50 Ways to Help the Planet: Easy ways to live a sustainable life

by Sian Berry

Overview

We are becoming increasingly aware and engaged in environmental issues, but it's not always clear what the solutions are and how we can do our bit. We are ready and willing to make changes to our lifestyles, but often the advice about which are the best ones to make can be confusing.

In this friendly guide you are shown how you can make changes in a positive and practical manner, and with some suggestions easier than others, there's a multitude of ways in which you can live more sustainably. Siân looks at the choices we can all make, helping you to reduce your carbon footprint and the impact of your lifestyle on the planet and change the world without changing your life.

The 50 ways are divided into Plastics, Energy, Cooking and Eating, Travel, In the Garden and Action, and include a range of options, such as buying plastic-free beauty products, upcycling your furniture, cutting down on meat and having greener celebrations.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780857836304
Publisher:	Octopus
Publication date:	10/18/2018
Sold by:	Hachette Digital, Inc.
Format:	eBook
File size:	7 MB

About the Author

Siân Berry currently serves as a member of the London Assembly and is the only Green Party councillor on Camden Council. She is the founder of the campaign group Alliance Against Urban 4x4s. Siân writes a blog for the New Statesman and appears regularly on news programmes including Today and The Politics Show.

Table of Contents

Plastics

1 Take home less plastic

2 Don't go disposable

3 Refill and re-use

4 Plastic-free beauty

5 Greener washing

6 Greener fibres

7 Slow fashion

8 Demand less waste

9 Close the loop

10 Greener celebrations

11 Greener babies

Energy

12 Draughtproof your home

13 Insulate your home

14 Use the sun's heat

15 Low carbon heating

16 See the light

17 Green machines

18 Divest

19 Buy greener energy

20 Generate your own

21 Save water in the home

22 Mend it!

23 Reclaim and refurbish

Travel

24 Walking back to happiness

25 Walk to school

26 Bike to work, school, the shops and to health

27 Share a lift

28 Plan your trips

29 Lower carbon travel

30 Greener vehicles

31 Work more from home

32 What the boss can do

33 Holiday nearer home

34 Seeing the world

35 To offset or not?

Cooking & Eating

36 Don't waste good food

37 Cut down on meat

38 Eat local and organic

39 Low-energy cooking

40 Cool down your fridge

In the Garden

41 Grow food without a garden

42 Compost

43 Organic gardening

44 Make friends with wildlife

45 Use water wisely

Action

46 Green your workplace

47 Back your local high street

48 Act when you're out

49 Start a campaign

50 Get the town involved