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Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
by William McDonough and Michael Braungart  
Powells.com Staff Pick "An eco-sustainable manifesto. The next Industrial Revolution will be Green!" Scott Smith, Powells.com...
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How to Reduce Your Carbon Footprint: 500 Simple Ways to Save Energy, Resources, and Money
by Joanna Yarrow Publisher Comments How to Reduce Your Carbon Footprint is the world citizen's guide to pushing back the advance of global warming. This colorful handbook offers 500 practical, easily achievable ideas that conserve energy, prevent pollution, and save money. Did you know...
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Organic Housekeeping: In Which the Nontoxic Avenger Shows You How to Improve Your Health and That of Your Family, While You Save Time, Money
by Ellen Sandbeck Publisher Comments Longing for a kinder, gentler world? As the old saying goes, everything begins at home, and odds are, if you live in the all-American household, the air inside is more toxic than the air outside, even if you live in the most polluted of cities. You...
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Gorgeously Green: 8 Simple Steps to an Earth-Friendly Life
by Sophie Uliano Publisher Comments Are you confused by all the advice you hear and see daily on how to "go green"? Do you want to incorporate earth-friendly practices into your life, but you don't know where to start? Don't stress! Green guru Sophie Uliano has sorted through all the eco...
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Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century
by Alex Steffen Publisher Comments Worldchanging is packed with information, resources, reviews, and ideas that give readers access to the tools they need to build a better future. Written by a diverse collaborative of innovators, Worldchanging demonstrates that the means for making a...
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The Northwest Green Home Primer: Hundreds of Ideas for Building, Remodeling and Buying Green
by Kathleen O'Brien and Kathleen Smith Publisher Comments Everyone can make green home decisions on a budget with this inspiring, information-packed guide. Whether you are building, remodeling, buying, or just curious, here are real-world strategies for getting the greenest results from your budget, with...
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Tips from the Old Country Folk
by Elizabeth Drury Synopsis This lively little volume contains wisdom from yesterday's families, living off the land and providing for all their own needs. Hundreds of interesting, fun tidbits of advice for living the self-sufficient life....
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Go Green: How to Build an Earth-Friendly Community
by Nancy H. Taylor Publisher Comments The world is a better place because Nancy Taylor is in it. In this much-needed and most welcome book, Taylor provides simple, clear stories about powerful ways we can change our daily lives to leave the world of the future better than that of the past...
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Green Housekeeping
by Ellen Sandbeck Publisher Comments Want a low-maintenance bathroom that takes 30 seconds a day to clean? Need whiter whites that get whiter for free? Learn to live in a clean, healthy, more economical -- and Earth-friendly -- way with Ellen Sandbeck's Green Housekeeping, the must-have...
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Easy Green Living: The Ultimate Guide to Simple, Eco-Friendly Choices for You and Your Home
by Renee Loux Publisher Comments We are what we eat, but we also are what we use to clean our homes, pamper our skin, and decorate our rooms, according to Renée Loux, accomplished raw food chef, award-winning author, and host of Fine Living TV's Easy Being Green. In her new...
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Green This! Volume 1: Greening Your Cleaning
by Deirdre Imus Publisher Comments Change the way you clean and keep your family's home wholesome and healthy with the help of expert and activist Deirdre Imus. We all grew up thinking chemical smells like bleach and ammonia signaled "clean." But as Deirdre Imus reveals, some of the...
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Green Up Your Cleanup: The Green House
by Jill Potvin Schoff Publisher Comments It is easy being green. Find out how to tackle household cleaning tasks without using harmful chemicals....
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Green Living: The E Magazine Handbook for Living Lightly On the Earth
by The Editors of E: The Environmental Magazine Publisher Comments The Whole Earth Catalog for the next generation. Experts suggest that by 2005, 40 percent of American homes will buy organic, yet a large majority have only a limited knowledge of how to actually make informed, green choices. Green Living, from the...
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A Handmade Life: In Search of Simplicity
by Wm Coperthwaite Publisher Comments William Coperthwaite is a teacher, builder, designer, and writer who for many years has explored the possibilities of true simplicity on a homestead on the north coast of Maine. In the spirit of Henry David Thoreau, Emily Dickinson, and Helen and Scott...
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Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: An Easy Household Guide (Chelsea Green Guides)
by Nicky Scott Publisher Comments REDUCE, REUSE, RECYCLE: AN EASY HOUSEHOLD GUIDETHE CHELSEA GREEN GUIDES—A NEW SERIES OF POCKET-SIZED BOOKS TO HELP SAVE THE EARTH!Do you know what to do with your old cell phone? Where you can responsibly dispose of old medicines? What happens to...
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The Organic Suburbanite: An Environmentally Friendly Way to Live the American Dream
by Warren Schultz Publisher Comments Ask the tough questions. How can I cut down on energy use in my kitchen? What should I use to unclog the bathroom sink? Which cars create the least pollution? Should I or shouldn't I fertilize my lawn? These are just a few of the issues that families...
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Reflections in Bulloughs Pond
by Diana Muir Synopsis From the vantage point of a nearby pond in Newton, Massachusetts, Muir reconstructs an intriguing interpretation of New England's natural history and the people who have lived there since pre-Columbian times, illuminating the interplay between the...
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It's Easy Being Green: A Handbook for Earth-Friendly Living
by Crissy Trask Publisher Comments Surveys find that over 80 percent of Americans agree with the goals of the environmental movement. Sadly, most Americans admit to doing little more than basic recycling when it comes to acting on that disposition. What is the reason for this great divide...
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Better Off: Flipping the Switch on Technology
by Eric Brende Publisher Comments What happens when a graduate of MIT, the bastion of technological advancement, and his bride move to a community so primitive in its technology that even Amish groups consider it antiquated? Eric Brende conceives a real-life experiment: to see if, in...
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Cottage Essentials: The Everything Guide for Your Cottage, Cabin or Camp
by Wayne Lennox Publisher Comments An essential addition to any cottage. Getting away to fish, swim, or just sit back with a tall drink and a good book is an enduring summer tradition. But for cottagers, docks and decks must be maintained, plumbing repaired and cabins and outhouses built....
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