In Countdown, author Alan Weisman takes a step back from a “world without us” and looks at what is, albeit arguably for some, possibly the main thing that may make that world happen: the breakneck growth of human population.
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Tiny Houses are Big! Lloyd Kahn’s Tiny Homes: Simple Shelter
Lloyd Kahn’s new book Tiny Homes: Simple Shelter delivers a fresh look at the gamut of modern tiny houses and their owners, and the sheer diversity of approaches people are taking to scale back in an era where few could deny the need to address our massive consumption of energy and resources.
American Wasteland Book Explores Massive Food Waste
Did you know that fully 25-50% of all food produced in America goes to waste? Combine that with the amazing fact that 13% of the global population, or over one [ … ]
Whistleblower Casts Doubt On The Integrity Of Organic Certification
Mischa Popoff is a hard core Organic farming advocate. He grew up on an Organic farm in Saskatchewan and went on to become a licensed, independent Organic inspector. He still [ … ]
Lester Brown’s World on the Edge: Mobilizing against Collapse
For a number of years, we’ve used the Apollo project as metaphor for the kinds of transformation we need to create in terms of our energy and resource use. It’s [ … ]
Bryan Welch’s Beautiful and Abundant: a Positive Paradigm for Thinking about Sustainability
Author’s note: More and more, I’m privileged with the opportunity (and challenge) of reviewing a book or other work by someone I’ve come to know; that’s the case with this [ … ]
Holy Shit! Can Manure Management Save Us?
“Holy Shit!” is damned right. Here’s a book about just that — manure. Precious, plentiful, misunderstood manure. Cow manure, horse poop, human feces, dog shit, you name it, Gene Logsdon [ … ]
Book Review: Eating Animals, by Jonathan Safran Foer
Author’s Note: A free review copy of this book was provided to me by the publisher, Little, Brown and Company. Jonathan Safran Foer has received great critical acclaim and worldwide [ … ]
Book Review: Hunting: In Search of the Wild Life, Edited by Nathan Kowalsky
Author’s Note: A free review copy of this book was provided to me by the publisher, Wiley-Blackwell. Wiley-Blackwell’s series of philosophy books for general readers, Philosophy for Everyone, aims to [ … ]
Book Review: The Animal Manifesto: Six Reasons for Expanding Your Compassion Footprint, by Marc Bekoff
Author’s Note: A free review copy of this book was provided to me by the publisher, New World Library, which is part of the Green Press Initiative. Like most of [ … ]
Living Off the Grid: the New American Rebellion?
You may have noticed that we’ve published more content in recent months on off-grid living: my connection to the Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage, and introduction to a number of writers living [ … ]
Book Review: Twelve by Twelve — A One-Room Cabin Off the Grid and Beyond the American Dream, by William Powers
Author’s Note: A free review copy of this book was provided to me by the publisher, New World Library, which is part of the Green Press Initiative. Like most of [ … ]
Book Review: A Hunter’s Confession, by David Carpenter
Author’s Note: A free review copy of this book was provided to me by the publisher, Greystone Books. Like all of their titles, the book was printed on acid-free, 100% [ … ]