Going Green: True Tales from Gleaners, Scavengers, and Dumpster Divers

GOING GREEN: TRUE TALES FROM CLEANERS, SCAVENGERS, AND DUMPSTER DIVERS has gathered the work of over twenty writers who tell their personal accounts of Dumpster driving, eating road kill, salvaging bottles and recycled materials, and more. These stories consider ways in which people can 'go green' and underlying issues of priorities and cultural influences on the process, making for a fine probe of what really defines 'green' actions. General lending libraries will find it intriguing.

Gleaning tales! Gleaning from refuse, people, relatives, rich people. Stories full of emotion and desire to do better for the world. Change your life and read this!

I love this book! It's full of fun, fascinating ways that people incorporate gleaning into their lives. The essays are wonderfully written -- they made me laugh and smile and feel inspired. Best of all, they reminded me of the magical, childlike thrill you get when you discover forgotten or discarded treasures-- or find wildly creative new uses for something like used teabags. The essays also bring you deeper into the issue of how much waste our society creates-- and give you lots of great information to think about and discuss. This book has sparked wonderful conversations between my husband and me-- and the way we interact with all the "stuff" in our lives has changed! For one thing, our trash can fills up much less quickly now...