Tag: Book Reviews - Page 5
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The Original Green By Steve Mouzon: A Must-Read If You Care About Sustainable Design
Steve Mouzon has been a fixture on TreeHugger since I first read his thoughts on the original green, on how people designed before the the Thermostat age, and how buildings kept people warm in an era before oil, or cool before air conditioning was
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Green Metropolis: If You Want To Be Green, Live In New York City (Book Review)
A few years ago, TreeHugger used to cover every interesting new green single family home is the suburbs, every off-grid technical wonder in the desert or mountains. But there was always an underlying concern: the driving needed to
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The Coming Population Crash: An Upbeat and Optimistic Outlook (Book Review)
Treehugger is full of posts with titles like The Elephant in the Room: Overpopulation and Population Growth, Resource Over-Consumption at Center of 'Looming Catastrophe, all suggesting that overpopulation will stretch our climate and our resources to the
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Seventh Generation Forecasts the Future of Business: The Responsibility Revolution (Book Review)
Anyone interested in starting a green business or greening an existing business, or who simply needs a dose of optimism about the role that ethics and sustainability play in today's corporate world, should read the
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7 Books That Will have the Preschooler Set Teaching You How to be Green
One of the most fun things about parenting a preschooler is explaining complex ideas to a young mind. But, at the end of a long day, I'm not usually with it enough to sit down and explain the current thinking on global warming to my
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Prefabulous and Sustainable: New Book Shows Prefabs Getting Better, Greener and More Mainstream
As a long-time prefab proselytizer I approached Sheri Koone's new book with some trepidation. I used to believe, as she still does, that "Prefab is intrinsically green" but don't any more;
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Designing for Re-use, The Life of Consumer Packaging (Book Review)
A coffee cup as a plant pot, coke cans for Halloween cape, a detergent bottle as worm harvester or washing tablet net bags for toy storage; these are all things people have done with the packaging they found in their daily lives. Reuse is often better
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The Raw Milk Revolution (Book Review)
Thomas Jefferson said "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." But in the modern age, it is the flow of money, rather than blood, which mainly determines the outcome of questions of freedom
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Author Margaret Atwood on The Year of the Flood
Photo: George Whiteside Margaret Atwood is one of the most respected authors of our time, with dozens of books of poetry and fiction to her name, among them Cat's Eye, The Handmaid's Tale, and Oryx and Crake. Her latest book, The Year of the Flood, is
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Squeezed: The Story of Your Morning Orange Juice
TreeHugger and Planet Green have looked at the carbon footprint of orange juice before, (Matthew looked at the issue in Think Bottled Water is Bad, Could Bottled Orange Juice Be Even Worse?) but there is much more than carbon to worry about when it comes
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Get Eco-Beautiful With Celebrity Makeup Artist Lina Hanson's Insider Secrets
Makeup artist to the stars Lina Hanson noticed a stark difference in her skin almost immediately after switching to an eco-friendly skincare and cosmetics regimen. "I didn't have as many breakouts," she writes in the introduction
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Slow Death by Rubber Duck (Book Review)
I am a big fan of Rick Smith, and the work he has done at Environmental Defence. He has been a leader of the campaign to get Bisphenol A, phtalates and brominated flame retardants out of our bodies. He and Bruce Lourie have done great stuff.
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Jillian Michaels Wants You to Master Your Metabolism, the Green Way
Calling Jillian Michaels a fitness guru is kinda like saying Oprah Winfrey is sorta influential or Kim Jong-il has a little problem expressing himself. She is a fitness god…or goddess, whichever! She is the go-to for millions of people that want a
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Jeff Rubin: Peak Oil Will Make Our World A Whole Lot Smaller
Why? Peak Oil. Jeff Rubin is a regular supplier of great quotes to TreeHugger (like his description of the tar sands: "You know you are at the bottom of the ninth when you are schlepping a tonne of sand to get a barrel of oil" )
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34 kg of CO2 to make a book (Book Review)
At Construmat this year, the international building and construction trade fair held in Barcelona every two years, the Government of Catalonia presented their project "34 kg of CO2", along side Casa Barcelona. 34 kg is the exact quantity of CO2 that
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Mom, Will This Chicken Give Me Man Boobs? (Book Review)
I have to admit, I was drawn in by the title. But I would challenge you to find me one person who wouldn't want a closer look at a book titled: Mom, Will This Chicken Give Me
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Book Review: The Cyclist's Manifesto
The Cyclist's Manifesto: The Case for Riding on Two Wheels Instead of Four has a title that may evoke images of some earnest treatise, a dry rant. Oh, but it is nothing of the sort. It's the inverse opposite. A wonderfully whimsical exploration of
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Rough Road Ahead? A Review of Chris Luebkeman's "Drivers of Change"
Consider this: 95% of the urban growth over the next 20 years will be in the less-developed world, where migrants from rural areas are already busy building precarious homes in "informal" slum settlements, often without any legal rights to the land
