Girls Gone Green: A Hip New Book

Monday, 3/15/2010

Saving the environment is a large task for anyone, especially a teenager. But that’s just what the impressive girls in the new book GIRLS GONE GREEN by Lynn Hirshfield have done.

From trying to conquer global warming, to encouraging the use of wind power, to creating a cosmetics line with no toxic chemicals, these girls – both every day and famous - have stepped up, made their voices heard, and changed things in their schools and communities.

Read Girls Gone Green for helpful tips, inspired ideas and to learn about some awesome green girls, including the following celebrities:

• Hayden Panettiere of Heroes writes the inspiring foreward.
• Ellen Page of Juno gives pointers on hosting a planting party.
• Shailene Woodley of The Secret Life of the American Teenager, gives tips to green your prom.
• Mischa Barton of The OC urges teens to bring reusable bags to the grocery store.
• Jessica Lowndes of 90210 talks about the impact of plastic water bottles in landfills.
• Alicia Silverstone, actress, author and food activist, suggests going vegetarian to save the planet.
• Michelle Branch, singer & songwriter, discusses the importance of eating locally.

In honor of Earth Day, Walden wants to help inspire girls everywhere to do something to change their world. Enter for a chance to win 1 of 10 copies of Girls Gone Green. We hope reading the book will encourage every reader to make an effort, however small, to help save the environment.

Enter for your chance to win a free copy of Girls Gone Green

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Girls Gone Green is published by Penguin/Puffin Books and Participant Media, the entertainment company behind such films as An Inconvenient Truth and Food, Inc.

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