What started out as the Sierra Club‘s solution to giving useful and entertaining answers to their magazine reader’s questions ended up being published earlier as a guidebook on how to live a more eco-friendly lifestyle. Hey Mr. Green column writer Bob Schildgen discovered after a couple of years of writing his column in the Sierra magazine that he had inadvertently written enough to make up a book. And that’s just what his collection of letters has become.
Eco-agony uncle Bob’s irreverent wit and humour makes the book an easy read and puts the fun back into finding everyday solutions to the environmental problems that we face. Being a Sierra Club publication, it is written with a US slant, especially as far as the recommendation of certain brands, but on the whole most of the advice offered is good all round counsel.
Between the letters to Bob, and his replies to them are articles on related subjects, including checklists, recipes and tips for living a greener life. The advice given is back up by extensive notes at the back of the book, so you can be sure that the solutions here are well researched.
This book will certainly help making to live a greener life just that little bit more lighthearted, and you’d be hard pressed to find a question about green living that Bob hasn’t answered.