Complete Idiot's Guide to Saving the Environment

Greg Pahl

Penguin, Dec 11, 2000 - Nature - 352 pages

"The Complete Idiot's Guide to Saving the Environment" is a comprehensive guide to the ways an average citizen can make every day Earth Day. We learn how the environment got in this condition and how we can improve it by reducing, reusing, and recycling at home, at work, and everywhere else. The book suggests groups and organizations to join or to go to for information.

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User Review  - quantum_flapdoodle - LibraryThing

An OK introduction to environmental issues, but not great. Maybe you have to be an idiot....

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User Review  - Devil_llama - LibraryThing

An OK introduction to environmental issues, but not great. Maybe you have to be an idiot....

Contents

• Part 1 The Environment and You: 1
• Part 2 Reduce Your Use: 75
• Part 3 Reuse It: 137
• Part 4 Recycle It: 189
• Part 5 A Sustainable Future: 233
• Index: 335

About the author

Greg Pahl is the author of numerous books on energy and also writes for Mother Earth News and various other publications on biodiesel, wind power, wood heat, solar energy, heat pumps, electric cars, and a wide range of other topics related to living in a post-carbon world.

His books include Power from the People: How to Organize, Finance, and Launch Local Energy Projects (2012, Chelsea Green), Biodiesel: Growing a New Energy Economy (2005, Chelsea Green), Natural Home Heating: The Complete Guide to Renewable Energy Options (2003, Chelsea Green), The Complete Idiot's Guide to Saving the Environment (2001, Macmillan/Alpha Books), and The Unofficial Guide to Beating Debt (2000, IDG Books).

Pahl has been involved in environmental issues for more than twenty-five years. In the 1970s he lived off the grid in a home in Vermont with a wind turbine atop an 80-foot tower that provided for his electrical needs. He is a founding member of the Vermont Biofuels Association as well as the Acorn Renewable Energy Co-op. Pahl attended the University of Vermont and was a military intelligence officer in the US Army during the Vietnam War.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Complete Idiot's Guide to Saving the Environment; THE COMPLETE IDIOT'S GUIDE
• Author: Greg Pahl
• Publisher: Penguin, 2000
• ISBN: 0786535024, 9780786535026
• Length: 352 pages
• Subjects: Nature / General