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The Green Book: The Everyday Guide to Saving the Planet One Simple Step at a Time
by Elizabeth Rogers, Thomas M. Kostigen
from Three Rivers Press

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• Good for the environment, bad for your wallet
  Great premise. Easy to read. Divided into chapters such as health and beauty, home, etc. Great practical tips on how to help the environment. However, some of the tips won't help your wallet. ie. get voicemail instead of an answering machine. Voicemail is about $20 a month so $240/year while an answering machine is $60 one time purchase.

• the green book
  This is a great book for the everyday person trying to do their part is saving the planet. The small things seem so easy, I wondered why I hadn't been doing it all along. Also some unique ideas for around your home.

• Not bad, resources are most useful part
  The green book has been featured on TV shows and is a New York Times bestseller. Written by Elizabeth Rogers and Thomas M. Kostigen, I wondered whether it has anything to do with the celebrity quotes and endorsements from people such as Cameron Diaz, Robert Redford, Jennifer Aniston and Justin Timberlake?
  Firstly the book is green, not just in colour but also it's printed on 100% recycled paper. Subtitled as `the everyday guide to saving the planet one simple step at a time' the book is more about... more info

• The best advice in this book is to not buy this book
  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... more info

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