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Generation Green: The Ultimate Teen Guide to Living an Eco-Friendly Life
We all know about the Earth's environmental crisis, but there is someone who can truly make a difference: you. If you text your friends or chat with them online, download music to your iPod, or toss bottles and papers into recycling bins, you're already more eco-savvy than you think. It's just as easy to do even more to help save the earth, and Generation Green shows you how. This book: Lays out the inside scoop on the biggest issues affecting our planet, such as global warming and overflowing landfills Offers dozens of tips on how to shop, dress, eat, and travel the green way Includes interviews with teens like you who are involved with fun, innovative green causes Shows that being environmentally conscious can be a natural part of your life -- and your generation's contribution to turning things around.
It doesn't matter if you can't vote or drive. Your efforts -- big or small -- will contribute to saving the planet. It's time for all of us to take action. It's time to go green!
272 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2008
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About the author
Linda Sivertsen
7 books32 followersLinda Sivertsen, “Book Mama,” is in LOVE with books—reading, writing, and selling them. Her titles have won awards and hit all the lists as an author, co-author, and former magazine editor and ghostwriter. But her driving force has been to publish sustainably. Naïve and optimistic enough to believe in magic, she’s on a mission to save forests via her role as a Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Ambassador. When she’s not fostering literary love matches on her Beautiful Writers Podcast (a favorite stop for writers on tour), writing, and promoting Beautiful Writers, or midwifing books at her Carmel or virtual writing retreats, Linda can be found on the back of a horse or running with her dogs. She and her husband live on their ranch in Scottsdale, Arizona.
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July 16, 2011
So, I work with teenagers and I thought it would be good to see what books were out there that talked about what they can do about climate change. I checked this out of the library. It bills it self as a "teen guide". By "teen", I think they mean 10-15 year olds. Upper and middle class 10-15 year olds. That's fine- that's an important audience.
The first thing that irritated me about this book is that is says it is written by, like, a 19 year old (with help from his "celebrity interviewer" mother) but based on the writing, it sounds more like it was written by a middle age person posing as a teen by writing at a 6th grade reading level and dropping in things like 'cool', 'bummer', and 'Mom can be annoying!'. Its also not written like a book. Its writen like a magazine with little blurbs on the pages with subtitles like "Hemp is Hip!" perfect for the non-book reader.
All of that aside, here is what REALLY annoyed me about this book. It is totally as much about these annoying author's self important lives as rich L.A.ers as it is about effective methods for preventing climate change. Also, along with real solutions for climate change, they throw in random kumbyaa silliness without explaination or any sense of priority due to level of impact. A non-critical reader (their target audience, it seems) could easily be confused. So...I should eat soy cheese pizza because then I will never get zits? If you only eat fruit and nuts when you are pregnant, your baby will never get sick? Or, what for me was the most infruriating claim- in explaining what to do to "green" your diet, they suggest fasting. They don't explain how to safetly fast, risks involved, why people fast- just that it is part of a green diet. Awesome, ill informed middle schoolers being told simply to fast. Brilliant.
Sigh. I should have known- afterall, the author's name is "Tosh".
The first thing that irritated me about this book is that is says it is written by, like, a 19 year old (with help from his "celebrity interviewer" mother) but based on the writing, it sounds more like it was written by a middle age person posing as a teen by writing at a 6th grade reading level and dropping in things like 'cool', 'bummer', and 'Mom can be annoying!'. Its also not written like a book. Its writen like a magazine with little blurbs on the pages with subtitles like "Hemp is Hip!" perfect for the non-book reader.
All of that aside, here is what REALLY annoyed me about this book. It is totally as much about these annoying author's self important lives as rich L.A.ers as it is about effective methods for preventing climate change. Also, along with real solutions for climate change, they throw in random kumbyaa silliness without explaination or any sense of priority due to level of impact. A non-critical reader (their target audience, it seems) could easily be confused. So...I should eat soy cheese pizza because then I will never get zits? If you only eat fruit and nuts when you are pregnant, your baby will never get sick? Or, what for me was the most infruriating claim- in explaining what to do to "green" your diet, they suggest fasting. They don't explain how to safetly fast, risks involved, why people fast- just that it is part of a green diet. Awesome, ill informed middle schoolers being told simply to fast. Brilliant.
