Ecoholic Home

Tuesday, November 17, 2009 - 7:00pm

Gladstone Hotel Ballroom, 1214 Queen St West, Toronto

Ecoholic Home: The Greenest, Cleanest and Most Energy-Efficient Information Under One (Canadian) Roof (Vintage Canada)

We all talk a lot these day about reducing our carbon footprint at work and in the world around us. But what happens when we get home and shut the front door? To celebrate the release of her eagerly awaited Ecoholic Home: The Greenest, Cleanest and Most Energy-Efficient Information Under One (Canadian) Roof (Vintage Canada), NOW Magazine columnist and bestselling authorAdria Vasil will discuss strategies for greening your living space with noted environmentalistRick Smith. A Q&A will follow their interview.Marc Glassman, Executive Director of This Is Not A Reading Series (TINARS), will host the evening.

A TINARS event presented by The Force For Cultural Events Production, Vintage Canada, Gladstone Hotel, NOW Magazine, and Take Five ON CIUT.

Ecoholic Home is Adria Vasil’s highly anticipated follow-up to her massively successful Ecoholic, and focuses on the home as the mainstay of sustainable living

Our resident Ecoholic comes to the rescue again, offering reminders and tips on how to keep your castle (however humble) clean, energy-efficient and healthy. We spend so much time at home — why not make it a sustainable haven instead of a polluting, off-gassing cesspool? Ecoholic Home addresses the green side of the economic crisis, and includes a resource guide for finding designers and contractors, and for renovating and shopping green.

• Cleaning: product comparisons, disposal reminders, laundry tips

• Cooking: avoiding Teflon, omitting Bisphenol A, reducing packaging

• Powering: green energy (solar and geothermal), bundling (Bullfrog)

• Maintaining: dehumidifiers, lighting options, ice removers

• Renovating: buying energy-efficient appliances, choosing environmentally friendly building materials, insulating your home

• Moving: LEED-certified homes, “greening” your first apartment

“This is the kind of information for people who want to do something to lighten their impact on the planet. The small steps cost us little in the way of effort, cost or time, but the cumulative effects of doing many of them can be enormous.”

— David Suzuki

Adria Vasil is the acclaimed and bestselling author of Ecoholic: Your Guide to the Most Environmentally Friendly Information, Products and Services in Canada. In addition to her column for NOW Magazine, she regularly appears on television, radio and in print and has become a pundit for green living. Vasil lives in Toronto.

Rick Smith As Executive Director of Environmental Defence, Smith is one of Canada’s leading environmentalists. He is the co-author, with Bruce Lourie, of the recent bestseller, Slow Death By Rubber Duck. Smith lives in Toronto.

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Media Contacts:

Adria Vasil: Sharon Klein, sklein@randomhouse.com, (416) 957-1562

This is Not A Reading Series: Chris Reed, coordinator@tinars.ca

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