Tag: Climate Change
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BR323) “Ever Green” Book Review
Ever Green by John Reid and Thomas Lovejoy. 3/5 rating. 255 pages. Book #39 of 2023. Read September 8, 2023. This book is all about the 5 megaforests on our Earth: why they are important and what can be done to keep them standing. In the past, much of the Earth was covered in forest.…
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BR319) “The Permaculture Handbook” Book Review
The Permaculture Handbook by Peter Bane. 3/5 rating. 429 pages. Book #35 of 2023. Read August 19, 2023. This is a textbook about some of the practical basics of permaculture on small-scale agriculture. Permaculture is a type of agriculture that revolves around self-reliance and the ability to close waste streams by using these as a…
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BR249) “On Fire” Book Review
On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal by Naomi Klein. 2/5 rating. 291 pages. Book #16 of 2022. Read March 24, 2022. This was a real disappointment of a book for me: the topic is right up my alley and I have a huge interest in the ideas related to climate change…
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BR218) “Drawdown” Book Review
Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming edited by Paul Hawken. 3/5 rating. 228 pages. Book #54 of 2021. Read August 7, 2021. This is the synthesis of a large team of experts who looked at what it will take to reverse global warming. 80 different solutions are put forth that…
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BR195) “Climate of Hope” Book Review
Climate of Hope: How Cities, Businesses, and Citizens Can Save the Planet by Michael Bloomberg and Carl Pope. 3/5 rating. 262 pages. Book #31 of 2021. Read April 10, 2021. There is a kind of fatal masochism in the relish that environmentalists have for doom and gloom books, facts, and figures about combating climate change.…
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BR187) “Collapse” Book Review
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond. 3/5 rating. 525 pages. Book #23 of 2021. Read March 18, 2021. While this was not as good as Guns, Germs, and Steel, it’s another insightful and thought-provoking book by the great anthropologist Jared Diamond. Jared takes an interesting look at many past and…
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BR178) “Our House is On Fire” Book Review
Our House is on Fire: Scenes of a Family and a Planet in Crisis by Malena and Beata Ernman, and Svante and Greta Thunberg. 3/5 rating. 278 pages. Book #14 of 2021. Read February 7, 2021. This is the story of Greta Thunberg and her family’s life (written mostly from her mother Malena’s point of…
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BR171) “Full Planet, Empty Plates” Book Review
Full Planet, Empty Plates: The New Geopolitics of Food Scarcity by Lester Brown. 3/5 rating. 138 pages. Book #7 of 2021. Read January 21, 2021. This is a thoroughly depressing (though not inaccurate) look at the issues that are coming to a head in disrupting humanity’s future. Lester talks about the huge concerns of increasing…
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BR170) “Two Percent Solutions for the Planet” Book Review
Two Percent Solutions for the Planet: 50 Low-Cost, Low-Tech, Nature-Based Practices for Combatting Hunger, Drought, and Climate Change by Courtney White. 3/5 rating. 214 pages. Book #6 of 2021. Read January 20, 2021. This book is a must-read for any farmer or gardener who is looking for ways to continue on in spite of climate…
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BR140) “An Inconvenient Truth” Book Review
An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It by Al Gore. 4/5 rating. 321 pages. Book #65 of 2020. Read September 23, 2020. Everyone loves to make fun of Al, but this book is one of the best climate change books I have read. He does a…