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GOOD GREEN KITCHENS
The Ultimate Resource for Creating a Beautiful, 
Healthy, Eco-Friendly Kitchen

by Jennifer Roberts
Gibbs Smith, Publisher
$29.95 hardcover, 184 pages, 158 color photos
With photos by Linda Svendsen
Cover photo by Emily Hagopian
Available from bookstores and online booksellers nationwide. Buy from Amazon.com.

Want to hear about what makes a kitchen green? Listen to a podcast interview with Jennifer Roberts on Harry O’s The Green Hour (go to the 6/25/06 archive).

Good Green Kitchens is loaded with inspiration and information to help you create your dream green kitchen — a kitchen that works great and is beautiful, healthier and easier on the environment.

Get ready to be inspired to make your next kitchen-improvement project a green one. Even if you’re not planning a top-to-bottom kitchen re-do, this book offers dozens of practical, everyday solutions that will contribute to a healthier planet.

• Extensive resource lists of eco-friendly products, manufacturers and retailers
• More than 150 color photos of beautiful kitchens and enticing products
• Up-close profiles of beautiful, green kitchens and the people who created them
• Tips for environmentally responsible redecorating, remodeling and building from the ground up
• In-depth chapters on greener alternatives for flooring, cabinets, countertops and appliances
• Strategies for greening the whole house
• Guidance on how to keep pollutants out of the kitchen
• Tips for keeping costs in check when greening your kitchen
• Advice on designing smaller kitchens that look great and really work
• Comparisons of flooring and countertop options, including their environmental pros and cons 

From range hoods to refrigerators, from cooktop options to daylighting designs, from old-fashioned favorites like natural linoleum to hot new products like recycled-glass counters, Good Green Kitchens is your go-to source for making your dream green kitchen come true.

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What they’re saying about Good Green Kitchens

“This is an encyclopedia of great ideas on how to build a kitchen with a conscience — a kitchen as handsome and homey (or as sleekly modern) as any around… Photos throughout illustrate the inherent beauty and design possibilities of each material mentioned, and may be an eye-opener to those about to embark on a kitchen remodel. But the book delivers more. The inspiration, information and illustrations offered can be used in rooms throughout the house.” —Los Angeles Times

“The sheer volume of up-to-date information about the cost, durability, environmental impact, safety, and sources of green materials is worth the book’s cover price… It’s a good book for any builder’s bookshelf, as it can serve as a combination specification guide/selling tool for teaching and managing those clients who are more frequently demanding green kitchens.” —Green Builder magazine.

“This book really doesn’t take the fun out of remodeling. It does, rather, make kitchen design a more philosophical and practical global endeavor while creating a soul space for your home, no matter the size.” —Chicago Life magazine.

“When Roberts says “ultimate,” she means ultimate. If you can’t come up with a green kitchen after reading this, you just weren’t paying attention. Roberts covers every topic you could imagine — and possibly some you couldn’t — along a continuum of green…” —Seattle Times

Available from bookstores and online booksellers nationwide. Buy from Amazon.com.