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Buch: Sleeping Naked Is Green: How an Eco-Cynic Unplugged Her Fridge, Sold Her Car, and Found Love in 366 Days von Vanessa Farqu
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Dieses Buch hat mir einen Flug angenehm verkürzt. Das Experiment jeden Tag "etwas grüner zu werden" ist spannend und regt zum Nachdenken an. Ich kaufe nun bewußter ein und es beschäftigt mich noch Wochen nach dem Lesen des Buches. Obwohl für den Leser sehr kurzweilig beschrieben, sind die Änderungen im Leben der Autorin doch massiv. Sie ergänzt jeden Tag eine Veränderung für ein ökologischeres Leben; von vergleichsweise einfachen Wechseln wie z. B. dem Kauf von Recycling-Küchenrollen bis hin zu großen Entscheidungen wie dem Verkauf des Autos. Die Auswirkungen solcher Veränderungen bei einem bisher nicht besonders ökologisch orientierten Menschen, beschreibt die Autorin in einer Art Tagebuch. Als Leser kann man an dieser ökologischen Reise teilhaben. Dies regt zum Nachdenken über alltägliche Umweltsünden an, die einem vorher vielleicht noch gar nicht bewußt waren. Dieses Buch lässt einen reflektieren, ob man nicht auch selbst, einige solcher Veränderungen in sein Leben integrieren möchte. Und dies geschieht nicht mit einem drohenden Zeigefinger, sondern durch ein unterhaltsames Experiment. Sehr empfehlenswert!
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Less than I expected
10. Juni 2009
Format:Taschenbuch|Amazon Vine™ Rezension
(Was ist das?)
The concept behind "Sleeping Naked is Green" is pretty clever; the author found one way to make her life more "green" every day for 365 days. The purpose of the book, we are told, is not to lecture the audience on the need for more eco-friendly lifestyles but rather to show how a "normal" person tries to change her life and which things worked and which were a big drag.
It's a neat idea.
The book itself is a bit disappointing, however. First of all, it consists almost entirely of blog entries that the author posted at the time. A more cohesive narrative would have been MUCH more interesting than a series of disjointed, one page blog entries.
Also, only about half of the blog entries are in the book. So, at the beginning of each "month" there is a list of what changes were made on which day. For example:
March 1: Switch to recycled paper towels
March 2: No more electric heating pad
March 3: Ban all styrofoam
March 4: Switch to an eco-friendly toothbrush
etc.
But we only see the blog entries for Days 1 and 3; we never hear about Days 2 and 4. That seems a little odd. I suppose the reasoning was that the book would have been too long if it had included all 365 entries, but that's precisely why a narrative style of writing, summarizing the changes made each month, would have been much more interesting.
As it is, this book is essentially an incomplete collection of mildly interesting daily blogs.
Definitely not a must-read.
It's a neat idea.
The book itself is a bit disappointing, however. First of all, it consists almost entirely of blog entries that the author posted at the time. A more cohesive narrative would have been MUCH more interesting than a series of disjointed, one page blog entries.
Also, only about half of the blog entries are in the book. So, at the beginning of each "month" there is a list of what changes were made on which day. For example:
March 1: Switch to recycled paper towels
March 2: No more electric heating pad
March 3: Ban all styrofoam
March 4: Switch to an eco-friendly toothbrush
etc.
But we only see the blog entries for Days 1 and 3; we never hear about Days 2 and 4. That seems a little odd. I suppose the reasoning was that the book would have been too long if it had included all 365 entries, but that's precisely why a narrative style of writing, summarizing the changes made each month, would have been much more interesting.
As it is, this book is essentially an incomplete collection of mildly interesting daily blogs.
Definitely not a must-read.
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Who would have thought green could be this fun?
7. Juni 2009
Format:Taschenbuch|Amazon Vine™ Rezension
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To read about, that is - Vanessa certainly seems to have had her ups and downs over her year of making a new green change in her life every day. This book chronicles her 'greening' year, episode by episode. Each chapter covers a month, with a list of what changes she made that month first, and then a few select changes are highlighted with some commentary. (One of the few disappointments I had with the book was that a lot of the changes I was interested in weren't the ones chosen for commentary, alas!! But of course the book would have had to be a thousand pages long to include everything...)
