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Green Living
See also: Environment
Green living is living in a manner that is friendly to the earth; in other words, with a small carbon footprint and without pesticides, herbicides, artificial fertilizers and toxic chemicals. It also means eating local and minimally processed foods and recycling almost everything.
Selected Books
Ashton, Karen
The Toxic Consumer: Living Healthy in a Hazardous World
RA1226.A84 2008
This small volume describes in clear language the many synthetic chemicals found in everyday products and environments, discussing the risks, recommending alternatives, and surveying the history of chemical legislation (or lack thereof) in the US and elsewhere.
The Toxic Consumer: Living Healthy in a Hazardous World
RA1226.A84 2008
This small volume describes in clear language the many synthetic chemicals found in everyday products and environments, discussing the risks, recommending alternatives, and surveying the history of chemical legislation (or lack thereof) in the US and elsewhere.
Baird, Lori
Don't Throw It Out
TX303.B345 2007x
A Rodale book emphasizing the 3 R's of Green Living: Recycle, Renew, and Reuse.
Don't Throw It Out
TX303.B345 2007x
A Rodale book emphasizing the 3 R's of Green Living: Recycle, Renew, and Reuse.
Friedman, Thomas L.
Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution -- and How It Can Renew America
GE197.F75 2008bx
In case you aren't convinced about the critical state of the earth's environment, read this bestseller from Thomas Friedman, author of The World is Flat.
Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution -- and How It Can Renew America
GE197.F75 2008bx
In case you aren't convinced about the critical state of the earth's environment, read this bestseller from Thomas Friedman, author of The World is Flat.
Imus, Deirdre
Green This! Volume one, Greening your cleaning
TX324.I48 2007
How to live without ammonia and bleach and still stay clean.
Green This! Volume one, Greening your cleaning
TX324.I48 2007
How to live without ammonia and bleach and still stay clean.
Jeffery, Yvonne
Green Living for Dummies
GE195.7.J44 2008x
When there are books for dummies and idiots, you know Green Living has gone mainstream.
Green Living for Dummies
GE195.7.J44 2008x
When there are books for dummies and idiots, you know Green Living has gone mainstream.
Johnston, David & Scott Gibson
Green from the Ground Up: a builder's guide : sustainable, healthy, and energy-efficient home construction
TH880.J638 2008
Johnston, author of Green Remodeling and a leader in the green building movement, has teamed up with editor Scott Gibson from Fine Homebuilding magazine to offer this new guide to sustainable home building.
Green from the Ground Up: a builder's guide : sustainable, healthy, and energy-efficient home construction
TH880.J638 2008
Johnston, author of Green Remodeling and a leader in the green building movement, has teamed up with editor Scott Gibson from Fine Homebuilding magazine to offer this new guide to sustainable home building.
Loux, Renée
Easy Green Living: the ultimate guide to simple, eco-friendly choices for you and your home
TX324.L68 2008
A Rodale book that helps you buy and use the right products.
Easy Green Living: the ultimate guide to simple, eco-friendly choices for you and your home
TX324.L68 2008
A Rodale book that helps you buy and use the right products.
Riley, Trish, 1959-
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Green Living
GE195.7.R55 2007
Even idiots are jumping on the green bandwagon.
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Green Living
GE195.7.R55 2007
Even idiots are jumping on the green bandwagon.
Ryan, Eric and Adam Lowry
Squeaky Green: the Method Guide to Detoxing Your Home.
RA770.5.R933 2008x
Adam Lowry and Eric Ryan founded Method, the environmentally friendly, naturally-derived, and biodegradable products such as household cleaners, supplies, laundry care, and soaps.
Squeaky Green: the Method Guide to Detoxing Your Home.
RA770.5.R933 2008x
Adam Lowry and Eric Ryan founded Method, the environmentally friendly, naturally-derived, and biodegradable products such as household cleaners, supplies, laundry care, and soaps.
Seymour, John
Forgotten Household Crafts
TX15.S49 2007
If you really want to see how easy you have it these days, read this British book on chores that used to be done in house, like making lye and soup, boiling linen, milking, making butter and cheese...
Forgotten Household Crafts
TX15.S49 2007
If you really want to see how easy you have it these days, read this British book on chores that used to be done in house, like making lye and soup, boiling linen, milking, making butter and cheese...
A Slice of Organic Life
GF77.S65 2007x
This profusely illustrated Dorling Kindersley book will give you a taste of organic topics.
GF77.S65 2007x
This profusely illustrated Dorling Kindersley book will give you a taste of organic topics.
Vartan, Starre
The Eco Chick Guide to Life: How to be Fabulously Green
TD171.7.V37 2008
Starre Vartan, the creator of the Eco-Chick Blog, offers young women hundreds of ideas on how to be ecologically smart and still be stylish and trend-setting.
The Eco Chick Guide to Life: How to be Fabulously Green
TD171.7.V37 2008
Starre Vartan, the creator of the Eco-Chick Blog, offers young women hundreds of ideas on how to be ecologically smart and still be stylish and trend-setting.
Yarrow, Joanna
How to Reduce Your Carbon Footprint: 365 simple ways to save energy, resources, and money
TD171.7.Y373 2008
This Chronicle book has advice for every day of the year.
How to Reduce Your Carbon Footprint: 365 simple ways to save energy, resources, and money
TD171.7.Y373 2008
This Chronicle book has advice for every day of the year.
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Simple Steps to a Greener Home
Environmental lifestyle expert Danny Seo calls his eco-friendly way of living Simply Green. Offers smart and stylish ideas for turning your home into an Earth-friendly oasis proving that green living can be gorgeous living too.
Environmental lifestyle expert Danny Seo calls his eco-friendly way of living Simply Green. Offers smart and stylish ideas for turning your home into an Earth-friendly oasis proving that green living can be gorgeous living too.
Browse the Catalog
For additional titles, browse the library catalog under the subjects:
- Conservation of natural resources -- Citizen participation
- Cookery Natural Foods
- Environmental health
- Environmental protection -- Citizen participation
- Environmental Responsibility
- Green Movement
- Green products
- Green technology
- Natural foods
- Organic living
- Organic gardening
- Recycling Waste
- Sustainable Living
Web Sites
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Environmental Working Group: Bottled Water Quality
Not only does bottled water use up a lot of resources in packaging and transportation, it also doesn't deliver pure water. The EWG recommends using filtered tap water instead. -
The Green Guide
This website by the National Geographic Society offers Buying guides and a section on Homes. -
Green Maven
Search the green web with this Google Custon Search engine. -
Natural Home Magazine
Homes, Gardens, Remodeling and Redecorating in a natural way. -
Nature Conservancy: Carbon Footprint Calculator
Their carbon footprint calculator estimates how many tons of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases your choices create each year. -
Public Transportation
"This website is designed to better inform the public about the benefits and importance of public transportation for all Americans — even if they never board a train or a bus." One of the most important elements of green living is green transportation.
Pittsburgh Region
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BuyLocalPA.org
Buy your food locally and unprocessed to avoid food additives and transportation costs. -
CommuteInfo.org
Don't drive to work alone! CommuteInfo can help you form a carpool. -
East End Food Co-Op
For a real green living experience, join the East End Food Co-Op! -
Friends of the Pittsburgh Urban Forest
Instead of turning on the air conditioner in the summer, plant a shade tree. -
The Green Building Alliance
Works to foster "green" building in the Pittsburgh metropolitan area -
Sustainable Pittsburgh
Sustainable Pittsburgh, a non-partisan, civic forum, advocates the integration of economic growth, environmental health, and social equity as the foundation for high quality of life and long-term prosperity of southwestern Pennsylvania.
