Our third entry in this week’s top 5 is Green Clean: A Room-By-Room Guide To Environmentally Sound…Cleaning by Mason Hunter (Dorling Kindersley Ltd.).

Green Clean bills itself as the definitive, step-by-step guide to cleaning better while using natural, safe products. Room by room and stain by stain, Green Clean offers nontoxic strategies for cleaning better, deeper, and more efficiently.

And, interestingly enough, the book itself is printed in the DuraBook format, meaning it is waterproof and stain-resistant plus made in such a way to be upcyclable. The synthetic, non-toxic “paper” can be melted down and reused in perpetuity, thus sparing trees and reducing toxins in the earth’s ecosystem.

—and is itself proof that green products can be better products.