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 [...]
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Book Review: Thriving Beyond Sustainability
November 10th, 2010 
Eric Wilson 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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No Comments »First Thoughts on Natural Capitalism
June 14th, 2010 Eric Wilson Usually I skip the preface and acknowledgments in a book. With the decade old Natural Capitalism from Paul Hawken (author of The Ecology of Commerce), Amory Lovins, and Hunter Lovins, co-founders of Rocky Mountain Institute in Colorado, I felt it was going to provide valuable background and history. In reading these sections I was struck [...]
Book Review: Richard Louv’s Last Child in the Woods
September 12th, 2009 Eric Wilson Last year, parent, chairman of the Children & Nature Network, and author Richard Louv (recipient of the 2008 Audubon Medal) released an updated and expanded copy of his 2005 book Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder. While he is not a trained psychologist, and does not suggest that nature-deficit disorder [...]
More Thoughts from Paul Hawken’s The Ecology of Commerce
August 27th, 2009 Eric Wilson In a post from the other day, 2nd Green Revolution reviewed Paul Hawken’s groundbreaking 1993 book, The Ecology of Commerce. Throughout his work, Hawken provides insightful information that causes us to rethink our current resource management. One example of his eye-opening exposé revolves around recycling. Hawken states the astonishing fact that “If the items used [...]
Book Review: Paul Hawken’s The Ecology of Commerce
August 25th, 2009 Eric Wilson In his revolutionary 1993 book, The Ecology of Commerce: A Declaration of Sustainability, Paul Hawken describes how companies and the country would benefit from taking a new approach to business. Hawken suggests that the climate in which businesses have operated cannot possibly continue. He points out the need for all products and energy sources to [...]
Book Review: Donella Meadows’ Thinking in Systems
August 15th, 2009 Eric Wilson Roughly 15 years ago Donella H. Meadows, founder of the Sustainability Institute and professor in the Environmental Studies Program of Dartmouth College, wrote an introduction to systems thinking titled Thinking in Systems: A Primer. Last year the book was edited by Diana Wright of the Sustainability Institute and published (by Chelsea Green Publishing), seven years [...]
Posted in Eric Wilson, Sustainability Tags: Book Review, Necessary Revolution, Systems Thinking No Comments »Book Review: Michael Pollan’s In Defense of Food
July 30th, 2009 Eric Wilson Michael Pollan has written extensively on food and food systems. In 2005 he published The Omnivore’s Dilemma, which looked at the industrial food chain and alternative routes to food production. As an instructor of journalism at the University of California, Berkeley, Pollan brings a readable style and thorough research to his latest book, In Defense [...]
Book Review: Cradle to Cradle
February 14th, 2009 Eric Wilson Architect William McDounough and partner, Chemist Michael Braungart, have collaborated on what they term “Cradle to Cradle” design, which is also the name of the book they have published (from North Point Press). Their argument is that the materials people currently recycle were never intended, or designed, to be recycled. This leads to what they [...]
Book Review: Peter Senge’s The Necessary Revolution
January 30th, 2009 Eric Wilson In his 2008 book, Necessary Revolution: How Individuals and Organizations are Working Together to Create a Sustainable World, Senge and his team at the Society for Organizational Learning, discuss the importance of creating a sustainable world. Several large businesses, including GE, Nike, Alcoa, Costco and Dupont, among others, partnered with non-profits to develop and in [...]
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