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Let David Bach show you a whole new way to prosper—by going green

Internationally renowned financial expert and bestselling author David Bach has always urged readers to put their financial lives in line with their values. But what if your values are a cleaner and greener earth? Most people think that “going green” is an expensive choice they can’t afford. Bach is here to say that you can have both: a life in line with your green values and a million dollars in the bank.

Go Green, Live Rich outlines fifty ways to make your life, your home, your shopping, and your finances greener—and get rich trying. From driving the right car to making your home energy smart, Bach offers ways to improve the environment while you spend less, save more, earn more, and pay fewer taxes. Best of all, he shows you exactly how to take advantage of the “green wave” in personal finance without the difficult work of evaluating individual stocks. What’s more, he will get you thinking about a green business of your own so you can help the world along as it is changing for the better.

David Bach is on a mission to teach the world that you can live a great life by living a green life. With Go Green, Live Rich, you can live in line with your eco-values on the road to financial freedom.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #59 in Books
• Published on: 2008-04-08
• Released on: 2008-04-08
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 192 pages

Review
More than 5 million David Bach books in print!

Praise for Go Green, Live Rich

“Great news: there is no green premium! By demonstrating how going green can fit any budget, David Bach shows that good environmental and financial decisions go hand-in-hand. Bach’s Go Green, Live Rich gives great tips, useful to everyone, about how to save money and the planet at once.”
- Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

“Yet another powerful reason to go green! Thankfully for our species, going green can also mean saving some green. Go Green, Live Rich shows you exactly how a lot of small steps added together can change your life in more ways than one.”
- Graham Hill, TreeHugger.com and PlanetGreen.com

“I LOVE IT. LOVE IT. LOVE IT. This is just what the world needs. Not a bunch of touchy feely, mumbo jumbo, but real world solutions that show why going green is just plain smart. Fantastic.”
- Steve Fleischli, President, Waterkeeper Alliance

“David Bach has done it again! As a green affordable housing developer, I enthusiastically recommend Go Green, Live Rich! Packed with tips and tools, this book is a must read for anyone who wants to make their home–and their life–more eco-friendly.”
- Josh Lockwood, Executive Director, Habitat for Humanity — New York City

“Go Green, Live Rich is as much about saving money as it is about preserving our world of natural wonders for future generations. This is the rich-green-book of a promising tomorrow.”
- Matthew Modine, Founder: Bicycle for a Day

“Go Green, Live Rich is the ultimate toolkit for greening the planet and our wallets at the same time. No one does a better job than David Bach in showing us the practical strategies for how to enjoy living sustainably.”
- Terry Tamminen, Cullman Senior Fellow, New America Foundation

“David Bach has created a truly easy to read, simple step by step plan for everyday consumers and business owners to make small changes towards achieving a greener way of life. From raising your baby to running your company, David shows you how to make positive changes on our planet as well as our bank accounts. Going green can definitely make everyone a little richer.”
- Bradford Rand, President, Go Green Expo

“Finally, a book that debunks the myth that you have to BE rich to live green. In fact, it’s the other way around: by living green you can GET rich — it’s the ultimate win-win. Never before has this been spelled out so clearly, simply, practically. A must-read for anyone who wants to live wisely and responsibly in a world of rocketing energy prices and climate imbalance.”
- Amanda Griscom Little, award-winning environmental journalist and columnist for Grist.org

About the Author

David Bach is the author of seven consecutive national bestsellers, including the number-one New York Times bestsellers The Automatic Millionaire and Start Late, Finish Rich and, most recently, the number-one bestseller The Automatic Millionaire Homeowner. There are over five million copies of his books in print, and they have been translated into fifteen languages. He has appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show six times and is a featured columnist on Yahoo! Finance. To read an excerpt from any of David Bach’s books, visit his web site at www.finishrich.com.

HILLARY ROSNER is a journalist who covers environmental issues. She worked on Al Gore’s runaway bestseller An Inconvenient Truth and writes frequently for the New York Times.

Customer Reviews

Highly Recommended!
I’m fairly new to the “green scene” and I’ve got to say that I really love this book. The fifty tips offered are broken out into 11 different sections: Knowing Your Impact, Driving, Energy, Water, Real Estate, Shopping, Recycling, Family Values, Work, Investing and Giving back to green charities.

The author’s tips are really useful and he backs it all up with solid stats (some very surprising ones too that really drive his points home…)

It’s an easy read with each chapter summed up into specific actionable steps you can take…which for me is extremely helpful.

But the BEST part about Bach’s book is that he shows you how to SAVE and actually EARN money by going green. I found this to be a unique perspective since the common misconception is that going green is expensive.

I highly recommend Go Green, Live Rich!

Is the book printed on recycled paper?
I wonder…Is this book published from recycled paper? cause if its not, then he is not doing anything to be green other than take your green from you and make monay for himself. Please someone answer this!!

Win Win Solution
David Bach gets it: we want to be rich, but many of us need incentive to live a green lifestyle. In Go Green, Live Rich, Bach shows us how acting in an environmentally responsible way can actually make us a lot of money and make us healthier.

Bach writes: “Going green is the most important issue that will shape our future.”

By using less resources, buying less stuff, making our homes and transportation more energy efficient, we absolutely save money. The brilliance is taking that money and investing it.

He writes: It’s not what you earn that makes you rich or poor; it is what you spend.” I wholeheartedly agree with this assessment and it sums up what I like so much about this book. Stop buying all that stuff and invest or contribute to green causes, instead.

Bach provides dollar amounts for each of the 50 ways to go green:
Improve fuel efficiency: $884
Seal leaks in home: $129
Lower thermostat: $85
Brownbag lunch: $ 1560
Total savings: $3758
Invest that savings (preferably in green businesses) for 30 years: $678,146

How cool is that?

Bach shares how he began living a green lifestyle in the introduction:

“My own personal transformation to becoming more environmentally conscious began to happen when I moved into one of the leading green apartment buildings in the country. Funny enough, I decided to move there not so much because it was a green building but because it was located right next to my son’s favorite park, where we spend lots of time together.

But then something happened when I moved in and it stopped me in my tracks–my lifelong allergies began to improve along with Jack’s asthma. I then began making more changes. I switched to green cleaning products, started using a green drycleaner, and even gave up my gas guzzling SUV. I soon noticed that I wasn’t spending more money to make these changes–I was actually saving money.”

There are 50 tips for greening your life, including: build green, bring your bags, clean green and take a volunteer vacation.

One tip that happily surprised me was “green your pet”. Bach suggests adopting from a rescue shelter to spare one of the 3-4 million dogs and cats that are killed yearly. In addition to that being the humanitarian thing to do, you will save money buying from a shelter instead of buying from another source. He goes on to suggest that you spend more money on quality food for your pet,(you can buy organic or make your own), something I think is crucial for their well-being. The extra money spent on food can be saved by not buying the mass-produced and potentially harmful toys. He suggests eco-friendly toys like tennis balls, instead.

Bach writes:”I believe green investing will be to the 21st century what technology was the the 20th century,” and encourages readers to invest in green opportunities, businesses and services that will help the environment.

Bach also encourages to contribute to green causes.

I highly recommended this book. Improve the health of the environment, your family, yourself. Oh yeah–and grown rich!

By the author of the award winning book,Harmonious Environment: Beautify, Detoxify and Energize Your Life, Your Home and Your Planet