Green, Greener, Greenest: A Practical Guide to Making Eco-Smart Choices a Part of Your Life by Lori Bongiorno, Frances Beinecke (Foreword by)
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- Pub. Date: March 2008
- 336pp
- Sales Rank: 355,129
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Product Details
- Pub. Date: March 2008
- Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
- Format: Paperback, 336pp
- Sales Rank: 355,129
- ISBN-13: 9780399534034
- ISBN: 0399534032
Synopsis
How green can you be?
Green: Drive the speed limit
Greener: Drive a fuel-efficient car
Greenest: Bike or walk
The perfect guide to help readers decide how to best spend their time and money to protect the environment, Green, Greener, Greenest offers flexible tips for everyday living, all categorized as "green," "greener," and "greenest." Cutting through the labeling and the hype, it helps readers choose the advice that fits their schedule, their budget, and their interests, with the understanding that there's never one "right way" to make a difference. This indispensable resource will grow with readers-whether a novice in green living or a veteran environmentalist-as their interests and needs change over time.
Biography
Lori Bongiorno is a journalist who was on staff at Business Week Magazine for six years before becoming a freelance writer. She has written cover stories on accessible green living for Glamour's 2007 green issue and Verdant magazine.
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Green, Greener, Greenest: A Practical Guide to Making Eco-Smart Choices a Part of Your Lifeby Anonymous
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March 31, 2008: Lori Bongiorno, a journalist, became interested in the environment and the safety of products when her husband got melanoma and died from the cancer. She writes that she learned from her husband's experience that preventing disease is preferable to trying to cure a disease. With preventing disease on her mind, she wrote Green Greener Greenest, providing the reader with a phletora of tools to stay healthy. Unlike a number of recently published green books, Green Greener Greenest is well researched and offers much information for those seeking a green lifestyle. Bongiorno offers environmentally sound choices in food, beverages, personal care products, green choices for babies and children, home building and improvement, apparel and furnishings, cleaning, pest control and transportation. Within each chapter, I really like how she 'decodes labels' the often confusing, sometimes misleading labels that come with many products. Like a good journalist, she did her homework, providing much research and information to help the reader understand the problems in environmentally unsafe products and to let them decide for themselves what level of green they wish to live by. I felt that the chapters on home building and improvements and furnishings could have had more information, but it did provide a good starting point. For example, Bongiorno does not discuss the green choices in flooring other than marginally acceptable greener carpeting. I highly recommend this book. Author of the award winning book, Harmonious Environment Beautify, Detoxify & Energize Your Life, Your Home & Your Planet.
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