Green Gadgets For Dummies

Green Gadgets For Dummies
Author: Joe Hutsko
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 362
Release: 2009-06-01
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0470528915

Save some green by going green with these environmentally friendly gadgets! With concern for the future of our environment growing stronger and more serious every day, there has never been a better time to take a new approach to some of the most popular gizmos and gadgets on the market and learn how you can convernt to electronics that have minimal environmental impact. Green gadgets encompass everything from iPods to energy-efficient home entertainment devices to solar laptop chargers and crank-powered gizmos. This helpful resource explains how to research green gadgets, make a smart purchasing decision, use products you already own in a more environmentally friendly way, and say goodbye to electronics that zap both energy and money. Explore the environmental and financial benefits of green gadgets with this friendly reference Discusses which gadgets save energy-and which ones create energy Learn ways to offset your carbon footprint when you can't reduce consumption Get tips for understanding products labels and avoiding "greenwash" Discover how to calculate the energy and money your gadgets consume Get moving and start living green with this informative guide to environmentally and wallet-friendly gadgets! Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.

Green Gadgets

Green Gadgets
Author: Aditi Jindal
Publisher: The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI)
Total Pages: 60
Release: 2015-07-02
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 8179934985

Gadgets: those sleek, shiny, snazzy companions you and I love! By making numerous tasks easier, keeping in touch with others and the world faster, and our lives so much smoother, gadgets today are simply indispensable. But did you know that your smartphone, game console, or phablet has a dark side too? Their toxic constituents, power consumption, and the careless manner in which they are discarded bring out their evil side in the form of critical problems like pollution, energy crisis, and climate change. Using them also means paying hefty electricity bills. So, is there a way to balance your love for these devices while being sensitive towards the environment and considerate towards your pocket? Find out as Green Gadgets introduces you to a world of eco-friendly and energy-efficient alternatives. Contents • The Evolution of Gadgets • A Microscopic View • Going Gaga over Gadgets • The Dark Side of Gadgets • Green-o-vation • Eco-tronics • It’s Easy to “Go Green” About the Author: From writing thoughts to poetry, Aditi Jindal has been on a writing spree ever since she wrote her first poem in school. The big switch from poetry to prose took place in 2010 with her first fiction novel, which discussed the upbringing of a child in an Indian joint family system. Her second fiction title created a stir amongst a lot of college-goers. She was also invited as one of the leading panelists, and was the youngest speaker on ‘Decoding Relationships’, at the 2013 Gliterarti: Gurgaon Art and Literary Festival. Being an avid traveller, she often blogs and writes travel articles for a well-known travel website and a newspaper. Green Gadgets is Aditi’s second non-fiction work based on her interactions with the teens today.

Green Gadgets For Dummies

Green Gadgets For Dummies
Author: Joe Hutsko
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 362
Release: 2009-06-29
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0470469145

Save some green by going green with these environmentally friendly gadgets! With concern for the future of our environment growing stronger and more serious every day, there has never been a better time to take a new approach to some of the most popular gizmos and gadgets on the market and learn how you can convernt to electronics that have minimal environmental impact. Green gadgets encompass everything from iPods to energy-efficient home entertainment devices to solar laptop chargers and crank-powered gizmos. This helpful resource explains how to research green gadgets, make a smart purchasing decision, use products you already own in a more environmentally friendly way, and say goodbye to electronics that zap both energy and money. Explore the environmental and financial benefits of green gadgets with this friendly reference Discusses which gadgets save energy-and which ones create energy Learn ways to offset your carbon footprint when you can't reduce consumption Get tips for understanding products labels and avoiding "greenwash" Discover how to calculate the energy and money your gadgets consume Get moving and start living green with this informative guide to environmentally and wallet-friendly gadgets! Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.

Clean House Clean Planet

Clean House Clean Planet
Author: Karen Logan
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 324
Release: 1997-04
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 0671535951

This easy-to-use guide for everyone who is concerned about the toxic chemicals in cleaning products includes remarkably simple recipes for natural, non-toxic household cleaners that really work--the secrets the cleaning industry doesn't want consumers to know.

Green Gifts

Green Gifts
Author: Rosie James
Publisher: Buster Books
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2021-09-16
Genre: House & Home
ISBN: 9781789293210

The Green Consumer

The Green Consumer
Author: John Elkington
Publisher: Penguin Group
Total Pages: 356
Release: 1990
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 9780140127089

It's a deadly mistake to think that consumption is the answer to consumption, but for those who aren't ready to switch from surplus to sustenance this is an appealing guide to the environmentally safer but no less attractive consumer products. (RC) Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Green Metropolis

Green Metropolis
Author: David Owen
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2009-09-17
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1101140313

Look out for David Owen's next book, Where the Water Goes. A challenging, controversial, and highly readable look at our lives, our world, and our future. Most Americans think of crowded cities as ecological nightmares, as wastelands of concrete and garbage and diesel fumes and traffic jams. Yet residents of compact urban centers, Owen shows, individually consume less oil, electricity, and water than other Americans. They live in smaller spaces, discard less trash, and, most important of all, spend far less time in automobiles. Residents of Manhattan—the most densely populated place in North America—rank first in public-transit use and last in percapita greenhouse-gas production, and they consume gasoline at a rate that the country as a whole hasn’t matched since the mid-1920s, when the most widely owned car in the United States was the Ford Model T. They are also among the only people in the United States for whom walking is still an important means of daily transportation. These achievements are not accidents. Spreading people thinly across the countryside may make them feel green, but it doesn’t reduce the damage they do to the environment. In fact, it increases the damage, while also making the problems they cause harder to see and to address. Owen contends that the environmental problem we face, at the current stage of our assault on the world’s nonrenewable resources, is not how to make teeming cities more like the pristine countryside. The problem is how to make other settled places more like Manhattan, whose residents presently come closer than any other Americans to meeting environmental goals that all of us, eventually, will have to come to terms with.

I'm Dreaming of a Green Christmas

I'm Dreaming of a Green Christmas
Author: Anna Getty
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Total Pages: 181
Release: 2010-07-01
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 0811879879

The author and green living expert shares savvy tips on how to celebrate Christmas in ways that are eco-friendly and cost-conscious. Anna Getty—a chef, writer, mother, and organic living expert—helps families reduce their carbon footprint and save money while enjoying the festive traditions of Christmas. Anna advises how to best choose a tree (real or fake?), mitigate the negative effects of holiday travel, recycle post-holiday, and more. Anna also shares favorite holiday recipes for organic appetizers and homemade craft ideas such as pinecone wreaths and recycled sweater pillows. With inspiring photographs, extensive resources, and advice from the “Lazy Environmentalist” Josh Dorfman, Seventh Generation’s Jeffrey Hollender, and other leading eco-experts, families might just find that these tips help them stay green all year long—the perfect New Year’s resolution!

Gaia's Garden

Gaia's Garden
Author: Toby Hemenway
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2009
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 1603580298

This extensively revised and expanded edition broadens the reach and depth of the permaculture approach for urban and suburban gardeners. The text's message is that working with nature, not against it, results in more beautiful, abundant, and forgiving gardens.