Cleantech and Green Living from the Land of the Prophets
Posted in Book Reviews on Jul 10th, 2008
“The crisis is at root one of perception; we no longer see the cosmos as alive, nor do we any longer recognise that we are inseperable from the whole of nature, and from our earth as a living being. But there is hope, for as the crisis deepens, the call of anima mundi intensifies.”
Stephan Harding, [...]
Posted in Book Reviews on Apr 24th, 2008
Feeling gloomy and despondent about Climate Change? Do you feel, like my dear Welsh friend Tim in London whose default position on this (and everything) is that we are all “doomed”?
Well, we here at Green Prophet are all about finding optimistic solutions, and giving attention to some of the projects that are trying in [...]
Posted in Book Reviews on Jul 2nd, 2008
This is the first book I’ve read in a long time that I have felt so conflicted about.
I bought it after having seen it prominently displayed in UK bookshops, and having read some of the author’s incisive political writings in The New Yorker.
I anticipated that it would be illuminating and instructive, and expected it to [...]
Posted in Book Reviews, Lifestyle & Culture on Dec 5th, 2008
“My story gathering has led me all over the world. Each journey took me to a perfect example of one facet of the problem or one hint of a solution. I was near the end before I realised that I had looked for my answers on several of the world’s most forgotten islands, self-contained places [...]
Posted in Book Reviews on Oct 31st, 2008
Slow Food has been garnering lots of attention lately, with an international convention in San Francisco in September and another in Italy just this week. It seems like the perfect time to pull out the Slow Food anthology, this week’s entry in our eco-reads review series.
‘Slow Food’ is one of those elusive yet still useful [...]
Posted in Book Reviews on Oct 8th, 2008
For those readers about to participate in tonight’s Yom Kippur fast, Green Prophet Daniella Cheslow offers up many reasons why we need to think again about food production in this weeks ‘eco-reads’ review:
Paul Roberts may be the only food writer capable of swinging from prehistoric man gathering berries to a doomsday scenario ten years from [...]
Posted in Book Reviews, Food & Health on Dec 26th, 2008
With winter upon us, now is the perfect time to get cozy with a pile of books. The latest in our eco-reads book review series is a great food and cooking reference - the Whole Foods Companion.
Whole Foods Companion is a dip-your-toe-in book rather than a cover-to-cover book: it’s great for delving into when you [...]
Posted in Book Reviews on Jul 30th, 2008
“The trees are weeping
in the Land of Israel…
There is no compassion
For the land’s raiment –
Its seven species…
And on these parcels of land
Concessions will be granted
To Burger king
And Kentucky Fried Chicken.”
From The Trees are Weeping by Aharon Shabtai
We’ve seen how poetry and the environment can intersect, as in the work of poet laureate Robert Hass. ‘Earth [...]
Posted in Book Reviews on Oct 15th, 2008
Freelance writer James Glave has successfully turned the planning and construction of a shed on his property in British Columbia into a thriving trade.
His book, “Almost Green,” his own blog site devoted to the book and his promotional activities selling it, coupled with the Facebook group and the website devoted to renting out the shed [...]
Posted in Book Reviews on Jun 18th, 2008
“We face the most almighty hangover, as the toxins unleashed by our century-long binge work their way through the earth’s system. We have to detoxify. We have to sober up. We have to come to grips….”
from ‘Confessions of an Eco-Sinner’ by Fred Pearce.
Pearce has written a book for the ecologically and socially minded. He [...]
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