Tag: environment
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BR300) “The Flag, The Cross, and The Station Wagon” Book Review
The Flag, The Cross, and the Station Wagon: A Graying American Looks Back at His Suburban Boyhood and Wonders What the Hell Happened by Bill McKibben. 4/5 rating. 217 pages. Book #16 of 2023. Read May 14, 2023. This book talks about the three largest areas of change in America in the last 50 years:…
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BR263) “The Natural Wealth of Nations” Book Review
The Natural Wealth of Nations: Harnessing the Market for the Environment by David Roodman. 3/5 rating. 246 pages. Book #30 of 2022. Read July 11, 2022. This book talks about how we can use the market to help the environment. While a large portion of people who are extremely market-focused seem to discount the environment,…
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BR239) “The Long Descent” Book Review
The Long Descent: A User’s Guide to the End of the Industrial Age by John Michael Greer. 2/5 rating. 243 pages. Book #6 of 2022. Read January 23, 2022. This book was a really boring, off topic, and just weird look at the likely consequences of Peak Oil. I should’ve been the perfect audience for…
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BR200) “No Impact Man” Book Review
No Impact Man: The Adventures of a Guilty Liberal Who Attempts to Save the Planet and the Discoveries He Makes About Himself and Our Way of Life in the Process by Colin Beavan. 4/5 rating. 224 pages. Book #36 of 2021. Read April 25, 2021. This is a phenomenal book about Colin and his family’s…
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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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BR147) “Silent Spring” Book Review
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson. 4/5 rating. 318 pages. Book #72 of 2020. Read October 12, 2020. This is arguably the most important and impactful nonfiction book of all time. Rachel does an amazing job of explaining the poisonous effects that wide-spread, blanket pesticide use was having on humans and our surrounding environment. As she…
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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…
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BR63) Hot, Flat, and Crowded Book Review
Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution and How It Can Renew America by Thomas Friedman. 5/5 rating. Book #138 of 2019. Read December 3, 2019. In a world that is becoming hotter, flatter (in terms of globalization), and more crowded, this should be required reading for every person. This book talks…
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BR61) Earth: The Sequel Book Review
Earth: The Sequel – The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming by Fred Krupp. 3/5 rating. Book #136 of 2019. Read November 30, 2019. This book delves into a vast array of technologies that are being developed to combat global warming.Though I thought this was somewhat interesting, it got too into the weeds…
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5) An Introduction to the Environmentalism Section
Environmentalism: never has an idea that is so simple and has such positive results been surrounded by such controversy. I kinda get it; the majority of people who speak about this topic take the complete wrong approach. I whole-heartedly stand behind their end goals. They see negative consequences from peoples’ apathy about our Earth hurting…