Sag Harbor - Looking for a way to make a difference in your daily consumption of energy and reduce your own private carbon footprint? There's a flank of new
green books designed to tune up your eco-friendly conscience and while enjoying the finer creations of a design-driven marketplace.
Embracing the trend in the marketplace, these eco-wise guides are now available at Sylvester & Co. on Main Street in Sag Harbor:
'You Can Save The Earth' - ($12.95) which touts seven simple ways to join the conservation bandwagon, offering a "philosophy for the future" from Hatherleigh Press. This small hardcover pocketbook, which includes inspirational quotes from influential environmentalists including Al Gore, Jacques-Yves Cousteau,
Martin Luther King, Jr., Mother Teresa,
Walt Whitman, Henry David Thoreau, Howard Zinn, E.F. Schumacher, William Shakespeare, Ayn Rand, and Mahatma Gandhi, focuses on "real-life, simple solutions to many of our global problems, and emphasizes steps that can be taken on an individual basis or on a local level" to promote awareness and conservation. The seven principals outline that thinking include: Love the Earth, Make Wiser Choices, Choose to Reduce, Embrace Green Technology, Recycle, Reuse, and Repair, Think Local, and Cherish the Earth's Precious Gifts.
A portion of profits from the handbook is designated for non-profit organizations "specifically active in addressing the issues that face the survival of the Earth", including but not exclusive to the Wildlife Conservation Society, National Audubon Society, Save the Whales, Sierra Club, Waterkeeper Alliance, The
Nature Conservancy, Cousteau Society, Community Food Security Coalition, Slow Food USA, and the Natural Resources Defense Council.
'Cool, Green Stuff' - ($14.95) by Dale Evans presents a guide to finding "great recycled, sustainable, renewable objects you will love," published by Random House. The guide which is said to be inspired by the "latest reports of 'cool hunters' - a new breed of trend watchers who travel the physical and virtual world in search of cutting-edge design," offers a encyclopedic-styled product book that offers each item's environmental significance, a description of the materials used to create it, and website contacts to buy them. Imaginative and innovative, the products showcases the eco-chic world of product design on the cutting edge of today's trends.
'The Green Book' - Written by
Elizabeth Rogers and Thomas M. Kostigen and published by Three Rivers Press, offers tips on daily eco-conscious practices that have wide-spread effects. With wit and authority, The Green Book's tip advisers, including
Ellen DeGeneres,
Robert Redford,
Will Ferrell, Jennifer Aniston,
Faith Hill,
Tim McGraw and
Martha Stewart offer solutions for all areas of your life, "pinpointing the smallest changes that have the biggest impact on the health of our precious planet."
To list just a few of those tips: Don't ask for ATM receipts - "If everyone in the United States refused their receipts, it would save a roll of paper more than two billion feet long, or enough to circle the equator 15 times;" Turn off the tap while you brush your teeth - "You'll conserve up to five gallons of water per day. Throughout the entire United States, the daily savings could add up to more water than is consumed every day in all of New York City;" Get a voice-mail service for your home phone - "If all answering machines in U.S. homes were replaced by voice-mail services, the annual energy savings would total nearly two billion kilowatt hours."
