Suggested Eco and Sustainable Reading
Written by Cathy on September 8, 2009 – 12:08 pm -Welcome back!
Wake Up And Smell The Planet
Since I don’t have a TV set- I read a lot of books. All kinds, I’m not picky. I remember 40 years ago, I actually read the whole Encyclopedia Brittanica. Coming into the start of Christmas and other holidays- Here are some great eco friendly reads. All of the books are available from Amazon or check them out at your local library.
Big Box Reuse
What happens to all those big box stores that blight the urban landscape? This book discusses ways to reuse these structures into meaningful works.
Manufractured: The Conspicuous Transformation of Everyday Objects
by Steven Shov Holt and Mara Holt Shov- Reviews taking consumer goods and using them for art and objects. Published to coincide with a show at the Museum of Contemporary Craft in Portland Oregon Manuf®actured offers an arresting look at the new crossover of craft art and design and an exciting new cultural genre.
Counterculture Green: The Whole Earth Catalog and American Environmentalism (CultureAmerica)
- Andrew G Kirk- I haven’t read this book, but it’s on my library list- ounterculture Green tells a big story about how a group of technophile hippies invented human-scale ecological living and helped to change the world.” David Farber, author of The Age of Great Dreams: America in the 1960s “This is the story of America’s other environmental movement, one that promoted safe and small technologies, that celebrated human ingenuity as well as the human species, that fostered passionate thinking – and acting – outside the box…. Timely, informative, entertaining, and critically important.” Marcus Hall, author of Earth Repair: A Transatlantic History of Environmental Restoration “A major work of environmental and cultural history.” Ari Kelman, author of A River and Its City”
Wake Up and Smell the Planet: The Non-Pompous, Non-Preachy Grist Guide to Greening Your Day
This from one of my favorite emags Grist. Fun and easy to read- I highly recommend it.
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Suggested Reading-Big Green Purse
Written by Cathy on May 2, 2009 – 9:12 am -
As much reading as I do online- it’s always nice to have resources available at hand- A book I recommend is Big Green Purse by Diane MacEachern. It’s filled with wonderful eco information and easy to read! Check it out! Big Green Purse: Use Your Spending Power to Create a Cleaner, Greener World
“If you take just a few suggestions from Big Green Purse, you will be on your way to being part of the solution instead of part of the problem.”
—Laurie David, founder of StopGlobalWarming.org and a producer of An Inconvenient Truth
“When the subject is the environment, Diane MacEachern has long been ahead of the times.”
—The Christian Science Monitor
“The most important book your book club will read this year… Big Green Purse is a ‘must read, save, refer to’ book that will get us through the next critical decision making years.”
-Mary Hunt, inwomenwetrust.typepad.com
“A very good all-encompassing book about our environment and how individuals can make a difference…The perfect gift for someone who needs a friendly book on how to be more green.”
-Thegoodhuman.com
“Big Green Purse is a highly informative, well researched and important green living book for women…it’s the kind of reference book every green mom should have on her bookshelf.”
-Enviromom.com
“This book helps us realize the power we have to make a difference through our purchases…Who better to show us all the best and easiest ways to green our lives than Diane MacEachern?”
–www.natural-living-for-women.com
“One of the most informative and life changing books…instead of just telling us the three R’s (Reduce, Reuse, Recyle) Diane actually tells us how we can do it.”
-Lifegoggles.com
“If money talks, Diane MacEachern is using hers to say “Save the Planet.” …MacEachern has shopped green for 20 years and has lots of tips for what’s worked for her and what hasn’t…In Big Green Purse, MacEachern encourages readers to take the power of the purse to an even higher level.”
-Body + Soul
“Best-selling environment writer Diane MacEachern shows women — who spend 85 cents of every dollar in the marketplace — how to start wielding their purchasing power for the good of the planet, and buying green as if their lives depended on it.”
- Plenty magazine
“A fat compendium of tips on how to buy everything from furniture to cosmetics that is more environmentally-friendly, without getting bamboozled by greenwashing.”
-Salon.com
“A call-to-action with a simple message: women, use the power of your purse to solve the environmental crisis, while protecting yourselves and families.”
-Alphamom.com
“Get your copy today!…MacEachern doesn’t mince her words and she isn’t soft- pedaling this issue. She’s a warrior princess, a fighter, a Queen, and she is not taking prisoners. She’s out to help save the environment – but she can’t do it alone. We’re her army. Buy her book…get her widget, and join the fight.”
-Yvonne DeVita, (www.lipsticking.com)
“Big Green Purse is an everyday consumer’s resource – almost like a phone book’s worth of information. It is a well -organized and easy to read guide that offers do- able suggestions for buying everything from beauty products to cars, cleaning products and food.”
-Andrea Learned, Learned on Women
“Big Green Purse is not just a list of things you should buy or avoid, rather MacEachern explains in detail the current marketplace, the issues and what the impact of buying these green purchase will make on the environment.”
-Melissa, Greeniac_World.blogspot.com
“The book is a great resource for anyone not just women who are interesting in learning how to make better environmental decisions with their purchases.”
-Sustainableisgood.com
“We forget too much how much power we hold in our hands as consumers and how much good we can do with it. This book is a perfect guide for using this power in a green and wise way.”
-Ecolibris.com
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The Cheap Book – Fun Eco Friendly Reading
Written by Cathy on April 1, 2009 – 7:37 am -
The Cheap Book
Here is the dilemna- if you buy, you keep the economy growing, money keep circulating. If you don’t buy- companies go out of business, unemployment goes up and we have Trillion dollar bailouts.
Environmentally speaking- if you buy- more packaging, more waste in landfills, more taxpayer cost cleaning up waste. If you don’t buy- you save money and the environment- but some companies will go out of business.
No matter what- you have to buy some things like food and hopefully toilet paper! Perhaps becoming a Cheapskate will help save you money and the environment. To learn ‘How to Embrace your inner cheapskate’ try reading The Cheap Book
You will find over 150 money saving tips and funny stories. Good book- so if you have problems saving money or trying to change your spending habit- Read this book.
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