Living Green: The Missing Manual packs in everything a consumer needs to know about building up a 'green' lifestyle, from conducting a home energy audit and replacing harmful cleaning chemicals with natural alternatives to eating greener, shopping better, and connecting with others. A powerful survey, this offers plenty of information for newcomers to green living and is a pick for any general lending library.
Author(s): Nancy Conner
Edition: 1
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
Year: 2009
Language: English
Pages: 314
Home Green Home: Creating a Safe, Earth-Friendly Place to Live......Page 23
The Chemicals You Live With......Page 24
How Household Chemicals Can Affect Your Health......Page 27
Clean and Green: Environmentally Friendly Cleaning......Page 30
Nontoxic Furnishings......Page 41
A Greener Lawn......Page 42
Save Energy, Money, and the Earth......Page 55
How Efficient Is Your Home?......Page 56
Should You Downsize?......Page 64
Heating and Cooling Efficiently......Page 66
Getting More out of
Your Appliances......Page 70
Water-Saving Strategies......Page 77
Let There Be (Compact Fluorescent) Light......Page 83
Reduce, Reuse,
Recycle......Page 91
A Trashy Odyssey......Page 92
How Low Can You Go? Aiming for Zero Waste......Page 98
Reducing: Doing More with Less......Page 99
Reusing: Use It Again, Sam......Page 108
Recycling: What Goes Around Comes Around......Page 115
So Hard to Say Goodbye: Special Problems in Recycling......Page 122
Building and
Remodeling......Page 131
LEEDing the Way to Green Buildings......Page 132
Principles of Green Building Design......Page 134
Special Problems in Remodeling......Page 151
Finding a Builder......Page 156
Financing Green Construction......Page 157
Babies......Page 159
Kids......Page 173
Teens......Page 176
Pets......Page 180
Eating Green: It’s
Not Just Spinach Anymore......Page 185
What’s in That Cheeseburger?......Page 186
Genetically Modified Foods......Page 197
Go Organic......Page 199
How Green Does Your
Garden Grow?......Page 205
Can I Ever Eat Out Again?......Page 216
Think Globally, Buy Locally......Page 217
Buy Recycled......Page 219
Giving Fair Trade a Fair Shake......Page 222
Compassion in Fashion......Page 226
Green Health and Beauty Products......Page 229
Environmentally Friendly Gifts......Page 235
Finding Companies That Get It......Page 237
Going Green:
Transportation
and Travel......Page 239
Getting Around Without a Car......Page 240
Driving Smarter......Page 246
Green Cars in Every Color......Page 248
Long-Distance Travel......Page 255
Ecotourism......Page 260
Green Business Is Good Business......Page 263
Greening the Workplace......Page 264
Greener Business Travel......Page 270
Buying Carbon Offsets......Page 273
Corporate Giving......Page 275
Why We Need New Energy Sources......Page 277
Wind Energy......Page 279
Solar Energy......Page 282
Water Power......Page 284
Geothermal Plants......Page 286
Bioenergy......Page 288
Hydrogen Fuel Cells......Page 289
Activism Begins with You......Page 291
Environmentally Responsible Investing......Page 297
Index......Page 301
