Book Reviews

Review of 'No Logo': Getting Frustrated With Klein's Screed

This week's eco-book review is by Prophet Daniella Cheslow: Although Starbucks never made it in Israel, McDonald’s, Burger King, Puma, Crocs, Nike, Diesel, and...

Rabbi Julian Sinclair on 'Breakthrough' by Nordhaus and Shellenberger

In this week's green book review, guest reviewer Rabbi Julian Sinclair unpicks the recent 'Breakthrough' by US writers Ted Nordhaus &...

Green Books Roundup Review on Grist, TreeHugger, Ed Begley's New Reads

"Nature is a language - can't you read? Nature is a language - can't anybody read?" Morrissey & Marr: The Smiths, 'Ask' (1986) as played...

H.C. Flores' Book "Food Not Lawns" Good for Radical Gardeners

I finished reading Food Not Lawns on my roof, just after I checked my new vermi-compost bin. The roof compost represents my adaptation to...

Earth Shattering EcoPoems

“The trees are weeping in the Land of Israel... There is no compassion For the land’s raiment – Its seven species... And on these parcels of land Concessions will be...

'Animate Earth' by Stephan Harding, a Review

"The crisis is at root one of perception; we no longer see the cosmos as alive, nor do we any longer recognise that we...

'Field Notes from a Catastrophe' by Elizabeth Kolbert, a Review

This is the first book I’ve read in a long time that I have felt so conflicted about. I bought it after having seen it...

Jeremy Zauder Reviews 'The Emerald Planet' by David Beerling

"The illumination is made possible thanks to the emergence of an exhilarating new discipline, one that integrates unprecedented knowledge of plants as living organisms with...

Fred Pearce's "Confessions of an Eco-Sinner" on Where Stuff Comes From

“We face the most almighty hangover, as the toxins unleashed by our century-long binge work their way through the earth’s system. We have to...

Review of 'God in the Wilderness'

Here is the first in the summer season of Green Prophet 'eco-reads festival': environment-focussed books , some sharp and caustic, some funny or fact-filled,...

Review of 'The World Without Us' by Alan Weisman

Could nature ever obliterate all our traces? How would it undo our monumental cities and public works, and reduce all our myriad plastics and...

'Facing The Change' Anthology

Feeling gloomy and despondent about Climate Change? Do you feel, like my dear Welsh friend Tim in London whose default position on this (and...

Book Review of ‘Green Chic’ by Christie Matheson Who's Saving The Earth In Style

"Embrace the fabulousness of green living"   Green Chic - Saving The Earth in Style by Christie Matheson Don't believe it is possible to remain stylish while...

Joe Lamp'l's "Green Gardener's Guide," a Review

Here is a great book for all gardeners and garden lovers who want to go that wee bit further and work...

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