The Lazy Environmentalist on a Budget Review and Giveaway
In The Lazy Environmentalist on a Budget, Josh Dorfman—host of the Sirius Satellite Radio program of the same name—provides comprehensive guidance to fashion-forward consumers who are as concerned about the long-term health of our planet as they are about the design of their bathroom fixtures. Covering topics that range from clothing to electronic gadgetry, home decor to recreation, and gardening to financial investment, Dorfman lets us know which trends to watch and which eco-conscious products—cars, toothbrushes, cell phones, pet accessories—to buy. Green, it turns out, can be an extremely stylish color.
What I truly love about this book, is that it not only teaches you the things you want to know NOW, but it also gives you resources to stay on top of it for the future. He lists many, oodles of many online resources for everything he discusses, from clothes to water conservation.
Here are a few things you will learn in the book to give you an idea of how truly remarkable it is!
Discover new eco-trends and innovations such as how:
Chegg.com rents college textbooks to students for a fraction of the price and conserves trees
Recyclebank makes home recycling easy and profitable and keeps tons of trash out of landfills
SolarCity eliminates the upfront costs of residential solar panels so people can afford them
Swapstyle.com connects you with fashionistas around the world with designer goods to barter , so you don’t have to consume new goods and spend $$$ to look great
Babies ‘R Us offers the widest assortment of affordable, natural and organic baby products available anywhere
Cities such as Boston offer free WiFi on trains to boost public transportation ridership, reduce traffic congestion, and cut greenhouse gas emissions
You can easily and affordably have your designer jeans and contribute to a green planet too. From raising eco-conscious kids to greening your daily commute, the Lazy Environmentalist Josh Dorfman provides insights into the next wave of green innovation and the products and services that will lighten your planetary impact and lower your expenses.
Find bargain basement deals on stylish organic bedding and bamboo furnishings at the largest retailers in the world. Score instant rebates on everything from compact fluorescent light bulbs to energy-efficient air conditioners. And earn reward points for carpooling with friends.
In a time when many people are feeling financially restricted, The Lazy Environmentalist on a Budget is your guide to effortlessly saving the planet while keeping some extra cash in your pocket.
About the author: Josh Dorfman is the author of The Lazy Environmentalist: Your Guide to Easy, Stylish, Green Living (Stewart, Tabori & Chang) and host of The Lazy Environmentalist television series on the Sundance Channel. Dorfman is also the founder and CEO of Lazyenvironmentalist.com, a resource for consumers seeking the best green products and services, and of Vivavi, a retailer of modern, green furnishings. He lives in New York City. Visit http://www.
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Hmm….I can't think of anything unique, really. We walk to work every day instead of driving. And we collect rain water in a barrel to water our plants with instead of using the hose.
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I don't know how unique this is but I will often make Bento for the girls lunches to save on packaging/waste materiels.
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All the crafts I do in my clasroom are made by reusing products. We made snowglobes out of babyjars. Buuny bask It great to show you do not have to throw everything out and that they can be reused.ets out of coffee cans.
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Okay, my fiance grows most of our vegetables. And instead of buying chemicals or fertilizer he uses fish poop to fertilize the plants. Sound weird, I know, but it really works!
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We wash our dishes by hand ** and save the wash & rinse water(i.e. "greywater") to water our garden / landscaping in the summertime; the tomato & pepper plants don't seem to mind, same with the flowers and trees.
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I have an organic garden and I compost whatever I can. I also recycle the water from my fish tank by giving it to my plants. They love it.
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We do all the basic green lifestyle things. As for semi-unique actions, I keep empty dry cat food bags and use them to collect the dirty (earth-friendly) litter. I don't dispose of the bag until it's full. This saves a lot over using one plastic bag for each litterbox cleaning!! (And the bag contains the odor since it has an inner coating that was meant to keep the cat food 'fresh' (use holistic cat food as well). Thanks!!
