Is It Really Green

Author : Georgina Wilson-Powell
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-05
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780744041057

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Is It Really Green? by Georgina Wilson-Powell Pdf

Find clarity on everyday green-living dilemmas to maximize your sustainability Are paper bags always more environmentally friendly than plastic? How much better for the planet are electric cars? What saves more water - using the dishwasher or washing up by hand? We all want to do the right thing for the planet, but with so many factors at play, it can be difficult to work out which is the greenest way. With answers to more than 140 everyday green-living questions, Is It Really Green? cuts through the confusion and gives you the facts. Get to the heart of each eco-conundrum, interrogate your instincts, and make informed decisions to reduce your ecological footprint.

Author : Gregory Schwartz,Trevor Decker Cohen
Publisher : First Edition Design Pub.
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-12
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781506900186

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Bright Green Future: How Everyday Heroes Are Re-Imagining the Way We Feed, Power, and Build Our World by Gregory Schwartz,Trevor Decker Cohen Pdf

Bright Green Future chronicles a renaissance at the edge of a crisis. As climate change shifts our planet towards an uncertain future, a movement of unlikely heroes are building a blueprint for a better world. It’s a world where clean power grows wealth for local communities, resources regenerate themselves, city planning is driven by the people, and healthy soil is our greatest asset. These changemakers have opened a gateway for ordinary people to begin imagining and building the bright future we deserve.

Author : Yifei Li,Judith Shapiro
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781509543137

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China Goes Green by Yifei Li,Judith Shapiro Pdf

What does it mean for the future of the planet when one of the world’s most durable authoritarian governance systems pursues “ecological civilization”? Despite its staggering pollution and colossal appetite for resources, China exemplifies a model of state-led environmentalism which concentrates decisive political, economic, and epistemic power under centralized leadership. On the face of it, China seems to embody hope for a radical new approach to environmental governance. In this thought-provoking book, Yifei Li and Judith Shapiro probe the concrete mechanisms of China’s coercive environmentalism to show how ‘going green’ helps the state to further other agendas such as citizen surveillance and geopolitical influence. Through top-down initiatives, regulations, and campaigns to mitigate pollution and environmental degradation, the Chinese authorities also promote control over the behavior of individuals and enterprises, pacification of borderlands, and expansion of Chinese power and influence along the Belt and Road and even into the global commons. Given the limited time that remains to mitigate climate change and protect millions of species from extinction, we need to consider whether a green authoritarianism can show us the way. This book explores both its promises and risks.

Author : Derrick Jensen,Lierre Keith,Max Wilbert
Publisher : Monkfish Book Publishing
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781948626408

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Bright Green Lies by Derrick Jensen,Lierre Keith,Max Wilbert Pdf

“This disturbing but very important book makes clear we must dig deeper than the normal solutions we are offered.”—Yvon Chouinard, founder of Patagonia Works "Bright Green Lies exposes the hypocrisy and bankruptcy of leading environmental groups and their most prominent cheerleaders. The best-known environmentalists are not in the business of speaking truth, or even holding up rational solutions to blunt the impending ecocide, but instead indulge in a mendacious and self-serving delusion that provides comfort at the expense of reality. They fail to state the obvious: We cannot continue to wallow in hedonistic consumption and industrial expansion and survive as a species. The environmental debate, Derrick Jensen and his coauthors argue, has been distorted by hubris and the childish desire by those in industrialized nations to sustain the unsustainable. All debates about environmental policy need to begin with honoring and protecting, not the desires of the human species, but with the sanctity of the Earth itself. We refuse to ask the right questions because these questions expose a stark truth—we cannot continue to live as we are living. To do so is suicidal folly. ‘Tell me how you seek, and I will tell you what you are seeking,’ the German philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein said. This is the power of Bright Green Lies: It asks the questions most refuse to ask, and in that questioning, that seeking, uncovers profound truths we ignore at our peril.”—Chris Hedges, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of America: The Farewell Tour

Author : Stephen A. Mouzon
Publisher : New Urban Guild Foundation
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1931871116

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The Original Green by Stephen A. Mouzon Pdf

Author : Ozzie Zehner
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780803243361

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Green Illusions by Ozzie Zehner Pdf

We don’t have an energy crisis. We have a consumption crisis. And this book, which takes aim at cherished assumptions regarding energy, offers refreshingly straight talk about what’s wrong with the way we think and talk about the problem. Though we generally believe we can solve environmental problems with more energy—more solar cells, wind turbines, and biofuels—alternative technologies come with their own side effects and limitations. How, for instance, do solar cells cause harm? Why can’t engineers solve wind power’s biggest obstacle? Why won’t contraception solve the problem of overpopulation lying at the heart of our concerns about energy, and what will? This practical, environmentally informed, and lucid book persuasively argues for a change of perspective. If consumption is the problem, as Ozzie Zehner suggests, then we need to shift our focus from suspect alternative energies to improving social and political fundamentals: walkable communities, improved consumption, enlightened governance, and, most notably, women’s rights. The dozens of first steps he offers are surprisingly straightforward. For instance, he introduces a simple sticker that promises a greater impact than all of the nation’s solar cells. He uncovers why carbon taxes won’t solve our energy challenges (and presents two taxes that could). Finally, he explores how future environmentalists will focus on similarly fresh alternatives that are affordable, clean, and can actually improve our well-being. Watch a book trailer.

