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Generation Green: The Ultimate Teen Guide to Living an Eco-Friendly Life | 
 enlarge | Authors: Linda Sivertsen, Tosh Sivertsen
Publisher: Simon Pulse
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  28 reviews
Sales Rank: 25272
Media: Paperback
Reading Level: Young Adult
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 272
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 8.1 x 5.5 x 0.6
ISBN: 1416961224
Dewey Decimal Number: 640
EAN: 9781416961222
ASIN: 1416961224
Publication Date: August 5, 2008
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Product Description
We all know about the Earth's environmental crisis, but there is someone who can truly make a difference: you. If you text your friends or chat with them online, download music to your iPod, or toss bottles and papers into recycling bins, you're already more eco-savvy than you think. It's just as easy to do even more to help save the earth, and Generation Green shows you how. This book: - Lays out the inside scoop on the biggest issues affecting our planet, such as global warming and overflowing landfills
- Offers dozens of tips on how to shop, dress, eat, and travel the green way
- Includes interviews with teens like you who are involved with fun, innovative green causes
- Shows that being environmentally conscious can be a natural part of your life -- and your generation's contribution to turning things around.
It doesn't matter if you can't vote or drive. Your efforts -- big or small -- will contribute to saving the planet. It's time for all of us to take action. It's time to go green!
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 Awesome Book December 1, 2008
I completely loved this book. I loved the amount of ideas. They were little things that you could do to help. The whole book was very positive. It wasn't so much as "you shouldn't do this," it was "do this and be helpful." Also, the writing style of the book was very interesting. They were funny, and it made you want to read the book more.
VERY GOOD ENVIRONMENTAL BOOK FOR TEENS! November 30, 2008
I thoroughly enjoyed this book. My daughter is 15 and, as most kids her age, has more than just a passing interest in all things "green". This age group recognizes that the environmental issues of today, will be theirs to solve tomorrow if something doesn't change. Unlike the other reviewer who said that the sea isn't rising (heard of the drowning polar bears and the native villages on shore lines that have had to be completely relocated due to rising waters???)I believe sticking your head in the sand is not going to make it go away. Acknowledging the problem is the first step toward fixing it. Tosh and Linda Sivertsen, as a mother/son writing team confront the issues head on in a positive style. Not the usual doom and gloom. After reading their book, you come away feeling like you can make a difference. A great message for today's intelligent and thoughtful teen. Highly recommended!!
In Search of Better Living October 23, 2008
I started going green a couple years ago mostly because it saves you money and helps you live a healthier lifestyle, the whole saving the Earth thing is just an added bonus. So I am always on the lookout for ways to better myself which is why I picked up Generation Green (even if the subtitle The Ultimate Guide to Living an Eco-Friendly Life puts me a little out of the target demo). The book comes from the mother-son team of Linda and Tosh Siversen.
As someone that goes out of his way to learn about living green, there really isn't much in the book that helps me, but the book is perfect for those who are just getting into the Green movement no matter the age even if the book skews young with how to balance the new technology with living healthy so people of any age can come away with plenty of good practices to lower their carbon footprint with moving into a shack and growing their own organic food.
The book is also well arrange with plenty of attention grabbing blurbs and interviews for those that only have little spurts of time to read or just short attention spans. And if you do end up buying the book, be sure to pass it around to anyone who could learn something from it so it doesn't just end up in a landfill when you are done.
Linda and Tosh helps us learn how easy it is to be green! October 19, 2008
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Living an eco-friendly life is not always about buying the latest recycled gadget or solar product. Linda Sivertsen and Tosh Sivertsen have written a great book that can either be read or used as a pocket manual for your own green life! For the past three years my own personal focus has been reducing my carbon footprint. During the hot days of summer, I saved $50 a month vs last year because of several shade trees that now surround my house. While this may seem to be totally off topic, the book Generation Green explains in eloquent and colorful terms what I have been doing to save money and feel good about it at the same time!
