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Steve Levitt’s and Stephen Dubner’s Freaknomics was a great read. Interesting and provoking writing, underlining the value of taking commonly understood items, shaking the data, and seeing whether the common understandings could hold up to the light of day. Worth the read, especially because it is the sort of work where if you [...]

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Here is a guest post from the passionate citisven about the potential for urban farming
A good friend of mine who is a backyard beekeeper in Oakland invited me to meet his fellow urban farmer Novella Carpenter for a reading of her new book, Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer. Novella has taken the [...]

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When writing a review, the desired state is to write positive; hopefully having had an excellent experience with, then, the pleasure of sharing that with others. Sadly, not all life’s experiences are joyful.
Rik DeGunther has an empire of Energy for Dummies books. He writes well. And, it is clear that he has real knowledge. [...]

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Grimly he watched America walk by.
A precipice that we might have already passed.
Who were these people who could live so placidly while the world fell into an acute global environmental crisis.
Permafrost bubbling methane.
Experts at denial.
Acidification of the oceans.
Experts at filtering their informatioon to hear only what made it seem sensible to behave as they behaved.
Ever [...]

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There are books that you just want to love, truly, but can’t no matter how hard you try.  Anne Rockwell’s Why are the ice caps melting? The Dangers of Global Warming is such a book. 
This is ”Level 2″ book, aimed a K-4 audience (ages 5-9).  As one who regular gives Climate Project presentations to elementary school [...]

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Freedom from Oil …
This is an agenda, an objective that all Americans should support. (Okay, maybe not some oil company CEOs …) 
And, this is a good key agenda item for next President, to move past the current occupant of the Oval Office’s identification of our “oil addiction” to actual action to fight the addition.
And, this [...]

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To carry the book openly or to stash it away, that is a question one faces when reading Dave Praeger’s Poop Culture:  How America is Shaped By Its Grossest National Product.  That is an unusual reaction when reading something that, at its core, deals with a quite serious subject and deals with it well. And, [...]

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