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Book reviews tagged with ‘Eco-books’
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…
In the movie adaptation of N. Richard Nash’s The Rainmaker, Burt Lancaster plays a flamboyant confidence man who promises to bring rain to drought-stricken Texas. How? By using sodium chloride to “barometricize the tropopause” and “magnetize occlusions in the sky.” Are today’s climate engineers the modern equivalent of steam-era rainmakers, mixing dubious science with questionable motives to sell a desperately needed quick fix? Or is their mission a timely and necessary exploration of what may soon be our only remaining option for keeping the planet habitable? Click through for our full review…
