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| Title: | Green is the New Black |
| Author: | Tasmin Blanchard with a foreword by Lily Cole |
| ISBN: | 9780340954300 |
| Publisher: | Hodder and Stoughton |
| Year of Publication: | 2007 |
| Cover: | Hardback |
| Pages: | 274 |
| Keywords: | Fashion Sustainable living |
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| Price: | £14.99 |
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Are you a fashionista with a conscience? Do you dream of cheap clothes that do not cost the earth? Would you love to be ethical, but hate to compromise on style? Smart and inspirational this book shows you can shop ethically and with style for clothes, shoes, bags and even holidays. This book explains the principles of ethical fashion, from why it matters to how to do it and includes fashion secrets from Stella McCartney and Anya Hindmarsh amongst others.
| Title: | A Slice of Organic Life |
| Author: | Editor in Chief Sheherazade Goldsmith |
| ISBN: | 978185130138 |
| Publisher: | Dorling Kindersley |
| Year of Publication: | 2007 |
| Cover: | Hardback |
| Pages: | 352 |
| Keywords: | Organic living, sustainability |
| Brief Summary: | A lovely introduction to some of the many organic ways to make life better. |
| Additional Reading: | If you really want to go for sustainable living, try John Seymour’s Concise Guide to Self Sufficiency or New Complete Guide to Self Sufficiency. |
| Price: | £16.99 |
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The back of the book reads “ Enjoy the pleasures to be had from even the smallest taste of organic living and feel good about what you can do, not guilty about what you can’t”. This book is fab! It is for ordinary people who will enjoy being able to pick and choose from the ideas that are proposed and is split into 3 sections (no garden, small garden or large garden). You don’t need to have rolling acres or a goat, but you may want both after reading this book. Every one of the suggestions is a self contained idea that you can try. It is likely to give you many ideas about what you could do next to change your life for the better in small but valuable ways.
| Title: | Eco-House Manual: How to carry out environmentally friendly improvements to your home |
| Author: | Nigel Griffiths |
| ISBN: | 9781844254057 |
| Publisher: | Haynes Publishing |
| Year of Publication: | 2007 |
| Cover: | Hardback |
| Pages: | 168 |
| Keywords: | DIY, Home improvements, Energy saving |
| Brief Summary: | A manual for helping you do everything from small repairs to major renovations in an eco-friendly way. |
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| Price: | £19.99 |
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Practical information including loads of diagrams and photographs about updating your existing home in an eco-friendly way. We have never known a Haynes Manual that was no good, and this one is no exception. We were wanting to insulate under our floor, but didn’t know whether we could use sheep’s wool or not. This book has shown us how to do it, and the table of possible materials that we could choose from includes wool. Sorted. Chapter headings include principles of eco-renovation, construction materials, reducing heat loss, heating, electricity demand, micro generation, water, interiors, waste and pollution, exterior spaces and gardens.
| Title: | Green Up: An A-Z of Environmentally Home Improvements |
| Author: | Will Anderson |
| ISBN: | 9781903998946 |
| Publisher: | Green Books |
| Year of Publication: | 2007 |
| Cover: | Paperback |
| Pages: | 144 |
| Keywords: | Home improvements, Green living |
| Brief Summary: | Green Up explains the pros and cons of the options and products that claim to be eco-friendly for those doing up a house. |
| Additional Reading: | Haynes Eco – House Manual |
| Price: | £7.95 |
| Postage: | FREE |
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The Green Books Guide series of books are all worth looking out for, as they provide great introductions to aspects of eco-living. Printed on 100% recycled paper, which is a good start, this book covers an amazing range of subjects in addition to boilers, conservatories, washing machines, painting and flooring. Less skilful photography and more information than many of the other books in the series, this is a basic introduction but covers a wide enough range of issues to be of value. Well written and accessible to a range of readers, it should give enough information to the reader to enable them to ask the right questions when shopping for home improvements.
