Review: Sleeping Naked is Green
Tuesday 10 November 2009 at 09:44 amNote: This is an adult book and is intended for older readers.
It's hard to know what to do when it comes to the enviroment. I mean, what works? What doesn't? What if "An Inconvinent Truth" isn't all that truthful? What if what we're doing is just fine? Etc.
Well, Vanessa Farquharson was having the same thoughts. She was feeling guilty about harming her enviroment, but didn't know where to turn or if she could even help. So she took on a challenge, a green challenge, to make 366 (Leap Year) green changes, finding out what changes were actually feasible to regular people, you know, as opposed to die-hard hippies.
Her journey is inspiring, funny, enlightening, and sometimes stomach-churning. What makes this book really something is Vanessa. She's somewhat selfish, fairly girly, and seemingly unwilling to fully commit to her own challenge. At least she's honest about all of that. She doesn't want to turn off her curling iron, but she does, just to see if she can. She slips and her "Year of Green" is never perfect, but that's the inspiring part. At the end, she kept 221 changes, some of which she never thought she could handle (like unplugging her fridge.) And as much as some people may not like it, or may not want to admit it, the imperfect heroes are the best ones. After all, if she can make and keep that many changes, can't you or I try a few, just to do our part. Even eco-cynics can make a few, right?