Consumer's Guide to Effective Environmental Choices

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The advice is simple: don't sweat the small stuff. Specifically, consumers shouldn't worry about choosing which shopping bag or type of diaper to use. The book looks at the full range of consumer activities to identify which cause the least and most environmental damage. The authors used an economic model to analyze the impact of household spending on the most significant consumer-related environmental problems and discovered that most environmental degradation is linked to just seven categories: cars, meat, produce and grains, household appliances and lighting, home heating and cooling, home construction, and household water and sewage. According to the analysis, cars and light trucks cause the most environmental damage overall and are responsible for nearly half of the toxic air pollution and more than one-quarter of the greenhouse gases traceable to household consumption.