Great Christmas Gift Ideas - The Green Book
With going “green” finally being recognized as vital, this book gives the matter serious attention. Contributors from Hollywood even share their best ideas. The authors, Elizabeth Rogers and Thomas M. Kostigen, look at the way Americans produce waste, utilize water and consume energy and offer easy to implement changes.
Some of Hollywood’s finest - Robert Redford, Faith Hill, Jennifer Aniston to name a few - offer the tips they use to live green. Rogers and Kostigen keep the focus on 12 areas of our life, e.g. home, work, and school, so that implementing small changes that give back big rewards is manageable. They do this by utilizing mostly descriptive analyses.
A few simple suggestions in The Green Book are:
* Say No to ATM paper receipts. If we all in the U.S.A. wrote the amount in our checkbook instead of requesting a receipt, the paper saved would be more than 2 billion ft. long.
* Voicemail service instead of answering machine. Unplugging your answering machine could save nearly 2 billion kilowatt hours annually to the United States.
This 4-star rated book earned this ranking due to the small, simple to use ideas. The one area of concern was that some of the numbers when used did not seem to be accurate. However, a simple check before quoting showed the descriptions were right on.
The authors have done a good job in providing this information in a witty, authoritative manner. They have supplied many ideas for many areas of your life and showed how the smallest choices can have the biggest effect on our world.
A hot Christmas gift idea, The Green Book is right in line with the way we as a world are going - a healthy planet!
