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| Go Green, Live Rich: 50 Simple Ways to Save the Earth and Get Rich Trying | 
 enlarge | Authors: David Bach, Hillary Rosner
Publisher: Broadway
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  25 reviews
Sales Rank: 3297
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 192
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 5.1 x 0.5
ISBN: 076792973X
Dewey Decimal Number: 640
EAN: 9780767929738
ASIN: 076792973X
Publication Date: April 8, 2008
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Product Description
Let David Bach show you a whole new way to prosper—by going green Internationally renowned financial expert and bestselling author David Bach has always urged readers to put their financial lives in line with their values. But what if your values are a cleaner and greener earth? Most people think that “going green” is an expensive choice they can’t afford. Bach is here to say that you can have both: a life in line with your green values and a million dollars in the bank.
Go Green, Live Rich outlines fifty ways to make your life, your home, your shopping, and your finances greener—and get rich trying. From driving the right car to making your home energy smart, Bach offers ways to improve the environment while you spend less, save more, earn more, and pay fewer taxes. Best of all, he shows you exactly how to take advantage of the "green wave" in personal finance without the difficult work of evaluating individual stocks. What's more, he will get you thinking about a green business of your own so you can help the world along as it is changing for the better.
David Bach is on a mission to teach the world that you can live a great life by living a green life. With Go Green, Live Rich, you can live in line with your eco-values on the road to financial freedom.
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Go Green and Prosper May 22, 2008
29 out of 30 found this review helpful
In Go Green, Live Rich, David Bach and Hillary Rosner show us how acting in an environmentally responsible way can actually make us a lot of money and make us healthier at the same time.
Bach writes: "Going green is the most important issue that will shape our future."
By using less resources, buying less stuff, making our homes and transportation more energy efficient, we absolutely save money. The brilliance is taking that money and investing it.
He writes: It's not what you earn that makes you rich or poor; it is what you spend." I wholeheartedly agree with this assessment and it sums up what I like so much about this book. Stop buying all that stuff and invest or contribute to green causes, instead.
Bach provides dollar amounts for each of the 50 ways to go green:
* Improve fuel efficiency: $884
* Seal leaks in home: $129
* Lower thermostat: $85
* Brownbag lunch: $ 1560
* Total savings: $3758
Invest that savings (preferably in green businesses) for 30 years: $678,146
There are 50 tips for greening your life, including: build green, bring your bags, clean green and take a volunteer vacation.
Bach writes:"I believe green investing will be to the 21st century what technology was the the 20th century," and encourages readers to invest in green opportunities, businesses and services that will help the environment.
Bach also encourages the reader to contribute to green causes.
Go Green Live Rich is a starting point for living a green lifestyle, but in no way is it comprehensive. Bach and Rosner do a great job in proving that green doesn't have to be expensive, however. There are lots of other books out there with more information on green living. Here are a few of my favorites:Green, Greener, Greenest: A Practical Guide to Making Eco-Smart Choices a Part of Your Life, Big Green Purse: Use Your Spending Power to Create a Cleaner, Greener World and Harmonious Environment: Beautify, Detoxify and Energize Your Life, Your Home and Your Planet.
 Full of factoids, but little else April 23, 2008
21 out of 27 found this review helpful
The author presents a grocery list of helpful changes that can save you and the environment. Some are common sense, like favoring high MPG vehicles, while others might not seem like such a great deal until you crunch some numbers and look at statistics. For what it is, the author did a good job but I'm not sure it's worth the normal purchase price. Mostof the information can be found for a little Internet research yourself. Indeed, that's where most of the author's information comes from. Buy it only to save yourself a few Google searches.
 Could This Be A Rip Off? April 19, 2008
18 out of 28 found this review helpful
There is a classic book called "50 Simple THINGS You can Do to Save The Earth." It is I belive, one of the best selling environmental guides of all time. Does changing a word to WAYS in this book's title equal original thought? I don't think so. Not much depth here...or new thinking. Maybe the title should be "Take Someone Else's Idea, Get the Green, and Live Rich."
 A little disappointed ... April 17, 2008
16 out of 22 found this review helpful
The book is really little more than a bullet list of ways to go green - in that respect it is useful for triggering ideas - but it does not really go into depth on anything or tell you how to do things. For this it simply points you to web sites, so it is a bit of a cop-out! Feels lacking in solid research by the author (he probably just "googled" everything in the book), feels like a rush-job. Disappointed to see biofuels recommended. Yes, let's run our cars on food while millions starve. That should work!
 The How To Go Green & Save Money All in 1 Book- April 8, 2008
15 out of 24 found this review helpful
Having read several of David's other New York Times Best Sellers on finances, saving money and living wisely I expected this book, Go Green, Live Rich to be interesting. Go Green is spectacular- a wealth of information, how to make small changes that will impact the planet and still be easy to do and improve my life. And the added bonus of
Web sites that provide additional information and green products make it easy for me to follow through on the information . The chapters are a quick read with short Go Green Action Steps within as a side bar. I keep putting the book down to think about what David has written. Although I work with charities every year and try to make a difference.- Go Green has opened my eyes- each day we can make changes that are beneficial for our personal health and help the environment. I only wish this was a 10 star system - his book is brilliant!
Imal Wagner
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