After the recent Zoom discussion session for Among the Maasai (the Education Team’s pick for the second in the series of Global Issues Book Discussions), the Environment Team would like to suggest the third book. While non-fiction books about environmental issues abound, we wanted a...
Zero Waste Home is the story of one family’s transition from conspicuous consumption to a zero-waste lifestyle. In this book, Bea Johnson relates how her family simplified their lives by reducing their possessions, their waste and their spending by 40 percent per year, while finding more time to enjoy family life. For anyone starting out...
I have just read the book What We Think About When We Try Not To Think About Global Warming, by Per Espen Stoknes. (Terrible title and misleading, actually, but a good book.) He talks about selling global warming by stressing the positive changes that would come about if we take serious measures - possibilities for really...