The Green Book: The Everyday Guide to Saving the Planet One Simple Step at a Time | 
| Authors: Elizabeth Rogers, Thomas M. Kostigen
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
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Pages: 224
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Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 5.1 x 0.6
ISBN: 0307381358
Dewey Decimal Number: 333.72
EAN: 9780307381354
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Publication Date: June 19, 2007
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Ellen DeGeneres, Robert Redford, Will Ferrell, Jennifer Aniston, Faith Hill, Tim McGraw, Martha Stewart, Tyra Banks, Dale Earnhardt, Jr., Tiki Barber, Owen Wilson, and Justin Timberlake tell you how they make a difference to the environment.
Inside The Green Book, find out how you can too:
- Don’t ask for ATM receipts. If everyone in the United States refused their receipts, it would save a roll of paper more than two billion feet long, or enough to circle the equator fifteen times!
- Turn off the tap while you brush your teeth. You’ll conserve up to five gallons of water per day. Throughout the entire United States, the daily savings could add up to more water than is consumed every day in all of New York City.
- 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. The resulting reduction in air pollution would be equivalent to removing 250,000 cars from the road for a year!
With wit and authority, authors Elizabeth Rogers and Thomas Kostigen provide hundreds of solutions for all areas of your life, pinpointing the smallest changes that have the biggest impact on the health of our precious planet.
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 The best advice in this book is to not buy this book April 12, 2008
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
I agree 100% with all the 1-2 star reviews. This book is bogus. There is more
clear, practical advice in these reviews than contained in this book.
One of my complaints about this book that wasn't covered yet is the erroneous
and misleading attempts to use crude oil to help the reader visualize the impact
of his or her efforts.
For example, the authors suggest that you purchase retreaded tires for your
car. They claim that if the demand for retreads increased by 10%, "the total oil
savings per year would be about 290 million gallons." The authors take a lot of
liberties with using oil as an analogy to represent energy consumption. In
this case though, they seem clear that its the conservation of "1/3 the petroleum
resources" that the retreads yield over new tires which they are contributing to
the 290 mil. gal.
I don't disagree with these statements. It very well may be the case that it
takes 290 million gallons of oil to produce enough petrochemicals to manufacture
that synthetic rubber. What the reader should really understand is that along
with some new tires , those barrels of oil also would have produced:
149 million gal. of gas
44 million gal. of diesel fuel
35 million gal. of jet fuel
...as well as 55 million gallons of dozens of other products like, candle wax,
lubricating oils, propane, kerosene, asphalt, etc. In fact, only about 4
million gallons, by volume, of that 290 million gal. of oil directly contributed
to the raw material of the tires.
If we depended on oil simply for the rubber, it would be trivial
to find ways to use less rubber. We use the rubber because its
basically a free byproduct of our unquenchable thirst for the gas, diesel, and
jet fuels.
Oil is first and foremost a fuel source. The rubber and plastic that this book
advises you to conserve should really be measured only on the real benefits of
conservation, which are the reduction of landfilled waste and litter.
The authors recommend that you not buy books, or borrow books from the library.
I think you should take their advice for this one.
 Simple and to the point April 6, 2008
This was my very first "green" purchase. I love it, it has changed my life. I was not even aware of being environmently friendly and when I became aware I was a little overwhelmed at all the things I could do to make a change. This book was a perfect start, tons of information.
I am now aware!
 Not great, but easy to read March 26, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Mostly a list of tips and tricks for green choices. Weird quotes from celebrities about their green thoughts. A little simple and basic.
Where is the Creative Website??? March 18, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I liked the book (on loan from the library). Too much to remember in one sitting - so I assumed there would be a creative web site that would send me weekly emails for suggestions and reminders from the book. But just a site to promote the book.
Best-Selling Green Fluff March 17, 2008
9 out of 12 found this review helpful
This is a "Green Lite" book. It is filled with the obvious, so if you have no clue, this book is for you. In addition to the obvious, the book also contains some gross and ridiculous statements.
Here is one of my favorites:
"Making coffee uses about 1/3 of the tap water consumed. If every worker cut back on water fill by one cup, we'd save almost 10 million gallons a day. Over the course of a year, this would save eough water to provide 2 gallons to the 1.2 billion people on the planet who don't have access to safe water at all."
I'm afraid this statement by the authors was not meant as a joke. It reminds me of when parents would tell their kids to clean their plate because "there are hungry people in the world."
I mean, how in the world will the "saved" water be transported? This is precisely the type of drivel to be found in this book.
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