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WIAR: The Imperfect Environmentalist
This book is really informative. I won it from Goodreads, and it's by the actress Sara Gilbert (she was on Roseanne as Darlene, and the Fanilow on the Barry Manilow episode of Will and Grace). It's set up like a Cliff's Notes manual for being environmentally conscious, and each page addresses a topic, and has subheaders that break it into basics, more informative, and specifics. I recommend it to anyone who feels overwhelmed with all there is to be green.
I love the headings for these.
1. Cut to the Chase, Hippie: What's the Least I Need to Know?
2. Intriguing...I Can Handle a Little More
3. I Need Some Facts to Bore My Friends With
I love the headings for these.
1. Cut to the Chase, Hippie: What's the Least I Need to Know?
2. Intriguing...I Can Handle a Little More
3. I Need Some Facts to Bore My Friends With
Re: WIAR: The Imperfect Environmentalist
Sugar & Spice
As an environmental professional, it blows my mind how people completely disregard the most basic of sustainable habits. Gives me hives. Hives.
Just because you use cloth bags and find alternatives to bleach (bad for you AND groundwater!) doesn't mean that you are committed to being a locovore organic-only vegan, cloth diapering, and only showering with vinegar and olive oil.
@RiverPlate, what do you do? I'm an environmental attorney. Have we had this conversation before?
Sugar & Spice
Sugar & Spice
@SusieBW you're higher up on the food chain than I am -- I am an environmental planner with a specialty in NEPA, but have been on EMS/P2E2/sustainability advisory boards and implementation groups as a gov't consultant.
I do try to walk the walk, but there are rational limits, and they're different for everyone. It's amazing that people think you go to one farmer's market and pretty soon you're replacing your lawn mower with goats and creating all your electricity from a windmill on top of your house. It's a slippery slope!
What I hate is when people say they don't have time to recycle, or that eco-friendly behavior is too expensive somehow. I have trouble abiding environmental apathy, I guess.
RI has a total of ONE landfill where the whole state's trash goes. One. And it has a current lifespan of 21 more years (which actually went up from the 17 years they were projecting 3 years ago, thanks to an upgraded recycling facility). I want every single RI resident to go and tour the place and actually see all of their trash, and see how small the remaining area is. 21 years is not very long.
Sugar & Spice
Emmett born 01/28/2013
2015 Books Read 3 * 2014 Books Read: 151
2013 Books Read: 90 * 2012 Books Read: 125
2011 Books Read: 150 * 2010 Books Read: 117
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