Eco Living : A Handbook for the 21st Century

by Karen Christensen

Eco Living is the essential handbook for green living today.  It contains all the information you need in a clear, easy-to-follow form, so that you can ensure your whole lifestyle is ecologically sound. In addition to practical recycling and  housecleaning guidelines,  Eco Living looks at ways to keep fit, the ecological impact of sports like golf and skiing, and important aspects of travel and leisure. Eco Living covers all aspects of a sustainable lifestyle. We can make a difference Karen Christensen s book shows us how --Anita Roddick OBE, founder of The Body Shop

200 pages, Paperback

First published June 29, 2000

About the author

Karen was Valerie (Mrs T S) Eliot's assistant in London (Writing Great Tom) before becoming a well-known UK environmental author (The Armchair Environmentalist and Home Ecology). Her passion is the connection between sustainability and community and she is an expert on "third places" and co-author with Ray Oldenburg of The Great Good Place (media and more). She also writes about women (including Valerie Eliot) and is a Harvard Fairbank Center research associate. Her favorite books include George Eliot's Middlemarch and The Mill on the Floss as well as Barry Eisler's thrillers. In nonfiction, her lifelong favorites include A Pattern Language and A Land. Besides that, she's crazy about trains.