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Archive for May, 2010
Congratulations Corinna on winning this week’s Green Books Giveaway:
We asked our readers to tell us “Who inspires you to be green?”
Here’s our winning contestants story:
My late grandmother inspires me to be green, because since before the 50′s, she was green before it was a fad. She would use her used tea bags in the garden. Wash and reuse, rewash and reuse, milk bags, containers etc. She always brought her own knit bags to the grocery store. Grew her own seasonal food. Raised her own chickens, pigs, and cows.
My grandmother, my green inspiration!
-Corinna.
Thank you to all of our contestants for sharing their green inspiration. We will be sharing these stories throughout the week
Stay tuned for another great Giveaway starting tomorrow!
Slow Death by Rubber Duck: How The Toxic Chemistry Of Every Day Life Affects Our Health
Rick Smith & Bruce Lourie
Knopf Canada, 2009, 336 pages.
Slow Death by Rubber Duck has one non-chemical ingredient that catapulted it to the top of the charts.
As the story goes, the duo behind the Chicken Soup for the Soul empire couldn’t find a publisher when they assembled their first book. But despite Chicken Soup’s winning formula – 112 million books sold in 15 years – the world of book publishing continues to be an enigma.
With the exception of anything written by Malcolm Gladwell, bestselling non-fiction
books are hard to predict. So… [Click here to read more!]
Congratulations Wendy on winning this weeks Fabulous Books Prize Pack:
1. Now or Never by Tim Flannery
2. More Good News by David Suzuki & Holly Dressel
3. Fast, Fresh & Green by Susie Middleton
We asked our readers to tell us “What is your favourite Green Book?”
Our winning contestants favourite Green Book title:
Last of the Curlews by Fred Bosworth.
Other Favourite Green Books included:
1. The Golden Spruce by John Vaillant
2. The Little Book of Quick Fixes for Eco Conscious Cleaning by Bridget Bodoano
3. Cradle To Cradle by William McDonough & Michael Braungart
4. Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
Thank you to all of our contestants.
Stay tuned for another great Giveaway starting next week!
The Sacred Universe: Earth, Spirituality, and Religion in the Twenty-First Century + The Christian Future and the Fate of the Earth
The Sacred Universe: Earth, Spirituality, and Religion in the Twenty-First Century
Thomas Berry / Mary Evelyn Tucker, ed.
New York: Columbia University Press, 2009, 200 pages.
The Christian Future and the Fate of the Earth Thomas Berry / Mary Evelyn Tucker & John Grim, eds.
Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2009, 144 pages.
In June 2009, Thomas Berry, the historian, priest, author and self-described “geologian,” passed away at his home in Greensboro, North Carolina. He was 94.
Uniting recent scientific discoveries concerning the provenance and progression of the universe with religious insights into the nature of creation, Berry’s writing blended empirical and spiritual elements into a unique cosmological narrative. His challenge in later life was to place ecology and cosmology at the centre of our personal and institutional lives… [Click here to read more!]
