Zero Waste Home: The Ultimate Guide to Simplifying Your Life by Reducing Your Waste
Written by Bea Johnson
Narrated by Henrietta Meire
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About this audiobook
This book shares essential how-to advice, secrets, and insights based on Bea's experience. She demystifies the process of going Zero Waste with hundreds of easy tips for sustainable living that even the busiest people can integrate: from making your own mustard, to packing kids' lunches without plastic, to canceling your junk mail, to enjoying the holidays without the guilt associated with overconsumption. Zero Waste Home is a stylish and relatable step-by-step guide that will give you the practical tools to help you improve your health, save money and time, and achieve a brighter future for your family-and the planet.
Bea Johnson
Bea Johnson is a Franco-American minimalist, internationally bestselling author, and inspirational speaker, known for initiating the movement of waste-free living in the 21st century. She is a Grand Prize winner of The Green Awards and the founder of Bulk Finder, a web-based app which points to thousands of bulk locations worldwide. She currently lives in a 188 square-foot trailer as she experiments with tiny living and travels full time across the US and Canada with her husband, her chihuahua, and her famous fifteen-piece wardrobe.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This is the way to rid ourselves of our enslaving Owners' control over our lives - to overthrow the capitalist scheme by which our Owners steal our labor and Earth. Working to create this option leads us to be able to enjoy a graceful lovely life together.
First we must resurrect the displaced populations. normaha@pacbell.net - Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Nice audio book ,love the voice of the lady reading
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The book was great but the recording had a bunch of editing errors.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Very inspiring. Bea shares some of her meal plans, recipes, formulas and other tips. She has a map on her website for bulk grocers; it's mostly whole foods, but not exclusively.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Disappointing. It focused mainly on products, not home systems.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5I liked this book for what it was but I don't feel like it's necessary for someone who wants to reduce waste. In that case just go on her blog. This book consisted of lists and ideas that weren't really fully fleshed out. This book was more like a compilation of her most popular blog posts. Though she explained how she got to the process she uses for whatever routine in her house she doesn't totally cover the benefits. She lays them out like a check list of sorts: reduced cost, less time spent, less exposure to plastics. Yeah but at least explain these benefits. She did mention her husband crunching numbers and confirming they were spending less but nothing much about the other stuff.I wouldn't suggest purchasing the book unless you want the check lists in one easy to find place.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5I read the author's blog and find that she constantly challenges my thinking regarding waste. Is she extreme? Yes. Oh yes. And she knows it and admits it, declaring that she sees herself as the experimenter in order to save everyone else the time of figuring it out. So I was pre-disposed to be interested in this book. And...no. Just no. She's a blogger, not a writer or researcher, and it shows. There was a lot more that could have been done here in terms of making the waste reduction argument and setting the call to action and she missed it all in favor of forced alphabetized lists of tips.
But I will say...after years of fruitlessly trying to get my husband interested in reducing our waste, I simply left the book lying around the living room for a few days and...presto! He's remembering to bring the reusable grocery bags and thinking about what we buy at the store. So it serves that purpose. Otherwise? Just read the blog. - Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Many asides in this review of a book I wanted to like but felt patronised by.I did want to like this book and there are some great points in the book (must start knitting that stuffed rug and use my dryer lint in it, if I do enough to use up the lint every time I clean it out that would be a great mark of progress... sorry, an aside that occured to me as I read), but I also felt that she really wasn't living in a world I could as easily.I'm coeliac (well technically I'm severely gluten intolerant but that sounds faddish, trust me the two-day stomach cramps aren't from my mind) and buying from open bins isn't an option for me, that way cross-contamination and sick lies. It would be the same for most folks with allergies. While it would be nice to live like she does there are also problems with it and I don't think some of her ideas are realistic. I have plans for my clothing and for my wardrove over the next few years and some of them involve slowly wearing more of it, getting rid of the excess and only replacing what I have to (which I expect to be mostly trousers and shoes, knitting my own socks is a for granted moment)I don't think it's practical and non-wasteful to empty your wardrobe/closet/whatever of clothes you wear, I think it's a better plan to work on methods of storage that ensure roatation and removing those things that don't suit you and passing them on and removing the things that are in bad condition and finding ways of disposing of them that's environmentally sound.I think that rethinking how we use things and how we dispose of things is a good thing. I honestly would find her a hard friend, sounds like she is an evangelist of her lifestyle to a degree that I would find painful. Good luck to her, she did make me think about some things in my life that need change but I don't think that they would suit everyone.I found the Happiness Project more inspirational.