Research Catalog

Title

The Green lifestyle handbook / Jeremy Rifkin, editor.

Publication

New York : H. Holt, c1990.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Greenhouse Crisis Foundation.
• Rifkin, Jeremy

Description

xxii, 198 p.; 19 x 24 cm.

Summary

Suggests hundreds of steps that all of us can take in our personal lives to develop a green lifestyle at home, in our diet, at the market place, in the office, on the road, in our communities, at our places of worship, and in our leisure pursuits. If offers an alternative way of living and acting that will help create a sustainable future for ourselves and our planet.

Alternative Title

1001 ways you can heal the earth.

Subject

Environmental protection > Citizen participation

Note

• "The 1001 ways you can heal the earth"--Cover.
• "An Owl book."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

I. Back to basics. Home energy use : Home ECOnomics / Kirk B. Smith -- Household toxics & hazards : Environmental house cleaning / Andrew C. Kimbrell -- At the market : Shopping as if the earth matters / Gene Karpinski -- On the road : Steering towards ecological disaster / Andrew C. Kimbrell -- At the office : Taking charge of the work environment / Kirk B. Smith -- Recycling : A materials policy from the ground up / David Morris -- II. Lifestyles. Diet : Choose to eat low on the food chain / Frances Moore Lappé -- Personal investments : Casting a vote for social responsibility / Cindy Mitlo -- Recreation & leisure / In praise of idleness / Jay Walljasper -- Cruelty-free products : Cruelty-free living / Michael W. Fox -- Health : Personal health and the environment / Larry Dossey -- Spiritual dimensions : The role of religion -- III. Cultivating solutions. Gardening : Organic gardening for a healthier planet / Robert Rodale and Maria Rodale -- Tree planting : The tree of life / R. Neil Sampson -- Farming : Wrong assumptions and the patterns they impose / Wes Jackson -- Genetic diversity : Saving for the future / Martin Teitel -- IV. Getting organized. Community organizing : Grass roots organizing / John O'Connor -- Boycotts : The activist consumer's weapon of choice / Carol Grunewald -- Legislation : Exercising citizenship for a healty body politic / Claudine Schneider -- Environmental law : The environment, the law, and you / Andrew C. Kimbrell and Edward Lee Rogers -- Community bibliography : A bibliography for community organizers / Donald E. Davis -- V. Appendices. The environmental crisis : Greenhouse effect, ozone depletion, and acid rain -- Unsound alternatives : Quick fixes: nuclear power and genetic engineering -- Annotated guide to ecology books : Books to read for the global future / Donald E. Davis.

ISBN

• 0805013695 (pbk. : alk. paper) :
• 0805013725

LCCN

^^^89026944^

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library