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‘Human Well-Being & the Natural Environment’ by Economist Partha Dasgupta
How do you measure human well-being? How do you fully account for the impact of human interventions in poor regions like in Iraq? What costs are paid by the citizens of one country for the consumer...
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Book Review: The Feast Nearby by Robin Mather
Locavore life on an almost invisible budget. Robin Mather has over 30 year’s experience working as a journalist with a passion for the truth behind food production. And she lets nothing get in her way....
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Book Review: ‘My Journey With a Remarkable Tree’ in Cambodia
Ken Finn is a passionate man. Sitting with him in his Brighton kitchen (which he built himself), our conversation ranges from his book, ‘My Journey With a Remarkable Tree’, to the current state of the...
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Book Review: ‘The Ethical Tragedy of Climate Change’ by Stephen Gardiner
Stephen Gardiner argues that climate change is a combination of the ‘prisoners dilemma’ and ‘tragedy of the commons.’ Stephen M. Gardiner regards climate change more or less as an ethical failure on...
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Book Review of Edgelands: Journeys into England’s True Wilderness
Edgelands are the spaces outside of towns and cities that play host to a rough element. Largely considered no-man’s-land, they too deserve attention, Marion Shoard argues. Two poets respond to the...
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Book Review: I’m With the Bears
Pauline Masurel reviews a collection of literary and science fiction stories by world renowned authors that imagine the affects of climate change. Bill McKibben was arrested in August this year while...
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Book Review: Capitalizing on Nature- Ecosystems as Natural Assets
“Nature has provided ecosystems and their benefits to us for free… perhaps because this capital has been provided freely to us, we humans have tended to view it as limitless, abundant, and thus perhaps...
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5 Green Books to Buy for Christmas (Or Hannukah)
There are more Christians in Egypt than Jews in Israel. And few westerners might realize that there are Christian Arabs living in the Holy Land of Israel – some since the early beginnings of...
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Climate, Migration and Why the Security Agenda Just Doesn’t Help
Framing climate-influenced migration as a threat is dangerous and counterproductive is author Gregory White Around the time of the Copenhagen Summit in 2009, there was a sense that climate change was...
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Maurice Sendak Sails Off for Night and Day
Jewish American writer and illustrator Maurice Sendak died last week, at age 83. The acclaimed master of kid-lit once said, “I don’t write for children. I write. And someone says, ‘That’s for...
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7 Evergreen Books on Sustainable Food for Your New Year
Eating sustainably can make a huge impact on our planet. We all know that eating sustainably, and eating local is good for the planet and good for the economy. Now that your New Year’s resolutions to...
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Sultan Saeed Al Darmaki Says “Leave the Birds Alone”
If you’re looking for some light reading from the Middle East, something peppered with the region’s wit and satire, then look no farther than Abu Dhabi and Sultan Saeed al Darmaki, presently a...
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Epic Fail Book Helps Us Understand Our Insatiable Appetite for Awful News
Pink slime, an Egyptian muscleman with freakish biceps, and horse-burgers: what makes news go viral? Ages back, the day after actress Natalie Wood died, I got two phone calls from my brothers – each...
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Islam and Sustainable Development, A Book Covering These New Worldviews
Odeh Al-Jayoussi creates a great guidebook on Islam and sustainable development, although it’s a little overambitious in its reach at times Odeh Al-Jayoussi, the current vice president of Jordan’s...
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Earth Architect Nader Khalili’s Book: Racing Alone
In the book “Racing Alone”, Nader Khalili pursues his own revolution using fire, earth, air and water. In “Racing Alone”, the late Iranian earth architect Nader Khalili who died in 2008 recounts the...
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Book Review: A No-Nonsense Guide to Climate Change
Getting to grips with climate science and all the different aspects and solutions to climate change can be a difficult thing- why not get the no-nonsense guide? Maybe it’s just me but I think that one...
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Book Review: Plastiki – Across The Pacific Ocean On Plastic
A good friend of David de Rothschild’s, Treehugger founder Graham Hill takes the Plastiki helm Theirs was one of 2010′s most talked-about, scoffed-about, and dreamed-about adventures: sailing across...
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Food Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know by Robert Paarlberg
Consumers today are thinking more and more about where their food comes from, how it’s produced and what impact their grocery shopping choices have on the world. But, when pushed, many can’t explain...
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‘Human Well-Being & the Natural Environment’ by Economist Partha Dasgupta
How do you measure human well-being? How do you fully account for the impact of human interventions in poor regions like in Iraq? What costs are paid by the citizens of one country for the consumer...
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Book Review: The Feast Nearby by Robin Mather
Locavore life on an almost invisible budget. Robin Mather has over 30 year’s experience working as a journalist with a passion for the truth behind food production. And she lets nothing get in her way....
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