Book Reviews

Living simpler & deeper with The Moneyless Man

One man goes on a mission to live a year without money; James  tells us how it's done. If we take green living seriously,...

Green Student Life Using “10 Ways to Change the World in Your Twenties”

I am a fanatical ‘thrifter,’ an unstoppable charity shop consumer; the best bit about shopping in this way is that all the guilt of...

Breastfeeding and Islam

Islamic states have the highest infant mortality rate in the world thanks in large part to a decline in breastfeeding.

Mazzy reviews ‘The Story Of Stuff’

In order to change our unending addiction to Stuff, we need to redefine progress. We need to realize Stuff doesn't make us happy. The...

Review of Leo Hickman’s ‘A Life Stripped Bare’

Interested in finding out about one man and his family taking on the challenge of living ethically for a year? Want to know more about...

A Review on Bill McKibben’s Deep Economy

Deep Economy is probably the first economics book you’ll read that advocates for less economic growth. The book is framed around a simple, yet...

Book Review for Light Summer Reading: French Lessons by Peter Mayle

If you like to beguile the slow, hot summer hours with a good food book, you will love this one. Author Peter Mayle, famous...

Clare Dissects Post-apocalypse Britain in 'Everyone Can Be a Hero'

I have quite a taste for post-apocalyptical fantasies myself (such as Cormac McCarthy's chilling 'The Road', reviewed here earlier on GP), so I picked...

Feast Slowly on Michael Pollan’s Food Rules

The crucial test, apparently, and one which we should remember and apply, is "would our grandma or great-grandma recognise this alleged food item as food?"

How to create a food forest garden, by Martin Crawford

This book is unusual.  Firstly, by virtue of covering the topic of forest gardening at all, but also unusual in another respect. Many gardening books...

Louise Reviews Eco-Tourism Book 'The Final Call' With A Questioning Eye

Worried about the impact of the tourism industry on the world’s resources?  Want to know whether tourism sustains or destroys local communities and ecology...

Book Review: Strategy for Sustainability by Adam Werbach – A Primer for Third Wing Environmentalism or a Harbinger of the Black Swan?

I find it fitting and perhaps a little ironic that I was asked to write a review about Adam Werbach’s popular book, Strategy...

Green Prophet Interviews Author and Journalist, Alanna Mitchell

Of the many non-fiction, environmentally-themed books I've read over the past few years, those that stand out are Alanna Mitchell's 'Dancing at the Dead...

Hamish MacDonald's "Finitude" for Climate Activists to Ponder

Bradley Winterton, writing in the Taipei Times in Taiwan, recently gave big thumbs up to one of the first climate chaos novels to come...

Friedman’s "Hot, Flat and Crowded" – The Perfect "Green" Starter Book

Hot, Flat and Crowded shows people how to embrace clean energy and green technology industries. The Genus of Genius: Someone once told me that...

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