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Me, reviewing A review of Tom Friedman's Hot, Flat, and Crowded	David Roberts	23 Sep 2008	Gristmill
I have a book review in the latest issue of the American Prospect, covering three books: Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution -- and How It Can Renew America, by Thomas L. Friedman Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 438 pages, $27.95 Earth: The Sequel: The Race To Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming, by Fred Krupp and Miriam Horn, W.W. Norton, 279 pages, $24.95 Coming Clean: Breaking America's Addiction To Oil and Coal, by Michael Brune, S ...
Topics: environmental movement, Environmental Defense Fund, shameless self-promotion, green living, books (all these topics)

For-profit, common good Using the power of business for people and planet	Erik Hoffner	06 Aug 2008	Gristmill
There are two critiques of Blessed Unrest, Paul Hawken's book on the enormous scope of the worldwide grassroots movements for change, that I'm interested in, one being the notion that the fact that there are millions of grassroots groups at work all over the world providing basic services, fighting for justice, and improving the lot of the planet is not necessarily something to celebrate. Rather, it signifies the failure of modern society to pursue the common good. Fair ...
Topics: books, business, grassroots activism, green living (all these topics)

Book review: Caffeinated reads Javatrekker and <em	Michael Hebberoy	23 Jul 2008	Gristmill
When I jumped on a plane one year ago and headed off to Guatemala with Seattle-based coffee roaster Caffé Vita, there was little more than the occasional blog post telling 'the story behind coffee.' The majority of the writing about coffee I could find was focused on the history of the bean-like-seed: stories of cunning Dutch merchants, over-caffeinated whirling dervishes, and besieged Austrians, but nothing talking about the places and people that presently grow th ...
Topics: books, food, green living, Guatemala, sustainable ag (all these topics)

Act Your Page Should you add the latest green-living books to your library?	Holly Richmond	03 Jul 2008	Grist Feature
It's easy writing green, or so this year's deluge of eco-tippy books would indicate. But are any of the latest feel-good, change-a-light-bulb tomes decent? No doubt our own volume, Wake Up and Smell the Planet, is still No. 1 on your toilet tank -- but we thought we'd take a look at how the recent entries stack up, from the titillating to the downright doorstop-worthy. Going Green: A Wise ...
Topics: advice, books, consumerism, ecological footprint, green living, shopping (all these topics)

Good Home Cooking How author Betsy Block convinced her finicky family to mend their dietary ways	Roz Cummins	03 Jul 2008	'Tis the Season
In her new book The Dinner Diaries: Raising Whole Wheat Kids in a White Bread World, Betsy Block writes compellingly about trying to feed one's family and oneself in a nutritious, sustainable, economical, and harmonious way -- and dealing with various likes and dislikes within the family dining unit. Betsy Block Photo: Andrew Pockrose I imagine reviewers will liken the expe ...
Topics: books, food, green living, interview, parenting, recipes, Tis the Season (all these topics)

Take a Page Out of My Book Seven green leaders reveal their favorite reads	Michelle Nijhuis	03 Jul 2008	Grist Feature
Good night, sleep tight, don't let the bad books bite. Photo: margolove Which books and magazines are tempting today's environmental movers and shakers to keep the CFLs burning late into the night? Grist asked seven movement leaders for their recommended reads. (Been burning the night oil yourself? Add your own favorite reads in the comments section below.) Van Jones. Van Jones Founding pre ...
Topics: books, environmental movement, green living (all these topics)

Macaws and Effect An interview with author Bruce Barcott	Michelle Nijhuis	02 Jul 2008	Grist Feature
Bruce Barcott. In his new non-fiction book Last Flight of the Scarlet Macaw, environmental journalist Bruce Barcott follows Sharon Matola -- a former Air Force survival specialist and circus-tiger trainer turned zookeeper -- as she fights the construction of a hydropower dam in her adopted country of Belize, and attempts to save the nesting site of the country's last scarlet macaws. During her years of ba ...
Topics: Belize, books, grassroots activism, green living, interview, wildlife (all these topics)

Let's Talk About You and Me An interview with Bonk author Mary Roach	Michelle Nijhuis	01 Jul 2008	Grist Feature
Photo: cybertoad Ah, sex. Source of carnal bliss, domestic harmony, cute infants ... and global population problems. (Oh, environmentalists are such killjoys.) Overpopulation aside for the moment, sex is fundamental to humanity, and to the rest of the natural world -- and besides, it's a dang fascinating subject, as Mary Roach found out while researching her new book Bonk: The Curious Coupling of ...
Topics: books, green living, interview, scientific research, sex (all these topics)

