Looking for a good green read this winter?  Check out Diane McEachem’s new book, Big Green Purse – Use Your Spending Power to Create a Cleaner, Greener World, which urges women to use their influence as consumers to make a positive change to the environment.  As consumers who spend 85% of every dollar in the marketplace, women’s capacity to use their spending power for the greater good has virtually been untapped.  An environmental expert and bestselling writer, Diane McEachem outlines the small-step-big-impact ways in which women’s dollars can be used wisely for 25 commodities.  From food to clothing, to cars, to computers, she explains concepts in layman’s terms and walks readers through green buying choices, listing eco-friendly companies that they can trust.  She also simplifies the often confusing world of green products by organizing hundreds of options into “thumbs-up” and “thumbs-down” categories.

Big Green Purse is a perfect, non-intimidating way to explore the ways in which you can become a green consumer.  Although it’s scheduled to come out in March, you can pre-order a copy for $12.21 at www.amazon.com or find it at a bookstore near you at www.booksense.com.

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Daily Greenz #82

Eco-friendly giant Danny Seo has been making a big
splash with his Simply Green books, which cover everything from creating a
greener home to throwing festive parties that are sensitive to the environment and your wallet. His focus is, as his titles indicate,
simplicity, and his new 2008 “Do Just One Thing” calendar runs along the same
theme of simple actions you can take on a daily basis to make your life a
little greener this year. His 366 eco-tips
(leap year!) are clever and inexpensive, such as recycling the black tape from
your old videotapes as gift-wrapping ribbon or unplugging your cell phone
charger when it’s not in use. His last
tip even tells you how to recycle the whole calendar, so following all his tips
will ensure that the calendar pays for itself. Prop his calendar on your desk for $19.99 at www.amazon.com and recycle his tips by
sharing them with your coworkers.

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Daily Greenz #75
If
US Weekly just isn’t doing it for you anymore, give yourself a subscription to
Verdant Magazine.
Verdant is a beautifully designed
lifestyle magazine for the eco-savvy reader published by the Cottages and
Gardens magazine group (so we know it’s reliable). It covers all aspects of
eco-friendly living—from design, art and fashion trends to news summaries and
authoritative product reports.
Basically, it’s a perfect source for
upscale eco-chic living, delivered straight to your door. Get a full year’s
subscription for $18 at verdantmag.com.

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