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Book Review of Precycle! by Paul Peacock: So You Can Do Better Than Recycling

Recycling uses up the planet's resources. You can do better than to recycle: consume less to begin with. That's the premise of this short book...

Start-Up Nation Book Looks at Israel's High-tech Industry, Gives Insight Into Clean Tech

The book was sold-out even before its official release on November 4, says Saul Singer, author and columnist from Jerusalem. Singer co-wrote Start-Up Nation with...

'Red Alert!' Daniel Wildcat's Indigenous Knowledge Book Links Us to a Green Books Campaign

Green Prophet is delighted to be teaming up today worldwide with Eco Libris, an environmentally friendly green printing company, and their Green Books campaign....

Alanna Mitchell Plunges Deeply In 'Seasick'

Alanna Mitchell’s new book, ‘Seasick' encompasses two and a half years of aquatic research over five continents. She has literally gone to the oceans depths...

Julian gets to grips with green business in a double book review

A couple of years after former Sierra Club President Adam Werbach founded  ActNow, a sustainable business consultancy, he signed up Walmart as a client....

Yacobi Plumbs Israel's Built Environment in 'Constructing a Sense of Place'

In Constructing a Sense of Place: Architecture and the Zionist Discourse (Ashgate, 2004), architect and planner Haim Yacobi has compiled a fascinating collection of...

Louise Looks At Eco-Travel With "The Guardian Green Travel Guide"

Worried about your carbon footprint? Not sure where to turn for accurate information? This book certainly delivers what it says on the...

Benvenisti Mourns the Forgotten Rural Heritage of Israel in "Sacred Landscape"

For readers who have driven or hiked past unmarked, run-down old stone buildings in Israel, former Jerusalem Deputy Mayor Meron Benvenisti’s Sacred Landscape (University...

Scientist, Environmentalist and Eco-Prophet James Lovelock Issues A Final Warning in 'The Vanishing Face of Gaia'

“We became the Earth’s infection a long and uncertain time ago": James Lovelock is perhaps the world’s best-known independent scientist; he has published a...

The Political Ecology of Peter Schumann's Bread & Puppet Theatre Company in 'Rehearsing With Gods'

Whether or not you already know the Bread and Puppet Theater, “Rehearsing with Gods” is a wonderful way to learn more – to see,...

Rabbi Julian joins with other faiths to 'Love God, Heal Earth'

Twenty years, ago, Sally Bingham went to her local bishop and announced that she wanted to be ordained so that she could become the...

Leora gets to grips with Michael Crichton's 'State Of Fear'

Michael Crichton’s “State of Fear” is a thriller, telling the story of eco-terrorists artificially creating extreme weather events in order to convince the world...

James Laps Up 'When the Rivers Run Dry' by Fred Pearce

A review on the cover of this book by Fred Pearce describes it as “a world tour of hydrological madness” (Sunday Times), and that,...

Gil Reviews 'Solar Homesteading Simply,' a DIY e-book by LaMar Alexander

Providing self-sufficient and affordable shelter remains a major challenge for humanity worldwide. Decent and healthy living conditions are still required in many parts of...

Daniella Unpicks Israel's Relationship With Land and Housing In Amiran Gonen's "Between City and Suburb"

If you’ve heard about the demise of the kibbutz movement, then you may also know that financially strapped communal farms have recently climbed out...

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