Tag: save the world
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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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BR176) “A Sand County Almanac” Book Review
A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold. 4/5 rating. 212 pages. Book #12 of 2021. Read February 3, 2021. This is an absolute classic in the conservationist and environmental movement. Aldo is unlike nearly any other writer that I have read. Written in 1949, this book combines a reverence and love for nature and realization…
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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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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…