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…
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 […]
The Gradual Vegetarian
Both People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) and the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) produce “Vegetarian Starter Kits” that are chock full of recipes and resources. But becoming a vegetarian today is not as hard as it once was. As PETA points out, “The explosion of vegetarian foods means that you can […]