Save Our Planet: 750 Everyday Ways You Can Help Clean Up the Earth/25th Anniversary

by Diane MacEachern

Learn of ways to help clean up the earth with this informative book by Diane MacEachern. She includes helpful tips on planting trees, hiking, camping, and weatherizing your home.

Genres: Environment

228 pages, Paperback

Published December 16, 1991

About the author

Diane MacEachern is founder of www.biggreenpurse.com. She has advised the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, World Bank, World Wildlife Fund, and many other agencies and nonprofit organizations focused on protecting the planet. She lives in the Washington, D.C., suburbs in the energy-efficient home that she helped design and build more than twenty years ago."

Reviews

[Maurean · Rating 3 out of 5]

Little tips to be a bit more 'earth-friendly':
-It takes twenty trees to keep one baby in disposable diapers for two years. Each cloth diaper can be used anywhere from 80 to 200 times, and when finally disposed, takes only six months to decompose.

-SImply installing the most efficient tires available on the market today would improve the fuel economy of most cars by 1 to 3 mi./gal.

-Of the billion pounds of pesticides used each year in the U.S., less than 1% reaches a pest

[Kate Seader · Rating 3 out of 5]

Great for its time but a lot of the more technical information is outdated. Such as electronic email being a ‘new thing’ or comparing fuel oil prices. Still good ways to get started and interesting to see how far we have come and what was expected of us vs what really happened.

[Kika · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is the one that got me started, way back in the early 90's