Sea, Smoke, and the Grape Three guidebooks for a dream vacation at your dining-room table	Tom Philpott	01 Jul 2008	Grist Feature
Eat your way around the world, without leaving home. If you had to choose one place in the world to go for a summer break, where would it be? For me, it would be a place I stayed once in Puglia, at the heel of Italy's boot. In 2003, my friends and I spent a week at an agriturismo operation -- a working organic olive farm that doubled as a kind of low-key rural hotel. Our quart ...
Topics: books, food, green living, recipes, travel (all these topics)

Cover the Waterfront 15 green books you can actually read at the beach	Michelle Nijhuis	30 Jun 2008	Grist Feature
Green books that are fun to read? What a novel idea. So maybe you'll finally have a chance to catch up on some reading this summer. But so many of those books about the environment seem kind of ... well, homework-y. What's a vacationing enviro to do? Turn to Grist for advice, of course! Here are 15 recent page-turners just perfect for stuffing in your hemp beach tote. Got sunny-day suggestio ...
Topics: books, climate, green living, lists, wilderness (all these topics)

James and the Giant Breach An interview with author James Howard Kunstler	Michelle Nijhuis	30 Jun 2008	Grist Feature
James Howard Kunstler. Photo: from the documentary Subdivided Author and social critic James Howard Kunstler, known for predicting our post-peak-oil future in nonfiction works such as The Long Emergency, has also brought his forecasts to life through fiction. His newest novel, World Made By Hand, describes the near future in a small town in upstate New York -- not unlike the place Kunstler ...
Topics: books, climate, green living, interview (all these topics)

Shop, Girl Can your pocketbook save the planet? The author of Big Green Purse says yes	Sarah van Schagen	20 Jun 2008	Grist Feature
Diane MacEachern. Mary Poppins may have had a giant carpetbag from which she could pull coat racks and potted plants. But author Diane MacEachern has something even better: A big, green purse that, she says, carries the power to influence the marketplace to "create a cleaner, greener world." The concept behind MacEachern's book Big Green Purse is built on the fact ...
Topics: books, green living, interview, shopping (all these topics)

Atoning for a carbon footprint? Ian McEwan writing a novel about climate change -- with funniness!	Lisa Hymas	04 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Ian McEwan. Photo: Eamon McCabe Booker Prize-winning British novelist Ian McEwan, now best known for Atonement, is at work on a new novel about climate change that will include 'extended comic stretches,' The Guardian reports. The unnamed work isn't due out for another two years, but McEwan read an excerpt to an audience in Wales on Sunday. The protagonist of the forthcoming novel is Nobel Prize-winning physicist Michael Beard, who aspires to save the planet, ...
Topics: books, climate, gossip, green living (all these topics)

Heating heaven Early appearances of climate change in popular literature	Erik Hoffner	28 May 2008	Gristmill
Last week, I picked up a copy of the newly reissued 1971 Ursula Le Guin classic The Lathe of Heaven, which takes place in dystopic, post-collapse Portland, Ore., circa 2002 or so. It's typical brilliance from Le Guin, of whom I can't read enough, but I was interested to see that the novel begins by describing Mt. Hood devoid of snow due to the greenhouse effect. The climate is entirely different from that of the 1960s, with blue skies a thing of the past and rainfall pa ...
Topics: books, climate, climate change impacts, green living, Portland (all these topics)

Mazzocchi, Speth, and capitalism's future Ted Glick on two new books that address capitalism and the environment	Guest author	20 May 2008	Gristmill
The following is a guest essay from Ted Glick, a long-time activist who's been involved in the climate movement since 2003 and the progressive social change movement since 1968. ----- "Capitalism as we know it today is incapable of sustaining the environment." -- James Gustave (Gus) Speth, in The Bridge at the End of the World: Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability The Bridge at the End of the World, by J ...
Topics: books, business, green living (all these topics)

Kunstler meets Colbert	David Roberts	03 May 2008	Gristmill
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Topics: books, energy, funnies, green living, oil, oil and gas drilling, TV (all these topics)

The Betty Crocker's Cookbook of low-carbon living	JMG	24 Apr 2008	Gristmill
When I got to college, the best book I bought was a 3-ring notebook-style Betty Crocker's Cookbook. Not adventurous food, but for someone who knew very little about anything concerning food, it was a great first book. It assumes that you are reading a cookbook because you want to know what to do, step-by-step -- instead of just hinting, it lays it out, with pictures and plain language. Great stuff. A couple times a year my wife and I still will ask one another, 'What does Betty ...
Topics: books, climate, food, green living, greenhouse-gas emissions (all these topics)

