Book Reviews

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...

Ronald Macintyre Excavates 'The Nature Of The State'

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

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

"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...

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

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

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

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...

Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, a Review

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.

Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey

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

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

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...

Stolen Harvest by Vandana Shiva

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:

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

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

Carlo Petrini's Slow Food, A Review

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

Gil brushes up on his "Natural Finishes"

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...

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

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...

Daniella Relishes 'The End Of Food' by Paul Roberts

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...

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

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 people can look at the same sustainability dashboard and reach different conclusions. The problem is not necessarily the data, but whether anyone can trace how the number was produced.

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Smart glasses are changing the economics of eyewear by turning conventional frames into higher-priced technology products. What used to be mainly a sale built around frame design, lenses, prescription needs and brand preference is now also a sale built around cameras, audio, AI features, app support and connected-device setup.

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