ISBN: 0330239651
Godina izdanja: 1974
Oblast: Ekologija
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Jonathan Holliman - Consumers` Guide to the Protection of the Environment
Pan / Ballantine, 1974
258 str.
meki povez
stanje: dobro, potpis na prvoj strani.

...aims to look at several major areas of goods and services and explains, simply and clearly, the environmental costs of their production, use and disposal. Most people must be aware by now that the interest in our environment and the protection of the Earth`s limited resources has risen greatly. This was amply shown with the oil crisis at the turn of the year. This year has also seen an increase in the number of organisations that are prepared to `re-cycle` goods for re-use. At college we now re-cycle computer paper, several corporation cleansing departments are collecting glass and paper separately.

CONTENTS
1 Introduction
2 Over-consumption
3 Population and Food Consumption
4 Start with Where You Live
5 Liquid Assets
6 All Power Pollutes
7 Transport: Where is it Taking Us?
8 Wasted Wealth
9 Working with Nature
10 Consumer Power
Appendices
I Bibliography by Chapter
II Further Sources of Information
Acknowledgements
Friends of the Earth
Index

The Consumers` Guide
looks at several major areas of goods and services and explains simply and clearly the environmental costs of their production, use and disposal.
It is an action guide for the individual with numerous specific ideas on how you can help save the environment by changing your consumer habits.
You will find
Background information-on environmental and consumer problems such as packaging and waste disposal.
Product information-specific information on what to buy,
selecting alternatives and brand names. What is behind the product or process and what good or harm it causes.
How to evaluate how to measure for yourself what effects the products or processes have on the environment.
The Consumers` Guide
is not only a handbook but a strategy for change to a way of life more related to the ability of the environment to support our real needs.


Non-Fiction, Ecology