book review

A fun environmental read about our addiction to oil? how do all pieces of the puzzle fit together to create this mess we call automobile culture? Check out investigative journalist Lisa Margonelli's book "Oil on the Brain – Petroleum's Long Strange Trip to your Tank".

I’ve always thought that many of the issues I am concerned about—the environment, human rights, peace, overconsumption, animal welfare—are all really one big issue. Rarely have I encountered such a thorough examination of the connections between animal welfare and just about every other issue that concerns me than in the book 

Nothing in life is black and white, and this goes for being green as well. In Shades of Green, Paul Waddington tackles a range of areas from aeroplanes to wine and outlines different choices, ranking them from ‘deep green’ to ‘not at all green’. This book will show you where you fit on the scale and what you can do to reduce your environmental impact further, whether you are taking your first steps to greening your lifestyle or are already well on your way.

Anna Hackman of Green-Talk reviews 'Hey, Mr.

If you live in the suburbs, like I do, the yard around your home is the closest you come to the natural environment on a day to day basis. This begs the question - Is your yard a natural environment? In his book 'Bringing Nature Home' Douglas Tallamy makes a case for replacing alien invasives in the home landscape with native plants specific to the area.

Finding fiction to enjoy has aways been a challenge for me. Thankfully, that issue didn’t arise while I was reading the first book of Lee Welles’ Gaia Girls series titled Enter the Earth. (Full disclosure: Lee Welles writes for this blog, but I was assigned to review her books before she signed on with us.) The premise of her series, listed as for ages 9 and up, is as follows:

What would you do if you could hear the Earth asking for help?

Unless you live a Compact-like lifestyle, you are going to be shopping on a somewhat regular basis. Whether it be home improvements, gifts, furnishings, crafts, gardening, fashions, babies, sports, pets or anything else you have going on, there is a green option to be found.

But where do you buy from?

A review of The Vaccine Book by Dr. Sears; is this a good resource for parents searching for vaccine answers?

A book review on the Mark Schapiro book Exposed. Learn how America isn't keeping up with the rest of the world when limiting chemical exposure of its citizens.

Eight easy to follow recipes are squeezed into the book, including 'Soil in the Bag', 'Compost tea' and 'The Hot Turnover' – the aim being to get everyone composting, even those with little time and space. As well as guidelines for householders with large gardens, the book also provides some beginners tips on setting up indoor or backyard wormeries or community collection schemes.

Each day 34,000 children under the age of five die from hunger and the diseases that hunger brings. At any given moment, almost 800 million people in the world are going hungry. Why? Is there enough food to go around? Would feeding everybody in the developing world mean increasing hunger in the West?

As a piece of culinary writing, The Omnivore’s Dilemma is widely acclaimed as a masterpiece, a work in the tradition of M.F.K. Fisher and other giants of the food world. I couldn’t agree more-but it also deserves to be acclaimed as a work of political economy.

The Down-to-Earth Guide to Global Warming is Laurie David’s newest venture. It is a hopeful, creative and straightforward book on Global Warming for kids