365 Ways to Live Green: Your Everyday Guide to Saving the Environment

by Diane Gow Mcdilda

It's the choices we make every day that affect our world tomorrow

365 Ways to Live Green offers an extended list of opportunities to live with more care for the environment by educating, inspiring and motivating people to look at the choices that are made everyday, and challenging them to change their habits. Broken down into 365 tips, with two concise points per page, readers can use this book to learn to make better everyday choices, from picking safer cleaning products to alternative holidays—this is everyone's all-purpose guide to green living.

Genres: Self Help, Nonfiction, Reference, Green

224 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2008

Reviews

[Rachel · Rating 2 out of 5]

The information was good but the presentation was not. It jumped from chunk to chunk of information. It didn’t flow and it was too much of an overload that parts were hard to process or relate to. Reads like a chunky to do list almost.

[Nancy · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was great. It is concise little paragraphs that give you actually usable tips and things to think about. So many of these books have too many things that the average person cannot afford to do but this covers all income brackets and locations. It breaks down into themes for each chapter. Home, work, school, holidays, etc. That alone was very useful. There is even a section on volunteering and one on finances including investing. Because of the format it was a fairly quick read. I kept pausing in my reading to go look into some of the items more in depth or to try them out. I think the best part of this one is the facts nehind what they tell you are also given. Too many come off preachy and do not tell you why some little or big change can matter but this one keeps it concise but does include the reasoning. I did laugh at how some old things are new again when it got to holiday wrapping paper. As a small child I can remember our Christmas presents were always wrapped in the Sunday comics. I am the youngest of 6 kids. Little children could care less how a package looks. To see it being done as a way to help the planet cracked me up. We did it to save money. They do have a point that many do not realize. Most of the holiday wrapping paper is not recyclable. You will learn a good bit from this one.

[Slee · Rating 2 out of 5]

I found some of the information outdated and biased, and most of the ideas are the exact same ones you've read everywhere else. If this is your first green living book, it makes for a quick read, but if it isn't, then there isn't much new in it.

The end of life section didn't sit well with me because the information is outdated to the point of inaccurate with regards to cremation procedures, and since most studies in the last 5 years have favored cremation over traditional interment, I felt that section was misleading.

I appreciated that the book tried to deal with all aspects of life, but the inclusion of specific product website recommendations felt a little too commercial for me.

[Joshua Sawyer · Rating 1 out of 5]

This was not a book of things you could do, so much as a book of random pieces of information drawn together by a common thread. This is evident straight from the first point which simply describes the fact that shockingly this is not a new problem… There’s nothing you can do about that and there is no task given… Just a description of the problem. I learned all this in high school… I was looking for a book of things to do not a book of rehashed talking points.

[Sufiyyah Zulkifli · Rating 4 out of 5]

many simple things/actions but hard to bear if we follow the current trends.
contextual asepct; for U.S.A. i can apply some but need to do further research.
yeah. i wanna be a park ranger!! (they said i can be anything after graduated from teacher training college! :3)

[Sharon · Rating 2 out of 5]

Really stretching the 365, but some good ideas

[Corvi Urling]

This is an easy read with some great ideas on how to reduce your carbon footprint

[Fletch · Rating 2 out of 5]

80% crazy and 20% summary level less than u already know about the topic if it not dated