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Live
Green: 52 Steps for a More Sustainable Life by Jen Chillingsworth shows the reader how to live an
eco-friendly lifestyle. With cover-to-cover captivating artwork, innovative
ideas and suggestions leap off the pages of Live Green.
Topics on
sustainability include sprucing up the home with anti-pollutant plants, spicing
up the dinner table with wholesome foods, buying natural products for hair and
skin, and creating Christmas decorations
from organic materials.
In
addition to ideas to encourage a greener lifestyle, the author lists sources of
inspiration for those who want to dig deeper.
My
favorite chapter, “Eat Green,” challenged me the most. As a two-year breast
cancer survivor, the quest to eat healthier stretched me to try healthier foods
and forego sweets, deli meats, and soft drinks. I would encourage the reader,
if this seems daunting, to incorporate changes slowly. Even for the most
determined, it takes time to make significant lifestyle adaptations.
The
underlying theme in Live Green begins with awareness. I recommend starting
simple. For example, I began with growing herbs beside our front door and planting
lettuce and onions in a winter garden. More
strategies in Live Green include how to compost and buy product in bulk.
Modest
changes like bagging groceries in hemp or cloth bags instead of plastic ones help the environment. For Christmas, I gifted reusable straws to my daughters. After
years of hounding me to recycle, they are impressed with how far I’ve come. Small
adaptations help sea creatures not only to survive but thrive.
LiveGreen: Fifty-Two steps for a More Sustainable Life is one giant leap toward helping all of us to live greener.
Future generations will thank us, and our oceans, air, forests, birds,
honeybees, and animals will reap the benefits of our more sustainable life
choices.
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