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Do you want to know the difference between organic, fair trade and locally grown food - and crucially, which you should buy? Do you want to make your home a toxin-free zone? Do you want to save energy and money at the same time?
Fully revised and updated, A Good Life is packed with information to help you make your way through the ethical minefield. Now there is no excuse for not knowing about the cocktail of chemicals in the cupboard beneath the sink, (and in your packaged food) or for turning a blind eye to conflict diamonds and dodgy clothes manufacturers.
Fully illustrated, with a directory of contacts and suppliers, A Good Life shows you how to make choices that benefit you, your family and the whole planet.
Printed on recycled paper using vegetable inks.
Trade review
A fully revised and updated edition of the acclaimed and bestselling guide. Millions would like to live more ethically, and this is the book to show them how. Fully illustrated with a new cover look and lots of new material, there will be a major marketing campaign in the "Guardian" and "Observer" newspapers. From the author of "How To Buy" and "A Life Stripped Bare". 'An invaluable resource. It is also strikingly well designed, with excellent pictures.' "House & Garden"
Synopsis
Offers a guide through the issues of every day life covering such dilemmas as: Who most deserves my charitable donations? What are my household cleaners doing to my family's health? And was the person who made my shoes paid fairly?