Following are books that have been reviewed in Green Living:
Defending Food: Pollan's New Book Tackles "Real" Eating
Michael Pollan's latest book, "In Defense of Food," picks up where "The Omnivore's Dilemma" left off, offering lots more "real food" food for your thoughts.
Plenty is Engaging, Enlightening: Book Explores Local Eating, Modern Food
Canadians Alisa Smith and J.B. MacKinnon describe their year-long experiment with a 100-mile diet in "Plenty: One Man, One Woman, and a Raucous Year of Eating Locally." The book is a wonderfully engaging yet informative and eye-opening read.
How We Got to Where We Are: Cook Explores the Past and Present of Agribusiness
Christopher D. Cook's "Diet for a Dead Planet: Big Business and the Coming Food Crisis" (2004, 2006, The New Press) provides an in-depth and long-range historical perspective into how our agricultural system developed as it did.
A Guide to Living Lightly: E's Encyclopedic "Green Living"
E/The Environmental Magazine's "Green living" (2005, Plume) is subtitled, "The E Magazine Handbook for Living Lightly on the Earth," but it could more accurately be described as a one-volume encyclopedia on all things green. It's that comprehensive.
The Cure for Our Planet's Fever: Monbiot Offers a Prescription in "Heat"
In what is possibly the most important book yet written on global warming, Guardian columnist George Monbiot examines how we can cut greenhouse gas emissions by 90 percent by 2030, curb global warming and maintain a sustainable civilization.
Delving Deeper into the Way We Eat: Six Arguments for a Greener Diet
The Center for Science in the Public Interest presents an exhaustively researched, six-point case for reducing meat consumption and adopting a more sustainable way of eating.
A review of E/The Environmental Magazine's 2004 book on climate change.
Appetite for Profit: An Exploration of the Unappetizing Workings of Food Corporations
Public health attorney Michele Simon explores how the modern food industry operates, to the detriment of healthful, nutritious eating.
"Living Green": A Compact, Nutritious Meal for the Mind
Former GNC CEO Greg Horn offers an easy-to-follow, engaging guide to more sustainable habits for eating and living.
"The End of Fossil Energy": A Disturbing But Informative Guide
Retired engineer John G. Howe presents a well researched and disturbing look at peak oil, and its implications for society as we know it.
"Field Notes from a Catastrophe": A Global Warming Travelogue
Author Elizabeth Kolbert travels the globe to paint a compelling picture of how the Earth's climate is changing in unprecedented ways.
"The End of Food": The Start of a Great Read
Thomas F. Pawlick provides an illuminating, disturbing and thoroughly engrossing case study of today's dyfunctional and environmentally destructive industrial food system.
"It's Easy Being Green": Book Review
Crissy Trask's book , “It’s Easy Being Green: A Handbook for Earth-Friendly Living” (Gibbs Smith, 2006) provides a nuts-and-bolts guide to tips and resources for greener living.
What Are You Really Eating?: A Review of "The Omnivore's Dilemma"
Michael Pollan traces the paths that lead to four different meals: fast food, mainstream organic, sustainably farmed and hunted/gathered. He portrays each food chain in illuminating depth and great, and often disturbing, detail.
A Review of "Grub": A Must-Read for Green Cooks
Written by Bryant Terry and Anna Lappe, “Grub: Ideas for an Urban Organic Kitchen” (2006, Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin) is part expose of the modern industrial food industry, part cookbook.
