Green Your Home All-in-One for Dummies - Brossura

Liz Barclay, coauthor of Green Living For Dummies, has worked as an adviser, trainer, and manager with the Citizens Advice Bureau, a nonprofi t organization in the United Kingdom that provides free, impartial advice to help individuals resolve legal, fi nancial, consumer, and other problems. Liz has worked on a wide range of business and fi nance programs for the BBC and has written for News Of The World, The Express, Moneywise, Family Circle, Save Money, and the Mail On Sunday personal fi nance magazine. She also has written UK Law and Your Rights For Dummies and Small Business Employment Law For Dummies.

Michael Grosvenor, coauthor of Green Living For Dummies, is a leading urban planning professional and freelance writer on sustainability. Through his work and writing, Michael promotes the benefi ts of making sustainable lifestyle choices. He is the director of his own consulting fi rm and holds maters degrees in Urban Affairs and Applied Social Research and a degree in Town Planning. He’s also a member of the Planning Institute of Australia and provides advice to the Institute on integrated land use and transportation planning issues.

Elizabeth B. Goldsmith, PhD, author of Green Cleaning For Dummies, is a Family Resource Management professor at Florida State University who green cleans her own home. She is a nationally known expert in how households are run, including the most documented home in America — the White House. Liz is the author of several college textbooks, including Consumer Economics: Issues and Behavior (Prentice Hall; 2nd edition Pearson) and Resource Management for Individuals and Families (Wadsworth Publishing), now in its 4th edition (Pearson). She was a Fulbright Scholar in Trinidad and Tobago, studying family and home-management practices. Liz presents papers on households and consumers at conferences worldwide and has been quoted in various publications.

Betsy Sheldon, contributor to Green Cleaning For Dummies, has served as editor in chief for three travel publications, and is the author or co-author of six books on topics from job-hunting for women to Jewish travel. Betsy writes “Green Watch,” a regular column for Indianapolis Monthly Home magazine, and contributes articles about environmental issues and sustainability to publications including Indiana Living Green and Vacation Industry Review. She is involved in a number of environmental initiatives, including the greening task force for the American Resort Development Association and the Indiana Sustainability Coalition, and also serves on the board of Earth Charter Indiana. She facilitates “Low Carbon Diet” workshops, which help participants discover the steps to lowering their own carbon footprint and reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Eric Corey Freed, author of Green Building and Remodeling For Dummies, is an architect, lecturer, and writer based in San Francisco. He has 15 years of experience in green building and is a practitioner in the tradition of organic architecture fi rst developed by Frank Lloyd Wright. Eric is founder and principal of organicARCHITECT, part architecture fi rm, part think tank. Eric teaches in the Sustainable Design program he co-developed at the Academy of Art University and the University of California, Berkeley. His monthly column, Ask the Green Architect, is published by GreenerBuildings and syndicated to dozens of publications.

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Practical, simple home solutions for reducing your impact on the planet

Want to go green in and around your home? This value-packed guide gives you easy-to-follow, budget-friendly tips that will reduce your ecofootprint. From using greener cleaning tools and building materials to cutting your energy costs and working with your lawn, you'll discover how to make your home cleaner, healthier, and more energy efficient.

• Go green, save money ? using less means saving more

• Reduce, reuse, recycle ? the reasons behind going green and tips for getting the whole family involved

• Improve your energy use ? simple fixes for making your heating, air conditioning, lighting, water use, and appliances more efficient

• Bring green to your clean ? practical tips for eliminating toxic cleaners from your home and cleaning every room of the house

• Remodel the ecofriendly way ? using sustainable construction materials in your home projects

• Plan your garden and landscaping ? organic options for growing your garden and beautifying your yard with less waste

• Tap into the power of solar energy ? projects to make solar work for your home

Open the book and find:

• How to cut back on consumption

• Ways to reuse and repurpose your possessions

• Recipes for green cleaning solutions

• Green options for heating and cooling systems

• Strategies for organic gardening

• Great green food choices

• Tips for financing solar investments

• Green finish and construction materials

• How to raise ecoconscious kids