There is no end of green guides on the market telling you how to live a bit more respectfully on old Momma Earth. There are guides for kids, couples, parents, seniors, fashionistas and even guides geared towards lazy environmentalists. However, not all green guides are created equally.
One that rises head and shoulders above the rest is David Suzuki’s Green Guide: How to find fresher, tastier, healthier food, create an eco-friendly home, make sustainable transportation choices, reduce consumption, and be a green citizen. Aside from having the longest subtitle of any green book, this eco friendly living guide, written by one of Canada’s top environmental scientists in conjunction with environmental lawyer and author David R. Boyd, offers absolutely everything you need to know to successfully green your lifestyle.
Perhaps what makes this guidebook different is it moves beyond offering easy-breezy lifestyle tips and gets into the nuts, bolts and environmental ramifications of the choices we make.
David Suzuki’s Green Guide is divided into seven chapters – Help Wanted (Join the Sustainability Revolution), Home Smart Home, Food For Thought (Eating a Planet-friendly Diet), Travelling Light, Less Stuff (The Zero Waste Challenge), Citizen Green and Smaller Footprint, Bigger Smile.
“Everything we do has some kind of impact, but some decisions and actions are more important than others. Nearly all of us want to do the right thing when it comes to the environment, but few of us have the time or specialist knowledge necessary to shift through the competing claims and mountains of information about the greenest choices,” explain the authors.
David Suzuki’s Green Guide starts with a great overview of carbon footprints (North Americans have the largest in the world – surprise!), explaining how much electricity is used per capita, average water consumption and carbon dioxide generated per capita. As startling as this section may be to individuals that are new to the movement, the authors are optimistic that we can live harmoniously on the planet as long as we are willing to make a few simple changes.
“By using our unique foresight, we can envision a different future, a sustainable future. After a destructive period of human arrogance, we are on the brink of an environmental revolution inspired by the wisdom and genius of nature. By patterning our economy after the natural world, which has had almost 4 billion years to work out the wrinkles, we can achieve a sustainable society that can endure and flourish for countless generations to come,” write the authors.
Suzuki and Boyd have done the hard work and provide, in easy to follow chapters, all that is required to green your life – from your food to your home to your travel options to finding the ability to lend your voice to making changes in your own community.
David Suzuki’s Green Guide also reinforces what many of us already know – that there really is no option for our global society but to go green, and the sooner the better. North Americans, with the largest carbon footprint in the world, have a moral imperative to do everything they can to live more lightly on the planet.
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Publisher: GreyStone Books
Pages: 175
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