Kategoria BISAC: Self-Help >> Green Lifestyle

SAVE THE WORLD IN STYLE

Lower your carbon footprint--in your favorite pair of stilettos--with THE ECO CHICK GUIDE TO LIFE. Here you'll find hundreds of ideas on how to be ecologically smart and still be stylish and trend-setting. You don't have to sacrifice to go green--you can eat well, dress well, and live well once you learn how to:

Learn where to shop for vintage and recycled jewelry (mining practices for gold and silver are notoriously polluting).

Wear sustainable threads--organic cotton, peace silk, bamboo--or look for funky reconstructed designs made from...

Fed up with fast-fashion and mindless shopping? So was Inger.

By committing to a twelve-month shop-stop, she delves into the polarizing world of ffast-ashion and returns with a bunch of questions.

Why do we think shopping is the ultimate female bonding experience? Are people who don't shop super boring? Considering that the planet is running out of natural resources, should we only shop at ethical stores? And how come everyone always says, 'I have nothing to wear, ' when in the history of the world we've never owned more clothes than we do today?

Along the way, Inger...

This is the book where self-help turns into helping the world and then turns back into helping yourself find a better life. Fascinating and timely Bill McKibben, author of Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet

What does it take to achieve a successful and satisfying life? Not long ago, the answer seemed as simple as following a straightforward path: college, career, house, marriage, kids, and a secure retirement. Not anymore. Staggering student loan debt, sweeping job shortages, a chronically ailing economy plus the larger issues of global unrest, poverty, and our...

Have you ever wondered, "How can I inherently do good while looking good?" Wear No Evil has the answer, and is the timely handbook for navigating both fashion and ethics. It is the style guide with sustainability built in that we've all been waiting for. As a consumer, you regain your power with every purchase to support the causes and conditions you already advocate in other areas of your life (such as local or organic food), while upholding your sense of self through the stylish pieces you use to create your wardrobe.

Featuring the Integrity Index (a simplified way of...

In The Moneyless Manifesto, Mark takes us on an exploration that goes deeper into the thinking that pushed him to make the decision to go moneyless, and the philosophy he developed along the way.

Bursting with radical new perspectives on some of...

Welcome to this new series dedicated to transforming ordinary cardboard into incredible, fun, useful and practical products for your personal use. This guide will showcase original creative concepts and will provide detailed step-by-step instructions on how to make the featured designs on YOUR terms. Cardboard is the greatest building material available to all people based on the simple fact that it is predominantly free, overtly abundant and pliable enough to be fashioned into practically anything your imagination can devise Instead of being discarded, cardboard can be upcycled into...

Thousands of books have been written in many languages about self-development, so what does this book tell you the others do not? Nothing! It says nothing that has not already been said; it has the same message that has always been brought to humanity, but because we are all different and require different ways of learning, this book was created.

Many books about personal development start by explaining how to drop everything we have picked up in our lives until now. Usually, there is a lot that we would like to discard, and it can seem quite overwhelming. I choose to start with the...

The thoughts and actions of people past and present have determined the current state of our planet. If we change our thinking, we can change the health of our own lives and also the future state of our world. 7 Ways to Think Differently explores ways to address personal, social, and environmental concerns in simple practical steps in our daily lives, helping us to make incremental, achievable changes.

As well as addressing our internal landscapes, Looby explains how individuals and communities can work together to achieve positive change. She also explores the current...