Sleeping Naked Is Green

by Vanessa Farquharson

[Angie]

Sleeping Naked is Green is not some mind-numbing, educational nonfiction. It's fun, funny, and relatable! The author wasn't quite sold on the environmentalist movement, so she decides to give it a try for research's sake. What can be done easily? What habits would be lasting? What applies to single people? To families? People in apartments vs. houses? She pretty much gives everything a try from using recycled products, to cutting out disposables, to selling her car. And she shares all of her trials and successes with honesty and humor.

Each chapter of Sleeping Naked is Green starts with the list of all of the changes the author implemented during each month. Then for some of those days she goes into details about why she made the change, how she made it, or just a story about what happened that day. Other times, it's just something quick and funny. There's a great balance between personal anecdotes, scientific information, and practical green living tips.

What I loved best about Sleeping Naked is Green is that it's not a how-to manual on living a green lifestyle and it's not preachy about all of the things that you need to be doing to decrease your carbon footprint. It's just one woman's adventure in making changes, both large and small, over the course of one year. She stumbles, makes ridiculous changes (drinking booze from the bottle!), and ultimately learns what she can live with and what she can't live without. And most importantly, she learns more about environmental issues and finds local resources that she may have never discovered otherwise. It just goes to show that we can all do our part.

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