Product Description

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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #7399 in Books
• Published on: 2007-06-19
• Released on: 2007-06-19
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 224 pages

From Booklist
Environmental matters get the star treatment in The Green Book. Rogers and Kostigen address the fact that Americans endanger the balance of the ecosystem by the amount of waste we produce, the amount of water we use, and the amount of energy we consume, and celebrities, including Robert Redford, Ellen DeGeneres, Jennifer Aniston, Faith Hill, and Dale Earnhardt Jr., contribute observations and suggestions for living green. In the hope that the glamour of the A-list will make discussion of environmental challenges more palpable, Rogers and Kostigen establish 12 aspects of our habitat, such as home, work, and school, and suggest better lifestyle choices in each arena. Small adjustments in the way we consume and dispose of resources add up to significant and positive environmental effects. Illustrating the results of green actions with descriptive rather than numerical analyses, Rogers and Kostigen write, for example, that if everyone in the U.S. used one less paper napkin per day, in a year's time we would have saved one billion pounds of landfill waste. An outstanding resource, The Green Book offers hope and practical suggestions. Crossland, Pamela

Customer Reviews

It was alright
It wasn't as good as I thought it was going to be. 90% of the stuff in here was common sense or stuff our parents taught us years and years ago. I ended up passing it on to a friend who was talking about buying it herself. Thought I'd save her some cash and maybe save yet another book from going in the trash.

Hop on the Green Bandwagon with the Poster Children of Trends: Celebrities!
This book is decent in the following ways:
--It's mostly a tip book; there are some irrelevant "essays" or blurbs provided by some of today's popular celebrities (like Tyra Banks, Ellen Degeneres) but fortunately, you can skip them

--For the most part, it's an optimistic book. It just offers ideas that make you more aware of the way you're living and ways you can change it. It means well enough

--The Book is printed with 100% postconsumer recycled paper/fiber

BUT

This book is horrible in the following ways:

--In terms of Eco-Living Guides, this book is hands down awful! It's insulting to a reader who really wants to change their way of living (they want you to put down $13 to tell you that when you aren't in the room to shut off your lights to save energy.... Really?!).

--The book is 200 pages but more than a quarter of it is simply references for info like that above... honestly

--This book could've been written in 3 words: Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle. Instead this book beat those three magic words to death by nit picking every aspect of your life (ex. instead of just saying "buy recycled school supplies," each supply has its own tip, "buy recycled paper" "buy recycled binders")

--The tips are regurgitated throughout, for instance the same tip to "reuse your paper clips" is found in the sections for both the office
and school

--While it means well with its tips, it could have been much more helpful. For instance, if they recommend us to buy recycled office supplies, it would've been nice to provide the reader for some places or websited to actually BUY recycled office supplies. Instead, they stayed generic and offer the reader nothing

--Plus, it's so bad that it has to get some celebrity opinions so it could desperately draw an audience.

So overall, this book is terrible. This book was written for people who want in on the "Green" trend and get that warm fuzzy feeling without it really changing their current lifestyle. I would not recommend this book to someone who really wants to make a difference in their life and take the "Green" trend seriously.

Going green
This book gives you "realistic" tips. Good guide to become a better planet friendly person.