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For anyone else who digs on books that examine how PR shapes public perception, Will Allen’s new book, The War on Bugs is the latest in a genre that includes The Best War Ever and Toxic Sludge is Good for You. Instead of the now-tired observation that much of our food supply harms our bodies [...]

On Earth Day (I know, I know, that was April, but better late than never), The San Francisco Chronicle compiled a list of environmental books to read. A few of the picks were what I’d consider greeny standard reading: Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring and Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth.
It also included the new-to-me World [...]

You want to know what the latest green companies have up their sleeves? Well, there are two ways you can answer that question: Tune into Josh Dorfman’s radio show on Sirius Satellite Network, The Lazy Environmentalist OR pick up the book with the same cushy green title. Josh highlights the companies and brands that are [...]

My paternal grandmother, Leslie, called the West Indies home from 1948 until she died. We had a house in Antigua, with an open courtyard, that sat right on the beach. When I was little, in the seventies, and Leslie was dying, we spent time down there and I first met her dear friend Amos Morrill [...]

This afternoon I managed to catch MR2, the radio show of the Massachusetts Review, broadcast from WMUA at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. The guest was Dr. Lynn Margulis, there to talk about her latest book, Luminous Fish, just released from Vermont-based independent press Chelsea Green.
Margulis is best known for her theory of [...]

I just finished reading newly released The Complete Organic Pregnancy (Harper Collins) by Deirdre Dolan and Alexander Zissu and loved it. Since I am currently nineteen weeks pregnant, I have been soaking up a lot of information lately on all things revolving around pregnancy, babies, and organics. There are plenty of baby and pregnancy books [...]

Laurie David is promoting her new book which comes out this month, called Stop Global Warming: The Solution is You– An Activist’s Guide.
I’m setting up an interview with her and I would love to ask her questions from Eco Chick readers. What question do you have for the doyenne of Stop Global Warming?

Walden Pond
I was swimming today at Walden, the pristine pond in Concord, Massachusetts that inspired Henry David Thoreau, when another New England nature writer, Pulitzer Prize winning poet, Mary Oliver, came to mind. When I was younger and spent more time at the pond, I liked to memorize and recite some of Oliver’s [...]

A sampling from GOOD Magazine’s media pack
I woke up this morning and I thought I was back in London. Why? Well, we are getting innundated with so much editorial on green things. Well, damn’t it’s about time. Newsweek, NY Times, WSJ, Time Out NY, Parade Magazine, USA Today, CNN, hell even Fox News…everything left of [...]

Edward Abbey
I sometimes wonder what Edward Abbey would say if he could see Appalachian Trail thru-hikers resting cozily in their sleeping bags at night with the stars and moon above, tapping away on their tiny PocketMail devices so that they can post their daily blogs. So far from the asphalt superhighway, and [...]