A must read for every environmentalist
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This book literally bombards you with examples of green business practices and advices how your own company can become the next successful eco-company with a sustainable competitive advantage. Esty and Winston's years of experience as environmental consultants who advised a lot of the top green wave riding companies shines through almost every line. By giving specific practical advices, while embedding these into the bigger picture of environmentalism and sustainability, they created a must read for everyone who is involved in green business practices.

Coining terms like "eco-advantage", Esty and Winston add their valuable insights to the green scene. Well structured and clearly outlined this book provides a fantastic starting point for everyone who wants to go green or stay sustainable. The amount of practical examples covers pretty much every business area and provides plenty of techniques to start with to make the move from green to gold.

- Frank Roettgers, author of&nbsp;<a data-hook="product-link-linked" class="a-link-normal" href="/Going-Green-Together-How-to-Align-Employees-with-Green-Strategies/dp/300032898X/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">Going Green Together - How to Align Employees with Green Strategies</a>
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As a person who loves nature, and an environmentalist who has a deep feeling for biodiversity, I LOVED this book.  Couldn't put it down. Sat in a chair from morning til night, getting up only for bare essentials, until I'd finished it. Gave it to my friends and they raved about it. Just the title, Mother of God, had intrigued me because, whatever people meant when they named this tributary of the Amazon Madre de Dios, the name infers to me how a rainforest river is the birthplace of an explosion of life. I liked the author a lot.  His explorations are courageous, his story is amazing, he is an excellent writer.  His desire to be a scientist, but live and write as a lover of what he studies is on the right course. This book is how I want to be taken to the Amazon or any other wild place as a reader. It made me want to go there, despite snakes, crocodiles and mosquitoes. His recent exploit, after the book was published, of trying to get eaten by an Anaconda for a film (which can be seen on YouTube)is not on a right course. Perhaps the great success of his book has gone to his head. I was appalled, but scientists and environmentalists alike often have to figure out whether they are going to promote the environment or promote themselves; save nature or exploit it for fame; live one's life or make an exhibition of it. Rosolie is young, he has all the makings of a great modern explorer, he has time to make mistakes and learn from them. I hope he survives whatever attack of terrible judgement caused him to undertake getting swallowed by an anaconda, that he continues his documentation of the wild Amazonian rainforest, lives humbly and writes more books like this.
201154
The recipient of the year 2000 Blue Planet Prize (aka the Ecology Nobel), Dr. Karl-Henrik Robert has offered the world a delightful peak at his decade-long adventure in making visible the possibility of a just and sustainable future for all. Beyond skillfully describing the beginnings of the idea of The Natural Step and its framework's scientific basis, he also shares some remarkable stories that express his deep social consciousness and longing for a world that works for everyone.
He lets the reader know, among other things, that
  --his heroes are Greenpeace activisits
  --participants at the World Economic Forum at Davos (to which he was invited) for the most part seemed unaware of the plight of the world's poor
  --the apathy and helplessness that most people feel with regard to our global dilemma may be one of the most serious problems we face in resolving the dilemma
  --the economic paradigm must change
  --new business leaders may be key to shifting current mass media reluctance to cover issues of social and ecological sustainability
  --and so much more!
The materials in the Appendixes are worth the price of the book itself. Invaluable in understanding the core values of The Natural Step, applying its framework, and learning how the agricultural sector (one of many, by the way, who have explored this approach to strategic planning) in Sweden arrived at consensus on developing a sustainable future, the back matter will fascinate as much as the growing pains and other stories in the main portion of this singular, thought-provoking publication.
Essential reading for anyone concerned about our common future.
4108563
This book is a must for all interested in the environment. Well written, in short two page sections, each section covers one aspect of ecology. Easily understandable, the book would be excellent for teachers, for classroms studying the environment, and for families concerned with global environmental affairs.
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This is a marvellous book, a well-reasoned, crisp, concise and comprehensive debunking of the man-made global warming theory, which is all too prevalent in society today.

It is written by a professor of geology and earth sciences and it should be required reading for every high school student, environmental activist and politician.

