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    Zero Waste Living, The 80/20 Way: The Busy Person’s Guide To A Lighter Footprint
    Zero Waste Living, The 80/20 Way: The Busy Person’s Guide To A Lighter Footprint
    Zero Waste Living, The 80/20 Way: The Busy Person’s Guide To A Lighter Footprint
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    Zero Waste Living, The 80/20 Way: The Busy Person’s Guide To A Lighter Footprint

    By Stephanie J. Miller

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    Many of us feel powerless to solve the looming climate and waste crises. We have too much on our plates, and may think these problems are better solved by governments and businesses. This book unlocks the potential in each "too busy" individual to be a crucial part of the solution. Stephanie Miller combines her career focused on climate change with her own research and personal experience to show how a few, relatively easy lifestyle changes can create significant positive impact. Using the simplicity of the 80/20 rule, she shows us those things (the 20%) that we can do to make the biggest (80%) difference in reversing the climate and waste crises.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJohn Hunt Publishing
    Release dateOct 30, 2020
    ISBN9781789047400
    Zero Waste Living, The 80/20 Way: The Busy Person’s Guide To A Lighter Footprint
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    Stephanie J. Miller

    Stephanie J. Miller is the founder of Zero Waste in DC, a company providing zero waste household consultations and advocacy through corporate and community presentations. Previously, she spent her career in international development and was a leading voice on climate change at the International Finance Corporation, the private sector arm of the World Bank. She lives in Washington, District of Columbia.

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      When most of us ponder what we can do about climate change and pollution, we fall into a dark pit of personal guilt and helplessness. Stephanie Miller reaches a helping hand right into the pit and pulls us up with her practical ideas and can-do attitude. She shows us by example, in frank and friendly prose, how to get a grip on our personal waste stream—eating, composting, reusing and recycling in creative ways to save ourselves and the planet.

      Melanie Choukas-Bradley, author of Finding Solace at Theodore Roosevelt Island and Resilience: Connecting with Nature in a Time of Crisis

      Stephanie Miller has illuminated a global human imperative – waste can no longer be tolerated. Her practical guidance shows how we can institutionalize waste reduction in our homes. It also exposes the environmental impacts of our food system – and how wasting food is one of the most environmentally detrimental habits we can no longer ignore.

      Pete Pearson, Senior Director for Food Waste, World Wildlife Fund

      I knew our planet and its people couldn’t handle much more wasteful consumption. Until reading Stephanie Miller’s book, I didn’t know what to do—I felt too busy and flawed to take up the fight against waste. This book gives practical and easy ideas that helped me overcome my fatalism. Reading it, I felt I could live better and be part of something bigger, perhaps catch up with a better future. Looking forward to seeing you there.

      Paul O’Brien, Vice President, Policy and Advocacy, Oxfam America and author of Power Switch

      Stephanie helps us see what we can do every day to make a significant difference to our environment. Her 80/20 approach is very refreshing and easy to follow. She offers universally simple but powerful solutions. This book should have a central place in each household that wants to make a difference and help us save our planet for new generations.

      Nena Stoiljkovic, Regional Vice President for Asia and Pacific, International Finance Corporation

      Stephanie Miller gives us an insightful and practical approach on how to meaningfully play our role in the climate change fight. Based on her extensive and successful professional experience as a climate change champion, she knows how to relate to the choices that we make every day whether when buying groceries or managing our usage of plastics. This page-turner makes us pause and rethink most of our daily gestures.

      Sérgio Pimenta, Regional Vice President for Middle East and Africa, International Finance Corporation

      Congrats to Stephanie on writing an engaging, fun, and pragmatic guide to zero waste living! There are ideas and strategies here that any household can adopt. It’s a delightful and informative read.

      Catherine Plume, Zero Waste advocate and Chair, D.C. Chapter of Sierra Club

      Stephanie was a leading voice on climate change mitigation at the World Bank Group, and it’s wonderful to see how she has used her expertise and experience to create this very practical guide on how each individual, even with daily tight schedules, may have a positive impact on the environment.

