Foreword. Introduction. How to Use This Book. How This Book is Organised. Part I: Our Environment, Our Responsibility. Part II: Living A Green Lifestyle. Part III: shopping the Green Way. Part IV: Travelling Without doing Any More Damage to the Planet.

Part V: Thinking Green At Work. Part VI: The Part of Tens. Icons Used in This Book. Where to To from Here. Part I: Our Environment, Our Responsibility. Chapter 1: Understanding The Problems We're Storing up for the Future. Creating a Green Society. Measuring Our Own Environmental Footprints.

Making time for environmental priorities. Becoming Carbon Neutral. Taking one small step for mankind, one giant step for the environment. Making it a habit. Slowing down can be time well spent. Doing your bit for the environment. Understanding The impact of individual choices on the environment. Setting up community projects that work.

Adopting positive habits. Starting at home. Conserving is the key. Re-using rather than rejecting. Getting green in the garden. Shopping ethically. Being environmentally sound at work. Travelling smart.

Banking better. Reaping the rewards of a sustainable lifestyle. Saving the environment - saving money. Living a Green Lifstyle keeps the doctor away. Leaving a legacy for future generations. Sidebar: Green living checklist. Chapter 2: Our Environment: Then, Now and in the Future. The Need for Green Living.

Damaging the Earth on a global scale. Warming up the globe. Drying up the Lakes. Salting up the rivers. Damaging age-old ecosystems. Endangering the birds and the Bees. Emitting toxic waste. Growing urban population.

Moving into the Cities. Increasing the number of cars. Reducing the urban water supply. Taxing energy supplies. Facing health problems. Spreading virulent viruses. Gasping for air. Turning the water bad.

Poisoning our food. Balancing Desire and Denial for the Long Term Benefits. Living the Dream. Using First World solutions in Third World contexts (or Capitalistic Solutions in Developing World Contexts). Understanding that the Earth is a finite resource. The Earth can sustain our need but not our greed. Zoning in on at-risk areas. Changing Climate The Truth.

Ignoring global warming - At your peril. Seeing the global warming warning signs. What You Can't See Can Harm You. Toxic waste in our water supplies. All we need is the air that we breathe. Preventive Medicine for the Earth. Thinking globally, acting locally. Taking short-term action for long-term gain.

Sidebar: The Past: The Industrial Age Brings Prosperity and Pollution. Sidebar: The damaging impact of using fossil fuels. Sidebar: The changing nature of agriculture. Sidebar: The Global view - Kyoto and all that. Sidebar: Getting involved - Being empowered by lobbying and protesting. Part II: Living a Green Lifestyle. Chapter 3: Living in a Green Home. Deciding Where to Live.

Finding the Greenest Location. Overcoming the distance factor. Catering for all the Family. Making the Most of a Green Location. Choosing Your Space - big isn't always beautiful. SIDEBAR: Building Your Green Dream Home. Adapting your Existing Home to be More Green. Tapping into the Sun's Rays.

Producing your Own energy from wind. Heating the house with Ground Heat. Ditching the Energy guzzling boiler. Replacing old Appliances with Energy Efficient Ones. Doing without Air conditioning Units.