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Sustainable Lifestyles
Books on all aspects of green lifestyles and consumer
choices. In addition to the obvious career, housing, transportation,
dietary and consumer purchasing decisions that impact sustainability,
everything from planning vacations to raising kids, from saving for
your retirement to planning your own funeral, can be undertaken in a
more environmentally sustainable manner. And a green lifestyle need
not be dull, boring, or drab, but instead it can be fun, colorful, and
stylish.
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Featured Books
Voluntary Simplicity . By Duane
Elgin. When Voluntary Simplicity was first published in 1981,
it quickly became recognized as a powerful and visionary work in the
emerging dialogue over sustainable ways of living. More... | Duane Elgin
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Big
Green Purse: Use Your Spending Power to Create a Cleaner, Greener World .
By Diane MacEachern.
Explains how women can harness the "power of their purse"
and intentionally shift spending to commodities that have the greatest
environmental benefit. Targets twenty products, including cars, cosmetics,
coffee, food, paper, appliances, and cleansers, where women's dollars
can make a dramatic difference. Provides easy-to-follow guidelines and
lists so women can choose the greenest option. More
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Simple
Prosperity: Finding Real Wealth in a Sustainable Lifestyle .
By David Wann. Shows how we
can overcome our addiction to excessive consumption. By rethinking monster
houses, excessive airplane travel, feedlot meat, and suburbs-without-stores,
we can reduce our "ecological footprint." Draws on the latest
research to document how social connections, good health, contact with
nature, stimulating work, leisure time, and great neighborhoods represent
our real wealth. More
| David Wann EcoSpeakers Info >>
The
Lazy Environmentalist: Your Guide to Easy, Stylish, Green Living .
By Josh Dorfman. Provides
comprehensive guidance to fashion-forward consumers who are as concerned
about the long-term health of our planet as they are about the design
of their bathroom fixtures. Covers topics that range from clothing to
electronic gadgetry, home decor to recreation, and gardening to financial
investment. More
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All, Be Kind: Raising a Humane Child in Challenging Times .
By Zoe Weil. Teaches parents
how to raise their children to be humane in the broadest sense -- to
become not only more compassionate in their interactions with family
and friends, but to grow up to make life choices that demonstrate respect
for the environment, other species, and all people. The book includes
chapters for early, middle, teenage, and young adult years, as well
as activities, issue sidebars, cases, tips, and profiles. More
| Zoe Weil EcoSpeakers Info >>
Affluenza:
The All-Consuming Epidemic .
By David Wann. A hard look
at the symptoms of affluenza, the history of its development into an
epidemic, and the options for treatment. This book will strike a chord
with anyone who realizes that more time is more valuable than toys,
and that our relentless quest for the latest stuff is breeding sick
individuals and sick societies. More...
| David Wann EcoSpeakers Info >>
Biologic:
Designing With Nature to Protect the Environment .
By David Wann. Explains why
we must all consider the environmental consequences of our individual
and community actions in everything from the simple tasks of our daily
lives to the construction techniques of major developments. In addition
to thinking logically, we must learn to think biologically. More...
| David Wann EcoSpeakers Info >>
Choosing
Simplicity: Real People Finding Peace and Fulfillment in a Complex World .
By Linda Breen Pierce. Pierce,
founder of a three-year Simplicity Study that followed the lives of
211 people, takes a close look at what it means to live more simply.
More...
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The
Complete Organic Pregnancy .
By Deirdre Dolan & Alexandra
Zissu. How pregnant women can minimize their exposure to invisible
toxins. Where dangerous chemicals are lurking, why it's so important
to avoid them when pregnant, and what can be done before, during, and
after a pregnancy to protect children. This exhaustively researched
book talks parents-to-be through everything from the safest laundry
detergent to which crib mattresses contain toxic flame retardants. How
to choose the right face cream, plastic water bottles, household cleaners,
types of fish, and much more. How to make a difference for your children,
even before they're born. More
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Cruise Ship Blues. By Ross
A. Klein. Cruising is one of the fastest growing industries
in the world. Cruise Ship Blues reveals its dark side and discusses
what can be done to make the cruise business socially and environmentally
accountable.
