Book Reviews

Ronald Macintyre Excavates 'The Nature Of The State'

James Murray-White - April 29, 2009

Reading has its own geography. I read this book The Nature of the State while I traveled back and forth from the West Highlands...

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James Laps Up Simon Barnes's Book 'How to Be Wild'

James Murray-White - April 22, 2009

"The more we leave the non-human world behind, the less human we become: and the more fearful we become. It is not the thrilling...

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Architect Gil Peled Strives for a 'Carbon-Free House' in Stephen and Rebekah Hren's Book

James Murray-White - April 15, 2009

Carbon emissions from the building environment are globally one of the major contributors to climate change. On average up to 50% of all carbon...

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Rabbi Sinclair Reviews "Nature's Due" And Its Complicated Biology

James Murray-White - April 8, 2009

I am really not the right person to be reviewing "Nature's Due" by Professor Brian Goodwin from Shumacher College in the UK. It is...

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Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, a Review

Green Prophet - December 8, 2025

Why did I reread passages of this book over and over, why did scenes haunt me for weeks? The struggle for survival is boiled down, elemental: two humans, trying to find enough food for surviving another day, trying to avoid becoming food for the human beasts.

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Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey

James Murray-White - January 9, 2023

Special guest desert dwelling activist and academic Lucy Michaels, gets to the heart of the matter with a classic eco text: "The burnt cliffs...

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Dianne Onstad's Whole Foods Companion, A Charming and Chock-Full Book

Hamutal Dotan - December 26, 2008

With winter upon us, now is the perfect time to get cozy with a pile of books. The latest in our eco-reads book review...

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Stolen Harvest by Vandana Shiva

James Murray-White - May 7, 2021

Vandana Shiva isn’t a writer to pull punches. By the twelfth page of 'Stolen Harvest' (2000), she announces a damning verdict on Western food production:

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Alanna Mitchell's Dancing At The Dead Sea Is a Journey to the Heart of Environmental Crisis

James Murray-White - December 5, 2008

"My story gathering has led me all over the world. Each journey took me to a perfect example of one facet of the problem...

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Carlo Petrini's Slow Food, A Review

Hamutal Dotan - October 31, 2008

Slow Food has been garnering lots of attention lately, with an international convention in San Francisco in September and another in Italy just this...

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Gil brushes up on his "Natural Finishes"

James Murray-White - October 22, 2008

Today's book review, part of our 'eco books review festival', is by guest writer Gil Peled: Jerusalem-based Israeli eco-architect Gil (who trained in architecture...

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Enduring Protracted Tales of Eco-sheds in "Almost Green"

James Murray-White - October 15, 2008

Freelance writer James Glave has successfully turned the planning and construction of a shed on his property in British Columbia into a thriving trade. His...

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Daniella Relishes 'The End Of Food' by Paul Roberts

James Murray-White - October 8, 2008

For those readers about to participate in tonight's Yom Kippur fast, Green Prophet Daniella Cheslow offers up many reasons why we need to think...

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Guy Dauncey's "Earth Future" And A 'So-So' Review of Eco Short Stories

James Murray-White - October 2, 2008

Earth Future is a collection of very worthy short stories. It is immediately clear that Guy Dauncey is not writing from a literary and...

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Two Books 'Spiritual Compass' and 'Free To Be Human' Direct Us To Act Local

Green Prophet Guest - September 11, 2008

Guest reviewer Jeremy Zauder relishes two views of ethical development in a special double review this week: part of our ongoing Green Prophet 'Eco-Reads'...

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