The scientific facts set out in this book completely and comprehensively debunk the myth of man-made global warming, which is usually also associated with the breathtakingly arrogant suggestion that man will one day be able to control the weather!

Highly recommended!
1810806
An excellent survey of environmentalist literature. Ever since Malthus, there has been scaremongering about overpopulation, dwindling resources, etc. but fears have always been proven vain. Remember the scientific predictions of the 60's that we'd be living on a barren earth by the year 2000?
Truth is, everything we use has gotten better and better and cheaper and cheaper: we have more food than ever before, we have more energy resources, we get more and more metals and chemicals from the earth.
Not everything is perfect in the world, but the problems aren't nearly as bad as the green movement makes it out to be.  The attacks on Mr. Lomborg are political rather than reasonable.
The 1-star reviewers should be ashamed of themselves for sinking to this level. I give the book the full five stars in support of Mr. Lomborg and for having done with his book what he set out to do. He has re-ignited the debate.
30691
Shocking, stunning and educational at the sametime.

Forget about politics for a minute. What this book is about is the cause and effect the we humans are having on this planet. The book goes into great and understandable detail about many subjects like the effects of greenhouse gases and the things that humans do to add to the problem and what we can do to help alleviate it somewhat.

The book is filled with stunning time lapse photography that shows the dramatic effects of greenhouse gases with regard to the chain reaction of events that happen when a glacier starts to melt causing the oceans to get warmer, killing the coral then the aquatic life the live off the coral and then inturn killing off the sea life that feed off the things that live in the coral and so on. The ocean level rising due to glaciers melting causing coastlines to change. the book has some very dramatic topographical maps detailing this, just look at pages 208 and 209 and see for instance how Manhattans coast line would change if the ocean rose just 20 feet which could more easily then I could have ever thought happen.

The book kind of encapsulates the last few thousand years of this planet and shows the accelerated negative reaction the earth is having to mankind speeding through the industrialization of this planet over the last hundred years.

Remember politics for a minute. There is some talk of politics in this book but it is not about Republican's versus Democrat's it's about coming together to find solutions to stop or at least slow the horrific chain reaction. Paying attention to good scientific facts is so important and the book stresses that point. Mr. Gore describes the things that he saw about the environment that made him re-think his stance on environmental issues and he talks about refocusing himself on the things that really matter in life like his family and the world he lives in. He talks about making good ecological choices now so that our children will also be able to enjoy this planet.

The book to a lesser extent covers the health choices we make for our selves like choosing not to smoke, eating healthfully. The irony to this though is that it touches on another point that he makes about the world becoming over populated because people are living longer and we are consuming more goods from factory's that are putting polution into the air.

The book it's self is very well written and the supporting documentation is great. It is geared to the lay person and easily understandable. It is about a one evening read but will provide a lifetime of thought.

