Urban Farming Essentials: Guide to Growing Food & Raising Animals
A review of Your Farm in the City: An Urban Dweller’s Guide to Growing Food and Raising Animals by Lisa Taylor
Environmental Book Reviews: Eco Reads on Sustainability & Conservation
The Whole Blue Truth
A review of Oceana: Our Endangered Oceans and What We Can Do to Save Them by Ted Danson and Michael D’Orso
This Climate is Bad For Our Health
A review of Changing Planet, Changing Health by Paul Epstein & Dan Ferber…
Fashion Forward
If you still think eco fashion lacks sex appeal, you will be shocked by the images found inside the pages of the new book Eco Fashion…
Sheepish: Two Women, 50 Sheep
In Sheepish: Two Women, Fifty Sheep and Enough Wool to Save the Planet, writer Catherine Friend gets thrown from a “fairly boring, urban life” into an alien world of wool shearers, runaway sheep, jumping llamas, pasture goddesses and crazy knitting “fiber-freaks.”
The Last Harvest, Truck Farmers in the Deep South
The Last Harvest: Truck Farmers in the Deep South (Center Books on the American South Ser.) (University of Georgia Press, $32.50) is a poignant collection of pictures capturing small-scale farmers in author Perry Dilbeck‘s hometown of McDonough, Georgia. Once a small town of roadside vegetable stands, McDonough is now another sprawling suburb of Atlanta. Dillbeck […]
Easy Choices
One of the many things that sets the book Just Green It!: Simple Swaps to Save Your Health and the Planet ($17.95, Running Press) apart from other green guides is its focus on specific product brands. Authors Ron and Lisa Beres, the founders of GreenNest.com, aren’t afraid to name names. Covering everything from lightbulbs to […]
Animal Investigators: How the World’s First Wildlife Forensics Lab Is Solving Crimes and Saving Endangered Species
By any measure, illegal wildlife trade is out of control—there are willing buyers for $23,000 rhinoceros-horn bowls, polar bear skins, tiger teeth and elephant ivory calling card cases. Trafficking in illegal animals alone is likely a $20 billion per year business, writes environmental journalist Laurel Neme in Animal Investigators: How the World’s First Wildlife Forensics […]
The Imagined Future
With technology accelerating us into the future at an ever-quickening pace, the book 2030: Technology That Will Change the World contains a few surprises…
Greenlighted
A review of Green Lighting: How Energy-Efficient Lighting Can Save You Energy and Money and Reduce Your Carbon Footprint by Brian Clark Howard, William J. Brinsky and Seth Leitman. How much is there to know about green lighting? A book’s worth, as it turns out. Green Lighting: How Energy-Efficient Lighting Can Save You Energy and […]