Good green reading Voting is open for the Orion Readers' Choice Award	Erik Hoffner	24 Mar 2008	Gristmill
Read a good green-themed book lately? The editors of Orion have, and in advance of their award of the annual Orion Book Award next month, for an outstanding book exploring the interaction of people and the natural world, they've just posted all the nominated books here for voting in a 'people's choice' contest. From The World Without Us to Blessed Unrest, it's an impressive list that makes me realize how many books I want to crack open. But after looking them over, ...
Topics: green living, books (all these topics)

How about 'for smarties'? Green Living For Dummies: yet another addition to slew of easy-being-green books	Holly Richmond	07 Mar 2008	Gristmill
I know no Grist reader will need this book (especially if you've got Grist's opus), but the ubiquitous bumblebee-colored series has now turned its all-dummifying eye to the environment. Somewhere between Heartburn & Reflux For Dummies and Coaching Lacrosse For Dummies is your chance to learn what you're really supposed to do with those mysterious CFLs. (Looks like the orange-toned archrival, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Green Living, came out six months ago.)
Topics: books, green living (all these topics)

Stranger Than Fiction A sci-fi writer and an environmental journalist explore their overlapping worlds	Michelle Nijhuis	21 Feb 2008	Grist Feature
Pump Six and Other Stories, by Paolo Bacigalupi. Science fiction writer Paolo Bacigalupi, author of the new collection Pump Six and Other Stories, envisions a future filled with environmental terrors. His characters move through worlds transformed by climate change, genetic engineering, drought, and toxic waste -- places that seem exotic at first, but on second g ...
Topics: books, climate, green living, messaging (all these topics)

The Bitch Is Back An interview with Rory Freedman, coauthor of vegan manifesto Skinny Bitch	Sarah van Schagen	25 Jan 2008	Grist Feature
It would be impossible to make it through an entire lunch with Rory Freedman without realizing this simple truth: The bitch loves food. Excuse my language -- or actually, don't. Freedman wouldn't say it any other way. Rory Freedman (left), with coauthor Kim Barnouin. Photo: Tim VanOrden After all, she and former model Kim Barnouin are coauthors of the New York Times bes ...
Topics: books, food, green living, interview, vegetarianism and veganism (all these topics)

Muskrat Love Ain't Got Nothin' on This Romance novelist accused of plagiarizing green group's magazine		14 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 11:02 AM on 14 Jan 2008 Bloggers at Smart Bitches Who Love Trashy Books have accused popular romance writer Cassie Edwards of plagiarism in a number of her tomes, including Savage Longings, Savage Moon, and Savage Beloved. Among the accusations of Edwards -- who, it may surprise you to know, often writes about the lustful dalliances of Native American characters -- is that a descripti ...
Topics: books, green living, news, sex, wildlife (all these topics)

My audiobook experiment The ear as an underutilized data input port	biodiversivist	28 Dec 2007	Gristmill
I've been experimenting with audiobooks, not only because they may one day replace the tree-eating variety, but also because I like the idea of listening to a book while performing other less entertaining tasks. Meetings fit that definition but turn out not to be good candidates for other reasons. My brain has two main data input ports: my ears and eyes. Of the two, my ears seem to be the least utilized. However, I didn't know if I could listen to a book and chew gum ...
Topics: books, green living, tech (all these topics)

What a Revelation Publisher will produce first eco-friendly Bible		09 Oct 2007	News
Posted at 1:42 PM on 09 Oct 2007 Coming soon to a hotel room near you: the first green Bible, expected to hit the scene later this month from publisher Thomas Nelson. The Charles F. Stanley Life Principles Daily Bible -- which perhaps includes the 11th commandment "Thou shalt be principled"? -- will be certified by the Forest Stewardship Council and contain recycled fiber. Says Tyson Miller of the Green Press Initiative ...
Topics: books, business, green living, greening biz operations, news, religion and spirituality (all these topics)

BioWillie pens a biodiesel book	Sarah van Schagen	19 Aug 2007	Gristmill
Willie Nelson is talking about biodiesel again. This time in book form, and the result is On the Clean Road Again: Biodiesel and the Future of the Family Farm. The 90-some-page pocket-size book (it's like a li'l Willie you can carry with you everywhere!) is divided into two parts: the past (or the history of petroleum) and the future (in Willie's world, that's biodiesel). Thankfully there's also an afterword to talk about the other future ... you know, wind and ...
Topics: biofuels, books, celebrity, energy, green living, oil (all these topics)

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