A Guide to Finding Great Recycled, Sustainable, Renewable Objects You Will Love by Dale Evans. Shopping today in Barnes and Noble is like seeing a microcosm of where the world’s head is at, literally,…

I thought I’d share some of these gems, which you may or may not have already taken notice of; but by the time it hits bookstores like this and with sole tables or merchandisers devoted to their display, well you can pretty much figure these interests have the rest of the world’s attention already, on some level….

A table showing just books related to How to be Green….

A merchandiser with How to Guides for your IPod, Your WII, Your XBox, and your IPhone….(this I liked because the graphics seemed far more intelligent than an Idiot’s Guide to the Same thing subject matter)…plus it’s just smart merchandising, I mean it kind of speaks to those things many received for Christmas this year and now need to figure out how to use, yes?

and, a section on Travel Essays….books to give one a particular perspective on destinations the world over (not just Fodor’s Guide to Italy or the like), but readings that would touch one on a deeper level, it suggests we’ve evolved some from just learning how to get around a country to actually having something more to say about it and this was a fairly large section, one of their 4 foot ones and all shelves from top to bottom. Seems there are many having epiphanies while traveling these days….

and of course the Bargain Books section which held a package I took a particular liking to because not only did one get an exercise ball, but a DVD on how to use it and a pump to blow it up, all at a bargain price;

Ultimately we decided on one green guide book, “Cool Green Stuff,” (and I plan to share the best of the best with you from that book) skipped the How to Guides for now, and settled on “Eat, Pray, and Love” which is a non fiction account of the author’s journey to finding herself through meditation and travel (in Italy, India and Indonesia)….Oprah recommends it, it’s been a New York Times bestseller, and my daughter is off to Beijing in two days to study for a semester, so I figured we’d cover several things in one stroke by buying that book…..and only for now, I took a pass on the exercise ball….

First things first.

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