Sigh. I should have known- afterall, the author's name is "Tosh".
December 30, 2020
Cross-posted from my blog where there's more information on where I got my copy and links and everything.
Well, I had fun making fun of this on Twitter. That’s about the most I can say for it. This book is at best incredibly simplistic and at worst actively dangerous. Since the summary likes bullet points, let’s use some. Because that’s kind of fun.
Simplistic at best suggestions:
Did you know you can use reusable tote bags instead of plastic bags?
Plastic water bottles are bad
Unplug your electronics when you’re not using them and turn the lights off when you leave a room
An off-shoot of this is “this book aged really fast”:
Buying a lot of CDs and DVDs creates waste
Burning your work to CDs as backup creates waste so you should use a cloud backup instead – the book mentions a service that offers a whole 25MB of data free!
They mention the 2007 Live Earth concert pretty often? And I kind of wonder how long that was supposed to be relevant. I was 15 in 2007 and I don’t even remember that.
Did you know your VCR uses a lot of energy when it’s plugged in and you aren’t using it?
Wouldn’t getting some digital newspaper subscriptions – or even seeing if your library has that service, many do! – be “greener” than all the projects they suggest using old newspapers for?
They spend some time talking about how “toxic” most makeup is because scary chemicals, and they talk about a friend who “started wearing sparkles on her cheeks at thirteen years old, and today at twenty-one she still wears them” – but we’re not gonna talk about plastic glitter being really bad for the ocean?
Actively dangerous:
They recommend feeding your dog a lot of garlic to keep fleas away. Garlic is toxic to dogs.
It’s kind of racist sometimes? I dunno, I couldn’t name anything specific but it’s got a re-occuring romanticizing of Indigenous people as super myserical and stuff. They also use the phrase “green karma” a lot which is… a choice.
The book suggests you should put your alarm clock across the room and stand away from your microwave because EMFs might give you cancer.
Don’t put essential oils in your mouth instead of mouthwash.
This isn’t actively dangerous, but I feel like suggesting teengers should skip a daily shower, rewear clothes that “aren’t dirty” after a day’s wear, and give up antipersperant is just gross. Have you met a teenager lately?
They suggest using thrift stores a lot, which is fine, but they also mention Goodwill specifically, and don’t mention that Goodwill is pretty awful to disabled people.
There’s also no mention of bedbugs from picking your neighbour’s couch up off the side of the road. Just saying.
The makeup/beauty chapter goes into a lot of cissexist stuff about “female bodies” that honestly feels like complete BS. In general, they say a lot of “studies show” but they almost never cite those studies and the ones they do seem incredibly cherrypicked.
Most of the rest of my complaints are petty things, like how unrealistic the idea of shoving soda cans into your pockets to bring home to recycle is. Or things like reusing paper towels that have been used once after they dry to pick up after your dog, or that I’ve NEVER heard of someone using a solar phone charger and they act like that that’s normal to suggest, or that it can be really repetative and the voice is trying too hard to relate to teens or that white text on green paper is impossible to read. I have two things I NEED to talk about though that are my biggest complaints. (Saved the best for last, I guess?)
One – this book assumes that the teenager reading this is a middle to upper class teenager able-bodied who lives in a city. It even says “Most of us live in cities” which… do we? Because I certainly don’t. It has absolutely no room in it for the idea of a teenager who doesn’t live in a large house with room to garden and collect your own rainwater. If you live in a food desert and barely have access to basic produce, how do you buy the local organic produce the book insists in best? Or the expensive organic cotton sheets, or the expensive organic cosmetics, or the Tesla which you totally, as a poor teenager or even a teenager in general, have the power to influence your parents into buying?
