
The Going Green Handbook
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Inspired living for the environment: Make your footprint planet-positive. With the gentle guidance of eco-expert, Alice Mary Alvrez, you can start with baby steps and progress to living the green good life! Level up your eco-knowledge with these 52 creative ideas and easy ways to reduce your waste, eat organic, and keep toxins out of your home.
Grow organic, reduce waste, live toxin-free, and save money: Inside this helpful and hopeful guide, you'll find tips for greening up all the areas of your life. Learn surprising facts about your impact on the environment and change your habits with do-it-yourself ideas. Start with small, simple changes and work your way up to raising chickens, planting a bee-friendly garden, and growing organic veggies instead of a high maintenance grass lawn. Also find easy composting tips and recipes for toxin-free homemade eco cleansers and paint.
A DIY handbook for all levels: Whether you want to be a green rookie or an eco-master, you can help the planet every week of the year. The Going Green Handbook is an inspiring and instructive guide to living the handmade life by consuming less and creating more. Use little, live big!
Readers will learn:
- why we live the way we do and how we can become less wasteful and greener
- tips, tricks and secrets for a self-sufficient sustainable home and lifestyle
- starter garden tips for growing your own healthy food, fruit, veggies, and fresh herbs
- how to save money by going green
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Content
- Intro
- Copyright
- Table of Contents
- Foreword
- Going Organic
- Make your OWN non-toxic cleaners
- Get some FRESH air
- The No Poo Movement
- Get Around with Public Transport
- Buy in Bulk
- BecOme a Localvore
- Something old, nothing new
- Eco-Friendly Apps
- Trash for Tigers
- Choose Cloth over Disposables
- Don't Be E-wasteful
- Plant a Tree, or Two
- The Environmentally- Friendly Mailbox
- Tuck in your Water Heater
- On - Demand Hot Water
- Try a Natural Swimming Pool
- Less Water Down the Drain
- Heat With Wood
- Have Some Hemp
- Streamline your Closet
- Go Deet-Free
- Green Up your Dryer
- Know Your Codes
- Solid Lotion Bar
- Healthy Herbal Tea
- Embrace the E-Doc
- Start Composting
- Choosing a Refillable Water Bottle
- Get Rid of Household Paper
- How Clean is Clean?
- LED Lights
- Making Homemade Toothpaste
- Go Vegetarian
- Are We Recycling Enough?
- A Greener House Paint
- The Reality of the Electric Car
- Upcycling Old Clothes
- Try Paperless Gift-Giving
- drop the pop
- A Better Earth, One Cap at a time
- Respect Hazardous Waste
- Beware of Greenwashing
- Are Chemicals Bad?
- The Plastic Bag Battle
- Cleaning Day
- Watch for Water Waste
- Great Garbage Gyre
- Green up Your Fast Food
- Get to Know GMO
- Man vs Machine
- Author Bio
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