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Its Not About Politics.
Its About CaringAnd What Every Family Can Do!
Written by a passionately concerned coupleDavid Seligman is an active duty U.S. serviceman and Melissa is a devoted stay-at-home momthis is the first book about going green that wont scare you with statistics, overwhelm you with science, or make you feel guilty about your SUV. Instead, this indispensable guide will help families everywhere to take simple, practical steps, to lower their energy consumption and help create a healthier planetand a more sustainable lifestyle.
Simply Green takes a fresh look at every part of your household and every aspect of your life, from what you teach your children to what you put in your laundry machines. Full of energy-saving and money-saving Green Tips, Simply Green shows how to:
Use recycled water around your house and garden
Its About CaringAnd What Every Family Can Do!
Written by a passionately concerned coupleDavid Seligman is an active duty U.S. serviceman and Melissa is a devoted stay-at-home momthis is the first book about going green that wont scare you with statistics, overwhelm you with science, or make you feel guilty about your SUV. Instead, this indispensable guide will help families everywhere to take simple, practical steps, to lower their energy consumption and help create a healthier planetand a more sustainable lifestyle.
Simply Green takes a fresh look at every part of your household and every aspect of your life, from what you teach your children to what you put in your laundry machines. Full of energy-saving and money-saving Green Tips, Simply Green shows how to:
- Heat and cool your home while you lower your energy bill
- Throw away less trash
- Make your own, environmentally-friendly cleaning solutions
- Lower the power usage of your appliances
- Choose indoor houseplants that help purify the air
- Make green awareness an active part of your familys lifeand have more fun in the natural world
- And much more!
Filled with dozens of useful resources, surprising facts and a long list of options for going green, Simply Green is for those of us who may not be able to afford to make huge changesbut cant not afford to do what we can.
*Printed on recycled paper.
Melissa and David Seligman run their Tennessee home using their simply green principles. David has a degree in natural resource conservation and management with an emphasis in environmental policy. He has worked as an environmental educator for Lexington Parks and Recreation and does GIS-related work for the U.S. Army. Melissa is the author of The Day After He Left for Iraq, and her work has appeared in The Lexington Herald-Leader newspaper. They live in Memphis.
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
We would first like to thank our friends and family for always supporting us. Thank you for allowing us to hibernate while we wrote and collaborated. We love all of you, and without your patience and willingness to tolerate our green ventures, this book would not exist.
A very special thank you goes to our agent, Kate Epstein, for bringing this book to us. Thank you, Kate, for always having an open ear and a willing spirit. This book wouldnt reflect our lifestyle or personality without the sharp editing and delightful wit of our editor, Danielle Chiotti. Thanks to you, Danielle, for seeing the fun in going green and for helping to sculpt this book into something our children will be very proud of.
Thank you, Amy Pyle, for stepping in and answering any crazy questions without hesitation or reservation. We would also like to thank Jill Boltin for creating such a sleek, innovative cover design.
This book wouldnt be complete without thanking our source of inspiration. Thank you, Amelia and Elijah, for giving us a reason to care about our Earth and the problems facing the next generation. We hope you always see the fun, beauty, and constant marvels that our Earth has to offer. Keep it simple and green, but more than anything, keep it fun!
CONCLUSION
Maintain Your Green House
Congratulations! You made it through and hopefully you are bursting with green inspiration, imagination, and a burning desire to start your very own green journey. Although the tips you learned from this book are applicable and very simple, they are merely the tip of the iceberg when it comes to making greener and more energy-efficient choices for our environment.Hopefully you are ready to get started and to change this world one simple step at a time. However, before you start composting, green cleaning, recycling, and camping, lets remember the basics: Start simple. Start small. Start with what suits you and your familys needs. Once you begin making simple, affordable, and very significant changes to your life, you will see that green living begins to reveal itself to you. Once you feel that a change is seamless and for the most part unnoticed, you will find the desire, ability, and energy to search for new ways to make green changes. And, once your energy bill numbers start falling, and your own kinetic energy starts growing, you will have a green smile on your face, and more money waiting for that rainy day.
