The Better World Shopping Guide: Every Dollar Makes a Difference
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This is the only comprehensive guide for socially and environmentally responsible consumers available. It contains over fifteen years of comprehensive research distilled into a pocket-sized, shopping-friendly format, ranking every product on the shelf from A to F-turning your grocery list into a most powerful tool to change the world…. More >>
The Better World Shopping Guide: Every Dollar Makes a Difference
“A must Have!” if you want to make a life change then this is the book that will help you do it.
Really enjoy reading through the book. This makes you more aware of your surroundings and cautious about who you purchase from. Never hurts to educate yourself on who is doing good for people and the environment.
This book is an excellent item that can help you shop in a socially and environmentally responsible manner. it is very eye opening.
This book evaluates companies on the basis of their environmental and social policies. It provides helpful information for making decisions about which products to buy and from which stores to buy them. If you’re concerned about the way companies treat their workers, whether they use child labor i foreign countries, pressure small farmers, etc,. then you will want to buy it.
This is a great book in that it has been designed well for its purpose. It is a shopping field guide for the “ethical” shopper. It is sturdy and small enough to fit into a pocket, has large print and clear charts, and it simplifies data enough to be clear without being overly reductive. Ellis Jones has done a solid job of researching companies, and the criteria for his ratings make sense.
It is great book to give away. You can buy it in 10 pack pre-packs at a reduced price. I’m going to buy at least one pre-pack and perhaps two to give away this Christmas (rather than “cool” shirts made in sweat shops). In fact, I just gave away my last copy, and so I need to purchase more!
This book could be improved upon in some ways. It could have been published in a greener manner, and it probably should be updated every year (this one is over a year old–2008). I would also like to see a book that provides a bit more detail about each company’s rating. (Some of this detail can be found on his Web site.) And some day, a book with more detail on specific products would be very helpful. Another issue is that the book tends to focus on large national companies, rather than smaller regional companies, so this isn’t the book for locavores. Still, this is a wonderful book, and there is nothing else on the market quite like it.