A Practical Guide To Simple Sustainability
An informative, easy-to-read consumer guide that outlines simple steps to improve your health and explains the consequences of your lifestyle on the planet. Living Green addresses diet, consumer products, home building and energy and explains sustainability and the green movement.
Written by Greg Horn, CEO of Garden of Life and former CEO of GNC.
Living Green offers important guidelines and practical solutions such as:
- The 10 foods you should always eat organic to avoid pesticides, herbicides, hormones and antibiotics
- Affordable and practical ways to offset your “carbon footprint” and neutralize your personal impact on global warming
- The most chemically intensive personal care, household cleaning and lawn care products, with effective natural alternatives
- How soft plastic water bottles hurt your health, your pocket book and our environment, with a simple and refreshing alternative
- How a simple carbon filter can dramatically improve your everyday health and potentially add years to your life
- The truth about hybrids and flex fuels
- Why an organic mattress is the most important health investment you can make
"Greg Horn believes in living a sustainable life not in deprivation but in joy. Now he shares his knowledge on how conscious choices and great design can make that happen. The world is ready for this book."
-- Robert Edson Swein, Green Architect
"Living Green is a must read for anyone seeking practical ways to start changing the world now."
-- Anthony Zolezzi, Co-founder of The Organic Center,
Co-Author of Chemical Free Kids
and CEO of Natural Pet Nutrition
"Greg's book convinced me that I personally could make a difference, which I didn't believe before I read it. At last I knew exactly what I could do to participate in the green/sustainability movement."
-- Michelle Barnes, Outdoor Industry Association