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The best clean-tech book If you only read one book, pick this one	Joseph Romm	06 Aug 2007	Gristmill
For years I've been looking for one book to recommend to people who want to get up to speed on what's happening in clean technology. I have finally found it: The Clean Tech Revolution: The Next Big Growth and Investment Opportunity, by Ron Pernick and Clint Wilder. It is the only book I've seen that covers the whole gamut of the latest in clean energy -- including such cutting-edge areas as concentrating solar power and microalgae -- and isn't swept up in fads like h ...
Topics: books, energy, tech (all these topics)

New food book Where your dinner is mined	JMG	06 Aug 2007	Gristmill
A friend sent me Tyler Cowen's thoughts on a new food book from Steve Ettlinger. I don't know who Tyler Cowen is, but he made me want to read the book: There are entire companies which do nothing but break eggs open for other companies; the largest such egg-breaking company is based in Elizabeth, New Jersey. That is from Twinkie, Deconstructed: My Journey to Discover How the Ingredients Found in Processed Foods Are Grown, Mined (Yes, Mined), and Manipulated Into What Am ...
Topics: books, food, green living (all these topics)

The Upside of Down, by Thomas Homer-Dixon A review	John McGrath	24 Jul 2007	Gristmill
For a few days after reading The Upside of Down, I annoyed most of my friends and family by reciting chunks of Homer-Dixon's work back to them -- I couldn't get it out of my head. I do this a lot to people, but not usually for days and days on end after reading a book. The Upside of Down isn't an environmental book, exactly, though it does deal with environmental and energy issues. While it shares some themes with more explicitly environmental books (like Jare ...
Topics: books (all these topics)

The great Harry Potter scandal of '07 We didn't give away the ending, honest!	David Roberts	23 Jul 2007	Gristmill
On Friday, a Daily Grist blurb about the final Harry Potter book ended with this: Which totally makes up for the fact that Harry dies in the end. Oops, did we say that out loud? We didn't think much of it. I mean: The book wasn't even out yet, and getting an advance copy was more difficult than breaking into Fort Knox. If we'd really known the ending, it would have been international news, not something to sneak in at the end of a blurb. Daily Grist is fun ...
Topics: books, green living (all these topics)

Welcome Back, Potter Final Harry Potter tome is 'greenest book in publishing history'		20 Jul 2007	Daily Grist
Welcome Back, Potter Final Harry Potter tome is "greenest book in publishing history" Feel that crackle in the air? That's millions of Harry Potter fans trying not to fidget as they wait for the book's midnight release. (Or trying not to freeze, in the case of an Australian fan who was rescued after diving into a frigid lake to retrieve his pre-purchase receipt.) The final insta ...
Topics: books, consumerism, green living, green products, news, shopping (all these topics)

Next thing you know, even Voldemort will be hugging trees Harry Potter is way greener than your average book	Kate Sheppard	18 Jul 2007	Gristmill
I wrote last week about Harry Potter going green in the seventh and final installation of the series. Turns out, it's even greener than we thought. It might just be the greenest book of all time [PDF] (except for all those books that have never been published, I guess). Production of the book spurred the development of 32 new ecological papers, six for Potter exclusively, and prompted 300 publishers to adopt new environmental policies, according to Markets Init ...
Topics: books, green living (all these topics)

Storm World: Understanding hurricanes today New book on hurricanes and global warming	Kit Stolz	16 Jul 2007	Gristmill
On his site, science writer Chris Mooney recently posted a fascinating pair of graphs, courtesy of collaborator Matt Nisbet, which chart public interest in global warming. As the years march by, the charts show what happens when scientific reports are released, when politics intervene -- and when hurricanes strike, as measured by coverage at the Washington Post and the New York Times. What the graphs show is that in these thoughtful newspapers, political and sci ...
Topics: books, climate, climate science, severe weather (all these topics)

Well, tickle my magic wand Harry Potter goes green, but what about the rest of the industry?	Kate Sheppard	11 Jul 2007	Gristmill
Ahhh, books. They're like websites on paper, from what I gather. We wrote a while back about Harry Potter going green for the last installment of the series, with two-thirds of the 16,700 tons of paper coming from timber certified by the Forest Stewardship Council. Scholastic, the publisher, is also using 30 percent recycled fiber for the cover, and the 'deluxe edition' is going to be printed on 100 percent recycled paper in a renewable-energy-powered factory. The b ...
Topics: books, green living, recycling (all these topics)

Really short book review: Monbiot's Heat Skip it	Joseph Romm	06 Jun 2007	Gristmill
You can skip George Monbiot's book Heat: How to Stop the Planet from Burning. Slightly longer book review: Because there are far too many climate books to read, I confess I apply a litmus test. I look up "hydrogen" in the index. If the writer thinks it's a climate solution, the book can be skipped. I thought I would like this book, since I like many of the columns by the British author, including an early excerpt on the connection of the global war ...
Topics: books, energy, green living, hydrogen, politics (all these topics)

