The Official Earth Day Guide to Planet Repair
Author: Denis Hayes
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ISBN: 1559638095
Publisher: Island Press (February, 2000)
Sales Rank: 208,159
Average Customer Rating: 4 out of 5
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Rating: 5 out of 5
An ideal home, school, and community library reference.
The Official Earth Day Guide To Planet Repair describes the problem of global warming and its effects today and in the future; considers available energy sources and explains why one of them is the Earth's best hope; offers dozens of ways to painlessly reduce energy use; provides action steps to affect the world's energy use and help to change governmental policy; reveals where to find further help and more information on environmental issues and concerns. The Official Earth Day Guide To Planet Repair is an ideal home reference and a timely and highly recommended addition to personal, school, and community library environmental issues collections.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Surprisingly optimistic!
I hadn't expected this book to focus so tightly on global warming, and particularly on the role of carbon dioxide therein, but nevertheless it held my interest and left me full of hope. It has solid suggestions for ways in which of each of us can flex our consumer muscles to reduce unnecessary energy use, and also lays out a larger strategy that we can use for a national blueprint. The really good news is that this book makes clear that we already KNOW how to reduce our greenhouse emissions (thereby helping our planet and ourselves), keep our economy strong while we do it, and continue to be a world technological leader to boot. The only thing standing in our way is a group of people (a large, politically powerful group of people!) who feel that their short-term profits from fossil fuels matter more than the health of ourselves, our descendants, and all the other people on the planet.
I hope that this book gets a broad readership; it deserves it. We all deserve to hear this message and start moving toward a cleaner world.
Rating: 2 out of 5
Not a bad book but not what I expected
If you are looking to buy a car, buy gasoline, or own a home...maybe this book is good for you. I found that the majority of the book was only a high level overview of the environmental situation with few advice on what a person can do to make a difference. From the title, and the discription I was led to believe that I would read something that I could do in order to help, but instead the advice was only for those owning a home and a car- which I do neither (Bike power is better than owning a car anyway! :) )Its not an expensive book, but I personally would return it, or give it away,...I didn't really learn anything new at all- except the last chapter where the author goes into detail about the GCC -Global Climate Coalition - which I previously hadn't heard of. This was really the only new thing that I learned- not worth the (...) for 3 pages of new info.
I am presently looking for a better environmental book which gives me ideas for little things I can do day to day in order to help the earth.
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