At one point, they say “Your eating will improve as you get better at choosing restaurants, shopping for good food, or cooking for your friends”. Teenagers aren’t usually in control of those things! It’s so unrealistic. So many of the things they suggest require so much privilege to be accessible.
Two – the dangerous “nutrition” advice. There’s a chapter on “Eating Green” that is full of dangerous and disgusting “advice” and food guilt. They suggest – through a totally real anecdote of a friend who’s in her seventies and allegedly looks fifty – that eating “mostly organic raw fruits and vegetables” will make you look younger as it’s “as if the living cells in the food give you added beauty and energy”. Canned vegetables are bad, empty calories, “chemicals are bad”, etc.
Linda says she was a “fruitarian” when pregnant with Tosh, meaning she only ate fruit, a few leafy greens, and the occasional nut. I’m just going to leave this video from an actual dietitian about this exact subject here. They claim “we’re fairly certain we can credit all the purewater and organic fruits and vegetables Tosh eats for how little acne he’s had as a teen” because why not skin-shame the teenagers while we’re at it, like water you drink doesn’t actually have very little to do with your skin and that genetics doesn’t play a HUGE role in skin. Linda also claims this is why she did not have morning sickness while pregnant, and why Tosh was “sick only about, oh, three short days during his entire childhood”.
As he’s only 17 while co-writing this book, this rather contradicts the claim on the next page that they fast on only water when they feel illness coming on. It also contradicts the statement that when Tosh was five the “medicine man” came to see them in the mountains where they didn’t have heat and was so concerned about how frail they were that he immediately fed them a bunch of venison.
But they’re totally not saying YOU should eat this way, even though the closest thing to a nutrition expert they mention is a model and actress who wrote a book about eating only raw foods.
Overall, this has aged badly and I don’t think it was particularly great when it was new. I got it as a teenager, read half, left a bookmark in there, and never touched it again for 12 years. Maybe if you live in an LA suburb and your mom is a writer and your dad is an actor, and you have money to burn, this could convince you to shop vintage instead of at Abercombie, or Lush instead of Sephora, but I wouldn’t recommend it.
Well, I had fun making fun of this on Twitter. That’s about the most I can say for it. This book is at best incredibly simplistic and at worst actively dangerous. Since the summary likes bullet points, let’s use some. Because that’s kind of fun.
Simplistic at best suggestions:
Did you know you can use reusable tote bags instead of plastic bags?
Plastic water bottles are bad
Unplug your electronics when you’re not using them and turn the lights off when you leave a room
An off-shoot of this is “this book aged really fast”:
Buying a lot of CDs and DVDs creates waste
Burning your work to CDs as backup creates waste so you should use a cloud backup instead – the book mentions a service that offers a whole 25MB of data free!
They mention the 2007 Live Earth concert pretty often? And I kind of wonder how long that was supposed to be relevant. I was 15 in 2007 and I don’t even remember that.
Did you know your VCR uses a lot of energy when it’s plugged in and you aren’t using it?
Wouldn’t getting some digital newspaper subscriptions – or even seeing if your library has that service, many do! – be “greener” than all the projects they suggest using old newspapers for?
They spend some time talking about how “toxic” most makeup is because scary chemicals, and they talk about a friend who “started wearing sparkles on her cheeks at thirteen years old, and today at twenty-one she still wears them” – but we’re not gonna talk about plastic glitter being really bad for the ocean?
Actively dangerous:
They recommend feeding your dog a lot of garlic to keep fleas away. Garlic is toxic to dogs.
It’s kind of racist sometimes? I dunno, I couldn’t name anything specific but it’s got a re-occuring romanticizing of Indigenous people as super myserical and stuff. They also use the phrase “green karma” a lot which is… a choice.
The book suggests you should put your alarm clock across the room and stand away from your microwave because EMFs might give you cancer.
Don’t put essential oils in your mouth instead of mouthwash.
This isn’t actively dangerous, but I feel like suggesting teengers should skip a daily shower, rewear clothes that “aren’t dirty” after a day’s wear, and give up antipersperant is just gross. Have you met a teenager lately?
