The Live Earth Global Warming Survival Handbook: 77 Essential Skills To Stop Climate... by David de Rothschild

The Live Earth Global Warming Survival Handbook: 77 Essential Skills To Stop Climate...

Features

Cover Type: Paperback with 160 pages

Published by: Rodale Books June 26, 2007

Written in: English

ISBN 10 Number: 159486781X

ISBN 13 Number: 978-1594867811

Book Dimensions: 7 x 5 x 0.7 inches

Weighs: 9.6 ounces

Product Review
The Live Earth Global Warming Survival Handbook is the official companion volume to the Live Earth concerts, 24 hours of nonstop concerts broadcast from around the world on July 7, 2007. The book presents 77 essential skills for stopping climate change--and for living through it. It is a fun, compelling, and sly deconstruction of a survival guide (think Boy Scouts of America crossed with WorldChanging atop the Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook) that offers equal parts tongue-in-cheek suggestions, practical advice, factual information, and bluesky dreaming of ways to save the world. Each skill is presented on a spread featuring a bright, full-color instructional illustration, a brief introduction to the skill and its core ideas, a set of instructions, spin-off ideas, and scientific and environmental facts. The book also includes a resource guide that provides useful resources for the eco-conscious reader.

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Reader Reviews
Yes, the New York Times did just mention this book in a very good article about being cute-green versus really deep-green. And yes, it is a little scary to many of the serious 'fate-of-the-Earth' worriers that any sugar-coated tips and 'green-style' guides will set back any progress we could possibly make, but the worriers are wrong. Thick non-fiction readers and policy wonks can't solve this problem without an ever widening mass movement, good old fashioned popular demand. When it comes to our greatest challenges, ALL publicity is good publicity -- even sugar-coated fluff, even biting satire, even irony. Better a flood of books (on PAPER and shipped via carbon-churning trucks) about global warming and consumerism and treading lightly (or lighter) than the flood of other junk out there. We have to plant a lot of seeds to grow a movement, to grow a big change. The greening of America has to reach the Wal-Mart crowd somehow, the celebrity-idol-mongering crowd, the sports fans, the working stiffs, the cynics, the TV and media sleepyheads from NPR to FOX to blathering talk radio. And so books like this, which are colorful and graphic and attractive and cute and even "fun" and tongue-in-cheek and a bit cartoonish REALLY ARE VERY MUCH NEEDED. NOW. Not everybody is going to listen to Al Gore or Paul Hawken, much less less charismatic experts, much MUCH less read their books. Maybe some others who might not pick up a stark manual, such as the very good guide to environmental choices put out by the Union for Concerned Scientists ACTUALLY WILL pick up this book and thumb through it and get something out of it. And we need all the help we can get, so get a few extra copies and leave them on the kitchen tables of some of your not-so-green family members and friends. This book is probably more palatable for that audience than a gift membership in The Sierra Club or the NRDC. Those are good possibilities for helping to spread the news as well, but before we do too much preaching, we need to get more of the audience enticed to hear what we have to say -- or see it laid out in a pleasant package like this book. Comments (3) | | (Report this)

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