Gill Deacon: green for life

Gill Deacon has spent the last fifteen years honing her awareness about how to be a good planetary citizen and has released a new book published by Penguin, Green for Life: 175 Simple Eco-Ideas for Everyday - a guide to making sustainable living ‘the new normal.’

Everyday the world is shifting into a new reality. Strange weather patterns, widespread smog alerts and boil water advisories are problems that are becoming the norm for some people - but we still drive cars, pack school lunches, do laundry, unclog toilets and throw dinner parties. How we do these things without making a mess of our world? Green for Life is a practical guide to living the life you want, but with the reduced impact the planet needs.

Known for her involvement in environmental issues, Gillian Deacon takes you through the stuff of everyday life and explains how to do it with minimal environmental impact. Green for Life is a must-have guide for people who know they have to do something, but don’t know where to start.

In addition to her work on television, including CBC’s The Gill Deacon Show, Gill is the author and editor of Green Tips, a consumer guide to making more environmental lifestyle choices and co-founder of The Green Carpet Series, an event-driven organization that promotes sustainable lifestyle choices to young urban consumers. Gill has served as a director of World Wildlife Fund Canada since 2002. She also sits on the advisory panel for All-Canadian Management’s Green Resource Fund.

Gill lives in Toronto with her husband and their three sons and over the past several years has become an expert at living a busy working life in a way that is sustainable. Using the humour and anecdote that have made her voice as a Canadian broadcaster so distinct, Gill conveys a sense of urgency and possibility for change.

Gill is an active environmentalist with years of journalistic research and experience under her belt, so in this time of increasing bandwagoneering on environmental issues, she cuts through the clutter. Her book leaves you inspired to take the earth into consideration in your everyday living and business practices, and informed about easy and meaningful ways to do it.