Environment - Book Reviews

Climate Speculations

Review By James L. Sweeney

CLIMATOPOLIS: How Our Cities Will Thrive in the Hotter Future by Matthew E. Kahn

Winter 2011

Climate Soldiers

Review By Stephen H. Schneider 5

The Climate War: True Believers, Power Brokers, and the Fight to Save the Earth by Eric Pooley

Fall 2010

Social Innovations

Women Hold Both Sky and Solutions

Review By Kavita Nandini Ramdas 3

Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide by Sheryl WuDunn and Nicholas Kristof

Winter 2010

An Environmental Provocateur

Review By Denis Hayes 2

Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto by Stewart Brand

Winter 2010

Review: Break Through

Review By Sacha Zimmerman 1

Small-scale efforts won't solve the global warming crisis.

Winter 2008

Review: The Clean Tech Revolution

Review By Catherine DiBenedetto

Clean technology is creating greener pastures for business.

Fall 2007

Review: Brewing Justice

Review By Christopher M. Bacon

Jafee provides an inside look at the world of fair trade.

Fall 2007

Business

Review: Walking the Talk

Review By David Gal

Corporate social responsibility can pay big dividends.

Review: A New Green Order?

Review By Tim Perlstein

The World Bank's Global Environment Facility may be undermined by bureaucracy.

The New Economy of Nature

Review By Carl Palmer

The authors describe a new approach to environmental conservation that takes market realities into account, rather than relying on philanthropy and altruism.

Spring 2003