Articles tagged “Books”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

Greensburg Season 1, Episode 3: The Building Begins By Team Planet Green IN Greensburg Episodes Jun 19 2008 The rebuilding of Greensburg is slow going. With little money and scarce materials the town struggles to not only come back but build back greener and stronger. Despite the many obstacles, buildings are going up and Steve Hewitt, city administrator,... + READ MORE

Meet Jeff Yeager By Team Planet Green IN G Word Jun 16 2008 JEFF YEAGER spent 24 years working as a CEO and senior executive with national nonprofit organizations in Washington, DC before launching his career as an author, freelance writer, broadcast journalist, and public speaker in 2004. Specializing in an offbeat blend... + READ MORE

Meet An Expert Dad: Christopher Gavigan, Executive Director of Healthy Child, Healthy World By Lynda Fassa IN Home & Garden Jun 13 2008 That's because Christopher runs the nonprofit Healthy Child Healthy World, (formerly CHEC the Children's Health and Environmental Coalition). Healthy Child Healthy World works to educate parents and caregivers about the risks to children associated with some very common products and packages. In this exclusive to Planet Green interview, I asked him the best ways to get our green on and clean up our indoor air, because most Americans spend 90 percent of our time indoors. + READ MORE

Meet an Expert Dad: Raz Godelnik, CEO of Ecolibris By Lynda Fassa IN Home & Garden Jun 12 2008 If you, like my 14 year old daughter Layla, really love to read---she voraciously devours 5 or 6 books a week!--you might have some green guilt. Because, yes, that wonderful cliffhanger, that thoughtful prose, or if you're like me, the growing collection of "FILL IN THE BLANK for Dummies," used to be part of a living tree. If you want to balance your love of reading with your commitment to the environment, check out what the founder of Ecolibris has to say: + READ MORE

Green Natives Sighted in the Concrete Jungle By Team Planet Green IN Travel & Outdoors Jun 11 2008 Living in not-so-city-like Studio City, Ed and Rachelle have plenty of eco-minded neighbors like Bill Nye and Jay Leno. In contrast, when you reside in the middle of a big city, you may not have green neighbors with whom to share eco-tips or even know your neighbors' names, for that matter. Life in the city can seem positively un-green. + READ MORE

Introducing David Bach of Finish Rich Media By Team Planet Green IN Home & Garden Jun 6 2008 David Bach, author of Go Green Green, Live Rich and eight other financial books on why going green is good for your health, wealth, and the planet.The surprising message of my latest book, Go Green, Live Rich is that there are tremendous financial benefits when you consciously choose to live a more environmentally... + READ MORE

Take the Pledge to Wash in Cold Water and Get a Free Book By Collin Dunn IN Home & Garden Jun 5 2008 Pressing the "cold/cold" button on your washing machine is a great way to save energy, money, and carbon emissions, but it can also get you a free book! Take the "Get Out of Hot Water" pledge, and learn how to clean up your act, in a green way, in the process. + READ MORE

About Bill Nye By Team Planet Green IN Stuff Happens Jun 2 2008 Bill Nye, host of Stuff Happens and scientist, engineer, comedian, author, and inventor, is a man with a mission, whose goal on Stuff Happens to help foster a scientifically literate society that is aware of the effect their stuff has... + READ MORE

Greensburg Homebuilders By Team Planet Green IN Greensburg Jun 2 2008 FARRELL AND DEBBIE ALLISON, Soil Consultant and Librarian Farrell is a soil consultant and Debbie is the head librarian of Kiowa County. They lived in a beautiful Victorian home that was destroyed in the tornado. Farrell had just completed a... + READ MORE

Encourage Your Kids To Cook By Kelly Rossiter IN Food & Health Jun 2 2008 We've talked a lot about teaching your kids to cook here on Planet Green. I think it is an extremely important life skill, especially for those who are concerned about the environment. They will make healthy eating choices instead of grabbing a fast food burger. + READ MORE

Today on TreeHugger By Jessica Root IN Home & Garden May 30 2008 See why being green is officially sexy. Don't consume water the way Celine Dion does. Read Going Green to learn your eco-basics. All this and more, today on TreeHugger! + READ MORE

Grow Your Own Veggies By Kelly Rossiter IN Food & Health May 29 2008 My mother raised me to think for myself, and to live my life the way I wanted to and ignore what other people were doing and the trends they followed. But now I have a confession to make: I bought some vegetables to grow in my garden, even though everyone is doing it. + READ MORE

Meet Nicola Giuggioli Of Eco, The Ethical Design Store In London By Team Planet Green IN Work & Connect May 21 2008 Welcome to Planet Green's series about Change Makers.Explaining to people that this is not a cyclical phenomenon, we are really destroying the place we live in. It is not a problem for people that will come in 500 years; this is our problem and the effects are going to be on our children's shoulders, so lets take action + READ MORE

Fall in Love With The TreeHugger Book By Jessica Root IN Work & Connect May 20 2008 All of the delicious eco-bits and pieces have been culled together in one comprehensive place--TreeHugger's hot-off-the-press book, Ready, Set. Green: Eight Weeks to Modern Eco-Living. Founder, Graham Hill and Editor-In-Chief, Meaghan O'Neill lay down the steps to a low-impact life without just listing off tips. + READ MORE

About Supper Club By Team Planet Green IN Supper Club May 20 2008 Want an all access pass to one of the most exclusive celebrity dinner parties in the country? Each week, Supper Club lets viewers be a fly on the wall at a Hollywood dinner party, as Dancing with the Stars' Tom... + READ MORE

5 Hip Tips to Go Green While Staying Cool By Team Planet Green IN Fashion & Beauty May 14 2008 There are tons of ways to make your life greener and reduce your carbon footprint while remaining you, whoever you are. Going green is a responsibility we should and can all easily confront in our everyday lives. That might mean something as simple as bringing your own cup to the coffee shop. + READ MORE

Turn YOUR Home Inside Out! By Team Planet Green IN Home & Garden May 13 2008 Not everyone can actually live in one of the stunning residences we show you on World's Greenest Homes, but you can feel like you do. If you don't want to replace your bulbs, at least reduce your usage of regular incandescents by installing dimmers that'll help you make a habit of keeping lights low or off whenever they are not in use. + READ MORE

Make Your Books Greener: Start a Library at the Office By Michael Graham Richard IN Work & Connect Apr 30 2008 Obviously, the greenest book is the one that you don't buy. But there is one way to make the books that you already own greener: Start a library at your work place. + READ MORE

Make More Sustainable Seafood Choices By Collin Dunn IN Food & Health Apr 29 2008 Because it's something we all do, several times a day, making more sustainable food choices is a great way to make your life greener and your footprint lighter. Here's a quick guide to finding seafood that's good for you and better for the planet, too. + READ MORE

Build a Multipurpose Growlight Bookcase By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Home & Garden Apr 23 2008 If you build it, they will grow--at least with Mother Earth News' Growlight Bookcase, a do-it-yourself carpentry project that can transition from starting seeds to displaying houseplants to storing books with the greatest of ease. + READ MORE