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Books about how you can help the environment
"I find television to be very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go in the other room and read a book."
Groucho Marx
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Green Made Easy: The Everyday Guide for Transitioning to a Green Lifestyle In Green Made Easy, author and green pioneer Chris Prelitz shares how to be both environmental and economical at the same time. For over 20 years, Chris has been helping businesses, home owners, and corporations lower their monthly expenses by going green. Chris and his wife, Becky, share a green solar-powered home in Laguna Beach, California, which Chris designed and built. Most months they produce more power than they use and receive a credit from their power company instead of a bill! Click here to purchase this book online |
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True Green: 100 Everyday Ways you Can Contribute to a Healthier Planet by Kim McKay & Jenny Bonnin Global warming, greenhouse gases, climate change Often the magnitude of the environmental challenges we face can leave us feeling powerless - but we're not. In True Green, Kim McKay and Jenny Bonnin - who helped create Clean Up Australia - suggest 100 small ways in which you can make a big difference, at home, in the garden, at work or in your community. Click here to purchase this book online |
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True Green at Work: 100 Ways You Can Make the Environment Your Business by Kim McKay, Jenny Bonnin and Tim Wallace True Green @ Work features 100 simple, practical and effective tips that you can implement in the workplace with very little effort - yet the impact these behavioural changes will ultimately have on our environment is enormous. In addition to the 100 tips, the book also features 10 informative case studies that provide practical advice on the challenges and solutions each company faced in their efforts to reduce their environmental footprints. Click here to purchase this book online |
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Greeniology by Tanya Ha Heaped with helpful tips and pointers for how to look after the blue planet this comprehensive guide gives advice for home, work and play. Reduce the impact of your habits on the world around you, cut petrol costs and make your home more comfortable year round while cutting your energy bill. Advice on this and more can be found within the pages of the book that is an extension of Ghandi's words, "Be the change you want to see in the world". Click here to purchase this book online |
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A Lighter Footprint by Angela Crocombe A Lighter Footprint is a practical handbook for everyone to use. It contains hundreds of simple, practical, day-to-day suggestions that will help you to reduce your footprint. By following just a few suggestions in the book, you can reduce your own emissions and your family's emissions by well over 70 per cent in just a few months, or possibly even a few days. Click here to purchase this book online |
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The Little Green Guide by Mark Mann The Little Green Guide is a great pocket guide to going gree, identifying some key steps that will make the most difference for the least cost and effort, and cutting it all into context. If you want to help save the planet but aren't quite sure how, then start here. Click here to purchase this book online |
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How to Live a Low-Carbon Lifestyle - The Individual's Guide to Stopping Climate Change by Chris Godall How to Live a Low Carbon Life provides a comprehensive, one-stop reference guide to calculating individual carbon emissions and it lays out clear plans for how individuals can reduce their emissions. Covering all aspects of modern life from transport to home heating to where our food comes from to the vexing issue of holiday travel, the book provides easy-to-use tables for conducting a personal lifestyle 'carbon audit'. Click here to purchase this book online |
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Cradle to Cradle - Remaking the Way We Make Things by William McDonough & 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. Click here to purchase this book online |
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Warm House, Cool House - Inspirational Designs for Low-Energy Housing by Nick Hollo Esteemed architect Nick Hollo provides a simple explanation of the principles of low-energy housing design. Whether you are planning to renovate, build or buy, this book will offer you inspiration and ideas on how to make any house anywhere an environmentally sustainable, comfortable and attractive place to live in all year round, while keeping electricity, gas and water bills comfortably low. Click here to purchase this book online |
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A Crude Awakening - The Oil Crash A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash explores key historical events, data and predictions regarding the global peak in petroleum production through interviews with petroleum geologists, former OPEC officials, energy analysts, politicians, and political analysts. The film contains contemporary footage interspersed with news and commercial footage from the growth heyday of petroleum production. The documentary focuses on information and testimony that supports the projection of a near-term oil production peak. Click here to purchase this book online |
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The Transition Handbook: Creating local sustainable communities beyond oil dependency by Rob Hopkins Around the world, societies are facing the prospect of a future with dwindling oil reserves, an unstable climate and unpredictable food production. What are the ways we might move away from our dependency on oil, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and still enjoy a good quality of life? Click here to purchase this book online |
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