by Laura | Jun 1, 2012
Author Diane Gow McDilda comes from the position that living green is first and foremost a mindset. An environmental journalist with a degree in environmental engineering, she kicks off the book with a playful quiz for you to gauge your current eco-footprint. She goes...
by Laura | Mar 1, 2012
Unlike a lot of living green books I’ve read out there, Christie Matheson brings a sense of fun and style to the challenge of trying to live green. But her book is not all fun and games, nor a call to go out and spend lots of money on the growing “green...
by Laura | Jan 26, 2012
I love how Nicky Scott’s primer on making your everyday life greener certainly keeps it real. “This book will help you think about the contents of your garbage can in a new light,” he starts off. The weekly routine of putting whatever we don”t...
by Laura | Dec 24, 2011
The operative words, practical and simple best describe the spirit of this book. Terms like “global warming” make the environmental crisis seem so huge and sprawling that many well-intentioned folks don’t know where to begin to make a change in their own...
by Laura | Nov 28, 2011
This slim but dense report continues William Rees’ efforts to provide usable tools for assessing our impact on the planet. In 1992, William Rees wrote the first academic paper about the concept of an ecological footprint. The basic idea is to try to measure...
