sustainable living

Traces the search for the simple life, from the people determined to create a better existence.

Author and scientist Peter Kalmus explores the connection between daily actions and climate impact, merging science, spirituality, and practicality in response to global warming.

Provides step-by-step recipes for creating DIY vegan beauty products for hair and skin using natural, cruelty-free ingredients.

Teens Ivy Wilde and Marla Klein, both minor celebrities, face major lifestyle changes as pop-star Ivy questions the rampant consumerism required to maintain her image, and fashionista Marla sees first-hand the appalling working conditions that allowed her to be a trend-setter.

"This guidebook focuses on our global health impact via 'water footprints', how much freshwater is used to produce goods and services such as manufacturing, growing, harvesting, packaging, and shipping to market, which teaches young readers how to consume responsibly, and to think innovatively on sustainable freshwater alternatives"--Provided by publisher.

Presents a guide to measures individuals can take to support environmentally responsible companies and products, covering categories such as home furnishings, toys, beauty products, electronics, and transportation, with photographs and illustrations.

Addresses sustainability challenges and opportunities from abundance to environmental policy. Each entry provides an overview, followed by more in-depth information discussing its scientific, societal, and sustainable context.

Explores ways and steps students can take to limit their daily carbon footprint through activities like recycling, buying locally grown food, growing their own food, and building eco-friendly homes.

Human activity often leaves a trail of harmful carbon behind that directly impacts our planet. This informative book describes how every individual produces a "carbon footprint" by using energy made by burning fossil fuels and by creating waste from packaging that gets thrown away. Find out how to measure your own carbon footprint and see what effect you are having on Earth.

Farmer Joel Salatin is the 21st century's thinking man's farmer who believes that the answer to rebuilding America is to start with the family farm and for those farms to thrive, we all need to learn how to eat naturally again. Salatin's solutions as presented in the book are very simple and easy to implement in any American household, whether in the suburbs of Chicago, the mountains of Colorado, or urban life in New York City. On topic with today's sustainable living conversation and the entire green movement in general. Americans have embraced green living and are looking for ways to nourish their families with clean, wholesome food.