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Oh, Baby! A review of Having Faith	Jonna Higgins-Freese	30 Jan 2002	Arts and Minds
I am an environmental activist, and for almost a year, my husband and I have struggled to understand how our environmental commitments bear on our decision about whether to have children. So when I picked up Sandra Steingraber's new book Having Faith: An Ecologist's Journey to Motherhood,, I was immediately drawn in by the opening sentence: "Every woman who becomes pregnant brings to the experience her various identitie ...
Topics: books, parenting, population, toxics (all these topics)

The Lomborg and Short of It Links related to The Skeptical Environmentalist	Sherry Bosse	12 Dec 2001	Arts and Minds
For those of you who still haven't gotten enough of the Lomborg controversy, look no further than your browser. We've compiled a collection of links to sites that praise the man, haze the man, and walk the middle ground. You Gotta Love the Guy Washington Post book review Denis Dutton's blurb-eriffic review of The Skeptical Environmentalist in the Washington Post reads as if it were calculated ...
Topics: books, environmental movement (all these topics)

Let Us Not Praise Infamous Men On Bjorn Lomborg's hidden agenda	Kathryn Schulz	12 Dec 2001	Arts and Minds
Here is Denmark, that harmonious northern country known for its curiously vanilla accomplishments (comprehensive social welfare, pastry, Hans Christian Anderson), and here is its latest export, Bjorn Lomborg, come to announce the good news that we live in a fairy-tale world. The medium for the message is The Skeptical Environmentalist, Lomborg's 500-plus page blow-by-blow of "the Real State of t ...
Topics: books, environmental movement (all these topics)

Unhealthy Skepticism On Bjorn Lomborg and environmental hazards to human health	Devra Davis	12 Dec 2001	Arts and Minds
You know what they say about people who become statisticians? They lacked the personality to become accountants. Whatever their personalities may be, those who spend their lives sorting through reams of numbers often lose sight of what those numbers mean and represent. The Skeptical Environmentalist is a big and infuriating book, written by a statistician and self-described former envir ...
Topics: books, health, toxics (all these topics)

Counter Argument On Bjorn Lomborg's use of statistics	Allen Hammond	12 Dec 2001	Arts and Minds
Extraordinary claims demand an extraordinary level of documentation and supporting analysis, and warrant the healthy skepticism of those who would review or pronounce judgment on them. Bjorn Lomborg's new book, The Skeptical Environmentalist, is missing the documentation and analysis, and the outpouring of media coverage the book has generated is missing the skepticism. Lomborg's extraordinary claims are that e ...
Topics: books, climate, scientific research (all these topics)

Not Seeing the Forest for the Trees On Bjorn Lomborg and deforestation	Emily Matthews	12 Dec 2001	Arts and Minds
In The Skeptical Environmentalist, Bjorn Lomborg writes that "basically, the world's forests are not under threat." A charitable reader could attribute this flawed conclusion to errors of omission and ignorance; perhaps the author simply doesn't know the sources well enough to interpret them properly. Less charitably, one might reasonably conclude that Lomborg intentionally selects his ...
Topics: books, deforestation, Indonesia (all these topics)

Bjorn Again On Bjorn Lomborg and population	Lester R. Brown	12 Dec 2001	Arts and Minds
Some years ago, well before many outside Denmark knew Bjorn Lomborg's name, a group of his fellow faculty members at the University of Aarhus took the unusual step of developing a website specifically to warn the scientific community and others about flaws in his work. Appalled by Lomborg's scientific pretensions and unfounded conclusions, these faculty members, including a former head of the Danish Academy of Sciences, a ...
Topics: books, environmental movement, population (all these topics)

Specious On Bjorn Lomborg and species diversity	Norman Myers	12 Dec 2001	Arts and Minds
Bjorn Lomborg opens his chapter on biodiversity by citing my 1979 estimate of 40,000 species lost per year. He gets a lot of mileage out of that estimate throughout the chapter, although he does not cite any of my subsequent writings except for a single mention of a 1983 paper and a 1999 paper, neither of which deals much with extinction rates. Why doesn't he refer to the 80-plus papers I have published on biodiversity a ...
Topics: biodiversity, books, extinction (all these topics)

