Little Green Handbook: 145 Simple Steps to Save the Planet

Concern for the environment is now universal with hundreds of thousands of people altering their lifestyles to more eco-friendly behaviors. The principles of 'reduce, reuse and recycle' are widespread and becoming embedded in community policies and federal standards affecting the home, office, garden, travel, consumerism-based shopping, art and architecture. In "The Little Green Handbook", environmental activist Ruth Cullen has compiled 145 simple, easy, practical, and effective steps that anyone can use for the benefit of preserving and improving the environment upon which all live depends. From such elemental ideas as scraping plates before loading them into dishwashers and taking shorter showers in order to conserve water, to turning off lights when leaving rooms and setting timers for outdoor lighting of driveways and walkways to conserve energy, to using e-mail instead of snail-mail to conserve energy and paper, to joining a farmer's cooperative, using cloth shopping bags and diapers, to supporting 'green business', "The Little Green Handbook" is packed from first page to last with solid recommendations fully explained. As with all the Peter Pauper Press 'Little Book' titles, "The Little Green Handbook" is spiral bound to lay out flat, comes with a handy elastic band place holder, and is only 4-1/4 x 5-3/4 inches in size making it, quite literary, able to fit into a pocket. Simply stated, "The Little Green Handbook" is an ideal and highly recommended, environmentally conscious gift.