Following are some reading recommendations if you want to get fully aligned with the green bandwagon. And for those who want to take the initial step in greening up their world, see if you can find your reference materials available via an electronic reader like the Kindle or Apple iPad instead of the paper copies.Living Green: A practical Guide to Simple Sustainability (Greg Horn, Jordan Rubin) is a practical guide for living green offers advice and solutions you can easily put into practice, like the 10 foods you should always eat organic to avoid pesticides, herbicides, hormones and antibiotics; affordable and practical ways to offset your “carbon footprint” and neutralize your personal impact on global warming; the most chemically-intensive personal care, household cleaning and lawn care products, and their effective natural alternatives; how soft plastic water bottles hurt your health, your pocket book and our environment, with a simple and refreshing alternative; how a simple carbon filter can dramatically improve your everyday health and potentially add years to your life. The truth about hybrids and flex fuels; why an organic mattress is the most important health investment you can make. Foreword by Jordan Rubin, New York Times best-selling author of The Maker’s Diet.Easy Green Living: The Ultimate Guide to Simple, Eco-Friendly Choices for You and Your Home (Renee Loux) demonstrates that being green at home is easy, affordable, and better in every sense of the word. The author discusses the daily choices we face that can keep the home, personal care, and beauty routines free of toxins. She exposes the dirt on cleaning products and common hazardous ingredients and reveals her recommendations for greener options, including her “Green Thumb Guides” for choosing non-toxic, eco-smart, and human-friendly products. Peppered with compelling and inspiring facts, Easy Green Living is full of “5 Step” lists, products and recipes for green cleaning, helpful charts, safer choices for every room, and inspirational advice so we can save the planet–one cleaning spritz at a time.The Green Intention: Living in Sustainable Joy (Sandy Moore) provides the guidelines and tools necessary to pinpoint and redirect the root intention toward a green life. Let s face it, change is difficult and the purpose of The Green Intention is to help people change their thoughts, actions, and habits from the source where the core intention drives their actions.Green Guide Families: The Complete Reference for Eco-Friendly Parents (Catherinie Zandonella) addresses the key environmental issues faced by parents of young children today and takes a straightforward approach to such urgent concerns as lead-painted toys; the risks and benefits of vaccinations, antibiotics, and vitamins; the potential side effects of plastic bottles and containers; how to manage food allergies and avoid fat- and sugar-filled snacks; and much more. A trained scientist, seasoned writer, and mother of two small children, author Catherine Zandonella combines knowledge and experience as she helps parents guide youngsters through a society that doesn’t always make green lifestyle choices easy. She also offers sensible advice on raising children who “think green” right from the start and shows how green choices can actually cost less.The Lazy Environmentalist: Your Guide to Easy, Stylish, Green Living (Josh Dorfman) provides comprehensive guidance to fashion-forward consumers who are as concerned about the long-term health of our planet as they are about the design of their bathroom fixtures. Covering topics that range from clothing to electronic gadgetry, home decor to recreation, and gardening to financial investment, Dorfman lets us know which trends to watch and which eco-conscious productscars, toothbrushes, cell phones, pet accessoriesto buy. Green, it turns out, can be an extremely stylish color. The author is the creator and host of The Lazy Environmentalist, a nationally broadcast radio show on Sirius Satellite Radio’s LIME Network that informs consumers about cutting-edge, eco-friendly products and ser