They suggest using thrift stores a lot, which is fine, but they also mention Goodwill specifically, and don’t mention that Goodwill is pretty awful to disabled people.
There’s also no mention of bedbugs from picking your neighbour’s couch up off the side of the road. Just saying.
The makeup/beauty chapter goes into a lot of cissexist stuff about “female bodies” that honestly feels like complete BS. In general, they say a lot of “studies show” but they almost never cite those studies and the ones they do seem incredibly cherrypicked.
Most of the rest of my complaints are petty things, like how unrealistic the idea of shoving soda cans into your pockets to bring home to recycle is. Or things like reusing paper towels that have been used once after they dry to pick up after your dog, or that I’ve NEVER heard of someone using a solar phone charger and they act like that that’s normal to suggest, or that it can be really repetative and the voice is trying too hard to relate to teens or that white text on green paper is impossible to read. I have two things I NEED to talk about though that are my biggest complaints. (Saved the best for last, I guess?)
One – this book assumes that the teenager reading this is a middle to upper class teenager able-bodied who lives in a city. It even says “Most of us live in cities” which… do we? Because I certainly don’t. It has absolutely no room in it for the idea of a teenager who doesn’t live in a large house with room to garden and collect your own rainwater. If you live in a food desert and barely have access to basic produce, how do you buy the local organic produce the book insists in best? Or the expensive organic cotton sheets, or the expensive organic cosmetics, or the Tesla which you totally, as a poor teenager or even a teenager in general, have the power to influence your parents into buying?
At one point, they say “Your eating will improve as you get better at choosing restaurants, shopping for good food, or cooking for your friends”. Teenagers aren’t usually in control of those things! It’s so unrealistic. So many of the things they suggest require so much privilege to be accessible.
Two – the dangerous “nutrition” advice. There’s a chapter on “Eating Green” that is full of dangerous and disgusting “advice” and food guilt. They suggest – through a totally real anecdote of a friend who’s in her seventies and allegedly looks fifty – that eating “mostly organic raw fruits and vegetables” will make you look younger as it’s “as if the living cells in the food give you added beauty and energy”. Canned vegetables are bad, empty calories, “chemicals are bad”, etc.
Linda says she was a “fruitarian” when pregnant with Tosh, meaning she only ate fruit, a few leafy greens, and the occasional nut. I’m just going to leave this video from an actual dietitian about this exact subject here. They claim “we’re fairly certain we can credit all the purewater and organic fruits and vegetables Tosh eats for how little acne he’s had as a teen” because why not skin-shame the teenagers while we’re at it, like water you drink doesn’t actually have very little to do with your skin and that genetics doesn’t play a HUGE role in skin. Linda also claims this is why she did not have morning sickness while pregnant, and why Tosh was “sick only about, oh, three short days during his entire childhood”.
As he’s only 17 while co-writing this book, this rather contradicts the claim on the next page that they fast on only water when they feel illness coming on. It also contradicts the statement that when Tosh was five the “medicine man” came to see them in the mountains where they didn’t have heat and was so concerned about how frail they were that he immediately fed them a bunch of venison.
But they’re totally not saying YOU should eat this way, even though the closest thing to a nutrition expert they mention is a model and actress who wrote a book about eating only raw foods.
Overall, this has aged badly and I don’t think it was particularly great when it was new. I got it as a teenager, read half, left a bookmark in there, and never touched it again for 12 years. Maybe if you live in an LA suburb and your mom is a writer and your dad is an actor, and you have money to burn, this could convince you to shop vintage instead of at Abercombie, or Lush instead of Sephora, but I wouldn’t recommend it.
January 31, 2022
Generation Green is a wonderful book for anyone interested in the environment, how to better their community, or how to better themselves. The authors, Linda and Tosh Siversten, tell how they have adapted to an eco friendly life style, giving advice to anyone who wishes to do the same or is trying to be a little more sustainable. Although there are just nine chapters in this novel, every few pages begins a new topic to keep the reader interested. One page you could be reading about how to buy better batteries and the next page you would read about how to clean your home using chemical free cleaners. I think everyone should read this story even if they have no interest in the environment because of how enlightening it is. I never would have thought that reading about how to save water or how to start an organic diet would be interesting but this book proved me wrong. I felt it covered every topic imaginable while keeping each section very interesting and informational.
