title: Going Green: A Wise Consumer's Guide to a Shrinking Planet
author:  Sally Kneidel 
description: Charlotte biologist Sally Kneidel and daughter Sadie Kneidel, a community activist in Greensboro, show how to make smart green choices in food, transportation, housing and clothing... The book is loaded with great facts. --The Charlotte Observer, February 2009
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  So Long, And Thanks For All The Fish  
    
    
    
  Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western
  spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun.  
    
  Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly
  insignificant little blue green planet whose ape- descended life forms are so
  amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat
  idea.  
    
  This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the
  people on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were
  suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the
  movements of small green pieces of paper, which is odd because on the whole it
  wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.  
    
  And so the problem remained; lots of the people were mean, and most of them
  were miserable, even the ones with digital watches.  
    
  Many were increasingly of the opinion that they'd all made 