Author : Victor H. Green
Publisher : Colchis Books
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-27
Category : History
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Negro Motorist Green Book by Victor H. Green Pdf

The Negro Motorist Green Book was a groundbreaking guide that provided African American travelers with crucial information on safe places to stay, eat, and visit during the era of segregation in the United States. This essential resource, originally published from 1936 to 1966, offered a lifeline to black motorists navigating a deeply divided nation, helping them avoid the dangers and indignities of racism on the road. More than just a travel guide, The Negro Motorist Green Book stands as a powerful symbol of resilience and resistance in the face of oppression, offering a poignant glimpse into the challenges and triumphs of the African American experience in the 20th century.

Author : Nancy Sleeth
Publisher : Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Human ecology
ISBN : 9781414326986

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Go Green, Save Green by Nancy Sleeth Pdf

Sleeth divulges hundreds of practical, easy-to-implement steps that create substantial money savings while protecting the Earth. She also demonstrates how going green helps people live more God-centered lives by becoming better stewards.

Author : Jen Gale
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-09
Category : House & Home
ISBN : 9781472969132

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The Sustainable(ish) Living Guide by Jen Gale Pdf

Easy, do-able, down to earth ideas and suggestions for everyone to help save the planet. If you want to save the planet, but your to-do list is already pretty long and remembering your re-usable coffee cup feels like a Herculean task, then this is the book for you. Covering every aspect of our lives from the stuff we buy and the food we eat to how we travel, work, and celebrate, this book provides stacks of practical, down to earth ideas to slot into your daily life, alongside a gentle kick up the butt to put your newfound knowledge into action. Practical tips include unsubscribing from all the tempting emails that drop into your inbox with details of the newest clothing range or the latest sale, and keeping a mug next to your kettle to work out how much water you actually need to boil each time, as over-filling kettles costs British households £68 million on energy bills each year. Find out how to fit "sustainable living" into your life, in a way that works for you. Change your impact without radically changing your life and figure out the small steps you can make that will add up to make a big difference (halo not included).

Author : Lisa French
Publisher : ABDO Publishing Company
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2009-09-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781617856808

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What Does it Mean to be Green? by Lisa French Pdf

E.P. thinks To-Be is beautiful! It is the place he wants to call home. After settling in the green apple tree, E.P. finds the town is not as eco-friendly as he'd hoped! He sets out to educate his new neighbors with tips on saving energy and recycling. Soon, everyone is on board to help protect our planet. Looking Glass Library is an imprint of Magic Wagon, a division of ABDO Group. Grades P-4.

Author : Richard Llewellyn
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2009-06-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781439164938

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How Green Was My Valley by Richard Llewellyn Pdf

"How Green Was My Valley" is Richard Llewellyn's bestselling -- and timeless -- classic and the basis of a beloved film. As Huw Morgan is about to leave home forever, he reminisces about the golden days of his youth when South Wales still prospered, when coal dust had not yet blackened the valley. Drawn simply and lovingly, with a crisp Welsh humor, Llewellyn's characters fight, love, laugh and cry, creating an indelible portrait of a people.

Author : Graham Hill,Meaghan O'Neill
Publisher : Villard
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2008-05-20
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780345507853

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Ready, Set, Green by Graham Hill,Meaghan O'Neill Pdf

The time to save the planet is now. Ready? Set? Green! Living green means reversing climate change, but it also means protecting your kids and pets, improving your own health, and saving money. And it doesn’t necessarily demand a radical overhaul of your life–just some simple adjustments, such as switching to healthier cleaning products and driving fewer miles each week. Written by the visionaries at Treehugger.com, the most heavily trafficked site of its kind, Ready, Set, Green is the definitive (and recyclable) guide to modern green living. It offers solutions to make your home, office, car, and vacation more eco-friendly. For example: • Using a dishwasher instead of hand washing will save you 5,000 gallons of water annually. • Eating less beef will save you 250 pounds of CO2 per year. • Washing your clothes in cold water instead of hot will save 200 pounds of CO2 annually. • Replacing three of your home’s most frequently used lightbulbs with compact fluorescent bulbs will save 300 pounds of CO2 every year. Including advice on how to properly insulate your house, cancel junk mail, and choose fruits and veggies wisely, Ready, Set, Green will help you change the future of the planet and restore balance to your daily life.

Author : Katherine Wheatley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0956969313

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The Not So Green Queen by Katherine Wheatley Pdf

Author : Kendra Pierre-Louis
Publisher : Ig Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : House & Home
ISBN : 193543943X

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Green Washed by Kendra Pierre-Louis Pdf

The message that the environment is in peril has filtered from environmental groups to society's consciousness to shopping trolleys. The green consumer movement is everywhere, yet few are asking whether this is actually any better for the planet. By examining the major economic sectors of society, Green Washed explains that consumers cannot simply buy their way to sustainability. A new and unique take on green consumption, readers are shown that buying better is only the first step towards obtaining a truly green lifestyle.

Author : Brian Keane
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780762790593

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Green Is Good by Brian Keane Pdf

Here is a no-nonsense guide to how you, the average American, can easily make clean energy and energy efficiency part of your daily life, saving money, making money, and weaning your community off fossil fuels in the process. Energy guru Brian F. Keane walks you through the cost-benefit trade-offs of the exciting new technologies and introduces you to revolutionary clean-energy products on the horizon, making the ins and outs of renewable energy easily accessible. Featuring compelling, real-life stories that bring clean-energy problems and solutions from 30,000 feet to street level, Green Is Good walks you that last mile from awareness to adoption. It demonstrates how all of us can seize the opportunity and profit from it. Keane also discusses the challenges that clean energy faces, laying out time-tested strategies to overcome them. A renewable energy future isn’t just good for the environment; it’s good for the economy, and Green Is Good will show you how—before it’s too late.