book review
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WATCH: A live chat with Erin Brockovich on our growing water crisis
Grist, in partnership with Book Revue, hosted environmental activist Erin Brockovich and Environmental Justice Fellow, Angely Mercado for a conversation on our nation’s water crisis and Brockovich’s new book, Superman’s Not Coming: Our National Water Crisis and What We The People Can Do About It. If you missed it or weren’t able to see the […]
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What will be left when we’re gone? Bones, plastic, and radioactive waste.
Robert Macfarlane goes underground to see how humans will be remembered.
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Sorry to burst your bubble, but you’ve got a blind spot as big as the planet
“We're the most powerful species on Earth, and yet we fundamentally have no idea how we survive," said Ziya Tong, author of "The Reality Bubble."
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‘The Wall’ is what happens when dystopian fiction hits too close to home
Refugees, rising waters, concrete barriers -- John Lanchester's new novel isn't as made-up as we'd like.
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‘The Uninhabitable Earth’ puts words to a future you don’t want to live in
The alarming lexicon of David Wallace-Wells' new climate dystopia.
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The battle over Keystone XL and the future of food on one farm
Farmers and environmentalists could be allies, if they’d only listen to each other, says author Ted Genoways.
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Anxious, depressed, distracted — what if the cure is just outside?
Author Florence Williams talks trees, cities, and creativity in her new book "The Nature Fix."
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'The Quest' questioned
A read of Daniel Yergin's new book, The Quest, reveals holes in his arguments, mostly centered around his discussion of peak oil.
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Why the sustainable food movement should learn to love Nathan Myhrvold’s ‘Modernist Cuisine’
The most expensive cookbook you’ll (n)ever buyNathan Myhrvold’s Modernist Cuisine — in all of its six-volume, 2,438-page splendor — explicitly aims to “reinvent cooking.” Maybe it will; and it will almost surely reinvent a certain kind of high-end book retailing. It sells for a cool $625, and its initial 6,000-copy print run has already sold […]