by Laura | Sep 3, 2011
In this book, Linda Mason Hunter and Mikki Halpin gave me a definite guide to the green home, and can do it for you. Hunter has an extensive background in home renovation and remodeling, and has produced a number of books on the topic for Better Homes and Gardens. She...
by Laura | Feb 23, 2011
If you’re like me when I started reading this book, at first you might find it odd that author Azby Brown looks back several hundred years to a vanished way of life for answers to our current environmental problems. But the Japan of the Edo Period (1603-1868)...
by Laura | Feb 18, 2011
In Recipe for America food activist Jill Richardson details the ways in which the dominant, industrial mode of agriculture is unsustainable. She examines a wide array of consequences, from water pollution and topsoil erosion to record levels of childhood obesity. She...
by Laura | Feb 13, 2011
This book is the non-profit online magazine Grist’s venture into print a compact, fast-paced manual on “greening your day.” Grist has been a distinctive voice on the environmentalist scene, providing usable and down-to-earth news and notes in an...
by Laura | Feb 13, 2011
Bill McKibben’s book is a soulful, poetic lament for something irreversibly lost in nature—but also a call to action that is in its own way stubbornly hopeful. Even those of us who are genuinely concerned about global warming find ourselves taking solace in just...
