Go make a difference has good intentions. It’s trying to be an informal book, providing advice on how to save the planet. But it ends up nagging and sighing, making it a pesky little bugger that’s not much fun to be around.

The aim of the book is to teach us mere mortals how to lessen our impact on the planet, but it’s the combination of bland advice, naff illustrations and insipid design that make this book frankly a waste of paper. 

Albeit the book is brimming with facts and information, but it uses the word 'don’t' as much as a primary school teacher. "Don’t remove pebbles from the beach", "Don’t leave your TV on standby", along with the overuse of 'never', this preachy attitude really does start to grate when only a few pages in.  

The travel and work sections of the book are the most enlightening. Including facts such as, "Employees who didn’t turn their computers off when they went home at night cost their companies £90 million in 2002 and pumped a staggering 2.8 million tonnes of CO2 into the environment." An extremely valid point and if it encouraged one boss to make turning off the computers office policy then of course that is a good thing. But in truth there’s not much knowledge in the book that a relatively environmentally-aware person wouldn’t already know.
 
However it does have an extremely comprehensive Contacts section, listing everything from the Barn Owl Trust to the British Wind Energy Association. So if you want the real nitty-gritty it might be better to get in touch with one of these ‘planet saving’ companies.
 
Go Make a Difference is on a similar wavelength to Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris ‘Coldplay’ Martin, trying to give off an essence of purity, individuality and perfection, but ending up pale, lacking lustre and downright boring. It simply skims over the ways to save the planet and is far too general to have any real impact on the reader.
 
"Full of fascinating facts, thought-provoking statistics and over 500 practical tips" claims the book, blowing its own trumpet, when really it only deserves a nervous squeak from a recorder. (Kezia Clark)