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I don't know how unique it is, but I am the only person in the house who knows where the paper towels are so everyone is forced to use the cloths instead.
There is a communal garden – huge – on the property next door grown by and for all of the redsidents for my landlady.
We throw pumpkin seeds into the field behind our house; by fall, there is a vine with many pumpkins for the kids in the neighborhood!
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when an eighty-yr-old sycamore tree had to be cut down, the roots came only partially out of the ground and stood about 10 feet high. the ground was too soaked to finish removing it. so..i hung potted plants from the roots and created a hanging basket tree!
use your imagination and you can reuse almost anything.
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We changed our office bottled water system to a filter system, eliminating the need to buy the bottled water but still used the hot/cold dispenser.
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I'm also probably not unique, but we've been on a major reorganizing of our priorities by greatly reducing our use of disposables such as paper lunch bags and baggies, paper towels, and paper napkins. We've been replacing them with all reusable items.
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For the children's b'day parties, from the $store, I buy plastic cup and plate sets for the children to be served on and then they take the cup/plate sets home with them. No trash.
Also, I make my own shampoo/soap/washing powders from Borax.
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This could be considered semi-unique, or just odd. We have a cigar smoker in the family. Instead of dumping the cigar butts in the garbage, we put them in the lawn waste, so they are composted. Just a small thing.
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I don't use paper towels any more and use rags to clean, then wash them.
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I hardly ever throw things away, all old clothes get donated, as well as furniture, & bedding. Old towels get cut into cleaning rags, We recycle our old electronics such as cell phones (we even found some old pagers that we recycled). We use eco-friendly light bulbs and dispose of the old ones properly. We use reusable grocery bags all the time now. I unplug things like our radio, coffee pot, stand mixer when we aren't using them to save a little electricity, we see a small difference on our electric bill.
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Maybe not the most unique thing in the world, but use a thick layer of our lawn clippings as mulch in the vegetable garden so it conserves water and controls weeds.
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We belong to an organic fruit and vegetable coop and use a cloth bag to bring home the fruits and vegetables. We use cloth napkins at home. We also walk whenever we can, rather than driving or taking public transportation.
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After every soccer practice we make the kids pick up bottles in cans in the park and then we recyle for our pizza party at the end of the year.
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I just ordered a compost bin that uses redworms to compost garbage, I can't wait for it to get here! I need to get out more LOL
I try to remember if I'm not in the room, any room, to turn the light out. Also, I re-use bags like the ziplock ones etc.
We live in a small town and we put baskets on our bikes and try to ride everywhere.
we have our own backyard compost! any food and paper waste goes in there and stays out of landfills.
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Where I work- I am kind of the trash monitor(one of many titles I have)-so I make sure nobody throws out anything that can be recycled or composted.
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we have cut out the paper products- styrofoam plates, paper napkins, plastic bottles.
I'm not unique. I just line-dry my laundry, cook from scratch, and cut baby wipes in half (even though they're still disposables).
But I'd love this book! Because I'm poor. I'm an environmentalist by default–you can't use up too many resources if you can't purchase resources!
We've been using these awesome insulated water bottles from ThinkSport for over a year now. They were key in Florida – no "bottle sweating" and keeps ice frozen for like 8 hours! PLus we use canvas grocery bags, flushable cat litter, and Jen has an Etsy store where she sells crafts made from recycled fabrics and other items ( nspire.etsy.com ) Cool blog and contest!
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I'm not sure what qualifies as "semi-unique," but we plant a large garden every year- that we use no pesticides on and fertilize with poop from our pet rabbit.
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I've gone back to drinking tap water,saving the landfill many,many plastic bottles.
I actively cool and heat my home by opening and closing certain windows and doors to ventilate the house and regulate the temperature. I also compost, harvest rain water, grow fruits and veggies, use biodegradable soaps and shampoos and recycle everything to the point that my wife and I only generate one bag of trash per week.
