I love reading about green and healthy living because it keeps me informed and aware as a green mama, and it also keeps me inspired. Sometimes the green choices we make don't seem like enough, and it is especially at these times that I like to pick up a classic green living book for some motivation to stay the course.
Here are 5 green living books I love:
1. Healthy Child Healthy World: Creating a Cleaner, Greener, Safer Home
You can read my comprehensive review of this book here, but this is why I really love it:
You will finish the book feeling hopeful and enthusiastic about making healthier choices, and you will be armed with a menu of very easy and small steps that you can implement over the course of time. These steps will improve the health of your family and of our world.
2. The Unhealthy Truth: One Mother's Shocking Investigation into the Dangers of America's Food Supply-- and What Every Family Can Do to Protect Itself
I had the good fortune to see the author of this book, Robyn O'Brien, speak at a luncheon sponsored by Stonyfield Organic, and it was incredibly eye-opening. I have been glued to Robyn's book, The Unhealthy Truth, since then. You can read much of what I learned in this post - Why Do Children Have More Food Allergies Than Ever Before? - but the book is jam packed with even more incredible information like this.
3. Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
Silent Spring was recommended to me by one of my favorite green mama bloggers, Michelle at Everything's Abuzz. This book came out in 1962 and was basically the birth of the green living movement. It is a classic and focuses on the poisons from insecticides, weed killers, and other common products as well as the use of sprays in agriculture which have led to dangerous chemicals in our food supply.
4. The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted And the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss, And Long-term Health
I have been hearing about this book for quite some time, and a friend of mine just gave it to me. So far, I am totally captivated by it. T. Colin Campbell provides detailed examinations of studies that conclusively demonstrate the link between nutrition and heart disease, diabetes, and cancer. You may not want to hear this info, but I think the scientific links between nutrition and disease prevention (and reversal!) are too profound to ignore.
5. Gorgeously Green: 8 Simple Steps to an Earth-Friendly Life
This book by Sophie Uliano is for all the women out there who just don't know where to begin. This book gives easy answers and tips, and it focuses on all of the areas that touch women's lives like beauty, home, shopping, fitness, and all things kitchen. If green living seems time-consuming, boring, or without glamour, then try this book.
What are your favorite green living books?
