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Meat: A Benign Extravagance

Zana Hart — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 20:01:54 +0000

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 [...]

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Big Green Purse

Zana Hart — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 17:26:35 +0000

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 [...]

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Hamlet’s Blackberry

Zana Hart — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 17:26:23 +0000

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 [...]

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The Carbon-Free Home

Zana Hart — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 07:11:21 +0000

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, [...]

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The Human-Powered Home: Choosing Muscles Over Motors

Zana Hart — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 09:08:17 +0000

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 [...]

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The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight

Zana Hart — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:18:27 +0000

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 [...]

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Ecological Intelligence

Zana Hart — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 00:38:01 +0000

I’ve just been reading Ecological Intelligence: How Knowing the Hidden Impacts of What We Buy Can Change Everything, by Daniel Goleman. It’s focused on the subtitle topic: how consumers are getting more insistent about knowing all aspects of the ecological [...]

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The Cul-de-Sac Syndrome, by John Wasik

Zana Hart — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:23:57 +0000

“Turning Around the Unsustainable American Dream” is the subtitle of The Cul-de-Sac Syndrome (Amazon link) which my husband and I have just been reading. Kelly’s green home building blog has a long review of it, so I just want to [...]

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Fresh Food from Small Spaces

Zana Hart — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:00:29 +0000

Fresh Food from Small Spaces: The Square-Inch Gardener’s Guide to Year-Round Growing, Fermenting, and Sprouting by R.J. Ruppenthal, is an extremely useful and clearly written how-to guide to urban gardening. Its subtitle gives you the idea of what it covers. [...]

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Climate Change in Prehistory

Zana Hart — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 03:24:52 +0000

Yesterday, I wandered over to my husband Kelly’s bookshelf in search of something to read. I came away with Climate Change in Prehistory: The End of the Reign of Chaos by William J. Burroughs. In the pages I have read [...]

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