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Recommended Reading 1:

See what sort of advice people like Robert Redford, Ellen DeGeneres and Justin Timberlake have on ways to reduce your impact on the environment.  There are hundreds of solutions for every area of your life that are easy to implement and to understand - and the authors deliver it in a way that is fun and inspiring.  Read The Green Book: The Everyday Guide to Saving the Planet One Simple Step at a Time by Elizabeth Rogers and Thomas M. Kostigen.

For example:

• Did you know that 10% of the electricity used in your home is burnes by electronic devices and appliances when they are turned off?  Unplug your electronics when they are not in use…
• Luggage: Every additional ten punds per traveler requires an additional 350 million gallons of jet fuel per year!  That is enough to keep a 747 flying continuously for ten years.
• Eliminate plastic bags, plastic utensils and other disposable containers from your children’s lunch.  Use a reusable lunch box with reusable containers and cloth napkins.  You could save $250 a year and reduce the landfill!

For more information visit www.readthegreenbook.com

 Recommended Reading 2:

For the more serious reader, amny leading environmentalists recommend Paul Hawken’s new book - Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why No One Saw it Coming.

“Paul Hawken has spent over a decade researching organizations dedicated to restoring the environment and fostering social justice.  From billion - dollar nonprofits to single - person dot.causes, these groups collectively comprise the largest movement on earth, a movement that has no name, leader, or location, and that has gone largely ignored by politicians and the media….Blessed Unrest explores the diversity of the movement, its brilliant ideas, innovative strategies, and hidden history, which date back many centuries…Fundamentally, it is a description of humanity’s collective genius, and the unstoppable movement to reimagine our relationship to the environment and one another.” - Viking Press 

See www.paulhawken.com to learn more about Paul.