Books on various green issues
Eco Barons, as its title suggests, is a fascinating tale about people—some rather unexpected–who have become stewards of our environment. From Doug Tompkins, the billionaire co-founder of Esprit who bought and preserved huge chunks of land in Chile, to Carole Allen, a widowed mother in Texas, who fought and won the protection of the...
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Raj Patel’s Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System (Melville House, 2008) is a sweeping study of the frightening impacts of trade liberalization on food production and distribution. This 319 page-long argument (not including notes) can be a bear to get through, partly because at times it feels like the...
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Much of the recent hype surrounding the new trend to “go green” has people rather over-excited. Daniel Goleman, however, has brought us down to earth. Goleman, author of Ecological Intelligence: How Knowing the Hidden Impacts of What We Buy Can Change Everything (Broadway Business, 2009), has brought some sanity to the new mania for...
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