How to Get Motivated to Make Green Changes

If you find it hard to get motivated to make green changes, try one of these for inspiration:

• Watch Al Gore's documentary An Inconvenient Truth with friends and family members or watch it a second time.

The Green Committee at my office put on a showing of An Inconvenient Truth. Even the people who generally talk through every meeting they attend were listening raptly to this one. Who can forget that chart?

• Silent Spring by Rachel Carson

This is one of the first classic books about ecology. Rachel Carson talks about pesticide use and how it was damaging the plants, animals, people, soil, water in the environment.

• Crimes Against Nature: How George W. Bush and His Corporate Pals Are Plundering the Country and Hijacking Our Democracy by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

Kennedy is an environmental lawyer. He sets out the disgusting and devastating truth about what Bush and his government have done to the environment, and how they have set back environmental legislation 30 years, and what part large corporations have taken in this.

• Diet for a Dead Planet: How the Food Industry is Killing Us by Christopher D. Cook.

Even though I have not finished this one yet, you could call this one a tale of corporate greed and everything you did not want to know about the growing, processing and selling foods in supermarkets and how this affects people (farmers, meat processing workers, inspectors and consumers).