      Anne N. Kabagambe, Executive Director at the World Bank Group and author of A Global Playbook for the Next Pandemic

      Stephanie provides readers with a wonderful guide on how simple lifestyle changes can set a person on the course to living a more sustainable and planet-conscious life. Better yet, Stephanie shows readers how to become a sustainability champion in their own households, family, and broader community.

      Councilmember Mary M. Cheh, Ward 3 Councilmember on the Council of the District of Columbia

      When you enable people and organizations to prioritize the planet and live their values, everybody wins. Individual actions add up. Stephanie Miller wants you to be part of the solution.

      Jeremy Brosowsky, Founder, Compost Cab

      Stephanie Miller has been a self-aware citizen of Planet Earth. This book is a very readable personal and practical guide to reducing our individual carbon footprint. Stephanie combines facts, science and a very doable recipe for each of us to make a difference to the planet we inhabit. If there is one inheritance we want to leave for our children and grandchildren - it is described in this book in a most user friendly way.

      Anita Marangoly George, Executive Vice President, Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ) and ex-Senior Director for Energy at the World Bank Group

      Unlike other books that make going zero waste feel daunting for the average person, Zero Waste Living, the 80/20 Way, is the hand-holding equivalent of a friend coaching you through the process offering practical suggestions to modify behavior. The information is accessible, easy to digest, and best of all it is offered in a nonjudgmental way. This should be a first read for anyone interested in making a change to reduce their carbon and plastic footprint. It’s also a great read for anyone who has tried but failed to go cold turkey in getting to zero waste.

      Lara Ilao, Founder of Plastic Tree and Chair of the Circular Economy Working Group

      This is the book we have been waiting for. Stephanie connects the dots between the small choices we make every single day as consumers and the global climate challenge. She provides practical actions that even the busiest among us can take to make a difference.

      Wendy Teleki, Head of Women Entrepreneurs Finance Initiative (We-Fi) Secretariat Housed at the World Bank

      The world confronts overlapping crises of natural resource depletion, biodiversity loss, pollution of land and sea, and relentless climate change. We can’t wait for dithering politicians to take the bold actions required to arrest the destruction of our natural world. In Zero Waste Living, Stephanie Miller shows convincingly that you, the reader, can take meaningful actions to help end our unsustainable way of life. Read the book, and be inspired to make a change.

      Bart W. Édes, North American Representative, Asian Development Bank and author of We Should have Seen it Coming

      RESETTING OUR FUTURE

      Zero Waste Living, the 80/20 Way

      The Busy Person’s Guide to a Lighter Footprint

      RESETTING OUR FUTURE

      Zero Waste Living, the 80/20 Way

      The Busy Person’s Guide to a Lighter Footprint

      Stephanie J. Miller

      Winchester, UK

      Washington, USA

      First published by Changemakers Books, 2021

      Changemakers Books is an imprint of John Hunt Publishing Ltd., No. 3 East Street, Alresford, Hampshire SO24 9EE, UK

      office@jhpbooks.com

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      www.changemakers-books.com

      For distributor details and how to order please visit the ‘Ordering’ section on our website.

      © Stephanie J. Miller 2020

      ISBN: 978 1 78904 739 4

      978 1 78904 740 0 (ebook)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2020945943

      All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in critical articles or reviews, no part of this book may be reproduced in any manner without prior written permission from the publishers.

      The rights of Stephanie J. Miller as author have been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

      A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

      Design: Stuart Davies

      UK: Printed and bound by CPI Group (UK) Ltd, Croydon, CR0 4YY

      Printed in North America by CPI GPS partners

      We operate a distinctive and ethical publishing philosophy in all areas of our business, from our global network of authors to production and worldwide distribution.

      Contents

      Cover

      Half Title

      Title

      Copyright

      Contents

      Dedication

      Foreword by Thomas Lovejoy

      Acknowledgements

      Chapter 1: The Aha Moment

      Chapter 2: Focus on Food

      Chapter 3: Purge Plastics

      Chapter 4:

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