The Consumer's Guide to Effective Environmental Choices . The Consumer's Guide to Effective Environmental Choices Practical Advice from the Union of Concerned Scientists by Michael Brower, PhD, and Warren Leon, PhD Three Rivers Press, 1999.
Some choices have a formidable impact on the environment while others are negligible.
UCS's Consumer's Guide offers the first comprehensive look at the full range of modern consumer activities, identifying those that cause the most environmental damage and those that cause the least. Our book shows people how to focus on those consumer choices that will make the greatest difference to the environment. The book's findings are drawn from an analysis of the impacts of household spending on present levels of air pollution, water pollution, alteration of natural habitats, and global warming. Because cars cause so much harm, even modest changes matter. Maintaining our present food supply is second only to transportation as a source of consumer-related environmental damage.