I was immediately drawn to the paradox of the title Meat: A Benign Extravagance, a book by Simon Fairlie published originally in the UK and then by Chelsea Green here in the US. I eat meat myself, and luckily I [...]
Big Green Purse is a very useful book for shopping greener!Not just that, it’s also all about living more ecologically in general. I found a copy at one of the three public libraries I frequent, and have been working my [...]
Hamlet’s Blackberry (Amazon link) is a book by William Powers which has a lot to say about simple living. Subtitled A Practical Philosophy for Building a Good Life in the Digital Age, it talks about how hard it can be [...]
Many of the books on sustainable housing assume you are building a new home or can afford a bevy of solar panels. Here’s one for just about everyone. Its subtitle is 36 Remodeling Projects to Help Kick the Fossil-Fuel Habit, [...]
The Human-Powered Home is not a book that everyone needs. But if you have a high-energy person in the family who might enjoy powering a lot of things around the house by pedaling a bicycle, take a look! — Zana [...]
The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight, by Thom Hartmann, is a depressing book and an optimistic one. I found it both VERY depressing and VERY optimistic. When a friend offered to lend it to me, I wasn’t going to take [...]
