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It's Not Easy Being Green: One Family's Journey Towards Eco-Friendly Living [Hardcover]

Dick Strawbridge (Author)

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Product details

Hardcover: 240 pages
Publisher: BBC Books; illustrated edition edition (13 April 2006)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0563493461
ISBN-13: 978-0563493464
Product Dimensions: 24.6 x 19.8 x 2.6 cm

Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (24 customer reviews)

Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 55,727 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #9 in Books > Science & Nature > Earth Sciences & Geography > The Environment > Self-Sufficiency & Green Living
- #24 in Books > Scientific, Technical & Medical > Environment > Environmental Conservation

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Are you aware of your 'eco-footprint'? Dick Strawbridge and his family decided that they needed to reduce theirs - this meant reducing the amount of land, water and other natural resources required to support their lifestyle. To accompany the BBC2 TV series, this book chronicles the Strawbridge family's journey from a perfectly normal life and house in the Midlands to a self-sufficient environmentally friendly dream home in the West Country. Written by the flamboyant, mustachioed, eccentric presenter, Dick 'the Colonel' Strawbridge, this book is an inspiration to people thinking of becoming eco-friendly - or even just a bit greener. While attractively designed, with specially commissioned color photos and screen grabs, it will also be full of practical advice, with essential addresses and contact details at the end.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Moustached wonder, 23 Jun 2006

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A brilliant book with a lot more information than the TV programme. It's a nice change to have a book about a family wanting to live an environmentally aware life, rather than a eco-warriors telling us to go live in a teepee. Although many of the things they have done with their house are not possible for many of us, it gives good links and advice on how to alter your life without losing the comforts of 21st century. Strawbridge covers many issues around questioning how we live our lives when it comes to energy and food without jumping to traditional hippie view points.

Not only does it give good advice, he and his family came across as a decent bunch and this comes through as it's very easy to read and use for reference. I even managed to understand the engineering side of things.

The only fault with the book is that it could have been proof read a little better as there are a few typos, but that doesn't matter when you get to see photos of that amazing moustache.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Not What I Expected, 8 Dec 2006

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I expected a book with loads of practical hints and tips to get me started on a similar path, but it isn't that at all. It's really a more permanent record of the Strawbridge family's own experience and as such is accurate and evokes the feeling of the programme. There are web addresses, etc. and I've bought stuff from some of them; I also found some inspiration to become more 'green' through reading it, but I do think it should have been made clear, when the book was touted at the end of the programmes, that it wasn't meant to be a practical manual. Nevertheless it is an enjoyable and inspiring read, even though most of us could never do things on the same scale...

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5.0 out of 5 stars It isn't easy being green, 1 Aug 2006

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I think some of the reviewers have missed the point, don't think this book is supposed to be a technical manual there's plenty of those elsewhere. It's more a thought provoking set of ideas to get you going. Combined with the show it's certainly changed a lot of my thoughts and made me actually get up and install a rainwater harvesting system, start to grow some of my own veg in pots and growbags on a deck together with recyling nearly all my rubbish! so it worked for me!

It's a great read and written by a real family, highly recommended!

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