More... | Ross A. Klein
EcoSpeakers Info >>
Cruise
Ship Squeeze: The New Pirates of the Seven Seas .
By Ross A. Klein. Focuses
on the politics and economics of an industry subsidized by ports as
well as by local, regional, and national governments and running roughshod
over environmental and other laws and regulations. Through confidential
documents and meetings with port officials, corporate executives, politicians,
and industry insiders, it includes information never previously reported.
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EcoKids:
Raising Children Who Care for the Earth .
By Dan Chiras. Presents
a coherent plan that helps parents foster love for nature, teach children
the importance of environmental protection, promote environmental values,
and inspire actions that will last a lifetime. A hopeful guide for parents.
More
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Grave
Matters: A Journey Through the Modern Funeral Industry to a Natural
Way of Burial .
By Mark Harris. Advocates
green chemical-free burial and provides information on a variety of
environmentally friendly burial options. Avoiding embalming keeps funeral
waste out of our land and water, while burial in a shroud or cardboard
coffin saves trees, minerals and energy. More...
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Green
Babies, Sage Moms .
By Lynda Fassa. From the
trailblazing founder of Green Babies organic clothing comes this guide
for new mothers in raising a "green" family - and doing it
simply and inexpensively. Filled with necessary and convenient advice
that takes the reader from the first months of pregnancy and beyond.
More
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Humanity's
Environmental Future .
By Ross McCluney. Presents
the insights and skills most needed for humanity to reverse its destructive
course and make the needed changes before it is too late to stop the
worst of the consequences. Concludes with specific reform proposals
and positive suggestions for personal, group, and governmental action.
More...
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Reinventing
Community: Stories from the Walkways of Cohousing .
By David Wann. Describes life
in cohousing from the perspective of people who actually live in these
communities. Includes accounts of the difficulties encountered during
development and relates insights on living and growing with cohousing.
More
| David Wann EcoSpeakers Info >>
Rural
Renaissance: Renewing the Quest for the Good Life .
By John Ivanko & Lisa
Kivirist. Describing a contemporary approach to homesteading,
conservation and more sustainable living, Rural Renaissance will appeal
to a wide range of cultural creatives, conservation entrepreneurs and
both arm-chair and real-life homesteaders regardless of where they live.
More...
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Safe
Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming
Meltdown .
By David Steinman. Draws
the connection between personal health and a healthy environment and
argues both that global warming is a greater threat to national security
than terrorism and that a "sound environmental policy" will
enhance our standing in the world and strengthen our economy. More
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Save
Our Planet: 750 Everyday Ways You Can Help Clean Up the Earth .
By Diane MacEachern.
Covers a wide range of environmentally protective actions in home, apartment,
garden, garage, supermarket, school, office, and community. More...
| Diane MacEachern EcoSpeakers
Info >>
Sprawl
Kills: How Blandburbs Steal Your Time, Health And Money .
By Joel Hirschhorn.
About urban sprawl, land use, suburbia, automobile addiction, active
living, the sprawl industry, the sprawl lobby, and the healthy places
alternative to sprawl to improve your quality of life and physical and
mental health. More...
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Teaching
Kids to Change the World .
By Chris Maser. Offers educators
and youth-group leaders a means of inspiring social consciousness and
action among youth and teaches young people how to think, rather than
what to think. Equips educators with philosophical discussion questions,
concrete illustrations, and active examples. More
| Chris Maser EcoSpeakers Info >>
What
Can I Do?: An Alphabet For Living .
By Lisa Harrow. Provides
many suggestions for responsible living as well as web resources that
give detailed information on how to take each step. More
| Lisa Harrow EcoSpeakers Info
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