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Zero Waste Living, The 80/20 Way: The Busy Person’s Guide To A Lighter Footprint (Volume 4) Paperback – Oct. 30 2020

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Empowering the busy individual to do the easy things that have a real impact on the climate and waste crises.

Many of us feel powerless to solve the looming climate and waste crises. We have too much on our plates, and may think these problems are better solved by governments and businesses. This book unlocks the potential in each "too busy" individual to be a crucial part of the solution. Stephanie Miller combines her career focused on climate change with her own research and personal experience to show how a few, relatively easy lifestyle changes can create significant positive impact. Using the simplicity of the 80/20 rule, she shows us those things (the 20%) that we can do to make the biggest (80%) difference in reversing the climate and waste crises.

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Changemakers Books
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Oct. 30 2020
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14.15 x 0.71 x 21.84 cm
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1789047390
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Climate crisis, carbon footprint, reducing carbon footprint, waste, reducing waste, waste crisis

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Stephanie J. Miller is the founder of Zero Waste in DC, a company providing zero waste household consultations and advocacy through corporate and community presentations. Previously, she spent her career in international development and was a leading voice on climate change at the International Finance Corporation, the private sector arm of the World Bank. She lives in Washington, District of Columbia.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Changemakers Books (Oct. 30 2020)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 112 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1789047390
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1789047394
Item weight ‏ : ‎ 120 g
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 14.15 x 0.71 x 21.84 cm

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- #2,373 in Environmental Conservation (Books)

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Stephanie Miller founded Zero Waste in DC to focus on the application of zero waste strategies that have a real and sustainable impact. With a goal of reaching as wide an audience as possible, she provides advisory services to individual households as well as community and corporate presentations. Within her 25-year career at the International Finance Corporation, the private sector arm of the World Bank Group, she served as Director of IFC’s Climate Business Department where she led global teams to find innovative solutions to climate change.

Her new book, Zero Waste Living, the 80/20 Way, was endorsed by the Midwest Book Review as a "quick and easy read that will have an immense and lasting impact on how ordinary people can make an extraordinary difference when it comes to helping resolve the Climate Crisis and Waste Management problems...[It] is especially and unreservedly recommended for community, college, and university library Environmental Studies collections."

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Reader123

Great book!

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on January 31, 2021

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What a great read! Stephanie offers easy solutions to living a zero waste lifestyle for even the busiest of people.

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Richard in Montreal

Solutions to a global problem

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on February 18, 2021

An excellent, concise guide to effective composting, reducing packaging made of polluting materials and minimizing food wastage.
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silverbeech

The Wonder Book of Zero Waste

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 30, 2021

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The advice is great, the methods to eliminate waste and recycle are clear and the resources mentioned are excellent.

What I really like about this book, however, is the author's tone.

I feel as if she's sitting with me in my kitchen, both of us drinking a cup of tea or coffee (from a recyclable container of course) and she is encouraging me in the friendliest possible way to make some easy changes to eliminate waste. I have taken one thing from the book so far, and that is to buy reusable vegan food wraps. They sell the beeswax kind, but I'd rather leave the bees out of it for now, they have enough to worry about. I wrap pieces of fruit, cheese, and other foods; cover storage containers with them, and then wash them in hot water. I can't remember when a piece of plastic wrap last snuck out of my pantry. Yes, there's more I can do, and I will do, because the book encourages and inspires. I think this is an especially good read for people skeptical about how much their contribution toward conservation can make or feel the effort is just too exhausting. My only wish is that there was more information about laundry and zero waste. I have read about making my own detergent (sounds messy and vaguely disgusting) and use alpaca balls in my dryer to avoid fabric softener. They do a job the elastic of my husband's underwear, but they have no odor and pound the softness into the clothing without any added chemicals.

Thanks, Stephanie, for this valuable addition to the literature on making the world a better place, one washcloth, compost heap, milk delivery, dry cleaner bag, and thrift store at a time.

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J A Thier

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Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 20, 2020

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This slim but very practical guide on how to be a little bit better in your daily life and save a lot of waste is an infectious revelation. The author take us on her own simple but compelling journey of personal transformation - from someone who cares about the environment to someone who takes a few basic steps in her life to cut obvious waste. The dry-cleaning plastic! Compost. The take out containers. She then goes on to explore what other things she could do and finds out there is so much more than can be done by an individual willing to take a few small(ish) steps (e.g. the beauty of large scale recycling and the places where it falls down - do you know which plastics you can really recycle?).

What is most important though is that she does not become a do-all-this-or-the-world-will-end zealot. Instead, she shows us that we can all be (approaching) Zero-Waste heroes by doing a little more, but not quitting your job or even your hobbies to do nothing but hunt for compost worms and beeswax clingwrap. Need to keep that pandemic La Croix habit going? Ok. Can't always avoid a plastic bag? Fine - but collect them and once a month take them to somewhere (a local grocery store) that accepts them.

The book has many practical steps and resources - a quick read and a little thought and you've already made some changes. And here's the best part. IT FEELS GOOD. This crazy climate-crisis journey we are on will require a planetary effort to right the ship. Most of it is not for individual action, but each us doing a little more to use less, pollute less waste less will have a big impact. This book can help you on the path.

Special note: As a long-time vegetarian, I was very pleased that the author says we can skip the chapter on eating less meat!

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Jodi C. Remer

Tons of practical advice!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 18, 2021

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Stephanie Miller lays out some quick and concrete ways that that we can all do our part. I felt as if I would be overwhelmed by starting the process, but she made it very easy to start with just one or two meaningful things. This book has shown us many ways that we can make a difference in our own home. Ms. Miller combines her background in climate change work, her experience with her own family, and a good dose of humor in getting her ideas across. She is never preachy - always practical. I'm sure that you will walk away with a good number of easy ways to begin to reduce waste in your own home, many of which will not be an inconvenience at all and some even save you money on top of it. I will definitely gift this book to others who may wish to do the same.

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SRKNTKNC

Easy-to-apply guide on reducing household waste

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 13, 2020

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I have always been interested in minimizing our household waste, but haven’t found time or motivation to do my own research. This is the first book I have on how to decrease my carbon footprint.

In this book, Stephanie Miller provides small steps that are easy to implement but will make difference to reduce carbon prints of households. She groupes action steps under three categories which are 1- focus on food 2- purge plastic 3-recycle right. She provides easy-to-understand figures and facts in each chapter and provides relevant action steps to minimize waste. She also provides additional resources for readers who might be interested in learning more on these matters.

It is a very-well written and to-the-point book that I finished reading in one night. I really liked that the author explained how she herself followed these steps. It provided me with solid base to move forward. Very good choice, especially if you are a novice waste warrior like me.

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Jamila Edwards

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Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 12, 2022

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I am so thankful to have came across this book. It’s a quick and easy read, perfect for a busy family. Stephanie breaks down each action step beautifully and provides plenty of realistic examples. When we first started going low waste I was really overwhelmed and felt like I had to do everything perfectly. In this book instead of focusing on perfection, Stephanie encourages taking small baby steps. It’s much more encouraging and supportive. I’ve been able to get everyone in our home on board and now feel better equipped to keep the small changes to create a new lifestyle for our family. I highly recommend this book for anyone needed a little encouragement and guidance.

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