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Index
Cover Page
Praise for Thrifty Green
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1: A Different Way of Life
Electricity
Water
Heat
The Grand Vision
Bringing the Grand Vision to the Grid
2: Heat
How Warm Do You Need to Be?
Maximizing Your Conservation Potential
Where Does Your Heat Come From?
3: Power and Light
Using Less Power
Sources of Power
4: Water
Seventeen Days without a Shower
Our Most Overlooked Natural Resource
Ways to Conserve Water
5: Food
The True Cost of Food
Minimizing Your Food's Ecological Footprint
6: Garbage
Give a Hoot, Don't Pollute
On-Grid Reality
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
7: Transportation
American Car Culture
Transportation Problems in Mainstream America
Creative Solutions
8: Stuff
Do You Need It? Can You Afford It? Where Will You Put It?
Consumers, Conservers, and Citizens
Necessities versus Niceties
Epilogue
Our Self-Sustaining Planet
The Path to Victory
What Can You Do?
Notes
Chapter 1: A Different Way of Life
Chapter 2: Heat
Chapter 3: Power and Light
Chapter 4: Water
Chapter 5: Food
Chapter 6: Garbage
Chapter 7: Transportation
Chapter 8: Stuff
Further Resources
About the Author
To Our Readers
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