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Books : The Green Book: The Everyday Guide to Saving the Planet One Simple Step at a TimeIn association with Amazon.com List Price: $12.95 Amazon.com's Price: $10.36 You Save: $2.59 (20%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 333.72 EAN: 9780307381354 ISBN: 0307381358 Label: Three Rivers Press Manufacturer: Three Rivers Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 224 Publication Date: June 19, 2007 Publisher: Three Rivers Press Release Date: June 19, 2007 Studio: Three Rivers Press Sales Rank: 3393 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: Ellen DeGeneres, Robert Redford, Will Ferrell, Jennifer Aniston, Faith Hill, Tim McGraw, Martha Stewart, Tyra Banks, Dale Earnhardt, Jr., Tiki Barber, Owen Wilson, and Justin Timberlake tell you how they make a difference to the environment. Inside The Green Book, find out how you can too: - Don’t ask for ATM receipts. If everyone in the United States refused their receipts, it would save a roll of paper more than two billion feet long, or enough to circle the equator fifteen times! - Turn off the tap while you brush your teeth. You’ll conserve up to five gallons of water per day. Throughout the entire United States, the daily savings could add up to more water than is consumed every day in all of New York City. - Get a voice-mail service for your home phone. If all answering machines in U.S. homes were replaced by voice-mail services, the annual energy savings would total nearly two billion kilowatt hours. The resulting reduction in air pollution would be equivalent to removing 250,000 cars from the road for a year! With wit and authority, authors Elizabeth Rogers and Thomas Kostigen provide hundreds of solutions for all areas of your life, pinpointing the smallest changes that have the biggest impact on the health of our precious planet. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Finally a great, and easy sustainable book to readGreat book for understanding environmental issues and how to address them in a daily perspective. This is a mighty fine way to interpret the kind of footprint we all leave and how to minimize such. Very informative on issues we hardly think about, and yet pose a threat to the environment if not carefully managed. The book is worth every single dollar! Rating: - Good for the environment, bad for your walletGreat premise. Easy to read. Divided into chapters such as health and beauty, home, etc. Great practical tips on how to help the environment. However, some of the tips won't help your wallet. ie. get voicemail instead of an answering machine. Voicemail is about $20 a month so $240/year while an answering machine is $60 one time purchase. Rating: - the green bookThis is a great book for the everyday person trying to do their part is saving the planet. The small things seem so easy, I wondered why I hadn't been doing it all along. Also some unique ideas for around your home. Rating:  - Not bad, resources are most useful partThe green book has been featured on TV shows and is a New York Times bestseller. Written by Elizabeth Rogers and Thomas M. Kostigen, I wondered whether it has anything to do with the celebrity quotes and endorsements from people such as Cameron Diaz, Robert Redford, Jennifer Aniston and Justin Timberlake? Firstly the book is green, not just in colour but also it's printed on 100% recycled paper. Subtitled as `the everyday guide to saving the planet one simple step at a time' the book ... Read More Rating:  - The best advice in this book is to not buy this bookI agree 100% with all the 1-2 star reviews. This book is bogus. There is more clear, practical advice in these reviews than contained in this book. One of my complaints about this book that wasn't covered yet is the erroneous and misleading attempts to use crude oil to help the reader visualize the impact of his or her efforts. For example, the authors suggest that you purchase retreaded tires for your car. They claim that if the demand for retreads ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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