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April 22, 2010 Generation Green
Linda Siversten & Tosh Siversten
Generation Green is a book about helping the environment, if you couldn’t already tell. In this book it talks about global warming, landfills, interviews with teenagers about our earth, how to help the earth, and things other people do to help the earth. This book is “The Ultimate Teen Guide to Living an Eco-Friendly Life”. This book has facts about so many items you may have in your home that you never knew about. Your perspective really changes from reading this book. It also has tips to make things or get makeup and etc. without spending any money, buy using items you find in your kitchen. Did you know you can use sea salt and baking soda to whiten your teeth? I think not. Every chapter or so the have a page with interviews with teens who made a difference. Like Julia Butterfly Hill, the girl who sat in one tree and ended up saving a whole forest.
I didn’t exactly have a favorite character, since there were no characters but I have favorite interviews and favorite sections of the book. My favorite interview was the one with Julia Butterfly Hill because I think its cool that she made such a impact just by sitting in a tree. But she sat in the 1,500 year old tree for over two years and even named the tree Luna. I think its cool that she was so devoted to that cause that she didn’t come down for 738 days. And my favorite section of the book was the end when they showed examples of how to live normally but be very eco-friendly at the same time.
I think the author was trying to show the number of things you can do to help make this world better. There are so many things that are easy to do, but some people are just to lazy or oblivious to do them. Everyone could live a longer and happier life if they weren’t so lazy and just unplugged something, showered every other day, or didn’t leave the water running.
I think this book is amazing and is one of my favorite books. I rate it a 10/10. I recommend it to anyone who wants to be involved in helping our world.
Linda Siversten & Tosh Siversten
Generation Green is a book about helping the environment, if you couldn’t already tell. In this book it talks about global warming, landfills, interviews with teenagers about our earth, how to help the earth, and things other people do to help the earth. This book is “The Ultimate Teen Guide to Living an Eco-Friendly Life”. This book has facts about so many items you may have in your home that you never knew about. Your perspective really changes from reading this book. It also has tips to make things or get makeup and etc. without spending any money, buy using items you find in your kitchen. Did you know you can use sea salt and baking soda to whiten your teeth? I think not. Every chapter or so the have a page with interviews with teens who made a difference. Like Julia Butterfly Hill, the girl who sat in one tree and ended up saving a whole forest.
I didn’t exactly have a favorite character, since there were no characters but I have favorite interviews and favorite sections of the book. My favorite interview was the one with Julia Butterfly Hill because I think its cool that she made such a impact just by sitting in a tree. But she sat in the 1,500 year old tree for over two years and even named the tree Luna. I think its cool that she was so devoted to that cause that she didn’t come down for 738 days. And my favorite section of the book was the end when they showed examples of how to live normally but be very eco-friendly at the same time.
I think the author was trying to show the number of things you can do to help make this world better. There are so many things that are easy to do, but some people are just to lazy or oblivious to do them. Everyone could live a longer and happier life if they weren’t so lazy and just unplugged something, showered every other day, or didn’t leave the water running.
I think this book is amazing and is one of my favorite books. I rate it a 10/10. I recommend it to anyone who wants to be involved in helping our world.
August 6, 2009
I liked this book. It contained lots of information about changing your life and turning it into something greener and better for the earth and I think that aspect of it was great. However, being a teenager living a getting steadily greener life, I found it extremely difficult to pick out what I should be doing every day to improve. Now there was a chapter at the end of the book which went through the average, green, greener, and greenest day in the life of a teenager. But everybody has different routines and things they do everyday which made those statements too general to me. So ultimately what I got out of the book was to take short showers, stop buying things, eat healthier, to unplug everything when you leave your room, and all the problems happening with the environment which I also think there was too much emphasis on. You can lead the horse to water but you can't make it drink. You can tell a teenager how heavy their life is on the environment, but blasting all the major problems in their face is just going to overwhelm them.