The one problem that you may encounter with living green, as with all new changes, is that you may start off full of energy, passion, and drive, which may then fade over time. Green living is not a passing fad. Sure, it is trendy right now, and it is very media worthy. And that, in turn, can create pressure to make fast changes, big changes, and short-lived changes. Who hasnt tried that faddish crash diet for a few weeks, only to get frustrated, disappointed, and completely ravished with hunger before chucking it out the window? We all do it.
The best way to ensure that green living becomes second nature in your home is to make it a part of your family life. Lets look at it like this: Imagine your green lifestyle is similar to maintaining a clean house. There are two approaches to cleaning a home.You can attack it with random bursts of energy. (No one call me for a week. I will be cleaning.) Then fall, exhausted, onto the couch where you lie in cleaning hibernation for months at a time. Your home will be clean, but it isnt easy to muster that strength to do it again, and mounting a fast and furious attack can leave you frustrated and dreading the next round of cleaning. The other approach is to maintain it, little by little, doing small, easy, daily tasks, divided among and focusing on involving the entire family along the way. This keeps it steady, clean, and functioning while still leaving time for play and relaxation.
We believe the easiest way to maintain a clean house, and a green house, is to do a little at a time, do what is best for you, and do it as you go. Not only does cleaning become effortless after a while, but it also becomes a part of your everyday life. With the same approach to making simple, green changes, after doing it for so long, it will become your lifestyle rather than your green lifestyle.
We cant emphasize enough that although many of these tips are easy and very user-friendly, some of them just may not be for you. That is okay. There is no shame and no fault in realizing that you cant do it all. None of us is perfect. And none of us is a perfect environmentalist. You, as your own person, need to make the best green decisions for you and your family. That will ensure that you live a green, productive, and happy life rather than a high-maintenance, unaffordable, overly green, faddish lifestyle.
It is important to understand that every new change in life comes with just as many setbacks before you can move forward. Although it is very important to give yourself praise for making this important decision, it is also necessary to give yourself room to fail. You will attempt to make a green change, want it to happen with all your heart, only to realize that it just doesnt work for you and your family. We wanted to use cloth diapers. We were determined to avoid the use of disposable diapers and were outraged by the number of diapers that end up in our landfills. Until we faced our first raging diaper rash, wailing baby, and soiled floor. Not to mention the amount of water, energy, and detergent needed to clean those environmentally friendly diapers. Yes, we failed. And that is okay. You will fail, too, at times, and it is important to pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and start all over again, knowing that the green changes that you are making and continue to make will create fantastic and significant global change.
Remember, you arent in this to compete with your newly green neighbor. And you arent in this for anyone other than yourself and your family, so dont allow the green naysayers out there to convince you to stray from your goals. Yes, they are out there: The people who feel guilty that they arent doing something, so they want to disparage you for doing what you can. They will attack you when you do not meet their expectations for what they think you should be doing. So, when your intruding neighbor says, You know, for a person living a green lifestyle, you really shouldnt be driving as much as you do, you can say, with a pleasant smile, Youre right! Im not doing everything. But, I am doing something. And that is what will ultimately keep our world green and happy.
NOTES
38 Goodyear, Charlie. S.F. First City to Ban Plastic Shopping Bags. San Francisco Chronicle . March 28, 2007.
39 Natural Resource Defence Council website. NRDC Lauds Passage of New York City Council Legislation Requiring Groceries, Retailers to Provide Plastic Bag Recycling for Consumers. January 9, 2008.
42 Goldberg, Bob. The Hyprocrisy of Organic Farmers. Posted on AgBioWorld website, which is dedicated to focusing on agricultural biotechnology, June 5, 2000.
53 Reed, Jim, and Denver Water (courtesy of Liz Gardener). Dishwasher Water UseFacts and Figures. American Water Works Association website, December 2005.
56 Municipal Solid Waste Generation, Recycling, and Disposal in the United States: Facts and Figures for 2006, an EPA study.
66 Arnold, Emily, and Larsen, Janet. Bottled Water: Pouring Resources Down the Drain. Earth Policy Institute website. February 2, 2006.
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