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Do one green thing : saving the earth through simple, everyday choices / by Mindy Pennybacker
New Book Shelf: GE195.5 .P46 2010

This straightforward guide provides multiple lists on good and bad choices for dozens of products and uses. From an opening chapter on just why bottled water is the wrong choice in very nearly every instance imaginable to sections on fish, meat, and produce, Pennybacker includes not only “Choose it/Lose it” tablesbut also clearly elucidates why one should reach for canned wild salmon caught in Alaska
as opposed to its farmed equivalent from the eastern seaboard.

As a former editor for The Green Guide, a National Geographic Web site,
Pennybacker has the ecoqualifications to back up her assertions, and she also includes plenty of source notes and Web site references. Most importantly, she assumes nothing about her readership other than a curiosity about green
living, and tackles everything while creating her lists from unionmade
goods to humane living conditions to cancer-causing ingredients. The format and language are clear, and the outlook is determined as Pennybacker lays it all on the line for those eager to change,and leaves readers with no excuses for not starting immediately.
(reviewed by Colleen Mondor for Booklist 2/15/2010)

Check out Do one green thing : saving the earth through simple, everyday choices, available now in the library on the New Book Shelf GE195.5 .P46 2010