It's Easy Being Green: A Handbook for Earth-Friendly Living

Trask, Crissy

ISBN 10: 158685772X ISBN 13: 9781586857721

Verlag: Gibbs M. Smith Inc, 2006

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Provides a comprehensive guide to adopting greener buying habits and identifying earth-friendly products, shopping for green products online, participating in online activism, and learning tips for cultivating a sustainable environment, such as collecting rainwater from your roof to use in the garden, submerging a plastic bottle in your toilet tank to save one quart of water per flush, and more. Original.

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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:
Install rain gutters and rain barrels to collect rainwater from your roof to use in the garden.
Shift appliance use to off-peak hours. Some utility companies offer off-peak rates!
Make your own household cleaners instead of relying on toxic commercial products.
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!

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• Verlag: Gibbs M. Smith Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• ISBN 10: 158685772X
• ISBN 13: 9781586857721
• Einband: Rústica
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 168