Go green, spend less, live better
Subtitle: the ultimate guide to saving the planet, saving money, and protecting your health
By: Crissy Trask
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9781620872109
Subjects: Organic living; Green products; Citizen participation; Environmental aspects; Sustainable living; Environmental protection
Other titles: Ultimate guide to saving the planet, saving money, and protecting your health
Description: Go Green, Spend Less, Live Better is an authoritative, practical guide that details the money-saving side of greener, healthier, and simpler living. Bestselling author of It's Easy Being Green and sustainable-living expert Crissy Trask provides a prescriptive handbook for making better decisions about our homes, how we get around, what we eat, and how we behave as consumers, in order to simultaneously achieve two desirable and imperative goals - to be better off financially and to do what is good for the planet.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-260) and index.
Table of contents: title: Green living is ... not exclusive; title: Getting off to a good start; title: Energy efficiency pays : Walls, windows, doors, and roof, a.k.a. Your home's "envelope" ; Major appliances and systems ; Lighting and electronics; title: Getting from here to there without breaking the bank; title: Stop flushing money down the drain; title: Healthy food can be affordable; title: Anything you can buy new is cheaper used; title: Adding it all up.