{"product_id":"thrifty-green-ease-up-on-energy-food-water-trash-transit-stuff-and-everybody-wins-9781573244855","title":"Thrifty Green: Ease Up on Energy, Food, Water, Trash, Transit, Stuff-and Everybody Wins","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book is a unique resource-by-resource approach to living with less: how to lighten up, save money and practise conservation. Priscille Short shares the conservation lessons she learned living with no electricity. She shows how we canall conserve our 7 most important resources:Transport - hybrid cars, zip cars, bike shares, biodiesel and      alternative fuels.Heat- heat pumps, thermostats, stoves, insulation and solar      options.Power and Light - fluorescent vs. incandescent, natural light,      high-tech vs low-tech appliances.Water - treatment for water pollution, filters, purifiers, outdoor      plumbing, composting toilets, water policies and regulations, water      bill calculators.Food - conventional vs. organic farming, pesticides in fruits and      vegetables, dangers of plastic, resources for growing your own      food.Rubbish - composting, recycling, building \u0026amp; designing with      rubbish, Europe vs. America, Creating a smaller      ecological footprint, world''s highest rubbish dump (Mt. Everest)Stuff - downsizing and reclaiming: clothes, shoes, electronics,      jewelry. The impact of our overconsumption.Entertainingly written, Short, also, examines how people in other countries do more with less and offers strategies that we all  can implement by thinking in new ways about conservation.","brand":"Conari Press,U.S.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53734080086359,"sku":"9781573244855","price":14.24,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/thrifty-green-ease-up-on-energy-food-water-trash-transit-stuff-and-everybody-wins-9781573244855","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}