Living Like Ed: A Guide to the Eco-Friendly Life

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Hollywood's it man for all things green offers large and small ways to live a greener, better life. Packed with eco-ideas from standard to quirky to ingenious, this guide also comes with workbook pages to record readers' progress.

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Library Journal (01/15/2008)
Actor Begley is best known for his television and movie roles ("St. Elsewhere; A Mighty Wind"), but if you have seen his cable show, "Living with Ed", on HGTV, you know that his true passion is environmentalism. This companion book serves as a cheat sheet to all things green. In six chapters, plus a workbook, Begley covers nearly everything a human could do to lessen one's impact on the environment. His tips are organized by three levels of effort"Little Changes" (cost: free to $50), "Not-So-Big Changes" ($50-$500), and "Big Changes" (over $500)which makes them financially realistic to the reader. The author's wife, Rachelle Carson-Begley, comments throughout the text as the voice of the masses, offering less ugly alternatives to "big and orange" rain barrels and joking criticism of Begley's obsessive thermostat programming. Although the book lacks an index, and the organization of the topics is erratic within the chapters, it is a witty and easy-to-use manual to environmentally friendly living. Recommended for all public libraries and for school libraries looking for great Earth Day activities.Jaime Hammond, Naugatuck Valley Community Coll., Waterbury, CT Copyright 2008 Reed Business Information.

ISBN: 0307396436 | EAN: 9780307396433
Publisher: Clarkson N Potter Publishers  | Publication Date: February, 2008

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