Tim Lambert ...	David Roberts	06 Jun 2007	Gristmill
... dismantles NYT columnist John Tierney's latest attack on Rachel Carson.
Topics: books, environmental movement, health, toxics (all these topics)

Fruitloopery for the yoots A conservative kids' book publisher takes on climate change	David Roberts	01 Jun 2007	Gristmill
The L.A. Times visits a conservative publisher of children's books. Here's what they find: First up is a story about a boy named Jake who watches a dire film about global warming in school. Jake walks home cursing every SUV -- until his best friend, Ben, sets him straight with a didactic lecture disguised as dialogue. The story makes its point perfectly clear; at one point, Ben tells Jake, 'There is NO conclusive evidence that humans are causing the Earth to heat ...
Topics: books, climate, climate change skepticism (all these topics)

Summer reading list Pick-me-up books needed	Adam Browning	30 May 2007	Gristmill
I was at a wedding last week, on the beach. Waves! Friends! Tecates! I was finally starting to unwind. And then I did something very bad. I picked up Cormac McCarthy's The Road. Holy moly. Ever wonder what the world would look like should we reach the global warming tipping point? Or what peak oil in full effect might mean for you and yours? Wonder no longer. A grimmer, more terrifying dystopian tale I have never read. Read it and weep. ...
Topics: books, climate, climate change impacts (all these topics)

The assault on Gore's capacity to keep his cool His new book, about stupid media, is treated stupidly by the media	David Roberts	21 May 2007	Gristmill
Al Gore has a new book coming out called The Assault on Reason. It's about the sickness of our democratic dialogue, the systemic features of our culture and media that lead us to ignore evidence, focus on trivialities, and accept deception after deception. Gore's going to be out promoting the book, and there's a certain bitter irony to the fact that the media is likely to interact with him in a way that proves his thesis better than anything in the book itself. Exhi ...
Topics: Al Gore, books, elections, green living, messaging, politics (all these topics)

Haste Makes Waste Savor your flavors with the slow-food movement	Roz Cummins	02 May 2007	'Tis the Season
This is the fourth in a series of articles about connecting with people over food. Read others on setting up a dining co-op, celebrating Passover, and hosting an Earth Dinner. When I told a friend that I was writing an article about slow food, she said, "What's that? The opposite of fast food?" In a word, yes. Carlo Petrini. Photo: slowfood.de The first time I heard about the slow-food movement ...
Topics: books, food, recipes, slow food, Tis the Season (all these topics)

Cloves to Home Alisa Smith and James MacKinnon chew the fat on their 100-mile diet	Kate Sheppard	24 Apr 2007	Main Dish
Two years ago, Alisa Smith and James MacKinnon set out to see if it was still possible, in these hyper-globalized times, to live off food grown in your own 'hood. The pair made a pact to dine on dishes culled from within a 100-mile radius of their Vancouver, B.C., home for an entire year. Their personal experiment quickly evolved into a movement, and now Smith, a freelance journalist w ...
Topics: books, food, green living, interview, local food, Vancouver (all these topics)

Under the Covers: Bedtime story edition Silly reader, books are for kids!	Sarah van Schagen	17 Apr 2007	Gristmill
Remember when you were a kid and the best part of the day was when you were just starting to get sleepy and you'd snuggle up in bed with your mom/dad/sibling/nanny/manny/Uncle Leroy to read a bedtime story?And the best bedtime stories were the ones with big illustrations of imaginary creatures like 'Mr. Ferebee' and 'Mugwumps' and 'the Contented Dooks' and 'the Yawning Dimbys' -- all of which kinda scared you but also gave you really awesome dreams?Yeah, The World ...
Topics: books, green living, parenting (all these topics)

Near-Future Shock A review of Kim Stanley Robinson's Sixty Days and Counting	Jonna Higgins-Freese	05 Apr 2007	Arts and Minds
Sixty Days and Counting, by Kim Stanley Robinson. I waited for the release of Kim Stanley Robinson's new book, Sixty Days and Counting, like a computer geek awaiting the release of the PS3: standing outside the door of the store, in the snow, having cleared my calendar for a few days so I could dive right in. I'm a fan of Robinson's voluminous work because environmental themes usu ...
Topics: books, climate, green living (all these topics)

For a Moment John Kerry and Teresa Heinz Kerry chat about their new environmental book	Amanda Griscom Little	29 Mar 2007	Main Dish
The environment brought them together. And now, together, they've brought out a book on the environment. (No flip-flop jokes, please.) John Kerry and Teresa Heinz Kerry. Photo: Diana Walker John Kerry first met Teresa Heinz at an Earth Day rally in 1990. The two reconnected at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, and then, three years later, wed. He continued to f ...
Topics: Bill McDonough, books, interview, politics (all these topics)

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