General Resources
Reading List
50 Simple Things You Can Do to Save the Earth
The Earthworks Group
A Climate for Change - Global Warming Facts for Faith-Based Decisions
Katherine Hayhoe and Andrew Farley
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
Barbara Kingsolver
Big Green Purse: Use Your Spending Power to Create a Cleaner, Greener World
Diane MacEachern
Blessed Unrest
How the Largest Social Movement in History is Restoring Grace, Justice, and Beauty to the World
Paul Hawken
Cradle to Cradle – Remaking the Way We Make Things
William McDonough, Michael Braungart
Earth: The Sequel – The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming
Fred Krupp
ENVIROPAL – A field guide to paper, print, design, and the environment
Derek Smith
Getting Green Done: Hard Truths from the Front Lines of the Sustainability Revolution
Auden Schendler
Go Green, Live Rich – 50 Simple Ways to Save the Earth and Get Rich Trying
David Bach, Hilary Rosner
Green Like God: Unlocking the Divine Plan for Our Planet
Jonathan Merritt
Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution – And How it Can Renew America
Thomas L. Friedman
In Defense of Food, An Eater’s Manifesto
Michael Pollan
It’s Easy Being Green
Emma Sleeth
Natural Capitalism, Creating the Next Industrial Revolution
Paul Hawkins, Amory Lovins, L. Hunter Lovins
Serve God, Save the Planet: A Christian Call to Action
J. Matthew Sleeth, MD
Sleeping Naked is Green
Vanessa Farquharson
The Consumer’s Guide to Effective Environmental Choices, Practical Advice from the Union of Concerned Scientists
Michael Brower, Warren Leon
The Designer’s Atlas of Sustainability
Charting the Course Through Economy, Ecology, and Culture
Anne Thorpe
The Green Book: The Everyday Guide to Saving the Planet One Simple Step at a Time
Thomas M. Kostigen, Elizabeth Rogers
The Lazy Environmentalist: Your Guide to Easy, Stylish, Green Living
Josh Dorfman
Use Less Stuff - Environmental Solutions for Who We Really Are
Robert M. Lilienfeld
You Are Here: Exposing the Vital Link Between What We Do and What That Does to Our Planet
Thomas Kostigen
Resources
This page is in development. More links and descriptions will be added soon
General Info
Books
If you're just getting started in your green journey, I recommend "You Are Here," by Thomas Kostigen which gives you a great view of how our choices effect the planet. And then choose something like "Use Less Stuff" or "50 Simple Things You Can Do to Save the Earth." Visit my Reading List to see more.
Magazines
Kids
Green Furniture and Building Services
www.ecosupplycenter.com - Richmond, VA
www.recycledfurniture.com
Recycling
www.freecycle.org - Locate and join your local Freecycle group. This is a great way to put perfectly good stuff in the hands of people who will really use it. And you can get great stuff too, keeping them out of landfills. I've given my son's barely used Boy Scout uniform, toys that people were actually requesting, cleaning supplies, and more. The best thing I've rescued from the dump was a set of like new shower doors.
www.pcrecycler.net- Chantilly, VA
www.etechrecycling.com - Chantilly, VA
www.turtlewings.com - Capitol Heights, MD
Cleaning
Green Living
LOHAS - Lifestyles of Health and Sustainability
Calendar
Chantilly Day Community Festival
May 12, 9:30am-6pm
Come out and celebrate community!
Document Shredding
Free secure document shredding for Fairfax residents only.
Saturday, May 19, 2012
8am-12noon
Mason District Governmental Center
6507 Columbia Pike, Annandale, VA
Electric Sundays -
Recycle your electronics - free!
Sunday, May 20, 2012
10am-3pm
I-66 Transfer Station
4618 West Ox Road,
Fairfax, VA 22030
Contributors
Dorothy
My name is Dorothy Banzon and I’m a graphic designer, mom, lover of the creator and all of creation. To me, taking care of God’s creation and living the way He intended us to live is what being green and the move towards living sustainably is all about. I also believe that a lot of problems can be solved by good, clear communication. As a graphic designer, I quest to find ways of telling the truth simply and effectively. No matter what your beliefs are, I hope you will find some truths in my pages.
Silvia
I am pleased to introduce Silvia Lucero as our guest contributor. She and I share a passion for learning about the things that are happening locally related to environment. She will be writing about many of the related events she attends and interesting people and organizations she meets along the way. Silvia is a salesperson for the Residence Inn in Herndon and is currently the chairperson for the Dulles Regional Chamber of Commerce Environmental Committee.
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