Electric Revolution
A review of High Voltage: The Fast Track to Plug In the Auto Industry by Jim Motavalli
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Imagining Climate Chaos
A review of I’m With the Bears: Short Stories from a Damaged Planet by Mark Martin
Home Wreckers
A review of Toxic Free: How to Protect Your Health and Home from the Chemicals That Are Making You Sick by Debra Lynn Dadd
Rooftops Gone Green
A review of Small Green Roofs: Low-Tech Options for Greener Living by Nigel Dunnett, Dusty Gedge, John Little, and Edmund C. Snodgrass
This Climate is Bad For Our Health
A review of Changing Planet, Changing Health by Paul Epstein & Dan Ferber…
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 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…
Life Without Money
A book review of The Moneyless Man: A Year of Freeconomic Living by Mark Boyle…
Bird Brains
An excerpt from Jonathan Balcombe’s Second Nature: The Inner Lives of Animals, shows that bird brains are more developed than we thought.
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 […]