by Heather Howe

Created on: December 08, 2008   Last Updated: January 16, 2009

Green friendly and ecologically aware publishing has come into its own in recent decades, thanks to environmentally aware educated classes interacting with liberal media covering rise of pollutant disease, industrial waste and biohazards from poor waste management, materials handling, and illegal toxicity in environments. The siren call to change to a more resource friendly lifestyle leaves many people with questions about how to do it. Put out the welcome mat for healthy green living today and check out these four books:

Squeaky Green, (2008, Chronicle Books) isn't a book you'll find taking up space in the bookstore or even collecting dust in remainder bins this year. The Squeaky Green Clean guide to living, well, Squeaky Green Clean is publishing in the pdf format that retards green paper waste saves trees. Could there be a more effective medium to convey the message? The process is the product with Squeaky Green. Even printed, the 158 pages get the message across in a lean style. Squeaky Green, the "Method" Guide to Detoxing Your Home, isn't an acting manual but a nasal passage clearing tome about the realities of everyday allergens and internal presences of noxious pathogens and particles that can be harmful or possibly fatal. The "Method" is here used by the two wunderkind entrepreneurs who started manufacturing and evangelizing the Method brand of cleansers with design savvy.

Method products wear the stamp of Lowry and Ryan's imprimatur of everyday processes reducing toxic by products from the suds on down the line. Squeaky Green treats the internal home environment as a responsive entity that interacts with organic inhabitants yet does not have to threaten the ecosystem. Cooking the dust with the heater or dispensing viruses with a snap of the air conditioner can be prevented, "squeakily".

Sustainable Living for Dummies (2007, For Dummies) is a great book for people with an arm's length relationship to their perception of the green friendly and eco-conscious lifestyle. Sure green living sounds good in theory, but in practice how practical is it? For anyone who ever wondered what they could do at a level proximate to their everyday reality, Sustainable Living for Dummies informs a reader or group about possible projects. This book challenges previously held conceptions about daily resource use, commuting, and the impact one person can have on themselves and their peers practicing green friendly living. Sustainable Living for Dummies also makes a great handbook

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