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Harmonious Environment: Beautify, Detoxify & Energize Your Life, Your Home & Your Planet, is a reference book for anyone who cares about their health and well being and for the future of the planet. It’s written by Norma Lehmeier Hartie, who develops a blueprint for green, sustainable living. Subjects include: how to replace toxic and unsustainable products with safe, eco-friendly ones; cleaning and removing clutter to organize home or office: using the principles of feng shui, the four elements, color, energy and Vastu; and good design principles needed for a unique and eclectic approach to home decorating. Also contains a comprehensive listing of advisory organizations, product and service resources.

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Wangari Maathai’s extraordinary journey from her childhood in rural Kenya to the world stage. Maathai founded the Green Belt Movement in 1977. She began a vital poor people’s environmental movement, focused on the empowerment of women, that soon spread across Africa. Persevering through run-ins with the Kenyan government and personal losses, and jailed and beaten on numerous occasions, Maathai continued to fight tirelessly to save Kenya’s forests and to restore democracy to her beloved country.

Buy It: Unbowed

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Rachel Carson’s classic alerted a large audience to the environmental and human dangers of indiscriminate use of pesticides, spurring revolutionary changes in the laws affecting our air, land, and water. Even if she had not inspired a generation of activists, Carson would prevail as one of the greatest nature writers in American letters.

Buy It: Silent Spring

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Most businesses still operate according to a world view that hasn’t changed since the start of the Industrial Revolution. Then, natural resources were abundant and labor was the limiting factor of production. But now, there’s a surplus of people, while natural capital natural resources and the ecological systems that provide vital life-support services is scarce and relatively expensive. Natural Capitalism is a blueprint for a new economy, three leading business visionaries explain how the world is on the verge of a new industrial revolution. Authors Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins, L. Hunter Lovins describe a future in which business and environmental interests increasingly overlap, and in which companies can improve their bottom lines, help solve environmental problems and feel better about what they do all at the same time.

Buy: Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution

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The definitive guide to making healthy and informed choices about food. Marion Nestle’s book takes us through each supermarket section—produce, dairy, meat, fish—she explains the issues, cutting through foodie jargon and complicated nutrition labels, and debunking the misleading health claims made by big food companies. With Nestle as our guide, we are shown how to make wise food choices—and are inspired to eat sensibly and nutritiously.

Buy “What to Eat”

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A classic. Inspired by the “save our planet” mindset of the 1960s, The Lorax is an ecological warning that still rings true today amidst the dangers of clear-cutting, pollution, and disregard for the earth’s environment. In The Lorax, we find what we’ve come to expect from the illustrious doctor: brilliantly whimsical rhymes, delightfully original creatures, and weirdly undulating illustrations. But here there is also something more–a powerful message that Dr. Seuss implores both adults and children to heed.

The Lorax

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Author Barbara Kingsolver and her family abandoned the industrial-food pipeline to live a rural life—vowing that, for one year, they would only buy food raised in their own neighborhood, grow it themselves, or learn to live without it. Part memoir, part journalistic investigation-an enthralling narrative that will open your eyes in a hundred new ways to an old truth: You are what you eat.

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life

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Comprehensive guide to nontoxic and planet-friendly dog care. Info on the potential dangers of conventional pet food, grooming products, and accessories. Offers shopping tips and 25 home projects for all-natural alternatives.

Eco Dog-Healthy Living for Your Pet

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Brings a fresh outlook to the crises of destabilizing climate change and rising competition for energy—both of which could poison our world if we do not act quickly and collectively. Tom Friedman’s argument speaks to all of us who are concerned about the state of America in the global future.

Proposes that an ambitious national strategy— which he calls “Geo-Greenism”—is not only what we need to save the planet from overheating; it is what we need to make America healthier, richer, more innovative, more productive, and more secure.

Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution–and How It Can Renew America

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