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!...

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...

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...

“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...

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...

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...