How to Live Green — Further Reading

If you would like to learn more about how to live green, we recommend the following books. You can view Amazon pricing information on individual books by moving your mouse over the image of the book.

Living Green: A Practical Guide to Simple Sustainability

Whether you are concerned about climate change, personal health, or just want to live more lightly on the planet, this book is for you. It helps you get past the worry and take positive action to improve both your health and the health of our environment.

Based on a lifetime of research and practice, this practical guide for living green offers advice and solutions you can easily put into practice, like: The 10 foods you should always eat organic to avoid pesticides, herbicides, hormones and antibiotics; Affordable and practical ways to offset your "carbon footprint" and neutralise your personal impact on global warming; and The most chemically-intensive personal care, household cleaning and lawn care products, and their effective natural alternatives.

It's Easy Being Green

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.

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. 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.

The Lazy Environmentalist: Your Guide to Easy, Stylish, Green Living

In The Lazy Environmentalist, Josh Dorfman—host of the Sirius Satellite Radio program of the same name—provides comprehensive guidance to fashion-forward consumers who are as concerned about the long-term health of our planet as they are about the design of their bathroom fixtures. Covering topics that range from clothing to electronic gadgetry, home decor to recreation, and gardening to financial investment, Dorfman lets us know which trends to watch and which eco-conscious products—cars, toothbrushes, cell phones, pet accessories—to buy. Green, it turns out, can be an extremely stylish color.

Green Living: The E Magazine Handbook for Living Lightly on the Earth

Green Living, from the editors of E/The Environmental Magazine offers a thorough, step-by-step plan for greening every aspect of your life, from the laundry room to the kitchen including: Maintaining a healthy home; Going organic and avoiding genetically modified food; Finding a planet-friendly car; Making socially responsible investments; Using personal-care products free of damaging chemicals

With advice on everything from planet-friendly cosmetics to home-based renewable energy, and straight talk on hemp, hybrids and hair coloring, Green Living is the ideal reference for both the neophyte and the experienced environmentalist.

The Consumer's Guide to Effective Environmental Choices: Practical Advice from the Union of Concerned Scientists

Paper or plastic? Bus or car? Old house or new? Cloth diapers or disposables? Some choices have a huge impact on the environment; others are of negligible importance.To those of us who care about our quality of life and what is happening to the earth, this is a vastly important issue. In these pages, the Union of Concerned Scientists help inform consumers about everyday decisions that significantly affect the environment.

This book identifies the 4 Most Significant Consumer-Related Environmental Problems, the 7 Most Damaging Spending Categories, 11 Priority Actions, and 7 Rules for Responsible Consumption. Learn what you can do to have a truly significant impact on our world from the people who are at the forefront of scientific research.