The Sustainable(ish) Living Guide - Jen Gale

The ERA book club thoroughly enjoyed Jen Gale’s The Sustainable(ish) Living Guide. This is a relatively light read, packed with practical suggestions of small changes we could all make towards living more sustainably: ‘easy, do-able, down-to-earth ideas and suggestion for everyone to help save the planet.’

This was a very popular book with the group, a straightforward, down to earth, realistic handbook to living sustainably and more like a citizen and a little less like a consumer. It is packed with so many ideas that any of us might choose to act on as well as a fascinating selection of websites to visit. For example, did you know that you can get refillable felt pens? Elsewhere in the book five websites are suggested as starting points for buying second hand clothes online.

The book works through different areas of our lives where we could all make some changes so as to be a little more sustainable in what we do, including, food, fashion, family, home, work, school and more.

A lot of people making small changes soon begins to add up to some big changes happening on a societal level. Have you considered having your milk delivered by a milkman (saving a lot of plastic), or is there one journey a week you could be making by bike or by public transport?

We usually like to say that we have copies of past books that we can now lend to others, but one of the group proclaimed that this is a book they definitely do not want to lend to others and risk never seeing again!