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I do most of my bills electronically, recycle all the junk mail I can't cancel, and am biking to work once a week while the weather is nice–I don't know that any of that is really at all unique. Probably the most unique thing I've tried is cutting down on the # of showers I take a week (the family calls me the dirty girl)–I'm down to 4 in a normal week, fewer when the weather is nice and swimming is an option!
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I know this is not all that unique…but my whole family is adamant about re-using bags. We re-use all sorts of bags — from the grocery store, ziplocs, gift bags, etc.
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To be greener we have planted our first veggie garden and we recycle paper.
We haven't used paper towels in over a year. Instead we use rags and just wash them regularly.
My husband and I car pool to work.
We pay a local farm money upfront to help them cover all the costs in planting, in return, we get weekly boxes of fresh produce for the rest of the season. Yummy!
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My family buys from local organic farmers each week at the farmer's market. Sometimes we have potlucks with friends where everything must be local!
We also use canvas bags constantly and walk to the grocery store and farmer's market instead of driving.
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We don't do a whole lot "out of the norm" to save the environment…I use reuseable bags, constantly remind the kids to turn off lights/electronics they're not using. But we also sometimes join groups down on our local beach to pick up trash that has been left or has washed ashore. My children love helping the wildlife have a cleaner environment!
Great giveaway. We do the regular recycling, composting, turning off lights and we also have 2 organic plots at the local community garden.
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It may be considered more of a bribe than a help LOL – but we have gallon glass jugs in each of the kids rooms to encourage turning off the lights.
Every hour or so, we do a 'room check' A penny goes in everytime the lights are off; 2 pennies are taken if the light's on and the room is empty.
We also save water and energy to help Santa save his snow!
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I make my own lip gloss with vaseline and left over eye shadows.
I also use oilve oil as moisturizer and make my own sugar scrub at home.
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like many here, i'm not sure i do anything that can be called "unique", but i did become a vegetarian some 24 years ago when it wasn't "cool" and did i get flak for it at the time…. how things have changed! (c:}
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Hi there! I now follow your blog (already follow you on twitter). I don't do anything really unique to be green, but this year we're growing our own vegetables. Tomatoes are doing really well, and we have blackberries, and I already have a japanese eggplant almost ready to pick!
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I don't know of any unique things we do, but we do compost and have our own garden.
I reuse the plastic bags from newspapers to pick up after my dogs
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I suppose this could be semi-unique. I work in a place where we receive lots of mail on a daily basis. With this mail comes lots of cover letters that we don't need so they get tossed in the mail! This is at LEAST 100 pieces of paper (usually NICE paper) that is tossed out everyday! It was really bothering me so I started collecting them and now use them to print on on the side where they have not already been printed. Example – I print a lot of coupons out from the internet – these papers are perfect for this!
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When I brush my teeth, I only turn the water on when I am using it. I probably turn it on 3 or 4 times but when the toothbrush is in my mouth, the water is off.
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I subscribe. I re-tweeted. I follow. Our family NEVER leaves home without a reusable bag. Also we choose eco-friendly pet toys, collars, and leashes such as hemp.
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It may not be so unique, but in my neighborhood with everyone wanting picture perfect lawns, we do not use conventional fertilizer/weed killer or pesticides.
I also use cold water for laundry and always hang dry clothes outside.
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I started making my own "baggies" for my son to take and RETURN from school with his snacks.
Not sure it's unique anymore but we've had a small veggie garden for years.
We recycle and buy items made from recycled material. We have our own garden and fruit. We buy produce/dairy/meat at a local farm.
We also have a compost.
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We have started growing some of our own vegetables, recycle always, buy renewable/made from recycled materials when possible, buy organic whenever we can afford to. Other than the fact that there are still so many people that don't do most of these thing quite yet, I'm not sure how unique it is, but feel good about doing my part, and want to do more!
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I make my own household cleaners in resuable spray bottles (from vinegar, baking soda, essential oils, etc.)
