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When I wrote the original Green Consumer Guide in 1988, with John Elkington, green issues were moving out of the fringe and into the mainstream. The New Green Consumer Guide, published in 2007, came at a similar turning point. The world was awakening to environmental issues – and in particular to concerns about climate change. Whereas, a couple of decades earlier our key task was to help people make connections between the things they buy or do, the more recent book helped guide people through the myriad of choices and conflicting information.
The New Green Consumer Guide wasn’t just an up-date from the original book. For a start, it was fully illustrated and included personal anecdotes about what I do at home – and in some cases what I haven’t managed to do. Most importantly it showed how people can make a difference, whether they’re decorating a house, buying food, travelling or even dying!
Tourism is the world’s largest industry and has a significant impact on the environment. Holidays that Don’t Cost the Earth categorises us all from trailblazer to tripper and from traveller to tourist, investigating what sort of impacts we have. It also looks at where are the pressure points and gives a star rating to different tourism activities on the basis of its environmental impact.
This award-winning book helps make young people aware of the threats facing our planet and what they can do about it at home and at school.
The Green Consumer Guide – From Shampoo to Champagne, High street shopping for a better environment became a number one best-seller and stayed on the best-seller lists in the UK for over 40 weeks. It has subsequently sold over 1 million copies around the world having been published in over 20 countries. A major influence on consumers, manufacturers and retailers. Launched alongside Green Consumer Week.
A business guide to the market implications of sustainable lifestyles. The first authoritative international survey of the business implications of the impending shift to more environmentally sustainable production and consumption patterns.
The first European Business Guide to Life Cycle Assessment. A practical reference guide for both the uninitiated and those already involved with LCA. Includes contact details for the leading practitioners, centres of excellence, key publications and databases and a list of products on which LCA’s have been carried out.
Provides practical, down-to-earth advice on how to build competitive advantage by achieving state-of-the-art environmental standards. Complete with case studies, checklists and problem-solving aids.
From ketchup to kitchen rolls this book took over where The Green Consumer Guide left off. It analysed hundreds of products, star-rated the supermarkets on their environmental performance and led to high profile national advertising campaigns on which supermarket came out best. Launched alongside Green Shopping Day.
Designed as a first-stop information source on the rapidly growing environment business, Green Pages was ground-breaking in helping build bridges between business, public sector and environmental interests.
