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The Bill Mckibben reader : pieces from an active life / Bill McKibben.

By: McKibben, Bill.
Material type: TextTextSeries: A Holt paperback. Publisher: New York : Henry Holt, 2008Edition: 1st Holt paperbacks ed.General Notes: Includes index.Description: xi, 442 p. ; 21 cm.ISBN: 9780805076271; 0805076271.Subject(s): Environmental protection -- Citizen participationDDC classification: 333.72 Online resources: Contributor biographical information | Publisher description | Sample text | Table of contents
Contents:
At home in nature -- A carefully controlled experiment -- Consuming nature -- Human restoration -- Enoughness -- Full circle -- The changing planet -- The end of nature: the greenhouse experiment -- Not so fast -- Maybe we should call it something scarier -- Warming up to Kyoto -- Of caribou and carbon -- Year one -- Consumed -- What's on: 11:30 a.m. -- Out there in the middle of the buzz -- Covetousness -- The Cuba diet -- A grand experiment -- The great leap -- Pie in the sky -- Hype vs. hope -- (Tod) Murphy's law -- Communities -- Job and Matthew -- State fair -- If you build it, will they change? -- High fidelity -- The Christian paradox -- Will evangelicals help save the earth? -- Heroes -- God within the shadows -- The desert anarchist -- Prophet in Kentucky -- Getting warmer -- An explosion of green: the bard of the birdfeeder -- The turn to activism -- Milken, junk bonds, and raping redwoods -- Court jester -- Not here -- Taking to the streets: report from the WTO -- Patriot acts -- The muslim Gandhi -- Speaking up for the environment -- A last best chance for baby boomers -- Time, moving, and meaning -- Homeless men -- Growing old gracefully -- Cross-country ski your way to shining health, renewed vigor, and everlasting happiness! -- Across the disappearing finish line -- Mr. Natural.
Summary: The best of McKibben. Includes his fiery, magical essays and investigations of modern life.
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Includes index.

At home in nature -- A carefully controlled experiment -- Consuming nature -- Human restoration -- Enoughness -- Full circle -- The changing planet -- The end of nature: the greenhouse experiment -- Not so fast -- Maybe we should call it something scarier -- Warming up to Kyoto -- Of caribou and carbon -- Year one -- Consumed -- What's on: 11:30 a.m. -- Out there in the middle of the buzz -- Covetousness -- The Cuba diet -- A grand experiment -- The great leap -- Pie in the sky -- Hype vs. hope -- (Tod) Murphy's law -- Communities -- Job and Matthew -- State fair -- If you build it, will they change? -- High fidelity -- The Christian paradox -- Will evangelicals help save the earth? -- Heroes -- God within the shadows -- The desert anarchist -- Prophet in Kentucky -- Getting warmer -- An explosion of green: the bard of the birdfeeder -- The turn to activism -- Milken, junk bonds, and raping redwoods -- Court jester -- Not here -- Taking to the streets: report from the WTO -- Patriot acts -- The muslim Gandhi -- Speaking up for the environment -- A last best chance for baby boomers -- Time, moving, and meaning -- Homeless men -- Growing old gracefully -- Cross-country ski your way to shining health, renewed vigor, and everlasting happiness! -- Across the disappearing finish line -- Mr. Natural.

The best of McKibben. Includes his fiery, magical essays and investigations of modern life.

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