Hot Christmas Gifts – The Green Book

With going “green” finally being recognized as vital, this book gives the matter serious attention. Contributors from Hollywood even share their best ideas. The authors, Elizabeth Rogers and Thomas M. Kostigen, look at the way Americans produce waste, utilize water and consume energy and offer easy to implement changes.

Some of Hollywood’s finest – Robert Redford, Faith Hill, Jennifer Aniston to name a few – offer the tips they use to live green. Rogers and Kostigen keep the focus on 12 areas of our life, e.g. home, work, and school, so that implementing small changes that give back big rewards is manageable. They do this by utilizing mostly descriptive analyses.

A few simple suggestions in The Green Book are:

* Say No to ATM paper receipts. If we all in the U.S.A. wrote the amount in our checkbook instead of requesting a receipt, the paper saved would be more than 2 billion ft. long.

* Voicemail service instead of answering machine. Unplugging your answering machine could save nearly 2 billion kilowatt hours annually to the United States.

With a 4-star rating, the reviewers all like the authors sensibilities in offering small, easy to implement suggestions. One downside however, is that the actual numbers should be corroborated before quoted. Some calculations, when researched, were off.

The authors have done a good job in providing this information in a witty, authoritative manner. They have supplied many ideas for many areas of your life and showed how the smallest choices can have the biggest effect on our world.

The Green Book is a great Christmas gift idea for the person on your list who loves our planet and wants to better they way it is treated.