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Green, Greener, Greenest Green, Greener, Greenest
A Practical Guide to Making Eco-Smart Choices a Part of Your Life
by Lori Bongiorno
The perfect guide to help readers decide how to best spend their time and money to protect the environment, Green, Greener, Greenest offers flexible tips for everyday living, all categorized as "green," "greener," and "greenest." Cutting through the labeling and the hype, it helps readers choose the advice that fits their schedule, their budget, and their interests, with the understanding that there's never one "right way" to make a difference. This indispensable resource will grow with readers-whether a novice in green living or a veteran environmentalist-as their interests and needs change over time.
   
The Hidden Toxins in Everyday Products - and What You Can Do About Them

What's In This Stuff?
The Hidden Toxins in Everyday Products - and What You Can Do About Them
by Patricia Thomas
Every day Americans eat processed food and use toiletries, cosmetics, household cleaners, gardening supplies and often pet care products of some kind. It's time to ask What's in This Stuff? The answers are shocking. This fascinating book reveals how many of the products used every day contain poorly tested chemicals that are implicated in health problems, and offers simple, nontoxic alternatives.

    It explains:

  • Why we are exposed to more chemicals than ever before
  • The health risks of exposure to industrial chemicals in consumer products
  • Which chemicals are most harmful
  • Why babies in the womb and young children are especially vulnerable to toxins
  • How to interpret confusing labels
  • Tips for using conventional products more wisely
   
Put Your Life on a Diet: Lessons Learned from Living in 140 Square Feet Put Your Life on a Diet: Lessons Learned from Living in 140 Square Feet
by Gregory P Johnson
Put Your Life on a Diet: Lessons Learned Living in 140 Square Feet is the ultimate resource for living a simpler life as well as leaving behind a smaller environmental footprint and living a healthier life for you and the planet. In this book author Gregory Paul Johnson guides us in five significant areas-housing, food, technology, utilities, and transportation-teaching us how to create a simpler life, reducing stress in our own lives and harm to the environment. Due to the pressures and complexity of life today, the search for simplicity is being sought after like never before.
   
American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau
Foreward by Al Gore, Edited by Bill McKibben
As America and the world grapple with the consequences of global environmental change, writer and activist Bill McKibben offers this unprecedented, inspiring, and timely anthology gathering the best and most significant American environmental writing from the last two centuries. "Each advance in environmental practice" in our nation's history, McKibben observes in his introduction, "was preceded by a great book." Here, for the first time in a single volume, are the words that made a movement.