Product Description

The Little Book of Living Green is part of the Pocket Oracle series, which provides advice and instruction for everyday life. This user-friendly guide to environmental concern is full of simple ways to help care for your surroundings from the comfort of your own home.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #70893 in Books
• Published on: 2007-10-22
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• 124 pages

Synopsis
The Little Book of Living Green is part of the Pocket Oracle series, which provides advice and instruction for everyday life.

From the Author
Environmental tips balancing fact and humour
A great deal has been written and said about environmental issues. It is undoubtedly something we have to take seriously, but most people's impressions of environmental threats are of huge, vague and unstoppable nightmares. This gives you two choices: ignore it, or sit and worry. This book aims to provide a path between these extremes: it provides hassle-free tips on how to make your everyday existence a little greener. These facts and tips are (hopefully) peppered with just enough humour to keep you sane while you fret about the future of the planet. Flick through, adopt what you like, and save the planet from the comfort of your own living room.

Excerpted from Little Book of Living Green by Mark Hegarty, Neil Bennett. Copyright © 1999. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved
Most offices generate huge quantities of high quality paper waste. By establishing a recyclable paper bin, and simply using both sides of a piece of paper, you can make a difference in both in terms of reducing office costs and slowing deforestation. Each ton of recycled paper saves 17 trees and 380 gallons of oil. Most councils will also charge lower business rates if you put your waste paper in a separate bag for collection and recycling.

Customer Reviews

Not what it says on the tin
When I ordered this I expected it to be fairly basic, but I did expect it to have some usable tips.

The book is filled with more facts than it is on green living tips, but even then the facts seem a bit basic, I think anybody with any interest in greener living already knows that taking the bus is better to cut down on congestion than using your car.

What little the book does have in "tips" are just plain silly, their method of saving water is to suggest you bathe with a friend. Their other suggested method is to reduce your water consumption in the summer by not washing your car and tell people the bird droppings are a new style statement...

It may just be me, but I don't find those "suggestions" helpful in the slightest and are silly rather than humorous.

There were a few usable (but very basic) tips to save the planet, such as reusing your carrier bags, or putting a device in your toilet cistern to reduce water use, but unfortunately the best way of reducing paper wastage is to just avoid this book completely and find one that has something actually worth the paper it's printed on.

Great little gem
Witty little gem of a book with concise and simple suggestions which you can easily incorporate into your day-to-day life. Great starting point and a good soft intro for those who are perhaps a bit sceptical. An ideal little gift item to send to all your friends, and definitely one to keep in the loo for a quick read.

a little book with a big message
Frank, witty, concise...what more can you ask for in a little green book? The bath advice alone is well worth the cover price. Go on, buy a few and send them to pals. You too can help save the planet.