Unique Christmas Gift Idea - 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.
Offering a view of the ease of their ideas, here are a couple from The Green Book:
* No more ATM receipts. If the whole United States chose to not print their ATM receipts, there would be more than 2 billion feet of paper saved. This would wrap around the equator 15 times!!
* 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.
With a 4-star rating, the reviewers all like the authors sensibilities in offering small, easy to implement suggestions. One downside however, is that the actual numbers should be corroborated before quoted. Some calculations, when researched, were off.
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.
The Green Book is the perfect unique Christmas gift idea for someone who loves the environment and wants to make a difference in this world.