We refused to buy a dryer when we got married and have spent the last 8 years drying our clothes winter and summer (we live in Colorado).
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Perhaps not so unique, but we recycle everything possible, refuse to buy anything over-packaged, walk to school, and run the washer only when it's full.
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hmm..sadly i don't do anything UNIQUE as such..but we have replaced all the bulbs in our house with energy savers..we recycle regularly…try not to waste food at all..don't waste water…turn off the lights whenever i leave the room..the small things which add up i guess
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We use the newspapers, after they've been read, to soak up drained grease instead of using paper towels.
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The "community" of people who rent from my landlady have two large gardens of food and herbs, we recycle and compost and we're building a green house. We have water rights to a near by stream that with some mechanical thingee we can water our garden so we don't need to use a hose.
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Hi, to recycle, we collected the water bottles we used in a month's time and gave them to a public school that was collecting them to use for a 'moat' project they were building to show us how many bottles our being used unnecessarily.
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instead of using tap water to wash our dishes, we use water from boiling pasta, which is actually very effective in lifting grease!
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I "reduce", "reuse" and recycle.
Most people forget about reducing & reusing and just sent it straight to the recycling facility.
I think that is pretty semi-unique anyways.
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I stopped using my clothes dryer two months ago and hang dry them, I also lowered my hot water settings, I don't do anything unique just what everyone else is doing.
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We recycle, reuse, save water by having shorter showers, turning off taps while brushing teeth and
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We walk when we can, we buy local, we use more blankets in winter to keep warm rather than turn on heat!
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If we only have a small amount of lkeftovers at a restaurant- we ask for tin foil instead of a huge syrofoam carry out container.
We compost and use it in our flower beds
I use my daughter’s bathwater to water my plants. I sprinkle spent coffee grounds around my yard to keep the kitties from pooping in it. I safe my breakfast bar wrappers to send them to TerraCycle to upcycle. I use worm poop on my organic veggies. Not sure if they qualify as semi-unique or not. Hope they do!
After we learned that more than 38 billion disposable plastic bottles end up in landfills every year in the United States. we decided that instead of adding to that number, we would change totally to reusable water bottles and fill them with filtered water. We love it!!
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I don't know how unique this is-I don't see many people doing it anymore-we hang out our laundry. Thank you!
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I can't say I do anything semi-unique, but we started our own garden at a local farm & on our apartment porch.
We recycle everything, but we bike to do it. Maybe that is semi-unique?? We bike a lot more even to grocery store to get a lot of groceries. We use a water filter,reusable bags,reuse bread bags,sandwich bags etc. We make our own soil from our food scraps.
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I try to plant one tree a year.
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I buy almost exclusively used clothing and household items. No need to buy new stuff when I can get used for a fraction of the price and keep it from going to the landfill.
I can't say anything is semi-unique but I just started a veggie garden, have been hanging my clothes to dry (my bathroom looks so funny in the winter because of this), recycling everything, and I take my reusuable bag with me everywhere. Love the site!
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I bury my dogs' poop instead of wrapping it in plastic and dropping it in the waste stream.
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One thing I've been doing is hanging my clothes out to dry instead of using a dryer.
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My Mom is a total care and she always has a bottle of water. I got her a Brita and a reusable bottle and now thats all she uses plus all the extra money she saves by not buying bottle water
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I switched from paper towels to microfiber cloths for much of my cleaning. Thanks!
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We don't use styrofoam products anymore.
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We banned paper products (except toilet paper) and we have our own vegetable garden.
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I don't know how unique these are, and forgive a little self-promotion, but I started a Back2Tap campaign at my school, as well as a recycling program. I also make all of our cleaning products, bath and skin care, and baby products myself. We don't use disposable paper towels, napkins or tissues. I make my products affordable so that others can easily go greener too. And I've eliminated all preserved-specimen dissections from my school district's middle school science curriculum. I'd love to win this book and collect a whole bunch of fresh ideas!
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