published April 4, 2011 and has No Comments
Photo credit: Island Press Last month, TreeHugger and Island Press joined together to introduce BookHugger . Members got a discounted copy of Peter Calthorpe's Urbanism in the Age of Climate Change and the opportunity to talk with the author himself. This month, BookHugger presents
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Join BookHugger in Reading Everyday Environmentalism and Get 30% Off Cover Price
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published April 1, 2011 and has No Comments
Photo credit: Sharon Smith This guest post was written by Sharon Smith, author of The Young Activist's Guide to Building a Green Movement . Operating through political channels isn't a panacea for solving all of our environmental challenges, but it's certainly a critical part of the package. If you are frustrated with how your political system has failed to ...
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published March 25, 2011 and has No Comments
Photo credit: Sharon Smith This guest post was written by Sharon Smith, author of The Young Activist's Guide to Building a Green Movement . Alec Loorz first saw Al Gore's documentary An Inconvenient Truth when he was twelve years old. Inspired by the message, Alec applied to be a presenter with Gore's The Climate Project, but was turned down ...
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published March 17, 2011 and has No Comments
Photo credit: Tiffany Threadgould/Sterling Press This guest post was written by Tiffany Threadgould, author of the book ReMake It! , available now, from Sterling Publishing. Have you ever used an empty glass jar as a drinking glass or turned an old tin can into a pencil holder? If the answer is yes, then you've already had fun ReMaking It! ...
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published March 7, 2011 and has No Comments
Andy Revkin talks to Alex Steffen about the new Worldchanging book, describing it as "the printed equivalent of a long hallway of marked doors, each giving an appealing glimpse of an issue -- "density done right," "ending violence," "reinventing the workplace" -- that is the equivalent of a trailer for a movie that's still in production." He discusses the ...
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published March 1, 2011 and has No Comments
Photos: Worldchanging Book, AlexSteffen.com Time flies. It's already been 5 years since WorldChanging: A User's Guide to the 21st Century came out (our review can be found here ). A lot has happened since then, so Alex Steffen (pictured above, a co-founder of WC and the editor of the book) and the WorldChanging team have updated their "user's guide ...
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published February 9, 2011 and has No Comments
Photo: Lin Pernille Photography / CC Some of the most revealing clues into the state of pollution since the the Industrial Revolution aren't only found within the words and sentences contained in centuries worth of scientific publications -- they're hiding in the very pages themselves, too. According to one chemist studying the history of pollution, testing the paper of ...
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published January 7, 2011 and has No Comments
You know the word, but do you really know what the commons is? Hint: you're a stakeholder. The commons is the internet, the atmosphere, the airwaves, and the oceans. It's the stuff that belongs to everybody and nobody. After being editor of the Utne Reader for years, Jay Walljasper wrote All That We Share: A Field Guide to the ...
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published December 28, 2010 and has No Comments
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Planet 100: Top 10 Green Reads of the Last 10 Years (Video)
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published December 23, 2010 and has No Comments
Can government be like a smartphone? An open platform, waiting for citizens to plug in their "apps" to its operating system? The rise of the millennial generation, along with the spread of the open source software movement, has opened up a whole new toolkit for engagement in the democratic process. Jared Duval, a precocious millennial himself, directed the Sierra ...
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