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Pandora’s Toolbox, The Hopes and Hazards of Climate Intervention by Wake Smith, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK 2022. 343 pages plus appendices, notes and index.
Book Review by Janis Petzel, MD
There is a lot to chew on in Pandora’s Toolbox, the disturbing new book by author and former division president at […]
Freeing Energy, How Innovators are Using Local-Scale Solar and Batteries to Disrupt the Global Energy Industry from the Outside In by Bill Nussey, Mountain Ambler Publishing, 2021.
Review by Janis Petzel, M.D.
Freeing Energy by Bill Nussey couldn’t have come out at a better time. As our elected representatives […]
How Did We Create This Mess?
Natural tar seep at the McKittrick Oil Field, CA, north of Hwy 58. (Wikimedia Commons/Lldenke)
Janis Petzel, M.D.
In medicine, homeostasis or the stable balance between interdependent elements, is the sign of a healthy body. Imbalance causes illness and disease. The global equivalent to homeostasis is sustainability. […]
Book Review: Subtract: The Untapped Science of Less by Leidy Klotz
Published by Flatiron Books, 304 pages
Review by Victoria Ines
The title of the book Subtract happens to be a fairly accurate summary of its contents. Through seemingly unrelated experiments, personal stories, and professional experiences, author […]
By Michael E. Mann, published by PublicAffairs (2021), 368 pages
Review by Roger Lohr
The book The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet by Michael E. Mann was released during the early months of the pandemic in 2020 by PublicAffairs books. In a story about efforts by what the author refers […]
Nathaniel Popkin
New Door Books, December 2020, 148 pages, $15.95
Review by Steven Strong
Nathaniel Popkin refers to the chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) in the atmosphere, plastics in the ocean, permafrost melting, glaciers receding, ocean temperatures rising, thousands of species going extinct, massive wildfires around the globe, more frequent and powerful typhoons and […]
By John Perkins, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 240 pages
Book Review by Roger Lohr
The word “inspire” comes from being “in spirit” and the book Touching the Jaguar: Transforming Fear Into Action to Change Your Life and the World by John Perkins on Berrett-Koelher Publishers encourages that we rise to a better understanding of what it […]
Below is a reprint of an article published in the August 2015 issue of Green Energy Times. State of the World 2015: Confronting Hidden Threats to Sustainability
From WorldWatch Institute, Island Press, 140 pages, $19.99
Review by Tammy Reiss
This year’s publication by the WorldWatch Institute, State […]
by Naomi Klein, published by Simon & Schuster (2019), 322 pages
Review by Roger Lohr
Naomi Klein’s newest book, On Fire: The Burning Case for a Green New Deal, makes a persuasive case for the world to come together on climate change.
Klein ties together the notion that climate action is […]
by Jeff Cox
Storey Publishing, LLC, January 2018, 128 pages, $12.76
Book Review by Jessie Haas
Can your garden, brush pile, and wood stove save the planet? Yes, according to Jeff Cox, in his new book, Gardening with Biochar. Cox, a contributing editor at Horticulture, brings his […]
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