'Moral Ground': 80 Leaders on Our Moral Obligation to the Planet
The new book Moral Ground asks more than 80 leaders, thinkers, authors & visionaries to describe our moral obligation to protect the planet…
Environmental Books: In-Depth Reviews for Sustainable Living
Atlas Freak
A review of Atlas of Remote Islands: Fifty Islands I Have Never Set Foot On and Never Will…
Life Without Money
A book review of The Moneyless Man: A Year of Freeconomic Living by Mark Boyle…
Journeys To Home
A review of The Circumference of Home: One Man’s Yearlong Quest for a Radically Local Life by Kurt HoeltingIn an effort to quit being a tourist in his own community, Kurt Hoelting, a commercial fisherman and wilderness and kayaking guide, details his attempt to live locally in The Circumference of Home: One Man’s Yearlong Quest […]
A Life Fully Lived
Joan Root, lifetime conservationist and filmmaker, pioneered the filming of animal migratory patterns, befriending the animals she followed…
Mom vs. The Food Industry
A review of The Unhealthy Truth: One Mother’s Shocking Investigation into the Danger’s of America’s Food Supply—And What Every Family Can Do to Protect Itself by Robyn O’BrienAfter her baby daughter had a severe, face-bloating reaction to eating scrambled eggs, the result of a food allergy, Robyn O’Brien got to work. O’Brien (a.k.a. "the Erin […]
The Greenwashing Game
A review of the new book Green Gone Wrong: How Our Economy Is Undermining the Environmental Revolution by Heather Rogers…
The Allure of Exotics
A review of Forbidden Creatures: Inside the World of Animal Smuggling and Exotic Pets by Peter Laufer
A Guide to Greener Cleaning
Green Living: The E Magazine Handbook for Living Lightly on the Earth, When it comes to environmental commitment, all we need is a guide. There are many, many of these guides to chose from, not neglecting E"s own contribution to the genre: which features greener ways to raise babies, heat houses and drive cars (available on Amazon!) Here’s a good sampling.
A Thinking Man’s Farm
Usually, all one really asks of a book is that it transports them somewhere. In the case of Noel Perrin and his book, Best Person Rural: Essays of a Some-time Farmer, (David R. Godine, $24.95) that “somewhere” is his 85-acre farm in Thetford Cen-ter, Vermont. That sounds like a lot of space, but the essays […]