Product Description

No one likes listening to smug hippies bragging about how they don't use toilet paper, or worse yet, lecturing about the evils of plastic bags and SUVs. But most of us do want to lessen our ecological footprint. With this in mind, Farquharson takes on the intense personal challenge of making one green change to her lifestyle every single day for a year to ultimately figure out what's doable and what's too hardcore.

Vanessa goes to the extremes of selling her car, unplugging the fridge, and washing her hair with vinegar, but she also does easy things like switching to an all-natural lip balm. All the while, she is forced to reflect on what it truly means to be green.

Whether confronting her environmental hypocrisy or figuring out the best place in her living room for a compost bin full of worms and rotting cabbage, Vanessa writes about her foray into the green world with self-deprecating, humorous, and accessible insight. This isn't a how-to book of tips, it's not about being eco-chic; it's an honest look at what happens when an average girl throws herself into the murkiest depths of the green movement.

Reviews

“A humorous, self-deprecating tale of the crazy things that happen to normal people when they take the green plunge. Vanessa Farquharson will have you wanting to try your own experiments, too, because she shows how easy some of these planet-saving changes can be.”

Alisa Smith, co-author of The 100-Mile Diet: A Year of Local Eating

“By spending a year putting the planet’s needs as a top priority, Vanessa Farquharson’s search for love and connection leads her to happiness she never thought she could know. An entertaining approach to ‘greenlightenment,’ Sleeping Naked Is Green will surely inspire other skeptics to find their inner environmentalist.”

Gillian Deacon, author of Green for Life

 “One step a day doesn't seem like much, but over the course of a whole year it adds up to a world of difference. This isn't just a well-written and fun book about going green, it is about watching a personal transformation. Being inspired was never so entertaining.”

Lloyd Alter, TreeHugger.com

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #44989 in Books
• Published on: 2009-04-14
• Binding: Paperback
• 288 pages

About the Author
Vanessa Farquharson is an arts reporter and film critic at the National Post, based in Toronto. Her blog, "Green as a Thistle," tracked her year-long green adventure. She has been published in Eye Weekly and the Ottawa Citizen, profiled on Treehugger.com and featured numerous times on CBC Radio.

Customer Reviews

Bridget Jones Meets Al Gore
Love this book! It's a highly entertaining fun look at a real person, in a real city with a real job making real changes. Some so brave, I don't think I could actually do it. This book gives real details on how and why simple changes in our everyday lives can help us make a positive impact on the earth instead of a negative one...and isn't that really what we all want to do?

Inspirational
This is a book that makes you want to do better. And even better than that, it makes the goal of "being green" seem attainable...one step at a time.
I have recommended this read to all of my eco-minded friends and will continue to do so. Not only is it a great story, but it's a great reference too.

Great book!
Real, actual, funny and sincere are only a few words to discribe this wonderfull book!