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 [...]
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Tags: Alice Waters, Book Review, Curriculum, Food, Video 
No Comments »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 [...]
Posted in Agriculture, Education, Eric Wilson, Local Energy/Food, Sustainability Tags: Book Review, Curriculum, David Orr, Economy, Emory, Environment, Food No Comments »Book Review: Elizabeth Royte’s Garbage Land
July 18th, 2011 Eric Wilson While writing a post on biochar, I came across a book I read a few years back. After having written a review of Animal, Vegetable, Miracle two years post-reading, I figured I’d write a review of Elizabeth Royte’s Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash as well. Despite the fact that I read it [...]
Posted in Behavior, Eric Wilson, Recylcing Tags: Barbara Kingsolver, Book Review, Composting, Cradle to Cradle, Elizabeth Royte, EPA, New York City, Waste, Zero Waste No Comments »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 [...]
Posted in Behavior, Education, Eric Wilson, Sustainability Tags: Book Review, David Orr, Environment, Richard Louv No Comments »Book Review: Barbara Kingsolver’s Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
February 26th, 2011 Eric Wilson This past holiday season I got a copy of Barbara Kingsolver’s Animal, Vegetable, Miracle from my brother and his wife. I looked at it for a moment and they told me it was my copy which I had lent to them some time back. I remembered enjoying it so much that I gave them my [...]
Posted in Agriculture, Eric Wilson, Local Energy/Food Tags: Barbara Kingsolver, Book Review, Food No Comments »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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