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“At some point, someone in America is going to have to make something.” These obvious yet perhaps revolutionary words come from Industrial Evolution, a wonderful new book by Lyle Estill, an entrepreneur, author, and, dare I say, environmental industrialist. The book’s premise reflects something that we all know but generally ignore: We can’t shop our way to real wealth. To help us move towards a better future, Industrial Evolution provides a manifesto of sorts for a new industrial ethic.Click through for our full review…
The Agitator’s Library
Reviewed by: Christine Krumrey, Don Alexander
With the worldwide explosion of the Occupy movement, and related Indignado protests in Europe, renewed attention has focused on the possibility of a new high water mark in the push for social change. Each of these four books approaches issues of social change from different perspectives, all drawing from a similarly rich vein of wisdom and experience. ”Click through for our full review…
Have you ever struggled to reconcile difficult questions about climate change? Are you faced with naysayers who claim that the human impact on the biosphere is all a media fabrication or the workings of scheming Birkenstock-wearing extremists? Authored by a father-son team (a professor at Duke University and an attorney with an interest in geo-engineering, respectively), Global Climate Change is a well thought-out and balanced expression of the issue’s current discussion.Click through for our full review…
Professors Clapp and Dauvergne are among the few academics that recognize that the best approach to both analysis of and advocacy for environmental issues lies with political economy, or public policy designed by the application of economic concepts. Their book is a demonstration of that thesis, which they undertake by defining four perspectives or “worldviews” on what society should do in order to create “a green world.” The four types are represented by Market Liberals, Institutionalists, Bioenvironmentalists and Social Greens. Though few people will fit exclusively into a single category, these four encapsulate the positions found in everything from radio call-in shows to professional writing. ”Click through for our full review…