I very highly recomend this book.
1728918
This is a must read for anyone interested, or studying Sustainable Living.  The translation to the book was excellent, and I wished I had this book 30 years ago.
3369781
This is one of the most enjoyable books I've read about life on our planet. Lovelock demonstrates great vision and courage in the presentation of his Gaia hypothesis. Highly recommended reading for anyone interested in environmental issues generally, and for those who have a keen interest in understanding some of the great mysteries about our wonderful planet.
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Whit Gibbons does an excellent job of presenting some of the most critical issues our world faces today (e.g., loss of biodiversity, impacts of humans on the environment) in a extremely easy to read and enjoyable format.  A must read for anybody truly concerned about the environment in which they, and their children, live.
1265771
I loved this book. THE AUTHOR makes one feel the true life of living organisms especially trees.
A forest is not simply a bunch of trees. It is a total bioregion of multiple organisms whose interconnectedness gives meaning to li f e.
I could hardly put this book down.
I immediately referred this book to multiple persons, especially those persons involved in public forests. Anyone with any feelings for the earth, will love this book.
1752120
This book discusses all the environmental "dooms" and scares. It reveals that most of what "everybody knows" about environmental issues is mostly wrong, and in many cases the reverse of the truth. None of the green activists or propagandists ever seem to lose credibility no matter how clearly counterfactual their predictions turn out. The book's predictions of huge worldwide wealth by the time the global warming effects are supposed to be damaging are startling. So is the relatively tiny predicted costs of the warming's effects as a fraction of future world GDP. Buy this book and weep at your former credulity, however green or un-green you were.
1228159
A  definite must read for anyone concerned about the food we eat, the pollution of our environment and the balance of nature.
3966000
The World Peace Diet is a must read for any environmentalist, social activist, animal rights activist, and spiritual seeker. Dr. Tuttle masterfully presents a compelling premise that all of our environmental and social problems, including global warming and war, are rooted in a cultural mentality of reductionism, anthropocentrism, exclusivism, predation, desensitization, disconnectedness, and domination. According to Dr. Tuttle, our culture started developing this mentality around 10,000 years ago as humans began herding animals for food, clothing, and other human needs, and then this mentality spread to treating humans and the environment in similar exploitative ways. While it is impossible to irrevocably prove that herding animals caused war, violence against women, slavery, inequality, poverty, and other social issues, what is clearly undeniable after reading this book are the contemporary connections between animal agriculture and environmental issues, between eating animal foods and human health issues, and between animal agriculture and the tremendous suffering experienced by animals. Yet most people deny these connections. Dr. Tuttle explains the reasons for this denial: People inherit their animal-based diets from their parents along with the cultural mentality that diminishes their natural compassion for animals. Their diets and this uncompassionate mentality are reinforced as they grow up by teachers, doctors, religious organizations, peers, and the media. With the suppression of compassion, people see animals as things to be used to benefit humans rather than as beings with as much of an intrinsic right as humans to live for themselves in the way that nature designed them to live. With the suppression of compassion people see the environment as a resource to be used for human benefit rather than as the intricate web of living beings and non-living materials that support life on this planet. With the suppression of compassion people see other people as things that can be manipulated to serve selfish interests rather than as beings with lives and interests as valid as ones own. This book beautifully shows how it is this loss of compassion and the subsequent blindness to the interconnections of all beings and the earth that underlie all the worlds problems. Dr. Tuttle calls for a vegan revolution to address these problems. This revolution goes far beyond refraining from using non-human animals for food, clothing, medicines, entertainment, etc. It is truly an evolution of consciousness, an expansion of humanitys love and concern to include all beings and the earth. I have not read any other book that so powerfully shows the connection between all of our problems and the beautiful simplicity of the solution.

This is not just another animal rights book telling people to quit eating and wearing animals. It goes to the heart of humanitys destructive and elitist relationship with the rest of the world and guides people to recognize our real relationship of interconnectedness and to live from that realization. Dr. Tuttle respects the difficulty that people will have with going against their acculturation by becoming vegan, and directs vegans to lovingly support them as they transition rather than to aggressively attack them for not being vegan. Throughout the book he paints a vision of a joyful and harmonious vegan world based on love and connection rather than exploitation and disconnection. People are asked to give up using animals, but by doing so, they will help co-create a more harmonious and joyful world for themselves and other creatures.
324280
This is an excellent book that brings into focus the history of the environmental movement, where we are today, and what we can do individually to advance the goal of health for our planet. The resources listed and citations are excellent. This book is well written with technical information explained in understandable terms for the layperson. I highly recommend this book!
2835812
This book is not only a must read for both amateur and professional herpetologists but a great book for generalized naturalists and ecologists. Bruce Means is a consummate writer who places a reader in his place in his travels so that the reader can vividly experience Dr. Means' experiences vicariously with a remarkable sense of "being there".  I highly recommend this book to herpers, animal lovers, naturalists and eco-travelers.
4136839
Bill McKibben's beautifully written and cogently reasoned analysis of how humans are damaging the world we share with all other life is must-reading.  He shares with readers a respect for Nature---truly wild, untouched Nature---that is personal, emotional, reverential, and spiritual.  That respect is contagious.  We need to hear voices like his.  His book strengthens our will to take the difficult but essential steps to slow global warming.  He urges us to be good stewards of the earth.