Good Living Guide to Green Bristol
Posted on 05 November 2010
About eighteen months ago I was enjoying a coffee with Bristol publisher and green guru, Alastair Sawday, chatting about ideas for books celebrating Bristol’s large green movement. So it’s with enormous pleasure that next month sees the publication of the first of two books doing just that.
The Bristol Good Living Guide celebrates, and is a guidebook to, the UK's green capital.
Bristol – A guide to good living is a handy-sized guidebook that showcases the good living and green activities happening right across the city-region that help make Bristol a UK leader when it comes to sustainable living.
Its 224 pages take the reader on a journey through vibrant neighbourhoods and micro-communities, each one overflowing with green ideas and enterprise, and includes tours, case studies, directory listings and a pull-out illustrated map.
Publisher Alastair Sawday says, “The guide is intended to help others share the genuine pleasures of sustainable living by joining projects or getting involved in events. Community orchards, holistic health centres, micro-energy production, waste and recycling initiatives are just some of the things already happening – and not in a niche kind of way. Now it’s all mainstream.”
Peter Madden, Chief Executive of independent sustainability experts Forum for the Future, who wrote the afterword to the book says, “Bristol is home to some of the most exciting and fun environmental initiatives in the world, and is increasingly getting an international reputation for sustainability. This guide will show both residents and visitors why Bristol is such as great place to live, work and play.”
The book aims shows that making changes in your life to live more sustainably doesn’t have to be difficult and you could make a profound difference to the future of your city and the planet.
Bristol – A guide to good living, is a joint venture between Alastair Sawday Publishing and the Bristol Green Capital Momentum Group. It is available from 18th November in Bristol book shops and retail outlets, priced £9.99.
For more information visit www.goodliving.org.uk
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Paul,
Fantastic news! Can’t wait to get my hands on a copy – and look forward to integrating some of the best initiatives into the Schumacher Centenary celebrations next year.
Well done to you and Alastair.
ps What’s the 2nd book???
Nick,
Hope you have seen and enjoyed a copy of the Guide by now.
The second book will I understand be a glossy coffee table type production celebrating all the good green things of Bristol.
The Guide is more for people living or visiting Bristol, the
other is more for external promotion of the city as the UK’s Green Capital – so should also be very good for the Schumacher Centenary celebrations.
Paul.