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Green awareness is no longer fringe, or the province of the left. It is more and more part of our cultural lexicon, a source of investment and policy and on its way to becoming a core value. As more people ask 'What can I do?'. They are finding more services and products to help them live a sustainable lifestyle. Today couples getting married fret over all the waste: of spending thousands of pounds on flowers that will wilt away, on a gown that will never be worn again, on party gifts that will go straight into the bin. And how about all that fuel-burning travel by out-of-town guests, all that plastic for favors, decorations, or utensils that will sit in a landfill for centuries? These couples can elope or they can buy "Green Wedding", a savvy, authoritative, insightful guide that will help readers conceptualize the wedding experience to reflect the I-care-about-the-planet values of the bride and groom. This book takes the reader from engagement to honeymoon and after, along the way introducing them to the world of carbon offsets and seed-embedded invitations. This will be the comprehensive guide to going green for the wedding, touching on every possible situation that the bride and groom may encounter, combined with helpful tips, a look at the overall importance of environmentally friendly livin, personal stories and photographs of couples who have created wonderful weddings that were also environmentally friendly.
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Mireya Navarro is the West Coast lifestyle correspondent for the New York Times. She writes for the Sunday Styles section, covering lifestyle trends and the entertainment community. She won the Pulitzer Prize in 2001 for the New York Times series 'How Race is Lived in America'. The series was later issued as a book. Navarro has taught journalism as an adjunct professor at Columbia University and San Francisco City College. She lives in the Pacific Palisades section of Los Angeles.
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Format:Hardcover
A teacher of mine lent me this book and once I've read it I immediately wanted a copy of my own so I purchased it!!! In my opinion this book is the ultimate green wedding book to have, providing you are interested in green weddings, even if you're not, it gives you great ideas and tips about wedding organisation. The whole wedding planning process is broken down into easy steps with lot's of case studies used to illustrate different examples not to mention the great photographs and pictures used in the book. I highly recommend this green wedding book, it is one among many that I went through and was fully satisfied with and not just for green weddings, but for weddings in general!
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Smartest green wedding book by far
18 Jan 2009
Format:Hardcover
I was blown away by the clear, complete, concise, and entertaining style of Mireya Navarro's green wedding book. It not only provides a wealth of practical suggestions but it makes clear why it matters to green your wedding. She also explains how easy it is to make at least parts of a wedding more environmentally sensitive. The book is beautifully produced, indexed clearly, and is full of anecdotes and cheerful stories about wedding parties that were truly creative and ingenious. I cannot imagine planning a green wedding without this book.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Green Wedding is very down-to-earth
26 Aug 2009
Format:Hardcover
I just read "Green Wedding" to get ideas for a friend's ceremony and I loved the book. To make her points, Navarro tells the stories of several actual weddings for which the participants and planners tried to make environmentally responsible decisions, and her narratives are very down-to-earth and believable. Navarro provides dozens of photographs of these individuals and ceremonies, making her stories that much more compelling and authentic. The book is beautifully written, as you would expect from a New York Times reporter. Without being didactic, Navarro makes the case not just for green weddings, but for adopting eco-friendly lifestyles in general.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
The Best Book on The Green Weddings Yet
18 Aug 2009
Format:Hardcover
This is the best book on Green Weddings yet. We the readers are lucky that Ms. Navarro is a very well respected journalist for The New York Times. Her descriptions, her prose are all very concise, direct and to the point. Chock full of "reporting", always providing different examples and alternatives to every aspect of this very special occasion. Buy this 5-star book and have a 5-star Green Wedding!
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