Archive for 'Books'

In an interesting turn of events, we found ourselves at Disney’s Animal Kingdom on Earth Day this year. What a great chance to get a bird’s eye view of how Disney is engaging in earth-friendly pursuits. Disney’s cast members greeted all guests with a “Party for the Planet” pin, and the children were [...]

Hey, what’s our Seamus doing in that ad? check out Redford’s The Green (Tuesday’s @ 9p-12m)
We’ll be lurking around this event — GoGreenExpo - NY Hilton - Sat & Sun 4/26 & 27
UW-Madison Students Earn Serious Seed Capital for Supermarket Rooftop Gardening - (click on SKY VEGETABLES, left column, third link down)
Swap-O-Ramarama at NYU [...]

From the prolific and endearing Bob Schildgen, columnist of Sierra, the Sierra Club’s national magazine, comes a noteworthy new book, Hey Mr. Green, a fact-filled yet breezy green read on how to navigate life’s often polluted landscape. From keeping your home cool to eating healthy, fueling up, practicing the 3-R’s and discussing heady topics [...]

Kids say the darndest things. So when my 6-year-old asked me yesterday how many light bulbs we have in the house I wasn’t as shocked as I was curious about where her query originated. Seems the eco-savvy Easter Bunny brought her Ellen Sabin’s “The Greening Book” which hopes, among other wonderful aspirations, to [...]

Both confirmed junkaholics as well as newbies to the wonderful world of junk will delight in Sue Whitney and Ki Nassauer’s latest book, Junk Beautiful. These clever and prolific purveyors of cast-offs and pre-loved items (yes, junk) demonstrate how to tackle the art of decorating your home room by room — utilizing what [...]

New from David Bach, the guru of saving green bucks, is Go Green, Live Rich, a handbook of “50 Simple Ways to Save the Earth (and Get Rich Trying).” Bach teams with Hillary Rosner, a contributor of An Inconvenient Truth and The New York Times, to compile this nifty manual.
My initial reaction to the title [...]

Looking for a cute and useful gift for a child? My Bag and Me, written by Karen Farmer and illustrated by Gary Currant, comes with a reusable bag tucked discreetly into the back cover of the book. Both the book and the Tyvek bag are 100% recyclable.
Written in rhyme, from the perspective a young [...]

Being an informed and ethical consumer can often mean you’re going to have to do a little excavating to get to the bottom of what a product, and company is really about. There are many socially relevant considerations such as: sustainable manufacturing, animal rights, Fair Trade, and sweat shop issues that deserve due [...]

Business is booming for Horizon Organic Milk, dubbed “the Microsoft of organic milk” by author Michael Pollan. The label under the happy cow’s face assures consumers that cows have plenty of room, sunshine, and grass, adding that “all of our products proudly carry the USDA Organic seal and that says it all.”
But does [...]

Teach the kiddies all about recycling with this informative guide printed on recycled paper. Recycle! A Handbook for Kids by Gail Gibbons contains colorful illustrations, which accompany text that explains the whys and hows of recycling in simple language. A great way to start ‘em young and raise your kids to be alternative [...]

Readers can log on to bookmooch.com and exchange used books for free, through a unique points system. Eco-Libris, at ecolibris.net, on the other hand, is a green org whereby publishers, writers, bookstores, and other organizations can balance out the paper they use in printing books, by planting trees. Because Eco-Libris and BookMooch have [...]

Just a few of our Top Green Reads for 2007. Hit the library, or any second-hand shop. Feel free to jump-in with your faves.
(book shelf tree - photo credit: hoipippo)

An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergence of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It - by, Al Gore @ amazon
The Rammed Earth House [...]

Time for some green synergy - Raz of ecolibris.blogspot.com has created a holiday gift guide to great green books for this season. She asked 10 eco friendly bloggers for book reviews and recommendations, and compiled the list of suggestions into a 10-part series. You can link to all of the reviews, including the [...]

Meet Thomas D. Mangelsen, nature enthusiast, incredible photographer, and conservationist. Walking into any gallery that features his nature and wildlife photography (such as this one in downtown La Jolla) is nothing short of breathtaking. As the founder of the Cougar Fund, an organization dedicated to research, policy intervention, education, and public outreach that [...]

Your True Nature, the sustainable company that takes a “gentle and lighthearted approach to life,” has added a fourth R to “reduce, reuse, recycle” – replant! They replant enough trees – 50,000 so far – to replenish all paper they use. And that’s a lot of paper, because they specialize in creating endearing [...]