December 30, 2008
Reviewed by Erikka Adams, aka "The Bookbinder" for TeensReadToo.com
The environment is in peril right now, and change needs to happen right now.
But who can do anything to change this...to stop such a big problem? There is someone who can make a difference: you. You, me, and everyone we know! Find all this and more in GENERATION GREEN -
Easy to understand language explaining the issues affecting the planet.
TONS of tips, how-to guides, and advice for teens to be more green in their lives.
Interviews with teens on what THEY already do to be green and what YOU as the reader can try, too.
And inspiration and support for teens - possibly one of the strongest and most influential but overlooked groups of people on this planet - to begin making changes they want to see on Earth.
So next time you pick up a book like this and finish reading it, you might want to ask yourself - how Green can you go....how Green can you go....
The environment is in peril right now, and change needs to happen right now.
But who can do anything to change this...to stop such a big problem? There is someone who can make a difference: you. You, me, and everyone we know! Find all this and more in GENERATION GREEN -
Easy to understand language explaining the issues affecting the planet.
TONS of tips, how-to guides, and advice for teens to be more green in their lives.
Interviews with teens on what THEY already do to be green and what YOU as the reader can try, too.
And inspiration and support for teens - possibly one of the strongest and most influential but overlooked groups of people on this planet - to begin making changes they want to see on Earth.
So next time you pick up a book like this and finish reading it, you might want to ask yourself - how Green can you go....how Green can you go....
July 17, 2016
I had to read this for school since we're apparently going green ::rolls eyes:: and it bored me. It was complete torture. I mean, I'm not one of those people who don't give a crap about the planet; I do care. I do want to learn more. But did this book really have to be written in such a way where statistics were solid facts, theories undeniable truth? And then it brought up the author and her son every paragraph or so. I had the feeling that part of writing the book was to further the son's acting career.
Anyway, the only thing good about this book was that it actually had some info in it that isn't really mainstream like global warming and all of that bs (in my opinion, anyway). But the writing style made it very, um, boring to read. And I haven't talked to a single person yet who actually likes it. My English teacher thinks the book sort of a very sad attempt at targeting a teen audience. I'd have to side with her.
Anyway, the only thing good about this book was that it actually had some info in it that isn't really mainstream like global warming and all of that bs (in my opinion, anyway). But the writing style made it very, um, boring to read. And I haven't talked to a single person yet who actually likes it. My English teacher thinks the book sort of a very sad attempt at targeting a teen audience. I'd have to side with her.
May 11, 2010
Quick read that is obviously much more suitable for teens, which is its target audience. Can’t say I learned anything new, but I have read many environmental books and have watched a number of documentaries. However, this book would be a good read for those new to trying to reduce ones impact on non-renewable resources and the environment in general. I found the interviews with celebrities not to my liking, but the teen group would probably relate well. I found the most useful items in the back of the book when the authors discussed several scenarios for how a teen can reduce his/her environmental footprint starting with waking up in the morning and continuing throughout the day. The listing of additional resources in the back was also useful.
All in all, a decent read, but there are many better books out there.
All in all, a decent read, but there are many better books out there.
March 20, 2016
Truth be told, I read this book years ago (in high school). At the time, I wanted to learn as much about the environment as I possibly can. Recently, I decided to re-learn everything, just in case there's something I missed. But as I kept reading, I realised two things—one, I still remember most of what I read and, two, it is completely outdated for the situation we're in now. Also, since it's obviously written for teenagers, as an adult, I now cannot really relate to the book, yet I remember loving it so much as a high school student. That being said, I would recommend this to all teenagers—or younger, even, who has yet to implement the green living lifestyle to their life. It might be helpful and tell you things that you never realised you didn't know before.
August 21, 2020
Honestly?
Picked this book up because of a cool girl in my class. Many of my favorite reads have started with that phrase, with the motivation of flexing my (newfound) knowledge on them.
