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Greening Our Lives
For Environment Month consider making small or big changes in your life that will make a difference. These books will show you how.
A DIY guide for homeowners with information on building a variety of solar projects for the use in the home like: water heaters, lights, heat pumps, charging station, and supplemental electricity.
Lots of practical solutions for industry, businesses and ordinary citizens. Water conservation strategies are outlined but so are strategies for reusing grey water, retrofitting and reclamation systems.
The whole family can participate in lively green garden projects by reusing different materials.
Just under a fifth of the earth's greenhouse gas emissions are linked to worldwide livestock farming. In contrast, emissions from cars, trains, planes and boats worldwide combined accounted for only 13 percent. This film outlines how changing your diet can change the future of our planet.
Being energy efficient can save you some "green." Start with your lighting!
It's been more than 30 years since Lappé first introduced her theories about vegetarianism and a healthy planet to North America. Lappé and her daughter have since travelled the planet challenging consumerism and world hunger (and collecting recipes, also featured).
A practical guide for homeowners - water conservation tips for your bathroom, kitchen and laundry room, as well as your garden.
Beavan, his wife and infant daughter set out to have no impact on the planet for a year - no garbage, no toxins, no packaging, no TV.... His blog turns into a book, and good intentions turn into a way of life - and a challenge to us all.
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Gehrke's guide explains how to create a variety of practical and environmentally friendly items for personal use or for resell.
Award-winning journalist, Andrew Nikiforuk, exposes the disastrous environmental, social and political impact of tar sands and argues strongly for change!
Part manifesto, part memoir, Berman talks candidly about her years in the environmental movement in Canada. She's fought for the rain forests, against the tar sands development and has now taken on climate change.
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Piven aims to reduce your carbon footprint and soothe your eco-anxiety. He will show you how to green every room in your house practically and you will have fun doing it!
Before you throw your stuff out, check out this guide and see if you can "upcycle" them!
A scientist details the impact of an ever larger population (in both senses of the word) consuming meat, fish and dairy products on resources, the environment and health.