| Title: | Reduce, Reuse Recycle: An easy household guide |
| Author: | Nicky Scott |
| ISBN: | 9781903998939 |
| Publisher: | Green Books |
| Year of Publication: | 2007 |
| Cover: | Paperback |
| Pages: | 96 |
| Keywords: | Green living |
| Brief Summary: | An invaluable guide for anyone who wants to slim their bin. |
| Additional Reading: | The 2008 edition of A Good Life by Leo Hickman. The old one was excellent and still worth the money, but wait for the new one if you can. |
| Price: | £4.95 |
| Postage: | FREE |
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The eco mantra that cannot be repeated often enough. Get the kids involved from an early age and they will be Eco-Friendly for life, and this is one that they will love. Reissued in colour for 2007, this book includes chapters about the 3 R’s, plus an A-Z guide, helpful organisations and useful websites. The Green Books Guide series of books are all worth looking out for, as they provide great introductions to aspects of eco-living.
| Title: | Water: Use less - save more |
| Author: | Jon Clift and Amanda Cuthbert |
| ISBN: | 9781903998878 |
| Publisher: | Green Books |
| Year of Publication: | 2006 |
| Cover: | Paperback |
| Pages: | 80 |
| Keywords: | Green living, conservation |
| Brief Summary: | This book gives you 100 water saving tips for your home and garden. |
| Additional Reading: | The 2008 edition of A Good Life by Leo Hickman. The old one was excellent and still worth the money, but wait for the new one if you can. |
| Price: | £3.95 |
| Postage: | FREE |
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The Green Books Guide series of books are all worth looking for, as they provide great introductions to aspects of eco-living. Starting with calculating how much water you use, and moving on to the kitchen, bathroom, garden…the suggestions are both practical and achievable. Produced in association with WaterAid, the book gives details of the major water shortages already being suffered by millions around the world. It ends with the words Conserve water – it’s all we have. As a brief practical guide this book cannot be bettered.
| Title: | Energy: Use less save more |
| Author: | Jon Clift and Amanda Cuthbert |
| ISBN: | 9781903998885 |
| Publisher: | Green Books |
| Year of Publication: | 2006 |
| Cover: | Paperback |
| Pages: | 80 |
| Keywords: | Green living |
| Brief Summary: | This book gives you 100 energy saving tips for the home. |
| Additional Reading: | Green Up by Will Anderson |
| Price: | £4.95 |
| Postage: | FREE |
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The Green Books Guide series of books are all worth looking out for, as they provide great introductions to aspects of eco-living. Chapters include measuring your energy consumption, cooking, heating, lighting, washing etc. It also gives details of small scale energy generation systems for home use.
| Title: | Save Cash & Save The Planet |
| Author: | Andrea Smith and Nicola Baird |
| ISBN: | 9780007194209 |
| Publisher: | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Year of Publication: | 2005 |
| Cover: | Paperback |
| Pages: | 448 |
| Keywords: | Green living |
| Brief Summary: | Compiled by Friends of the Earth, this is a guide to all manner of questions you may not find authoritative answers to elsewhere. |
| Additional Reading: | Change the world for a fiver by www.wearewhatwedo.org |
| Price: | £14.99 |
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If you are after something a little more in-depth but still practical and readable, this is the book for you. Loads of examples of money saving environmentally sustainable examples scatter the pages, the book is colourful and easy to dip in and out of. It would make a great present. Chapters include DIY, food, time out, finance and recycling. The resources chapter has a list of useful websites organised chapter by chapter. Suitable for adults and students aged 10+ for fact finding, project work and using on parents as a sure fire way of getting them to go green – kids - ask for whatever you save on the electricity bill to be added on to your pocket money.
| Title: | Oliver Heath’s Home Book |
| Author: | Oliver Heath |
| ISBN: | 9781844031122 |
| Publisher: | Cassell Illustrated |
| Year of Publication: | 2004 |
| Cover: | Hardback |
| Pages: | 256 |
| Keywords: | Interior Design |
| Brief Summary: | The interiors book for those wanting to create an individual home and incorporate eco-friendly features. |
| Additional Reading: | The Haynes Eco House Manual |
| Price: | £16.99 |
| Postage: | FREE |
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We heard this guy speak at one of the seminars at the Grand Designs show at the NEC, and he was inspirational in advocating the use of good eco friendly products and designs. This book should give anyone starting out on their first house or redecorating an existing house many ideas. It is essentially a design book, and includes chapters such as colour, lighting, flooring, bathrooms, living spaces etc, but includes a chapter about greener homes. Well presented with tons of good ideas, backed up with excellent photography, showing that it is possible live both stylishly and with an eco conscience.