Got someone in your life who balks at “going green”? I think I’ve found the book for you. Why do people fight the environmental movement? Because they see it as a movement, that’s why. How do you win over someone who thinks that “being green” is nothing but an annoying, touchy-feely, feel-good philosophy touted by…
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Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring; the "Classic that Launched the Environmental Movement"
Jeez, with a title like that, who can resist? Silent Spring is a book that most everyone has heard about; even my seven year old knew about Rachel Carson, the spring without birdsong, and the effects of DDT on eagle’s eggs. It is comprehensive and admittedly somewhat exhausting; Carson explores the hazards of pesticide abuse…
Last Child in the Woods: Raising Backyard Naturalists
Quotes and thoughts on Richard Louv’s “Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children From Nature-Deficit Disorder”
On Being Awake: Henry David Thoreau’s Walden
There are probably words addressed to our condition exactly, which, if we could really hear and understand, would be more salutary than the morning or the spring to our lives, and possibly put a new aspect on the face of things for us. How many a man has dated a new era in his life…
