Big Brood

I found this great post on Yahoo Finance today about David Bach’s Go Green, Live Rich: 50 Simple Ways to Save the Earth and Get Rich Trying. I’m really looking forward to this book as it fits right down our alley of trying to work better with our money and also decrease our impact on the environment.

If the summary is any indication, we may be doing most of these things anyway but it’ll be interestig to see if we can pick up some tidbits. David Bach’s The Automatic Millionaire : A Powerful One-Step Plan to Live and Finish Rich was one of the first books I read after I had my “epiphany”. I really enjoyed it and will probably do a book review on it at some point.

It’s also interesting to read the negative comments about this article. Most of them attack global warming theory. The odd thing about this is that David Bach is not advocating some sort of “socialist” method for reducing greenhouse gases. He’s merely helping some people to think about their own personal impact. Whether it effects greenhouse gas or not is a secondary issue to me. I want to reduce MY impact because I believe it is the most respectful thing to do with the environment, which is a gift that we’ve been given. My consumerism is just another manifestation of the sins of greed and envy and when I waste what I could save that comes from pride.

What do you think about Going Green, Live Rich? Is it just another focus on greed or is it really trying to solve a problem?