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Green Living: A Practical Guide to Eating, Gardening, Energy Saving and Housekeeping for a Healthy Planet
This invaluable guide explains how to lead a more organic lifestyle by making just a few simple changes to a daily routine.
- GenresNonfiction
192 pages, Paperback
First published October 28, 2002
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February 7, 2021
Very like other books with "green" and "life" or "living" or "home" in their titles. Not worse nor better than the others, just... okay and fine. Sure, check it out.
Specific remarks (page numbers using the edition I borrowed):
Page 38: I learned something new: [L]inoleum is a good natural flooring option, made of softwood powder, linseed oil, pine tree resins, cork, chalk and jute backing. WHAT? I'd thought all linoleum was plastic.
Page 60: On not overloading your fridge: Many items that are commonly put in the fridge may not need to be there at all, such as bread, root vegetables or fruit cordials. And so now I say, who lives this life, refrigerator overflowing - or at least commonly filled with - fruit cordials? This is when I began to suspect the book was not written for Americans.
Page 61: My "this may not be for me" feeling was further and delightfully enhanced when reading about haybox cooking and how Obviously it will take longer to cook this way - stews will take three to five hours, milk pudding around an hour. Lol. Milk pudding?
Page 62: Use a magnetic ball (...) to prevent calcification in washing machines. No idea what this is, but interested.
Pages 71, 72, 74, 75 and 97: Various natural (as in minerals and herbs and teas) remedies to mildew and ants and upset stomachs I plan to try.
Specific remarks (page numbers using the edition I borrowed):
Page 38: I learned something new: [L]inoleum is a good natural flooring option, made of softwood powder, linseed oil, pine tree resins, cork, chalk and jute backing. WHAT? I'd thought all linoleum was plastic.
Page 60: On not overloading your fridge: Many items that are commonly put in the fridge may not need to be there at all, such as bread, root vegetables or fruit cordials. And so now I say, who lives this life, refrigerator overflowing - or at least commonly filled with - fruit cordials? This is when I began to suspect the book was not written for Americans.
Page 61: My "this may not be for me" feeling was further and delightfully enhanced when reading about haybox cooking and how Obviously it will take longer to cook this way - stews will take three to five hours, milk pudding around an hour. Lol. Milk pudding?
Page 62: Use a magnetic ball (...) to prevent calcification in washing machines. No idea what this is, but interested.
Pages 71, 72, 74, 75 and 97: Various natural (as in minerals and herbs and teas) remedies to mildew and ants and upset stomachs I plan to try.
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February 12, 2008I love this book. An invaluable reference tool. This is the book that made me want to start my own little library because I wanted everyone I knew to read it but I didn't want to lend them my copy.
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