Hey Mr. Green: Sierra Magazine's Answer Guy Tackles Your Toughest Green Living Questions

by Bob Schildgen

Overview

When is the right time to replace an old refrigerator? Is it okay to knit a sweater with acrylic yarn? Is it more environmentally correct to buy beer in bottles or cans? For the last several years, Bob Schildgen's popular "Hey Mr. Green" column has tackled real–world questions from real people. Readers trust his answers, which are backed by Sierra Club's research, but they also enjoy his realism and irreverent humor. This book distills the best of the column into one enormously useful and entertaining resource. It's organized by subject — household issues, food and drink, transportation, reuse and recycling, and "big picture" environmental questions — making it easy to find answers to common questions. Whether puzzling over the intricacies of product life cycles or taking a reader to task for blasting his air conditioner, Hey Mr. Green is an indispensable, opinionated, and authoritative guide to minding one's environmental footprint.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781578051434
Publisher:	Catapult
Publication date:	03/17/2008
Pages:	216
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 7.00(h) x 0.56(d)

About the Author

Bob Schildgen was the managing editor and book review editor of Sierra magazine for many years, and continues to write Sierra’s popular “Hey Mr. Green” environmental advice column. A native of rural Wisconsin, where he grew up on a farm, Bob now resides in Berkeley, California, where he indulges his passions for gardening and thrift by growing two dozen types of vegetables in his backyard.

Table of Contents

Introduction     7
At Home: On Cleaning Up, Keeping Cool, and Other Domestic Details     13
Food for Thought: What to Eat, How to Drink, and Answers to Other Dietary Dilemmas     57
Out and About: On Getting Around, Fueling Up, and Enjoying the Great Outdoors     95
The Three Rs: How (and Why) to Reduce, Reuse, or Recycle Almost Everything     123
The Big Picture: Thoughts on God, Government, and Other Dinner-Table Topics     145
Notes     177
Index     206
Talk Back to Mr. Green     221
About the Author     223