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The New Green Consumer Guide by Julia Hailes (view source)
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|pages=256
|publisher=Simon & Schuster Ltd
|date=21 May 2007
|isbn=978-0743295307
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The original Green Consumer Guide sold over a million copies when it was published in 1988. There wasn't much competition in those days - we were all still scoffing at the Prince of Wales for talking to his plants. Nineteen years on, it's a different ball game entirely. Julia Haile's new version will sit on bookshop shelves entirely devoted to the environmental message. The idea is no longer to get the message out, it's to save people from drowning in it and enable them to actually get up and do something about it.
My thanks to Simon & Schuster for sending the book.
Those interested in finding out a bit more about the food they eat might like Joanna Blythman's [[Shopped]] while those most interested in the challenges climate change presents could look at George Monbiot's [[Heat]]. If you're looking for an introduction to climate change, have a look at [[Things You Can Do: How to Fight Climate Change and Reduce Waste by Eduardo Garcia and Sara Boccaccini Meadows]].
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|name=Magda
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|comment= Have you noticed how climate change changed the focus of enviromental concernes (example, but not the only one: from the concentration on 'old fashioned' chemical polution to carbon emissions). I have to say I like this direction, and it also makes it easier to integrate the social(ist?)pro-development angle with the (semi)enviromentalist one.
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|name=Jill
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|comment= Yes! I think it's served to sharpen the argument for many people and lose that woolly, Jesus-wants-me-for-a-sunbeam aspect.
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