Green Group discussion

"It's Easy Being Green" is a handbook for all those who aspire to protect the environment but want it to be simpler.

This friendly, informative guide offes advice and tips on:

- adopting greener buying habits
- finding earth-friendly products
- shopping for green products online
- cultivating a sustainable environment

From Energy, transportation and home improvement to the kitchen, bathroom and cleaning, this book presents a strategy for living a greener life without the fuss!

By incorporating easy-to-do tips and smart solutions, this book presents a lot of ways to save the environment while saving time and money too.
Reducing, reusing and recycling have never been easier!

Grégoire leads It's Easy Being Green A Handbook for Earth-Friendly Living discussion's board. I look forward hearing your thoughts.

How commited should someone considered green be in relation to daily routine and day-to-day life?

Separate waste between plastics, glass, paper..?
Bury organic waste to make composting?
Grow balcony vegetables?

Or should one be more active, and start consuming season fruits and vegetables, stop going to fastfood restaurants, etc?

The latter... The more we delay taking a serious approach to truly affect a benefit and to stop or turn around environmental damage; the longer we will be locked into "little" projects that are more "feel good" in nature ... if it's "easy and simple and effortless" the priority and emphasis is on the ease, not the need or value.

I think it needs to be a progressive thing as a lot of people struggle to make big changes immediately. By doing lots of small things and building towards bigger changes I think more can be done and is more likely to be successful and be a more permanent change. Although on the flip side this does only work if people do start small and progress to bigger and bigger changes, which lets face it doesn't always happen.

How "Green" are you? A lot of interesting quizzes for our daily Green life.

http://www.thegreenguide.com/quizzes/...

Thanks for the link, Michelle. One of my favorite environmental sites is Yale Environment 360 at http://e360.yale.edu/ I find it very informative, and it sometimes leads to good books to read as they list what other things the author of articles have written. There are many others I frequent, but I really like that one. I have added the National Geographic one that you just listed to my favorites. I will give it a look. I am betting that I will like it. Thanks! Mike

Thanks for your comment, Mike.The link's recommendation of "Yale Environment 360" is very informative. I have added it at the Educational Environmental Websites's thread of our Green group community.