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Book reviews tagged with ‘Alternatives Journal’
Author Bill Lee has covered a great deal of ground in the fourth and much-updated issue of Pragmatics of Community Organizing, a classic in the field of community organizing in Canada. In an up-to-the minute discussion of the wider social, political, environmental and economic contexts in which community organizing takes place, the author expends a great deal of effort in having the reader understand the ‘nitty gritty’ of community organizing in 21st-century Canada. Click through for our full review…
Most humans are familiar with charcoal, having depended upon these inky fists of carbon as a primary source of fuel, or a fodder for grilling favourite foods during summer celebrations. Biochar, however, seems much more exotic novel and environmentally sound than its cousin. Click through for our full review…
In The Failure of Environmental Education (And How We Can Fix It), the authors Charles Saylan and Daniel T. Blumstein – a non-profit educational society director and a university professor – bring a nice mix of historical information regarding environmental education, and a thoughtful discussion of the need for improvement and the barriers to be overcome. The main failure of environmental education, the authors contend, is that the lack of comprehensiveness, integration, flexibility and focus has resulted in a serious deficiency in public awareness of environmental problems. So they provide a “manifesto for addressing how people think about environmental education.” Click through for our full review…
Apart from a patient and knowledgeable mentor, the field guide is a nature enthusiast’s most valuable tool. With the right guide, a seemingly featureless swath of unfamiliar habitat comes alive with species, seasonal cycles, and ecological insight. In ornithology, guides are particularly valuable due to the immense variability that birds display. Often, new guide layouts have been designed for birds, then later applied to other natural-history subjects. Accordingly, in a long tradition of bird guide icons such as Roger Tory Peterson and David Sibley, Richard Crossley has created an inventive bird identification method that will surely be widely emulated in other biological arenas. In The Crossley ID Guide: Eastern Birds, his identification scheme closely simulates the actual experience of observing a bird in the field. Even more importantly, he has revived the idea that a field guide should help a birder develop identification skills, rather than replace them. In this mix of ground-breaking ideas and traditional naturalist sensibility, Crossley’s ingenious book will gather many ardent supporters, even as other birders will surely critique such a departure from the familiar. Click through for our full review…
