Bottlemania marks the second book that I’ve read (and now reviewed) written by Elizabeth Royte. Much like Garbage Land, Royte’s first book I read, Bottlemania has a fluid narrative. Royte does a wonderful job of weaving the story of one town’s relationship with bottled water into a larger discussion of the resource turned commodity. In [...]
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Book Review: Alice Waters’s Edible Schoolyard
October 6th, 2011
Eric Wilson Toward the end of the summer I started reading Alice Waters’s Edible Schoolyard: A Universal Idea from Chronicle Books. It’s not long, but it is powerful. Waters is the proprietor of Chez Panisse, a restaurant in Berkeley, California that focuses on local, seasonal, and organic ingredients. In addition, Waters is a former teacher at a [...]
Book Review: Sustainability on Campus
July 21st, 2011
Eric Wilson Sustainability on Campus: Stories and Strategies for Change is a series of vignettes from institutions of higher education around the US. Co-edited by Peggy Barlett, professor of anthropology at Emory University and Geoffery Chase, Dean of Undergraduate Studies (formerly) at Northern Arizona University, the compilation includes chapters from 16 schools, with one each from Barlett [...]
Book Review: David Orr’s Earth in Mind
March 24th, 2011
Eric Wilson Originally published in 1994 during what could possibly be considered the second of three environmental movements to date, David Orr’s Earth in Mind: On Education, Environment, and the Human Prospect sets forth a new agenda for education vis-a-vis the environment. While I started the book last summer (and thought I had lost the library copy [...]
Book Review: Thriving Beyond Sustainability
November 10th, 2010
Eric Wilson As part of Eco-Libris’ Green Books campaign, 2nd Green Revolution is reviewing Andrés Edwards’ Thriving Beyond Sustainability: Pathways to a Resilient Society from New Society Publishers. According to the publisher, the book is “printed on Forest Stewardship Council-certified acid-free paper that is 100% post-consumer recycled (100% old growth forest-free), processed chlorine free, and printed with [...]
Book Review: Jared Diamond’s Collapse
July 12th, 2010
Eric Wilson Although I read Jared Diamond’s Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed shortly after its release in 2005, I find myself coming back to this influential work time and time again. I have three copies in my home and routinely refer to it in conversations. UCLA professor of Geography Jared Diamond is an anthropologist, [...]
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