Review by Choice Review
Global Tomorrow Coalition, preparers of this handbook and unabashedly pro-environment, intend through this volume to stimulate action to reduce environmental degradation. Published as a supplement to "Race to Save the Planet" a ten-part series produced by station WGBH for broadcast by the Public Broadcasting System in the fall of 1990, the volume consists of 17 chapters, which include typical topics: solid waste management, energy, water pollution, etc. Other topics are global security, foresight capability, and what readers/viewers can do. Chapters consist of narrative overview with ample statistical information, followed by a bibliography of books, periodical articles (generally from the popular environmental press), periodicals, and audiovisual materials for further study. The volume concludes with detailed bibliographic notes for the sources used, and a directory of environmental organizations. No index. It is appropriately up to date for the purpose of painting in broad strokes the nature of environmental problems and the urgent need to take action. A good source for high school and public libraries, and beginning undergraduate students. It will be particularly useful for the bibliographies. T. G. Kirk Berea College
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Review by Booklist Review
Two new books offer information on the urgent fight against the tangible threat of ecological disaster (see the boxed reviews of other, similar volumes in BKL My 1 90, p.1672). The Global Ecology Handbook, written by a Washington, D.C.-based environmental organization, is broken down into 14 issue-oriented chapters that cover, among other topics, population growth, food and agriculture, biological diversity, tropical forests, fresh water, energy, air, hazardous substances, and global security. As a reference tool, this handbook will be indispensable; it is well documented, well organized, quite comprehensive and comprehensible, instructive, and easy to use. Sections on "What You Can Do," lists of further resources (including audiovisual materials), and tables and graphs enhance the text. This book is being marketed as the "practical supplement" to the PBS series "Race to Save the Planet," airing this fall. The Green Lifestyle Handbook attempts to empower individuals by informing them of specific things they can do in their everyday life in the effort to divert catastrophe. By promoting a "green life-style," one in which the ecological consequences of every act are taken into account, the text embodies the theme, Think Globally, Act Locally. A foreword by Jeremy Rifkin--in which the estimable scientist goes back to Francis Bacon, Adam Smith, and John Locke to set the historical context of a consumer-oriented society with short-term and ultimately selfish and destructive goals--sets the stage for sections on life-style choices, environmental ethics, possible solutions, and ways to organize. Essays by Frances Moore Lappe, the Rodales, Rep. Claudine Schneider, and other experts fill out the text. Includes bibliography; to be indexed. --Benjamin Segedin
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Review by Kirkus Book Review
Like Our Earth, Ourselves (see above), this environmental-action guidebook--by an alliance of more than 110 US environmental groups--is oriented toward community and governmental redressing of ecological damage, With extensive, detailed, semitechnical accounts of global pressure points--destruction of the rain forests, galloping population growth, the problem of solid-waste management--this will appeal more to seriously committed environmental activists (who will find it a superb resource) than to the casually concerned citizen. The ""practical supplement"" to a PBS series, Race to Save the Planet, the book includes many charts and maps. Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
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