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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:
- Turn your thermostat a degree lower in the winter; if every home in
America did it we'd save enough energy to power all the home is Iowa
for one whole year!
- Take a shorter shower; if America
subtracted just one minute from their daily showers we'd save twice the
amount of freshwater withdrawn from the Great Lakes every day!
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Reuse ribbon and wrapping paper; if two-thirds of Americans each saved
an arm's length of ribbon this year, we could tie a bow around the
earth!
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.
From Booklist
Environmental matters get the star treatment in The Green Book. Rogers
and Kostigen address the fact that Americans endanger the balance of
the ecosystem by the amount of waste we produce, the amount of water we
use, and the amount of energy we consume, and celebrities, including
Robert Redford, Ellen DeGeneres, Jennifer Aniston, Faith Hill, and Dale
Earnhardt Jr., contribute observations and suggestions for living
green. In the hope that the glamour of the A-list will make discussion
of environmental challenges more palpable, Rogers and Kostigen
establish 12 aspects of our habitat, such as home, work, and school,
and suggest better lifestyle choices in each arena. Small adjustments
in the way we consume and dispose of resources add up to significant
and positive environmental effects. Illustrating the results of green
actions with descriptive rather than numerical analyses, Rogers and
Kostigen write, for example, that if everyone in the U.S. used one less
paper napkin per day, in a year's time we would have saved one billion
pounds of landfill waste. An outstanding resource, The Green Book
offers hope and practical suggestions. Crossland, Pamela
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