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Blessed Unrest

Posted October 27th, 2008 in Book Reviews 2 Comments

…How the Largest Movement in the World Came Into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming
by Paul Hawken
Viking Penguin, 2007
The books that matter most to me are those that do not diminish or attempt to downplay the extent of the crises we face, but offer hope in the face of them.
Hawken’s book is a [...]

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God Is Red: A Native View of Religion 30th Anniversary Edition

Posted June 27th, 2008 in Book Reviews 1 Comment

by Vine Deloria, Jr

Red Sky at Morning: America and the Crisis of the Global Environment A Citizen’s Agenda for Action

Posted June 27th, 2008 in Book Reviews 0 Comments

by James Gustave Speth
Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2004
This is one of the things we have needed – a book that not only lays out an unfiltered view of the dire circumstances of global warming, the urgency of the task to reverse the human contribution to this warming, and the time out of [...]

The Two-Mile Time Machine: Ice Cores, Abrupt Climate Change and Our Future

Posted June 27th, 2008 in Book Reviews 0 Comments

by Richard B. Alley
Princeton University Press, 2000
One of the world’s leading climate scientists describes the science of reading weather changes over the earth’s geological history from ice cores and ocean sediments and what these can tell us about what to expect from climate change.  I confess that I did not read the entire book, gliding [...]

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