Hostile Climate On Bjorn Lomborg and climate change	Stephen H. Schneider	12 Dec 2001	Arts and Minds
Bjorn Lomborg's chapter on global climate change is a clever polemic; it seems like a sober and well-researched presentation of balanced information, whereas in fact it makes use of selective inattention to inconvenient literature and overemphasis of work that supports his lopsided views. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports and other honest assessments don't have the luxury of using such tac ...
Topics: books, climate, climate change impacts, climate science (all these topics)

Vanishing Point On Bjorn Lomborg and extinction	E. O. Wilson	12 Dec 2001	Arts and Minds
My greatest regret about the Lomborg scam is the extraordinary amount of scientific talent that has to be expended to combat it in the media. We will always have contrarians like Lomborg whose sallies are characterized by willful ignorance, selective quotations, disregard for communication with genuine experts, and destructive campaigning to attract the attention of the media rather than scientists. They are the parasite ...
Topics: biodiversity, books, extinction (all these topics)

Something Is Rotten in the State of Denmark A skeptical look at The Skeptical Environmentalist		12 Dec 2001	Arts and Minds
Before the terrible events of Sept. 11 nudged our national mood towards nouveau-earnestness, skepticism was the disposition of the day. Bred in the swamps of transparent consumer manipulation, untrustworthy political leaders, and information overload, skepticism stamped a permanent question mark onto the brows of Generation X and seemed poised to become the watchword of our nation. The cult ...
Topics: books, environmental movement (all these topics)

Balancing the Book A look back at Al Gore's 1992 opus on the environment	Chip Giller	25 Oct 2000	Arts and Minds
Earth in the Balance By Al Gore Houghton Mifflin, 416 pages, 2000 How many environmentalists have actually read Earth in the Balance? Very few, I'm willing to wager. The truth is that until recently, I myself felt qualified to pontificate on Al Gore's environmental beliefs and, yes, occasionally question whether he'd lived up to them, even though I hadn't read more than a few excerpts from th ...
Topics: Al Gore, books, business, politics, United States (all these topics)

Reinventing the Wheels How far can clean cars take us?	Jim Motavalli	19 May 2000	Arts and Minds
This essay is adapted from Forward Drive: The Race to Build "Clean" Cars for the Future. Forward Drive By Jim Motavalli Sierra Club Books, 272 pages, 2000 I loved cars long before I knew there was any reason to worry about their effect on the environment or be concerned about the smoke that poured from their tailpipes. In the 1960s, ignorance like mine was widespread in the United States, maintained b ...
Topics: air pollution, books, cars, electric vehicles, energy efficiency, green living, hybrids, oil, placemaking (all these topics)

We Be Culture Jammin'	Donella H. Meadows	15 May 2000	Global Citizen
Maybe you've seen Adbusters magazine or the Adbusters website, with their takeoffs on common ads. "Joe Chemo," the popular Joe Camel, sits sad, sick, and bald in a hospital bed. A sports utility vehicle surges through the wilderness under the slogan: NATURE -- IT'LL GROW BACK. A slumped over vodka bottle proclaims ABSOLUTE IMPOTENCE. It doesn't take much artful ridicule like that to undo billions of dollars worth of careful pro ...
Topics: books, business, consumerism, messaging (all these topics)

Short People -- They Might Be Green Giants One man's quest to prove that bigger isn't better for the planet	Erik Ness	04 May 2000	Main Dish
Long before the special-effects wizards made Stuart Little into a silver-screen sensation, E.B. White's diminutive hero held a hallowed spot in a storytelling tradition that ranges from Gulliver's Travels and "Jack and the Beanstalk" to Honey, I Shrunk the Kids. The basic idea: Make the workaday world utterly fantastic by changing the scale. Or, most ever ...
Topics: books, ecological footprint (all these topics)

