The Green Book: The Everyday Guide to Saving the Planet One Simple Step at a Time
by Elizabeth Rogers, Thomas M. Kostigen
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Author: Elizabeth Rogers, Thomas M. KostigenForeword: Cameron Diaz
Foreword: William McDonough
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2007-06-19
ISBN: 0307381358
Number of pages: 201
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
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Book Review: Rich people lecturing the rest of us could learn from us who are doing it
Summary: 1 Stars
Various descriptions of the book note that all the celebrities 'tell you how they make a difference to the environment'. Isn't that nice. A bunch of rich folk telling the rest of us what to do when most Americans making middle class wages, are probably doing more to save on energy and other natural resources, out of simple necessity, because we don't have the millions of dollars to waste each year.
Fact is since the first Earth Day in the 70's there have been hundreds of books written on everything from solar energy for your home, using less paper (like for useless books like this), installing flow restrictors on all inside facets, installing a grey water system to make second use of rinse water from washing machines, as well as use mass transit when possible and only buy fuel efficient cars if you need to own a car. As well as how to do square foot gardening to grow at least some of your own food, compost kitchen and yard wastes. Everyone I know has used energy efficient light bulbs for over a decade and they also dust them because a clean bulbs is a brighter and more efficient bulb.
And if you are reading this review you are on a computer which if you use search engines like google.com will provide you with millions, yes millions if sites for FREE that cover every conservation idea under the sun. Or join the yahoo thecompact group or the WasteNothing yahoo group. Or use the Simple Living Network and other internet groups to connect with people, who are actually walking the talk and have been for decades.
Our family has been living green since we were kids, and now our kids and their kids are living the same lifestyle. So I don't understand and probably never will how some rich person can come along and act as if what they are sharing is a new idea that people don't know about. Or that quoting some rich person who has a staff of helpers and realllllly isn't living green like a normal person, will somehow cause average people to do anything different.
To me its like Al Gore lecturing us on the earths health, while living in a huge home that isn't 100% green, who has four kids, guzzles up millions of gallons of fuel flying and driving all over the world.
Consuming LESS of everything is the answer. Heck think of the energy you could save if you stopped watching so much tv, or driving to see movies all of which use more natural resources to produce than they offer in value.
How many of these rich celebrities have homes with dozens of pocket lights in the kitchen, living, bedrooms etc? How many of the rest if us have one light in the kitchen, bathroom, and two lamps in the bedroom? Now who is the more energy efficient person? Them or us? How big is their shower and how many shower heads do they have? I have one. Whose saving more water? Them or me?
That's my point. Many many Americans have been doing more than all the celebrities put together in this book. And unlike these celeberties, we only have one home, under 1000 sq ft in size here in the Sierras of California. And have lived like this since we were kids. Heck even the average New Yorker lives in less than 1000 sq ft.
Now ask yourself what way of life do all these celebrities push in real life? If they are in People magazine or Vanity Fair and they are posing for photos there's a good chance they are walking ads for conspicuous consumption. Look at Martha Stewart's magazine and Orpahs. Its all about consumption. Do you think all those glossy page ads are there for anything other that to get you to buy what is being advertised?
And how many of these celebrities are showing up at planning commission and city council meetings with other folks for the community to fight McMansions that people want to build? How many of these rich folks give money to causes to help low income folks get their homes insulated?
Now should Ed Begley Jr want to write a book I would seriously consider buying a copy to share with my local library because for decades he has been walking the talk when it comes to being in Hollywood and living a legitimately green lifestyle.
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Summary of The Green Book: The Everyday Guide to Saving the Planet One Simple Step at a Time
Ellen DeGeneres, Robert Redford, Will Ferrell, Jennifer Aniston, Faith Hill, Tim McGraw, Martha Stewart, Tyra Banks, Dale Earnhardt, Jr., Tiki Barber, Owen Wilson, and Justin Timberlake tell you how they make a difference to the environment.Inside The Green Book, find out how you can too:
- Don?t ask for ATM receipts. If everyone in the United States refused their receipts, it would save a roll of paper more than two billion feet long, or enough to circle the equator fifteen times!
- Turn off the tap while you brush your teeth. You?ll conserve up to five gallons of water per day. Throughout the entire United States, the daily savings could add up to more water than is consumed every day in all of New York City.
- Get a voice-mail service for your home phone. If all answering machines in U.S. homes were replaced by voice-mail services, the annual energy savings would total nearly two billion kilowatt hours. The resulting reduction in air pollution would be equivalent to removing 250,000 cars from the road for a year!
With wit and authority, authors Elizabeth Rogers and Thomas Kostigen provide hundreds of solutions for all areas of your life, pinpointing the smallest changes that have the biggest impact on the health of our precious planet.
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