Dec 2, 08
YouthXchange Training Kit
Recently, we came across a resource from the United Nations Environment Programme called YouthXchange Training Kit on Responsible Consumption. This book is directed at young people who are looking for ways to positively influence global trade. The 2008 Training...
What's in a Name?
Think you can tell the difference between a think tank with a straightforward name and one that's misleading? Nonprofit organization Consumer Reports lets you test your ability to see through green murketing with their new report and interactive quiz...
China Watch: Plastic Bag Ban Trumps Market and Consumer Efforts
by Yingling Liu China's recent plastic bag ban has been immediately accepted by consumers. In a country where billions of plastic bags are used each day, the government's top-down policy move will likely benefit the country's environment and energy security...
Book Review: Nudge
By Coco Krumme Call it the Malcolm Gladwell effect. With its pristine cover design and one-word title, Nudge---an engaging jaunt through the field of behavioral economics--- seems at first glance to belong to a certain species of book. Gladwell’s...
Resource: How Can I Recycle This?
We've seen a wealth of resources out there for connecting one man's trash with the proverbial other man (or woman) out there who will see it as a treasure. From Freecycle to Throwplace, we applaud these matchmaker enterprises, because...
Making Things Talk: Practical Methods for Connecting Physical Objects
Making Things Talk: Practical Methods for Connecting Physical Objects, by Tom Igoe (whom i interviewed over a year ago). Publisher O'Reilly says: Building electronic projects that interact with the physical world is good fun. But when devices that you've built...
In the Bubble: Designing in a Complex World
by John Thackara (MIT Press, 2005) John Thackara has been tracing the cutting edge of design and sustainability long enough to see how our cultivated obsessions with technology actually operate on a grand scale. Rather than microscopes, he contends, we...
The Hydrogen Economy
by Jeremy Rifkin (Tarcher, 2003) Rifkin refers to hydrogen as ￜa promissory note for humanityￜs future on Earth.ￜ The Hydrogen Economy is the best primer out there on the coming oil crisis and the new economy that is poised to...
Fields of Plenty: A Farmer's Journey in Search of Real Food and the People Who Grow It
by Michael Ableman (Chronicle Books, 2005) This exquisite book, part travelogue, part cookbook, and part witness to the crossroads that agriculture and food face today, begins with a series of questions that writer-farmer-photographer Ableman poses while beginning a 12,000-mile (19,312-kilometer...
BioRegional Solutions for Living on One Planet
by Pooran Desai and Sue Riddlestone (Green Books, 2003) BioRegional may just be the single coolest environmental group on the planet. It's the group's recent work -- like the BedZED development and their greening of London's 2012 Olympics -- that...
Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature
by Janine Benyus (Harper Perennial, 2002) With her earlier book Biomimicry, Janine Benyus was the first to propose that learning from nature would be the perfect tool for ecodesign. After all, what is ecologically sustainable design but design in accordance...
The Consumer's Guide to Effective Environmental Choices
by Michael Brower and Warren Leon (Three Rivers Press, 1999) The key word in this book, as is clearly indicated on the cover, is effective. In a sea of books about making everyday choices that benefit the environment, almost none...
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