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Thanks to NetGalley and BooksGoSocial for providing this book in exchange to my honest review.

I found this book enjoyable because the tips are delivered in a flowing narrative and being very handy. But it seems they are rather exclusively applicable to people in the US. And still, this book successfully informed me much about environmental issues and also saved me time from doing the research on my own.

It is wonderful because so many reliable scientific research included as background. I also loved the title, but not the cover, sorry. It actually is nothing wrong with the cover, but I personally think there are a lot of books out there sharing the same concept of tree image in the cover. This book could use some other perspective of the tree, just to make it more stand out.

While it's not a big deal, the images on this book could've come from writer's own sources, or illustrations of one artist to make it more neat, I guess.

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I didn’t love this title. It was very “article from the internet” feeling. Like the author took everything they could find from Mother Earth news or Huffington Post and slammed it together in a book hastily the night before it was due. A lot of the information was regurgitated and without nuance. I wanted so badly for this to be a useful book, but it just wasn’t for me.

Three stars because if there exists a person out that doesn’t use the internet this is a good grouping of information for them.

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How To Do More For the Environment With a Little Help from Science: A Guide To Lowering Your Carbon Footprint, Improving Your Health, and Saving Money is a book that goes through a plethora of information regarding diet, zero-waste, cleaning, clothing purchases, energy consumption, and transportation.
I found this book to be overall informative. There are plenty of things you can do to help ease your carbon footprint listed in the books and there are sources to back up whatever has been presented. My only issue with the book is that there wasn't really a mention of intersectionality more then a surface level understanding of it. The book never goes into detail about how some of the tips brought up in the story aren't possible for those who are disabled, below the poverty line, etc... The tips are described as being the best things you can do, while they should be instead described as being the best things you can do if they are within your capability.

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