Eco-friendly books run the gamut of green

ByABC News
October 5, 2008, 8:46 PM

— -- America is deep into green: You can wear green fashion, carry a green bag and dab your face with green makeup. You can hire a green architect to design your green house, walk on green floors, decorate with green accessories and fabrics, sleep on green beds, sit on green chairs. Teens can be green, babies should be green, singles can join green dating clubs.

Green books are filling up bookstore shelves. You can even read them with green reading glasses made of bamboo. A selection:

Home and Lifestyle

Easy Green Living: The Ultimate Guide to Simple, Eco-Friendly Choices for You and Your Home, by Renee Loux, (Rodale Books, $25 ). She says being green is easy, and shows how.

Gorgeously Green: 8 Simple Steps to an Earth-Friendly Life, by Sophie Uliano (Collins Living, $16.95). Green guru explains how to green a beauty regime, detox a house, make eco-friendly food, live a more green lifestyle.

Ready, Set, Green: Eight Weeks to Modern Eco-Living, by Graham Hill and Meaghan O'Neill (Villard, $15. Green living according to the experts at the eco-conscious site Treehugger.com.

Cleaning

Green Up Your Cleanup, by Jill Potvin Schoff, (Creative Homeowner, $16.95).This green cleaning guide includes recipes for all-purpose cleaners using natural ingredients found at home and fast techniques to clean and de-germ a variety of common household surfaces.

Squeaky Green: The Method Guide to Detoxing Your Home, by Eric Ryan and Adam Lowry (Chronicle Books, $16.95). The founders of the Method brand of cleaning products go room by room through the house, from kitchens to laundry rooms, with advice on how to clean without using toxic chemicals.

Fashion and Beauty

The Eco Chick Guide to Life: How to be Fabulously Green, by Starre Vartan (St. Martin's Press, $16.95). How to become an eco-friendly fashionista who can wear stilettos and reduce her carbon footprint.

Style, Naturally: The Global Guide to Sustainable Fashion and Beauty, by Summer Rayne Oakes (Chronicle Books, $24.95, December). Fashion model/eco-advocate shows you how to shop green.