Let's start with the lists at the beginning of each chapter - for one thing, if you are looking for some new ways to green up your own life, you are bound to find several things new to you here - Vanessa covers the gamut from, yes, selling her car and unplugging her fridge (which oddly enough she makes sound almost doable...) to tiny changes like 'eat ice cream only from a cone, not a cup' or 'shower in the dark' (she MUST have a window in her bathroom! I'd kill myself falling over something!!).
The commentary is great - no super-pious, greener-than-thou here! Sometimes she'll talk about some of her many misadventures along the way (worms from her compost bin on the living room floor), sometimes she'll talk about how something that sounds hard wasn't, or something that sounds easy, wasn't. Sometimes she takes herself seriously, sometimes not - which all in all, makes for a better read than a book that just takes one side or the other. It almost reads like - dare I say this for a 'green' book? - chick lit. If you enjoyed Julie and Julia, you'll enjoy Vanessa's similar tone (but not quite so many disasters!).
In keeping with the chick lit theme, yes, she does find love - I won't tell you who, but I will say I was surprised! It added a nice dimension to the litany of green episodes, gave it a 'hook'. I do wish she had spent a LITTLE more time telling us how they hooked up - one page she was beginning to think about him as a potential partner, a few pages later they are dating - aww, we missed the whole big 'he confesses his feelings' moment that any Jane Austen fan will tell you is by far the best part.
But that's a minor quibble - it is, after all, a book about how she greened her life, not a romantic diary. And BOY did she green her life - well done, Vanessa!! I got a lot of ideas for my own life (although DANG I'm jealous of the green options she has available in Canada that are simply NOT available in the Midwestern USA!), and I really enjoyed the book. If you are looking for a green read that's not oppressively heavy and guilt-inducing, and yet actually has some practical and out of the ordinary ideas, give this a read. You won't regret it.
Let's start with the lists at the beginning of each chapter - for one thing, if you are looking for some new ways to green up your own life, you are bound to find several things new to you here - Vanessa covers the gamut from, yes, selling her car and unplugging her fridge (which oddly enough she makes sound almost doable...) to tiny changes like 'eat ice cream only from a cone, not a cup' or 'shower in the dark' (she MUST have a window in her bathroom! I'd kill myself falling over something!!).
The commentary is great - no super-pious, greener-than-thou here! Sometimes she'll talk about some of her many misadventures along the way (worms from her compost bin on the living room floor), sometimes she'll talk about how something that sounds hard wasn't, or something that sounds easy, wasn't. Sometimes she takes herself seriously, sometimes not - which all in all, makes for a better read than a book that just takes one side or the other. It almost reads like - dare I say this for a 'green' book? - chick lit. If you enjoyed Julie and Julia, you'll enjoy Vanessa's similar tone (but not quite so many disasters!).
In keeping with the chick lit theme, yes, she does find love - I won't tell you who, but I will say I was surprised! It added a nice dimension to the litany of green episodes, gave it a 'hook'. I do wish she had spent a LITTLE more time telling us how they hooked up - one page she was beginning to think about him as a potential partner, a few pages later they are dating - aww, we missed the whole big 'he confesses his feelings' moment that any Jane Austen fan will tell you is by far the best part.
But that's a minor quibble - it is, after all, a book about how she greened her life, not a romantic diary. And BOY did she green her life - well done, Vanessa!! I got a lot of ideas for my own life (although DANG I'm jealous of the green options she has available in Canada that are simply NOT available in the Midwestern USA!), and I really enjoyed the book. If you are looking for a green read that's not oppressively heavy and guilt-inducing, and yet actually has some practical and out of the ordinary ideas, give this a read. You won't regret it.
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Entertaining, but ultimately pointless
19. Februar 2010
Format:Taschenbuch|Von Amazon bestätigter Kauf
This book chronicles the author's year of making 366 mostly trivial changes to "green" her life. The writing is breezy and entertaining, and she is fun to spend a year with. Anyone hoping to come away with ideas for how to reduce their own impact on the planet will be disappointed. The book constantly focuses on the minutiae such as what kind of toilet paper to use and the sensational such as whether to use toilet paper at all, but completely misses the big picture such as how much long-distance travel is compatible with a lower carbon foot print lifestyle. One of the last changes she makes captures this nicely, "use bathroom before boarding plane". In the end Vanessa Farquaharson's impractical approach to environmentalism does more to set back the movement by making it seem bizarre and inconvenient such as "shower in the dark" while missing easier and more important changes everyone can make such as flying less.
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