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Hey Mr. Green: Sierra Magazine's Answer Guy Tackles Your Toughest Green Living Questions

Hey Mr. Green: Sierra Magazine's Answer Guy Tackles Your Toughest Green Living Questions
By Bob Schildgen

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When is the right time to replace an old refrigerator? Is it okay to knit a sweater with acrylic yarn? Is it more environmentally correct to buy beer in bottles or cans? For the last several years, Bob Schildgen’s popular “Hey Mr. Green” column has tackled real-world questions from real people. Readers trust his answers, which are backed by Sierra Club’s research, but they also enjoy his realism and irreverent humor. This book distills the best of the column into one enormously useful and entertaining resource. It’s organized by subject — household issues, food and drink, transportation, reuse and recycling, and “big picture” environmental questions — making it easy to find answers to common questions. Whether puzzling over the intricacies of product life cycles or taking a reader to task for blasting his air conditioner, Hey Mr. Green is an indispensable, opinionated, and authoritative guide to minding one’s environmental footprint.

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #234593 in Books
  • Published on: 2008-03-17
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 216 pages

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Fun and quirky advice for green living 5
I've read Mr. Green's advice column in Sierra Magazine for years, and was eager to get a copy of his book. Just as I expected, it's chock full of answers to questions that have been on my mind for years, "How much paper do you really have to recycle in order to save one tree?" as well as new green quandaries that I'd never even considered "Is it better to buy your beer in bottles or in cans?" The book is written in a friendly, chatty style, answering real letters that readers have written in to Mr. Green over the years, and Mr. Green's quirky humor shines through. Instead of being a preachy book, it tackles tough questions in a light way, and helps give you good realiable ammunition to convince your friends & family to make greener choices (my favorite is when he does the cost benefit analysis of turning off your lights when you leave a room-- over 10 years, you will save over $2,600! If that doesn't convince your relatives & friends to save electricity, I don't know what will!). This would be a good gift for anyone you know who is trying to live a more green lifestyle.

Great reference and gift5
Good, straight forward tips for greening our lives. Bob Schildgen mixes in some humor and doesn't get preachey.

He's spunky.3
Mr. Green knows how to fight back when an inquiry requires it. He's certainly funny and knowledgeable about the underlying political forces that prevent sensible measures from being widely adapted. It's great that he is not discouraged in the face of those "stake holders" and others of us that simply have trouble changing very old habits and mind sets, but want to blame it on something else. For those who do know more about what we all should be doing, he covers little content that is new, but I still found it a fun read and picked up a few new good web sites for future reference. Best of all, I was encouraged to be a bit more spunky myself by his spirited commentary.