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In Bookstores Now: Small steps for big changes!
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Do One Green Thing:  Saving the Earth Through Simple, Everyday Choices

“Mindy Pennybacker has provided a nifty catalogue of how to live more lightly on the earth.  You'll learn a good deal here, especially about how simple small changes can be."
-Bill McKibben, author of Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet

Buy from your local bookseller, or online at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Borders and others listed at St.Martins.com/DoOneGreenThing.


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Praise for Do One Green Thing

"To my relief, here are the practical - and affordable - answers to all our green questions. Do One Green Thing makes me feel happy and confident that positive change is afoot, and that we all have an important and rewarding part to play."
-from the foreword by Meryl Streep

"Mindy Pennybacker provides a handy guide to making more environmentally sound decisions about everything from ordering fish in a restaurant to buying appliances and light bulbs."
-The New York Times

"Mindy’s bite-size, easy-to-digest wisdom caters to everyone from green beginners to longtimers."
-Robyn Lawrence, Natural Home Magazine
 
 "This is the book I've been waiting for. Pennypacker translates the latest research into concrete advice enabling every consumer to go green."
-Margaret Mellon, Ph.D., Union of Concerned Scientists
 
"This lovely book encourages each of us to take simple steps to improve our planet and so to enhance our own health and the health of all our children."
-Philip J. Landrigan, MD, Professor,
Mount Sinai School of Medicine

"The clearest, easiest-to-use, and most reliable guide to green living that I've seen."
-Bob Schildgen, Sierra’s Mr. Green

". . .full of practical tips for everyday green living.  I hope it inspires many people to do many green things."
-Fred Krupp, President, Environmental Defense Fund

"Saving the earth, one choice at a time. . ."
-Jen Tadaki, Honolulu Magazine

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‘Tis the Season for Farm-and-Garden Fresh Food!
Summer’s fresh local fruits & vegetables, eggs, dairy and meat are rolling into farmers’ markets and farm stands now. Great news: the # of USDA farmers’ markets grew by 13% last year, to 5,274 nationwide!

Find your nearest farmer’s market by entering your zip code at Local Harvest.

Whole Living abounds with seasonal recipes and gardening tips. And see Mindy's shopping tips video. Plus, hear her talking green summer living tips for food, sunblock, cleaners and more, with Hawaii Public Radio's Beth-Ann Kozlovich.

And see Mindy's new Huffington Post blog on not wasting animals, whether as fashion or food.

 
 
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Green Cleaning

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Mindy talks green on the Martha Stewart Show!

Do One Green Thing
Replace conventional cleaning products with green, plant-based formulas.

Why?  It’s better for you and better for the planet. Many synthetic ingredients in conventional cleaners pollute our indoor air with volatile organic compounds (VOCs) linked to allergies, asthma, watery eyes, breathing and nervous system problems and more. Washed down the drain, these chemicals harm aquatic life and pollute our drinking water.

D.I.Y. Cleaning Party
Throw a d.i.y. cleaning party with recipes from Earthjustice and Women's Voices for the Earth!

Green Laundry Tip:
How to brighten clothes without toxic chlorine bleach.

Did You Know?
A new study shows that many laundry detergents contain a chemical classified as a probable human carcinogen. Read more in our green laundry detergents list and blog.

See our new green cleaning blog.

Choose It/Lose It Cleaning Ingredients (From Do One Green Thing)

Choose It:

  • Baking Soda
  • Borax
  • Cornstarch
  • Hydrogen peroxide
  • Lemon juice
  • Plant essential oils
  • Table salt
  • Vegetable oil
  • Washing soda
  • White vinegar

Lose It:

  • Alkylphenol Ethoxylates (APEs)
  • Ammonia
  • Chlorine Bleach
  • Fragrance
  • Glycol ethers
  • Lye
  • Nonylphenols (NPEs)
  • Sodium Laureth Sulfate (SLES)
  • Sodium Lauryl Sulfate (SLS)
  • Terpenes
  • Triclosan (antibacterial)


More Do One Green Thing in the Media

Hear Mindy on the Leonard Lopate Show, Green Patriot Radio and KNEWS with Charlie Dyer talking about her book, toxic chemicals in plastic and cosmetics, and more. Want to avoid plastics that leach toxic Bisphenol-A? It’s simple. See our shopping lists for BPA-free food and drink containers.

Check out the "Ask Mindy" column at Body + Soul

For more book reviews and media appearances see:

 
 
Links We Like
Media/Blogs Green Nonprofits
Body + Soul
The Daily Green
Dot Earth
E. Magazine
Environmental News Network
The Green Life
Good
Grist
Harper's
Huffington Post
Miller-McCune
Mother Earth News
Mothering
The Nation
Natural Home
OnEarth
Rodale
SHFT
Treehugger
Yale Environment 360
Yes!
 

350
Blue Frontier Campaign
Center for Children's Health and the Environment
Earth Institute at Columbia University
Earthjustice
Earth911
Eat Well Guide
Environmental Defense Fund
Environmental Working Group
Fair Trade Certified
Food and Water Watch
Green America
Greenpeace
Kanu Hawaii
Kokua Hawaii Foundation
Local Harvest
Oceana
Pesticide Action Network
Rainforest Alliance
Riverkeeper
Stanford University Woods Institute for the Environment
Surfrider Foundation
Trust for Public Land
Union of Concerned Scientists
Women's Voices for the Earth