Ready, Set, Green - Eight Weeks to Modern Eco-Living

Informationen zum Autor Armed with a degree in architecture from Carleton University in Ottawa and extensive experience in industrial and web design, Graham Hill launched TreeHugger on a shoestring budget in 2004. Today, his vision has become the most-frequented green lifestyle site on the Internet. TreeHugger has earned Graham a reputation as an icon of the contemporary eco-movement—and profiles in major media outlets such as Vanity Fair and Time magazines. Working as a journalist covering sustainable trends in design and architecture led Meaghan O'Neill to help launch TreeHugger in 2004. Deeply immersed in media, pop culture, and ecological issues, she has contributed to publications such as The Boston Globe Magazine, I.D., Interior Design, Men's Journal, ReadyMade, and Teen Vogue, and has consulted for Glamour . She is also the author of "The Slate Green Challenge with TreeHugger ," a 2007 National Magazine Award finalist in the Interactive Service category. Klappentext The time to save the planet is now. Ready? Set? Green! Living green means reversing climate change! but it also means protecting your kids and pets! improving your own health! and saving money. And it doesn't necessarily demand a radical overhaul of your life-just some simple adjustments! such as switching to healthier cleaning products and driving fewer miles each week. Written by the visionaries at Treehugger.com! the most heavily trafficked site of its kind! Ready! Set! Green is the definitive (and recyclable) guide to modern green living. It offers solutions to make your home! office! car! and vacation more eco-friendly. For example: • Using a dishwasher instead of hand washing will save you 5!000 gallons of water annually. • Eating less beef will save you 250 pounds of CO2 per year. • Washing your clothes in cold water instead of hot will save 200 pounds of CO2 annually. • Replacing three of your home's most frequently used lightbulbs with compact fluorescent bulbs will save 300 pounds of CO2 every year. Including advice on how to properly insulate your house! cancel junk mail! and choose fruits and veggies wisely! Ready! Set! Green will help you change the future of the planet and restore balance to your daily life. 1 The Future Is Green WHAT YOU CAN DO Look out your window. What do you see? A paved street and electrical wires? Meadows and birds? A farm full of cows? Whatever surrounds you, that's the environment. And whether it was created by Mother Nature or the municipal works department, humans aren't separate from it. Just as hurricanes, floods, and tornadoes have an effect on our well-being, we have an effect on nature, polluting water via our factories and homes, reducing mountains to piles of coal that we burn for energy, packing landfills with our used-up cars and electronics packaging. Luckily, it turns out we also have the power to clean up after ourselves. At TreeHugger.com, the website dedicated to modern green living, we believe that cutting-edge ideas, technology, and design-and, more important, people with the right attitude-can help save the environment. This book was conceived to help readers develop an understanding of existing eco dilemmas, and to empower them to help reverse the problems. We don't have all the answers; no one does. But we believe that individuals do have the power to "green" the planet. Your dollars count. Your vote counts. Your actions count. And when millions of people do the right thing, it can have a serious impact. A BRIEF HISTORY OF ENVIRONMENTALISM In the mid-eighteenth century, the industrial revolution changed life as humans knew it. Local economies that produced and sold goods made primarily from biodegradable parts gave way to economies of mass- produced items that could be shipped all...

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• Autori: Graham Hill, Meaghan O'Neill
• Editore: Random House USA
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 20.05.2008
• EAN: 9780345503084
• ISBN: 978-0-345-50308-4
• Pagine: 240
• Dimensioni: 132 mm x 203 mm x 15 mm