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Green Living by Jen Chillingsworth, sustainable living guide, front cover

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Green Living: A Sustainable Guide to a More Intentional Life - Book

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The Detail

Green Living, a year of changes you will actually make

A practical guide to living more sustainably, built as a collection of achievable changes to your home and habits across a year rather than a single overwhelming overhaul. Jen Chillingsworth writes for people in any home and any job, which is what stops it becoming a book only useful if you already have a big kitchen and spare time.

Key Features
  • Organised as manageable changes spread across a year, season by season.
  • Covers making your own cleaning products and cutting out plastic.
  • Written to work regardless of where you live or what you do.
  • A new edition of the bestselling Live Green, with additional content and lifestyle photography.
  • 160-page hardback.
Pure Standard
  • The same premise as ours: fewer, better changes made steadily. A year of small swaps rather than replacing everything at once, which is the only version of this that anyone sustains. That is why we brought it in.
  • Written for real homes. It assumes a rental or a small flat rather than a big kitchen and spare time, which is rarer in this category than it should be.
  • Publisher surplus, rescued rather than pulped. These are overprint copies that would otherwise have been destroyed, kept in circulation instead.
  • Paper and board throughout. No plastic jacket, no shrink wrap, nothing to peel off and bin.
  • Honest about condition. Surplus copies may carry a publisher's marker line on a page edge and light shelfwear. The text and photography are complete and unaffected, and we would rather tell you up front than have you discover it.

Overall score:

Category Score
Low-Tox & Material Safety ⭐⭐⭐☆☆ (3.5/5)
Sustainability ⭐⭐⭐⭐☆ (4.5/5)
Manufacturing Transparency ⭐⭐☆☆☆ (2.5/5)
Packaging ⭐⭐⭐⭐☆ (4.5/5)
What's Inside
  • A year of changes: paced so each one sticks before the next.
  • Making your own: cleaning products from simple ingredients.
  • Cutting plastic: where to start and what actually makes a difference.
  • Living modestly: enjoying the small things rather than accumulating.
Product Details

Author & Publisher

Written by Jen Chillingsworth. Published by Quadrille, this edition 30 March 2022.

Format

Hardback, 160 pages, photographed throughout.

Specifications

  • Full title: Green Living: A Sustainable Guide to a More Intentional Life.
  • ISBN: 9781787138186.
  • Format: Hardback, 160 pages.
  • Dimensions: 24.1 x 16.1 x 2.2cm.
  • Weight: 574g.
  • Condition: surplus stock. This copy may carry a marker line on the top or bottom page edge and may show mild shelfwear. The text and photography are complete and unaffected.

Our Take

A year of small changes rather than a weekend of throwing things out, which is the only version of this that ever sticks. Jen Chillingsworth is careful to write for people in rentals and small flats, not just those with a pantry to reorganise. The gentlest entry point we stock into doing any of this at all.

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Description

Green Living, a year of changes you will actually make

A practical guide to living more sustainably, built as a collection of achievable changes to your home and habits across a year rather than a single overwhelming overhaul. Jen Chillingsworth writes for people in any home and any job, which is what stops it becoming a book only useful if you already have a big kitchen and spare time.

Key Features
  • Organised as manageable changes spread across a year, season by season.
  • Covers making your own cleaning products and cutting out plastic.
  • Written to work regardless of where you live or what you do.
  • A new edition of the bestselling Live Green, with additional content and lifestyle photography.
  • 160-page hardback.
Pure Standard
  • The same premise as ours: fewer, better changes made steadily. A year of small swaps rather than replacing everything at once, which is the only version of this that anyone sustains. That is why we brought it in.
  • Written for real homes. It assumes a rental or a small flat rather than a big kitchen and spare time, which is rarer in this category than it should be.
  • Publisher surplus, rescued rather than pulped. These are overprint copies that would otherwise have been destroyed, kept in circulation instead.
  • Paper and board throughout. No plastic jacket, no shrink wrap, nothing to peel off and bin.
  • Honest about condition. Surplus copies may carry a publisher's marker line on a page edge and light shelfwear. The text and photography are complete and unaffected, and we would rather tell you up front than have you discover it.

Overall score:

Category Score
Low-Tox & Material Safety ⭐⭐⭐☆☆ (3.5/5)
Sustainability ⭐⭐⭐⭐☆ (4.5/5)
Manufacturing Transparency ⭐⭐☆☆☆ (2.5/5)
Packaging ⭐⭐⭐⭐☆ (4.5/5)
What's Inside
  • A year of changes: paced so each one sticks before the next.
  • Making your own: cleaning products from simple ingredients.
  • Cutting plastic: where to start and what actually makes a difference.
  • Living modestly: enjoying the small things rather than accumulating.
Product Details

Author & Publisher

Written by Jen Chillingsworth. Published by Quadrille, this edition 30 March 2022.

Format

Hardback, 160 pages, photographed throughout.

Specifications

  • Full title: Green Living: A Sustainable Guide to a More Intentional Life.
  • ISBN: 9781787138186.
  • Format: Hardback, 160 pages.
  • Dimensions: 24.1 x 16.1 x 2.2cm.
  • Weight: 574g.
  • Condition: surplus stock. This copy may carry a marker line on the top or bottom page edge and may show mild shelfwear. The text and photography are complete and unaffected.