Customer Reviews:

Avg. Customer Rating: 4.4 / 5.0

Brief and engaging, but ultimately falls short:

This book does a great job of giving information about all of the different inputs required for lots of the different things we consume every day. It makes you consider many little things that you previously didn't think about, such as the environmental impacts of transporting goods, and water spent washing your clothes. For this simple reason it might be a good buy.

However, the book fails in its use of statistics, failing to give the reader a real sense of the environmental impact of different goods.... more info

Should we believe?:

Should we believe the statements in this book when Mr. Ryan tells us streets are paved with a twelve-inch layer of asphalt?
It's probably just an innocent mistake, but obvious factual errors make me wonder about the veracity of the rest of the book.

Our Collective Eco-Wake:

Let me start by going backwards. In the appendix, the authors testify that this book is about the "greenest" on the market. With soy-based inks and nearly 100 percent of the paper content comprised of post- and pre-consumer waste, the book is a monument to sustainable production. Although they bemoan the "well traveled pulp" cover, no dioxins were co-produced alongside the book. To prove the book really is this cool, they painstaking tracked the web of connections involved in its production as far back as... more info

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