Generation Green is filled with incredibly insightful shopping tips. For example in Chapter 4, Guilt-Free Shopping, you are taken through some basic rules to follow on your trip to the mall or grocery store. Instead of buying the newest Indiana Jones movie why not rent it from a Red Box rental machine and save the trash of packaging? Even more eco-conscious is renting from the machine rather than a store that consumes a tremendous amount of power for its lights and air conditioning. Finally paying $1 vs $20 saved you some serious dough!
My favorite chapter is entitled Hanging Out Green. The chapter gives us a detailed listing of activities that are environmentally conscious and cost very little to do. One section covers sailing, my weekends for the past several years have been spent in marinas working on sailboats and cruising Galveston Bay in them. If you want to learn more about the environment, a great summer vacation could be spent on taking a sailing cruise around the Caribbean!
The publisher Simon Pulse hit a homerun by publishing this book on recycled paper and environmentally friendly inks, but even more credit goes to the Sivertsen's for producing an easy to read book that serves as my daily guide to living a green life. Generation Green would be a great Christmas present for young and old alike.
To Linda and Tosh, thank you for letting Amazon distribute your book as part of Amazon Vine. I hope you continue your efforts to educate and spread the word online to the newest green generation!
Being green is cool -- a guide for young folks in the process of developing an ecological conscience October 16, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Generation Green is a great guide for young people who want in on the kinds of changes that will have to take place quickly if we are to live in a way that is ecologically sustainable in the long term. It is written from the perspective of a mother and son, who have both had the privilege and the dedication to be on the cutting edge of "Green culture."
I mention "privilege" because many of the choices they make and advocate for have been and will continue to be, in the short term, more expensive and more difficult than more "mainstream" ways of life. Buying organic, going vegetarian, voting at the grocery store and the furniture store for companies with good policies -- are practices that for some can seem out of reach. But, and here is the important point, even for those who have been able to afford the time and cost of green living have only been able to do so with difficulty and dedication. It is thanks to people like the Silversten's that green practices are beginning to enter the mainstream and it is now not all that much more expensive or difficult to live a more ecologically sound lifestyle. As more and more young people come to recognize the value and importance of living in a way that is consistent with a healthy Earth, it will become even easier and in the long run will be the only thing that will keep food and energy and cost-of-living expenses from skyrocketing.
That is why books like Generation Green are important and valuable -- and while I've read many books of its kind addressed at adults this is the first one I've seen that focuses on teens and youth. It is an excellent manifesto and guide, that can be read straight through but also browsed for tidbits of information and advice. It is clear and well-written, easy to follow, and strikes me as quite valuable.
There is, probably, far more advice and information here than any young person is likely to incorporate into their life, but that's not a problem. It is not an encyclopedia, and can be easily read all the way through. The real strength of the book is in informing its readers about options and alternatives to "business as usual." Readers should walk away with a familiarity of some of the things they might do -- and some ideas about how they might do that and why they might want to. Only when we care about a problem, or think we might have some impact on a problem can we help to solve it.
One thing it doesn't do is go into a lot of detail on the tradeoffs -- for example, it points to some of the benefits of biodiesel, but doesn't indicate that right now the costs can be much higher than gasoline and that there are tradeoffs insofar as land that could go to food crops is being used for fuel and, more importantly, water often needs to be diverted from food production to fuel production. (These aren't insurmountable problems, and I've seen some interesting proposals out there, but they are problems that need to be faced.) There is some reason to be skeptical about some of the practices that are often considered to be "green" -- and some of the practices advocated by this book -- but I think the most important thing is that in America and around the world we do need to shift our mindset from one that focuses on maximizing profits through efficiency to finding ways to live by focusing on sufficiency and sustainability. Always such changes start in the home at the level of individual practices that develop into core values. This book would be an excellent one to give to young people with the potential of being leaders of the future who help to effect such changes in core values. Highly recommended.
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