What’s your Earthscore? This 36 page, $5 guide is a great read to help you determine what your impact on the environment is. It does this by asking you questions about 14 areas such as energy usage, transportation, and consumerism and assigns impact and action points. Along the way it gives great tidbits of information about these different areas to help you understand what actions you take can hurt or help the environment. A lot of the tips were very helpful to me. In the end you fill out a chart and come up with a final score of your impacts and actions. It’s meant to give you an idea on areas you can improve on and not to tell you how many Earths your using or how bad you are. The author encourages you to take the Earthscore again after a year to see how you’re doing after the initial audit. I only tried it out for the first time a month or so ago so it’ll be interesting to see how I do in a year. The ultimate goal of this guide is to help people become more aware of how they live and how that affects the environment.

If you want to get a copy of this book the only place you’ll find in Arizona is The Student Book center on College just north of the ASU campus. You can also buy it online at Amazon.com or from the publisher Morning Sun Press. The publisher offers discounts if you buy in volume for a class.

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