle, including what to do with the problematic computers and cell phones.Chapter on growing your own food.The chapter on how to purchase the best green and ethical food was excellent.Subsequent chapters included green clothing, ethical investments, donations and banking.Transportation, green travel…Even working in a green environment was covered.Like I said, a green soup to nuts books. Lots of good, current information. Highly recommended.Author of award winning book,

⭐Some ‘For dummies’ books can be very hit and miss, but this one is an excellent introduction to Green Living and ecology in everyday life. It looks at a whole host of topics such as, your place in the environment and getting started, how to make changes around the home, how to be a green consumer, going green at school and at work and green travel. It looks at all the facets of these various topics (and more) in great depth and in the ‘dummies’ usual format. Some idea are common sense and others need a change in lifestyle and general habits, but they are all clear and explained thoroughly. Not all of these ideas will be applicable to you, or will be easy to implement, but as a general guide to this very current topic, you can do a lot worse. This is a good overview, with some good ideas and written in a very accessible way. Worth a look.Feel free to check out my blog which can be found on my profile page.

⭐The ridiculousness of this book can be seen by a few quotes from chapter 7: Getting Green in the Yard.”… in addition to chemicals for killing weed and pests, you’re likely to find gas-powered lawn mowers and electric tools. Gasp!”How do you remedy this deplorable situation?”Replace This… [an] electric drill, With This… [a] Drill with rechargeable batteries”What, pray tell, do you use to recharge the batteries?!”Replace This… [an] electric or gas chainsaw With This… Manual pocket chainsaw”Are you serious?! This is a backing tool for cutting up branches for firewood. If you had to do some yard clean-up, a hand saw, for the most part would be more practical. For anything mildly heavy duty, this would not replace a chainsaw by any means.”…sell or give away the electrical and gas-powered tools so that they’re reused.”Shouldn’t you throw them away so they don’t continue to pollute? Or does that just produce more garbage? Well, then why not just keep using your filthy power mower until it gives up the ghost?Just a further comment on recharging batteries with solar panels: The only reason this may be remotely affordable for the average household is because the production of these units is heavily subsidized by the government (which means, of course, our tax dollars). It is very similar to the bio fuel situation where it is absolutely unsustainable without huge tax breaks and government cash. This is simply the way things are folks! I could say more, but if you’re really curious about this book, check it out of the library. Spend your money on authors more deserving of your hard-earned cash.

⭐Some of the advice was simply absurd and without logic. Wanted a practical resource, but this wasn’t it. This is the first Dummies book that I’ve ever been disappointed in. There needs to be a practical green living book, for real people.

⭐Great ideas for how to live a green life by improving aspects of your home

⭐Some ‘For dummies’ books can be very hit and miss, but this one is an excellent introduction to Green Living and ecology in everyday life. It looks at a whole host of topics such as, your place in the environment and getting started, how to make changes around the home, how to be a green consumer, going green at school and at work and green travel. It looks at all the facets of these various topics (and more) in great depth and in the ‘dummies’ usual format. Some idea are common sense and others need a change in lifestyle and general habits, but they are all clear and explained thoroughly. Not all of these ideas will be applicable to you, or will be easy to implement, but as a general guide to this very current topic, you can do a lot worse. This is a good overview, with some good ideas and written in a very accessible way. Worth a look.Feel free to check out my blog which can be found on my profile page.

⭐I purchased loads of these books as gifts to raise awareness of sustainable development projects we were implementing across the business and to get buy-in from the people that were environmental ignorant and wasteful of resources.A good basic book on why you need to be more respectful of limited resources and how to avoid pollution making health hazards and respecting the environment.

⭐our Environmental group says thanks

⭐I like the book but I dislike that it’s American based. Seller was fine.

⭐Thank you

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