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    Green Riches: Help the Earth & Your Budget
    Green Riches: Help the Earth & Your Budget
    Green Riches: Help the Earth & Your Budget
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    Green Riches: Help the Earth & Your Budget

    By Jackie O'Donnell

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    Eco-friendly can be eco-nomic. This book offers suggestions that are practical AND save money. It is for people who prefer not to be told what to do but who are problem-solvers, who like efficient, economical solutions that will enhance the lives of their loved ones. It is for concerned people living in a weak economy. It is for all who simply want to do their part to maintain our earthly home.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJackie O'Donnell
    Release dateDec 7, 2009
    ISBN9781452311920
    Green Riches: Help the Earth & Your Budget
    Author

    Jackie O'Donnell

    I admit it. I’m addicted to writing. It’s a compulsion I’ve had ever since I first held a pencil and could make words appear on pieces of butcher paper from the roll my parents wrapped bread and other goodies in at our family bakery in San Jose, CA. It continued through third grade, when I won a prize from the school bank for a little masterpiece called “It’s Fun to Save.” It drove away the lonesomes of not being able to play with other kids because polio left me less than agile, and it led to several notebooks containing imaginary escapades of my mom, my dog, my wheelchair, and me. As a senior in high school I won the Creative Writing award for the year—but earned only a B in the class because I wanted to write what I wanted to write, not what was necessarily assigned.When I began college I decided writing was not going to feed me, and I loved the thought of teaching others how to communicate in writing. Teaching was a natural fit. For many years I taught high school English, that universally hated subject. Those years gave me happy fulfillment and lifelong friends in the form of colleagues and ex-students. I count among my blessings “kids” who are now in education, politics, on both sides of the law (one in prison, one a District Attorney), corporate executives, trades people, the famous and the slightly infamous. Keeping in touch with these people, along with experiences I had growing up as a person with a disability, gave me food for thought. . . and for writing. Much of what I write, then, deals with how people treat each other.In 2005 my son, Brian, vacated the nest to begin his own life. Deeply saddened by this, his father and I set out the following day to turn his bedroom into a guest room and buy new living room furniture. When Brian asked why we didn’t do all this stuff while he was still home, I could only tell him my hopes that he’d drop by often to see whatever else we were up to. When he’s a parent of a teenager, he’ll understand. Meanwhile, my husband, Frank, and I are content to make a life of our own while enjoying the man our son has grown up to be.Life is good. Life brings surprises. Life exists to be written about and shared.

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      Book preview

      Green Riches - Jackie O'Donnell

      GREEN RICHES: HELP THE EARTH

      & YOUR BUDGET

      By

      Jackie O’Donnell

      Cover photo: Berry Creek Falls (Big Basin, CA), by Brian O’Donnell

      In thanksgiving for God’s good, green Earth.

      Green Riches: Help the Earth & Your Budget

      Copyright © 2009 by Jackie O’Donnell

      All rights reserved

      Smashwords Edition 1.0, October 2009

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      This e-book is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This e-book may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each person you share it with. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then you should return to http://www.Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Visit the author, sample her writing, and read her daily blog at http://www.JackieODonnell.net and . http://www.smthingscount.com.

      Other works by this author:

      ***Paperback: Small Things Count—Simple Ways to Live Christ’s Love Each Day(Order at http://www.SmThingsCount.com.)

      ***E-books: Visit the author’s Smashwords profile page (https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/JackieOD) or her website (http://www.jackieodonnell.net/book-previews) for details.

      --Apple-Tempting New: A Tribute to New Life

      --Small Things Count: Simple Ways to Live Christ’s Love Each Day (e-book version)

      --Small Ways to Shape the World (free)

      --Surviving Your Child’s First Year: A Guide for the Extra-Challenged Parent

      --God Sneezed

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      This we know... the earth does not belong to man, man belongs to earth. All things are connected, like the blood which connects one family. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the children of the earth. Man did not weave the web of life; he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself. (Chief Seattle, 1854)

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      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      1 – Introduction

      2 - Around Home

      3 - Family Activities

      4 - Out and About

      5 - The Careful Consumer

      6 - For the Greater Good

      7 - The List

      8 - Conclusion

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      1 - INTRODUCTION

      In these economic times, the old question What’s in it for me? is often not shameful selfishness but simple reality. So when we’re told we need to Go Green to save the planet, we wonder how we’re going to get ourselves and families through another week, let alone making sure our grandchildren inherit a clean, green world.

      We’ve all heard the debate over global warming. We’ve read conflicting facts and opinions by the experts about how much of it is being caused by human activity. If scientists can’t agree, why should we put ourselves, and our shrinking wallets, to the task of preserving the Earth?

      Because we can see how dirty our life-sustaining air and water are getting. We are aware that certain beautiful animals have lost their habitats and died out. And because, in this case, we can have our luscious green-apple pie and eat it, too.

      There is so much we can do to save ourselves time and money and enhance our lives while still having a positive impact on our earthly home. The ideas presented to you here are not designed to be all-inclusive but to get you thinking in a new light—beyond fluorescent. Many of these ideas will be new to you, others not so new. What will be very different, however, is how you are invited to look at them. In the past you may have dismissed them because you thought they were too much trouble or cost too much. Accept this invitation to examine them with freshly cleaned glasses. Read about specific ways in which you and your family personally gain right now by carrying out the suggestion, as well as how your actions will make a difference to the world your grandchildren will live in.

      To give you a clearer picture of the impact of our actions, we’ve included a number of facts and figures. These have been taken from a variety of sources, from studies made by the EPA and other organizations, to data from power companies, to both sides of the global warming issue. When specific dollar-amount savings to you are mentioned, they are for an average family of four living in a typical American community, whatever that is. Your actual savings, of course, may differ. But the figures give you the general idea.

      Additionally, when savings to the United States as a whole are cited, remember that you are part of the population which reaps those benefits. If you want to know more precisely what the savings would be to you and your household, you’ll have to dig out a calculator and your bills, look at unit prices and your consumption, run the numbers, then figure the amount you’d save.

      The suggestions in this book are not organized in the form of lists of item after unrelated item. Rather, the approach is a problem-solution mode, which is more like how you handle situations in real life. One problem may be how to cut down on your food bill and on wasted food that ends up in the landfill. You’ll find a set of solutions, with information about how much good they will do you and the environment. Or you want to fight the flu and colds. Read the section giving advice plus why the recommendations are beneficial to both you and the earth. For those of you who can’t live without general lists, we’ve included one at the

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