The Green House Effect How to make your home an eco-friendly haven	Jenny Sorensen	07 Apr 2000	Arts and Minds
Last spring, I met with a real-estate agent and listened while she told me about the kind of house I should buy. A new house, she advised, with all new appliances and the latest innovations in wiring, plumbing, and heating -- maybe even a condo. My horrified expression stopped her mid-sentence. Actually, I explained dreamily, I'm looking for an older home with charm and quirky character. I want big w ...
Topics: books, consumerism, energy, energy at home, energy efficiency, green living, placemaking, toxics (all these topics)

There's No Place Like Home A writer and farmer tells it like it is	Lisa Jones	05 Jan 2000	Main Dish
O, environmental writers. The religious scribes of our day. I love them but I fear them too, because of the way self-righteousness can rear up like some suddenly animated pond scum in a Stephen King movie and cover the picnic, the teenagers, everything that was ever fun and alive and moving around. Wait, it's not that bad. It's just that I find my environmental angst a lot easier to take when it's served ...
Topics: books, heroes (all these topics)

Daring to Order Small in a Super-Sized World A collection of essays tackles consumption in America	Sherry Bosse	12 Nov 1999	Arts and Minds
Consuming Desires Edited by Roger Rosenblatt Island Press, 1999, 230 pages In Walden, Henry David Thoreau wrote that "to maintain one's self on this earth is not a hardship but a pastime, if we will live simply and wisely." He warned his readers against an increasingly prevalent consumer culture in the United States -- in 1854. Nearly 150 years later, America ...
Topics: books, consumerism, green living, United States (all these topics)

The Magnificent Seven vs. the Baywatch Babes A new book rounds up everyday sustainable wonders	John C. Ryan	28 Oct 1999	Arts and Minds
When the Dalai Lama of Tibet met with economist John Kenneth Galbraith, he asked the Harvard professor a simple but penetrating question: "What would the world be like if everyone drove a motor car?" The Tibetan leader probably did not intend it, but his question constitutes a koan, a paradoxical riddle of Zen Buddhist tradition. A koan has no logical answer -- &qu ...
Topics: books, cars, energy, green living, oil, placemaking (all these topics)

Facing the Music	Donella H. Meadows	18 Oct 1999	Global Citizen
Of all the tragic characters in Greek myths, the one who gives me the most shivers is Cassandra. The god Apollo gave her a wonderful gift -- the ability to foretell the future -- then followed it up with a terrible curse -- no one would ever believe her. I can just imagine Cassandra, standing there inside the walls of Troy, yelling, "No, no, whatever you do, don't haul that big wooden horse in here!" Wanna buy it? Now a friend of mine ...
Topics: books, music (all these topics)

A How-to Guide to Guilt-Free Moola Investing au naturel	Hal Brill, Jack A. Brill, Cliff Feigenbaum	01 Sep 1999	Arts and Minds
By Hal Brill, Jack A. Brill and Cliff Feigenbaum 01 Sep 1999 Turn on any financial talk show and you will be deluged with advice about how to make more money. You'll learn which kind of IRA is best for you, and hear arguments rage about the pros and cons of no-load mutual funds. This is useful information, but it doesn't go far enough. Given the central, powerful role of money and business in both our society and our personal lives, it is a ...
Topics: books, business (all these topics)

Listening to CDs Without Melting Antarctica Tom Turner reviews Transforming Electricity by Walt Patterson	Tom Turner	21 Jul 1999	Arts and Minds
Transforming Electricity: The Coming Generation of Change by Walt Patterson Royal Institute of International Affairs/ Earthscan Publications, 1999, 224 pages Walt Patterson is a physicist by training, an entertaining and lucid writer (he seldom misses a chance at wordplay -- note the title of this book), a fan of jazz and baseball and real ale, and an incisive pop ...
Topics: books, climate, energy (all these topics)

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