However, by this point the novel is a bit dated, and that sticks out. This is no fault of the author, but... If looking for a good reference on how to be eco-friendly, and help the world, there are more relevant and timely books to read.
That said, if you simply want to follow the logic presented by Sivertsen, which is fresh and interesting, with a unique layout of the book, then by all means enjoy this book.
Picked this book up because of a cool girl in my class. Many of my favorite reads have started with that phrase, with the motivation of flexing my (newfound) knowledge on them.
However, by this point the novel is a bit dated, and that sticks out. This is no fault of the author, but... If looking for a good reference on how to be eco-friendly, and help the world, there are more relevant and timely books to read.
That said, if you simply want to follow the logic presented by Sivertsen, which is fresh and interesting, with a unique layout of the book, then by all means enjoy this book.
August 3, 2011
As a teenager this was the best written eco-book I have come around. I did not give up the on book and actually read the whole thing. There were a lot of great ideas, to bad it is summer vacation! The reason I give it a 5 instead of a 4 was because it wowed me, I kind of underestimated it. If we had to read this for English I so would, except that everything is American based (measurements, the websites, references). The book is also good for any one who is not a teen, teacher may like it for the ideas.
July 26, 2012
We all know about the Earth's environmental crisis, but there is someone who can truly make a difference: you. If you text your friends or chat online, download music to your iPod, or recycle bottles & papers, you're already more eco-savvy than you think. It's just as easy to do even more to help save the earth, and Generation Green shows you how.
From Benicia High School Booktalks 2009 & Benicia Middle School Booktalks 2009-10
Benicia Public Libray Call Number: YA640 SIVERTSEN
From Benicia High School Booktalks 2009 & Benicia Middle School Booktalks 2009-10
Benicia Public Libray Call Number: YA640 SIVERTSEN
November 4, 2009
Very interesting book. I learned a few things that I could do to better the earth. I wish there was a chapter about people that live in an apartment and living eco-firendly. It's not like you could have a compost pile on your patio without the other renters getting pissed off at you.
Overall I think every teenager should read this book. I don't have to do big things to make a impact.
Overall I think every teenager should read this book. I don't have to do big things to make a impact.
June 11, 2010
"Global warming" is not real. However, we do need to take care of our planet and this book has great tips and ideas without being pushy. I've read quite a few environmentalist books, and this is the first one I've read every page of. =]
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January 7, 2020this book talks about all of the problems with the world and simple solutions you can make to change that. Simple things like if you aren't charging a device then you should take out the plug to save energy. Another thing that is very toxic to the earth but is very small is nail polish.
March 6, 2009
i LUVED this book. it was THE BEST. READ IT. NOW.
June 10, 2009
Not much new information in this book, but it was definitely written in a voice targeted for teens. I am considering purchasing a copy of this book for my classroom.
July 18, 2009
I thought it was ok, just at the end it seemed like I couldn't finish the rest of it because it was a major overload. I got about halfway and quit.
November 29, 2009
definitely a good book to read because it has lots of info, and you don't get bored out of your mind reading it.
December 3, 2009
stuju bgth sma buku inii . let's save our motherearth ..
March 12, 2010
Good enviro information, but boring layout, somewhat preachy tone, and Hollywood name dropping make this book a chore to read.
April 3, 2010
This was an awesome book! Full of facts, information and ideas, but not pushy. A must-read.
May 3, 2010
So far this is really good and interesting!!!
September 18, 2010
This is a really good book for anybody interested in being green.It has lots of helpful ideas on how to green your life, and is written in a very easy-to-read fashion. two thumbs up!
July 3, 2012
Poorly written. The voice was so weird. Can look up all these tricks online
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July 10, 2014Why do I keep forgetting that rule of thumb: If it's nonfiction and marketed for TEENS, you're probably better off finding an 'adult' version.
January 17, 2014
Interesting, but with all the facts in there, references, people, problems, etc, it's hard to really focus on what I can do as a teenager to help the world. It all just blurs together to make a mess.
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May 18, 2018This book was good!
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