Product Description

Most people fear global warming and want a greener planet but they think that "going green" is a luxury they can’t afford. What if there were easy, simple things you could do that not only help protect the Earth but also help you get rich?

That’s the promise of David Bach’s Go Green, Live Rich, a practical, motivational book packed with fifty steps you can take to make your life, your home, and your shopping greener, while you follow a financial plan that puts you on a green path to wealth. As Bach says, "you really can go green, save money, and – if you’re smart – make a fortune by investing in green." From driving the right car to making your home energy smart, Bach offers ways to spend less, save more, earn more, and pay fewer taxes. For every suggested change, he supplies resources, products, and services with phone numbers and website addresses so you can get started right away.

David Bach is on a mission to teach the world that you can live a great life by living a green life. With Go Green, Live Rich, you can live in line with your eco-values on the road to financial freedom.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #88491 in Books
• Published on: 2008-04-08
• Released on: 2008-04-08
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 192 pages

From Publishers Weekly
Bach (The Automatic Millionaire; Start Late, Finish Rich) offers a multitude of suggestions for conserving the planet—and your money—in this attractive and accessible guide. A few of Bach's tips require making a serious commitment (growing your own vegetables, using recyclable energy, trading in your car for a fuel-efficient model); others such as unplugging unused appliances, switching to compact fluorescent bulbs and eating less meat are simple—if familiar—ways to go green. Bach also advocates making environmental consciousness a family value (spending more family time in nature, taking volunteer vacations), greening holidays by using recycled wrapping paper, sending e-cards and tree-cycling. Bach clarifies how the most conservative changes in lifestyle can yield radical results: If every U.S. computer and monitor were turned off at night, the nation could shut eight large power stations and avoid emitting 7 million tons of CO2 every year. In the Finish Rich section, Bach turns his attention from going green to getting green—investing the money you save in eco-friendly businesses. A winning and wise guide, this book—printed on recycled paper with proceeds going to a green advocacy group—will find a large audience. (Apr.)
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From AudioFile
"Just do one green thing today. It will lead to more," David Bach says as he introduces his 50 tips for living a greener lifestyle--and saving money. Bach makes clear that some ideas he's putting out aren't for everyone--like a green credit card that has a higher interest rate but donates money to green causes--but he presents enough of a variety in his ideas to give listeners the opportunity to make at least one change. Bach's tone sounds like an infomercial at times, but his delivery is engaging enough to guide listeners through his environmental and financial brainstorming session. Oliver Wyman provides the narration for Bach's action steps at the end of the recording. J.A.S. © AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine

About the Author
David Bach is the author of seven consecutive national bestsellers, including the #1 New York Times bestsellers The Automatic Millionaire, Start Late, Finish Rich, and most recently, #1 bestseller The Automatic Millionaire Homeowner. He has appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show seven times and was a recent host of CNBC’s runaway hit The Millionaire Inside. He is a featured columnist on Yahoo! Finance. His website FinishRich.com is visited by millions annually.

Hillary Rosner is a journalist who covers environmental international issues. She worked on Al Gore’s bestseller An Inconvenient Truth and The Live Earth Global Warming Survival Handbook. She writes frequently for The New York Times.

Customer Reviews

Win Win Solution
David Bach gets it: we want to be rich, but many of us need incentive to live a green lifestyle. In Go Green, Live Rich, Bach shows us how acting in an environmentally responsible way can actually make us a lot of money and make us healthier.

Bach writes: "Going green is the most important issue that will shape our future."

By using less resources, buying less stuff, making our homes and transportation more energy efficient, we absolutely save money. The brilliance is taking that money and investing it.

He writes: It's not what you earn that makes you rich or poor; it is what you spend." I wholeheartedly agree with this assessment and it sums up what I like so much about this book. Stop buying all that stuff and invest or contribute to green causes, instead.

Bach provides dollar amounts for each of the 50 ways to go green:
Improve fuel efficiency: $884
Seal leaks in home: $129
Lower thermostat: $85
Brownbag lunch: $ 1560
Total savings: $3758
Invest that savings (preferably in green businesses) for 30 years: $678,146

How cool is that?

Bach shares how he began living a green lifestyle in the introduction:

"My own personal transformation to becoming more environmentally conscious began to happen when I moved into one of the leading green apartment buildings in the country. Funny enough, I decided to move there not so much because it was a green building but because it was located right next to my son's favorite park, where we spend lots of time together.

But then something happened when I moved in and it stopped me in my tracks--my lifelong allergies began to improve along with Jack's asthma. I then began making more changes. I switched to green cleaning products, started using a green drycleaner, and even gave up my gas guzzling SUV. I soon noticed that I wasn't spending more money to make these changes--I was actually saving money."

There are 50 tips for greening your life, including: build green, bring your bags, clean green and take a volunteer vacation.

One tip that happily surprised me was "green your pet". Bach suggests adopting from a rescue shelter to spare one of the 3-4 million dogs and cats that are killed yearly. In addition to that being the humanitarian thing to do, you will save money buying from a shelter instead of buying from another source. He goes on to suggest that you spend more money on quality food for your pet,(you can buy organic or make your own), something I think is crucial for their well-being. The extra money spent on food can be saved by not buying the mass-produced and potentially harmful toys. He suggests eco-friendly toys like tennis balls, instead.

Bach writes:"I believe green investing will be to the 21st century what technology was the the 20th century," and encourages readers to invest in green opportunities, businesses and services that will help the environment.

Bach also encourages to contribute to green causes.

I highly recommended this book. Improve the health of the environment, your family, yourself. Oh yeah--and grown rich!

By the author of the award winning book,Harmonious Environment: Beautify, Detoxify and Energize Your Life, Your Home and Your Planet.

Don't buy this if you are already eco-conscious
If you are already trying to be green, then this book is a total waste of money. There is nothing in this book that any environmentally conscious individual would not already know. David Bach simply took the very basics of "living green" such as brown bagging your lunch or driving to work, put it together into a flashy book with colour photos, added an excellent marketing title, and voila, a book. (All of which was very smart of him).

Don't waste your money if you already know that the following saves you money: brown bagging lunch, walking or biking instead of driving, lowering the thermostat, improving the insulation in your home, etc.