Feeling Discouraged? Patagonia’s Tools for Grassroots Activists Is the Answer

by Alden Wicker
Feb 29, 2016

At the beginning of the year, I put out a sort of crie de coeur in my post The Big Lie of Conscious Consumerism. And it struck a chord, generating 27 comments and a dozen personal emails, and even pledges to support me in my mission. It seems a lot of...

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Book Review: Are You Ready for Magnifeco’s Truth Bombs?

by Alden Wicker
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Are you ready for this book? You might not be. Magnifeco by Kate Black, a sustainable fashion blogger behind the style blog of the same name, is … a lot. It is everything. It is all the issues surrounding sustainable and ethical fashion, meticulously researched and laid bare for you to read...

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Review: New Slow City by William Powers Can Help Bring Peace to Your City Life

by Alden Wicker
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Some people have charged the year-long-experiment trope in non-fiction with being unrealistic and annoying, a bit gimmicky too. But I love it. These books – Colin Beavan’s No Impact Man, Barbara Kingsolver’s Animal Vegetable Miracle, and David Bruno’s The 100 Things Challenge, to name a few – are so compelling because they...

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Read This Book: The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert

by Alden Wicker
Jan 29, 2015

I finished the last page, closed the paperback book, and looked up. I was on the subway heading over the Williamsburg bridge, with a view of both banks of the East River. Usually, I treasure this view, especially at night, when the lights of DUMBO and the southern tip of...

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Review: This Book Is So Fun to Read, You’ll Forget It’s About Doomsday

by Alden Wicker
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Can you blame me if I let this book sit on my nightstand for just a little too long? I would take any excuse not to read another depressing book about the environment. The World Without Us and my AP Environmental Science textbook were quite enough in that department. I...

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Book Review: EcoMind Will Change the Way You Think About Environmentalism

by Alden Wicker
Nov 21, 2013

In EcoMind, Frances Moore Lappe addresses chapter by chapter all the reasons we tell ourselves that we are doomed to continue polluting, destroying, wasting, razing, and killing the planet and its animals. In her view, it's possible to turn things around--we just have to keep a positive attitude.

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