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Does that mean the tips are not valuable. So, three stars because the book is great for a green newbie. If everyone made small changes, collectively, it would have a significant impact.On the other hand, I don't really believe that David Bach is really an environmentalist. For example, if I wanted advice on how to raise my children, I'd prefer to get it from someone who was passionate about kids even if the person who didn't care about kids also had good information. I have mixed feelings about this book.
Anyone who truly lives a green lifestyle knows that it's not really cheaper to be green. Then he somehow extrapolated that to his gas guzzling SUV and then to children and saving the planet. It actually costs more, but you're willing to pay for it because it's the right thing to do. One star if you already know the tip about the light bulbs. No, but they are very simplistic. It's a pretty book, it's easy to read and it's definitely aimed at people who are new to the environmental movement.
On one hand, it presents a simple list of green things to do and it probably reaches an audience who would not normally think about doing them. His co-author however, Hillary Rosner, is the one with the credentials. I just feel there should be more integrity behind the message. For that, I applaud it. I think most people know now that fluorescent light bulbs use less energy. This book feels very packaged, like Bach's publisher decided they needed to cash in on the green trend so they dug up an environmental writer, and then pasted Bach's name on the book.
He claims his epiphany was a sick building he was in. It seems she probably wrote the whole book and David Bach wrote the intro section.Having just self-published my own book, I've been learning a lot about the publishing industry and some it is very eye-opening.
This is an elementary book. He does mention "Grow your own food", which some peak oil experts say will become necessary in the years ahead. Here is another one, with David Bach's "Go Green, Live Rich". He presents 50 different ways of living life in a more earth-friendly manner.
He talks in terms of pollution and global warming, when the running out of fossil fuels is by far a worse problem. In the past 50 years we have lived a wasteful lifestyle. He does not go into the details of solar panels, for instance, as to whether you have southern exposure, the dimensions required and so forth, for example.I still think this is a good book to get if you want to get started with living more within our planet's means. Everywhere you look there is a URL that you can access to find more about the subject. Some of the statistics tend to be hyperbolic. Don't use huge illion numbers when a percentage gives a truer picture.
Further, he provides a way you can calculate your planetary footprint.The biggest advantage of this book is the large number of references it gives. We throw lots of stuff into the landfills and use a lot of energy and fossil fuels. His emphasis is on driving cars, maintaining lawn and so forth with less fossil fuels, even though we may not be able to drive at all when impending oil shortages occur. Although gasoline-powered mowers do use fossil fuels, they pale in insignificance compared to the usage in automobiles.Like most green endeavors, this book does not go far enough. In this case, 800 million gallons is around 19 million barrels of oil; since Americans use 8 billion barrels a year, this is 0.23% of the total. For example, Americans use 800 million gallons of gasoline in lawn mowers. But I think a slant towards living within our resource means and a warning about the impending fuel shortage would improve the book.
There has been a movement in favor of using our resources in a more thrifty manner, with the color green applied to this movement because it is the color of vegetation. There is a list of references at the end of the book. Further, he advocates driving hybrids, using solar panels, and using CFLs without considering the possibilities of shortages of lithium, nickel, tellurium, indium, and other resources this might cause and the possibility of mercury pollution from CFLs. We hear of all kinds of ways we can save the environment. In the future we simply will not have all these resources to use. Bach provides references for many of the statistics he provides us, so the book is well documented.I think the book would be improved if it had a table of contents so you can go quickly to the area you want. Some examples include "Grow a Greener Lawn", "Switch to Compact Fluorescent Bulb", and "Upgrade to a Hybrid". Mr.
First I have to admit I did NOT purchase this title from Amazon. All the info in the book should be common knowledge by now. (If I can get it used I don't buy "new." - That's "green".right).Now about the book. Where has the author been until now.
The info is good - it's all (been) available elsewhere.One thing the author "could have" included on his list of green behaviors: Guys, get a vasectomy. Or have some people really not gotten the memo yet. Now they're finally waking up to the new reality. all the environmental problems we face today (all of them) stem from one simple fact: over population, and American kids consume a vastly disproportionate share of global resources. Better late than never I suppose. I bought it at a local used bookstore - where I buy most of the books I read.
Or perhaps this is aimed at the crowd who swallowed the line (promulgated by Limbaugh, et al) that climate change was a liberal myth. "Late to the party, much." I can't believe the publication date on this is 2008. Is he just cashing in on the most recent "green" movement.
from the 3 books that I purchased is the one that I let a friend borrow so I have not see it jet, sorry
I am by no means an environmentalist or "Green", but I love to live frugally and simply, this book really made me think in ways that I have not in the past. Bach pulls it off nicely showing how living "green" causes one to quit over consuming and save money that can be invested for growth over the years. I am an avid investor and stock trader but he introduced me to green mutual funds and ETFs that I had never heard of. Whether it is saving $884 a year by getting a car with better gas mileage or $2,250 a year by bringing your lunch to work, you will be reducing Co2 emissions and trash into landfills.
The book is a great addition to your library of David Bach books or as a stand alone book for anyone that is unfamiliar with David Bach's advice. I highly recommend reading this book to people interested in wealth building and to environmentalists (this is a new spin, a convenient truth:going green saves money). His final piece of advice is to start your green business if you have a million dollar idea of how to do something better to save the earth. I do not know of any other book on the market that combines environmentalism with creating personal wealth.
He also believes that green companies will be great investments in 21st century the way tech stocks were for the late 80's and 90's. I am looking forward to David Bach's next book. Mr. The book shows fifty quick and easy ways that living more simply will save you money while saving the earth.
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