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Educate yourself on environment

December 16, 2007

Everyone can contribute in preserving our natural environs.

Good habits such as recycling, purchasing earth-friendly products, or making environmentally sound choices are the acceptable standards whether for our homes, our community or the world.

Educate yourself about some nifty ways to help yourself and your neighbors retain our beautiful natural beach and sea area. Save money and enjoy healthy living too.

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These books contain some of the latest thinking and innovation on the goal to be green.

“The Lazy Environmentalist: Your Guide to Easy, Stylish, Green Living” by Josh Dorfman: If you listen to Sirius Satellite radio, you may already be familiar with Dorfman and his super-convenient, no-guilt-trip, no-sacrifice ideas for green products and services.

In his opinion, eco living 101 is simple, as the best choices are green choices.

Discover innovative inspirations for home, office and the great outdoors. Best of all, it’s never too late to start making adifference.

“Complete Idiot’s Guide to Green Living” by Trish Riley: Another winner in the Complete Idiot’s series, this guide features Southern Florida’s favorite freelance environmental journalist Riley, who stresses consumer education and organic living.

Practical and economically motivated, everyone can benefit from her nuggets of green wisdom and suggestions for easy-to-do, everyday newly-acquired conservation habits.

“The Green Book: The Everyday Guide to Saving the Planet One Simple Step at a Time” by Elizabeth Rogers and Thomas M. Kostigen: With an encouraging pep talk of a foreword by actress Cameron Diaz, here is a basic title that proposes participation from everyone, old and young, with easy-to-follow personal choices to make us more environmentally aware.

“Green This: Greening Your Cleaning” by Deirdre Imus: Wife of radio’s former shock jock Don Imus, the author is founder/benefactor of the Deirdre Imus Environmental Center for Pediatric Oncology at Hackensack University Medical Center in New Jersey.

Her goal is to prevent exposure to environmental factors which may cause cancer, especially in children.

This title is an excellent example of how to use nontoxic house cleaning products and includes helpful references for cleaning up your act at home.

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