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Living Green: The Missing Manual
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The Missing Credits
About the Author
About the Creative Team
Acknowledgments
The Missing Manual Series
Introduction
Saving the Planet, One Step at a Time
What's a Carbon Footprint?
About This Book
About the Outline
About MissingManuals.com
Safari® Books Online
I. Living Green Begins at Home
1. Home Green Home: Creating a Safe, Earth-Friendly Place to Live
The Chemicals You Live With
How Household Chemicals Can Affect Your Health
Disposing of Household Chemicals
Clean and Green: Environmentally Friendly Cleaning
Recipe for an All-Purpose Cleaner
A Green Kitchen Is a Healthy Kitchen
Battling Bathroom Grime the Natural Way
Clean Laundry, Clean Earth
Nontoxic Furnishings
A Greener Lawn
The Trouble with Pesticides
Keep (Chemicals) Off the Grass!
The grass is greener…when it's the right kind
Go Native
Prepare your lawn for natural care
Get smart about fertilizers
Say goodbye to weeds
Give Your Lawn a Drink
Mowing Tips
2. Save Energy, Money, and the Earth
How Efficient Is Your Home?
Evaluating Your Home's Energy Use
Do-it-yourself audit
Professional energy audit
Monitoring Energy Use with a Power Meter
Single-appliance power meters
Whole-house power meter
Calculate power use for free
Should You Downsize?
Heating and Cooling Efficiently
Getting More out of Your Appliances
How Much Energy Does That Gadget Use?
Tips for Using Appliances More Efficiently
Minimizing Your Phantom Load
Water-Saving Strategies
How Much Water Do You Use?
Using Less Water
Bathroom
Kitchen
Laundry room
Outdoors
Let There Be (Compact Fluorescent) Light
Buying CFLs
Getting the Most out of CFLs
CFLs and Mercury
Cleaning up broken CFLs
Disposing of CFLs
3. Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
A Trashy Odyssey
Destination: Landfill
Destination: Incinerator
How Low Can You Go? Aiming for Zero Waste
Reducing: Doing More with Less
Clearing Out Clutter
Decreasing Consumption
Rejecting Wasteful Packaging
Ditching Junk Mail
Reusing: Use It Again, Sam
Repurposing: New Uses for Old Stuff
Trash to Treasure: Sell It, Donate It, Give It Away
Sell it
Donate it
Give it away
Recycling: What Goes Around Comes Around
Is Recycling Worth It?
Does recycling actually save energy?
Does recycling really reduce greenhouse gas emissions?
Does recycling save money?
Recycling Basics
Know what to recycle
Set up your system
Sort smart
More Tips for Easy and Effective Recycling
So Hard to Say Goodbye: Special Problems in Recycling
Polystyrene Foam
Tires
Cellphones
E-Waste
Appliances
Cars
4. Building and Remodeling
LEEDing the Way to Green Buildings
Principles of Green Building Design
Building In Energy Efficiency
Alternative Energy
Going solar
Geothermal heating and cooling
Wind power
Hydro power for homes
Burning biomass
Conserving Water
Green Building Materials
Lumber and framing
Insulation
Walls
Floors
Kitchen and bathroom cabinets
Roofing
Paint
Siding
Special Problems in Remodeling
Asbestos
Lead Paint
Mold
Radon
Sick Building Syndrome
Finding a Builder
Financing Green Construction
Green Mortgage Options
Grants, Rebates, and Tax Credits
II. Greening Your Lifestyle
5. Raising a Green Family
Babies
Furnishing the Nursery
The Diaper Dilemma
Disposable diapers
Biodegradable diapers
Cloth diapers
Feeding Your Baby
Keeping Baby Clean and Protected
Other Baby Supplies
Car seats
Clothing
Toys
Diaper and baby bags
Kids
Teaching Respect for the Earth
Go Play Outside!
Teens
Pets
6. Eating Green: It's Not Just Spinach Anymore
What's in That Cheeseburger?
Factory Farming
Concern #1: Factory farms are too big.
Concern #2: Factory farms are cruel.
Concern #3: Factory farms misuse hormones and antibiotics.
Concern #4: Factory farms cause disease.
Concern #5: Factory-farmed food is less nutritious.
Concern #6: Factory farms drive family farms out of business.
Concern #7: Factory farms make bad neighbors.
Concern #8: Factory farms cause pollution.
The Meat Industry's Environmental Hoofprint
Genetically Modified Foods
Go Organic
What Does "Organic" Really Mean?
Why Organic Is Better for the Earth
Why Organic Is Better for You
Grass-fed beef
Pesticide-free foods
Finding Organic Products
How Green Does Your Garden Grow?
The Joy of Composting
Getting started with compost
Composting tips and tricks
Natural Pest Control
Neem oil
Floral insecticides
Insecticidal soap
Pyrethrin powder
Sabadilla powder
Insect barriers and traps
Manual removal
Bacillus thuringiensis
Insect predators
For City Dwellers: Community Gardens and Other Ways to Grow Your Own Food
Container gardens
Rooftop gardens
Community gardens
Can I Ever Eat Out Again?
7. Responsible Shopping
Think Globally, Buy Locally
Buy Recycled
Giving Fair Trade a Fair Shake
What Is Fair Trade?
Criticisms of the Fair Trade Movement
Compassion in Fashion
Green Health and Beauty Products
Do-It-Yourself Health and Beauty
Environmentally Friendly Gifts
Finding Companies That Get It
8. Going Green: Transportation and Travel
Getting Around Without a Car
Take Public Transportation
Put on Your Walking Shoes
Ride a Bike
Driving Smarter
Green Cars in Every Color
Fuel-Efficient Cars
Hybrids
Diesel Engines
Veggie Power!
Biodiesel
Straight vegetable oil (SVO)
Long-Distance Travel
Before You Go
Getting There (and Back)
During Your Stay
Ecotourism
III. A Greener World
9. Green Business Is Good Business
Greening the Workplace
Telecommuting
Reducing Office Waste
Staying Healthy on the Job
Greener Business Travel
Buying Carbon Offsets
Corporate Giving
10. Alternative and Renewable Energy
Why We Need New Energy Sources
Wind Energy
Advantages
Disadvantages and Concerns
Solar Energy
Advantages
Disadvantages
Water Power
Advantages
Disadvantages
Geothermal Plants
Advantages
Disadvantages
Bioenergy
Advantages
Disadvantages
Hydrogen Fuel Cells
11. Getting Involved
Activism Begins with You
Your Local Community
Online Communities
National and International Organizations
Environmentally Responsible Investing
Index
About the Author
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