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| The Green Book: The Everyday Guide to Saving the Planet One Simple Step at a Time | 
 enlarge | Authors: Elizabeth Rogers, Thomas M. Kostigen
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
Category: Book
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Pages: 224
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Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 5.1 x 0.6
ISBN: 0307381358
Dewey Decimal Number: 333.72
EAN: 9780307381354
ASIN: 0307381358
Publication Date: June 19, 2007
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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.
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 Rich people lecturing the rest of us could learn from us who are doing it July 7, 2007
54 out of 76 found this review helpful
Various descriptions of the book note that all the celebrities 'tell you how they make a difference to the environment'. Isn't that nice. A bunch of rich folk telling the rest of us what to do when most Americans making middle class wages, are probably doing more to save on energy and other natural resources, out of simple necessity, because we don't have the millions of dollars to waste each year.
Fact is since the first Earth Day in the 70's there have been hundreds of books written on everything from solar energy for your home, using less paper (like for useless books like this), installing flow restrictors on all inside facets, installing a grey water system to make second use of rinse water from washing machines, as well as use mass transit when possible and only buy fuel efficient cars if you need to own a car. As well as how to do square foot gardening to grow at least some of your own food, compost kitchen and yard wastes. Everyone I know has used energy efficient light bulbs for over a decade and they also dust them because a clean bulbs is a brighter and more efficient bulb.
And if you are reading this review you are on a computer which if you use search engines like google.com will provide you with millions, yes millions if sites for FREE that cover every conservation idea under the sun. Or join the yahoo thecompact group or the WasteNothing yahoo group. Or use the Simple Living Network and other internet groups to connect with people, who are actually walking the talk and have been for decades.
Our family has been living green since we were kids, and now our kids and their kids are living the same lifestyle. So I don't understand and probably never will how some rich person can come along and act as if what they are sharing is a new idea that people don't know about. Or that quoting some rich person who has a staff of helpers and realllllly isn't living green like a normal person, will somehow cause average people to do anything different.
To me its like Al Gore lecturing us on the earths health, while living in a huge home that isn't 100% green, who has four kids, guzzles up millions of gallons of fuel flying and driving all over the world.
Consuming LESS of everything is the answer. Heck think of the energy you could save if you stopped watching so much tv, or driving to see movies all of which use more natural resources to produce than they offer in value.
How many of these rich celebrities have homes with dozens of pocket lights in the kitchen, living, bedrooms etc? How many of the rest if us have one light in the kitchen, bathroom, and two lamps in the bedroom? Now who is the more energy efficient person? Them or us? How big is their shower and how many shower heads do they have? I have one. Whose saving more water? Them or me?
That's my point. Many many Americans have been doing more than all the celebrities put together in this book. And unlike these celeberties, we only have one home, under 1000 sq ft in size here in the Sierras of California. And have lived like this since we were kids. Heck even the average New Yorker lives in less than 1000 sq ft.
Now ask yourself what way of life do all these celebrities push in real life? If they are in People magazine or Vanity Fair and they are posing for photos there's a good chance they are walking ads for conspicuous consumption. Look at Martha Stewart's magazine and Orpahs. Its all about consumption. Do you think all those glossy page ads are there for anything other that to get you to buy what is being advertised?
And how many of these celebrities are showing up at planning commission and city council meetings with other folks for the community to fight McMansions that people want to build? How many of these rich folks give money to causes to help low income folks get their homes insulated?
Now should Ed Begley Jr want to write a book I would seriously consider buying a copy to share with my local library because for decades he has been walking the talk when it comes to being in Hollywood and living a legitimately green lifestyle.
 Practical, Fascinating and Optimistic June 22, 2007
52 out of 57 found this review helpful
This is great execution of a fantastic idea. It's non preachy and illustrates the million little things we can do to be greener without any real inconvenience. While it is a practical / how-to kind of a book, it also supports it's suggestions with statistics that are reminiscent of Freakonomics (or an even better book called Naked Economics by Charles Wheelan). Who would have known that if all vinyl floors were made of linoleum instead, we would have saved 600,000 barrels of oil?
There are 50 pages of web-site references, indexed by product and a well executed index for quick reference. The topics are broken down into bite sized pieces and the book just begs to be picked up again and again.
Even the celebrity comments are interesting and well written. Jennifer Aniston doesn't display an ounce of sanctimony when she points out that all we have to do is think about our consumption, and new, greener habits will develop. "If we all begin to learn from one another and sharesome of the things we do, we might just be able to affect the world for the better though these little rituals. In a curious way, this would be a great wave of awareness; doing the right thing without being told to or without having to think why."
Buying Unwrapped Candy Will Not Save the Planet December 28, 2007
44 out of 51 found this review helpful
"The Green Book" is not so much a cohesive manuel on how to save the planet as much as a collection of little paragraphs highlighting insignificant things which would have minimal positive impact on the Earth. While there are paragraphs on insulating your home and sustainable forest products most of the book focuses on such things as consuming fewer staples, buying unwrapped candy (wrappers are difficult to recycle) and using non-petroluem based lipstick. (After reading that section I had visions of a woman driving her Denali across town to Whole Foods to buy all new make-up.)
The book is also riddled with factual errors. For example, in the section on phone books the authors stated that "Telephone books make up almost 10 percent of waste at dump sites." A visitor to the dump would be hard pressed to find a single phone book amongst the thousands of tons of asphalt shingles, old carpet, construction debris and other household waste that really fill the nation's dumps.
Although somewhat dated a much better book on this subject is "The Consumer's Guide to Effective Environmental Choices: Practical Advice from the Union of Concerned Scientists." It details which consumer activities are the most harmful and least harmful and what everyday people can do to lessen their footprint on the environment. While it does not have cute little vignettes by Jennifer Aniston or Justin Timberlake it is written by real scientists who have provide a thought provoking analysis of environmental issues.
The Green Book -- A must read for everyone! July 8, 2007
28 out of 31 found this review helpful
I've read all the green guides out there (some, very good) but this is the first book to really change my habits...truly helping me make small changes that I know will have a big impact. By offering so many simple solutions that are so so easy to put into action, my family and I have made a shift in our lifestyle and have become evangelists for green living. Thanks to this book, I will NEVER take another ATM receipt, never eat from my own bag of popcorn and I will ALWAYS bring my cloth bags to the market. I may not be ready to compost...but there are so many other changes I will continue to make in my life -- and will encourage my 3 kids to do also -- that I know will make the planet a better place to live. Buy this book for yourself and for everyone you know.
This book is good news for all of us! June 22, 2007
24 out of 27 found this review helpful
Can't afford a hybrid car? Don't have the funds to convert your house into a fully self-sustainable dwelling? Unfortunately, most of us can't help the environment as well as Bill Gates or Al Gore can. However, this book gives us the good news that we can all do our parts every day much more efficiently in little ways. Celebrities impart advice and tips are given to help you and me to make our lives a little greener. I highly recommend this book for anyone who wants to help save the world on a low budget!
- Jeff
Gimundo
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