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Sunday, November 29, 2009

"Shades of Green", excerpt from the book 'Whole Earth Discipline" by courtesy of Conservation Magazine

To read an excerpt from the book, 'Whole Earth Discipline' by Stewart Brand, by courtesy of Conservation Magazine, click the URL underlined below:

Introduction to the excerpt from Conservation Magazine:

An icon of the environmental and counterculture movements of the 1960s, Stewart Brand created and edited The Whole Earth Catalog (1968–1985). Since then, he has cofounded the Global Business Network, The Long Now Foundation, and the All Species Foundation. Here, we offer you a small taste of his latest book, Whole Earth Discipline - (reproduced from Conservation Magazine).


Conservation Magazine » Blog Archive » Shades of Green

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Book Reviews by Judy Wexler from Conservation Magazine » Blog Archive » Book Reviews, Fall 2009

Book Reviews by Judy Wexler from Conservation Magazine.

Books Reviewed:

1. Elephants on the Edge
What Animals Teach Us about Humanity

By G.A. Bradshaw
Yale University Press, 2009

2.
Hope for Animals and Their World
How Endangered Species Are Being Rescued from the Brink

By Jane Goodall with Thane Maynard and Gail Hudson
Grand Central Publishing, 2009

3. No Impact Man
The Adventures of a Guilty Liberal Who Attempts to Save the Planet and the Discoveries He Makes About Himself and Our Way of Life in the Process

By Colin Beavan
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009

4.
The Jaguar’s Shadow
Searching for a Mythic Cat
By Richard Mahler
Yale University Press, September 2009

5.
Climate Change:
Picturing the Science
By Gavin Schmidt and Joshua Wolfe
W.W. Norton, 2009

6.
Nature’s Ghosts
Confronting Extinction from the Age of Jefferson to the Age of Ecology
By Mark V. Barrow, Jr.
University of Chicago Press, 2009

7. Extinction in our Times
Global Amphibian Decline
By James P Collins and Martha L.Crump
Oxford University Press, 2009

For reading reviews of all the abov ebooks just click below:

Conservation Magazine » Blog Archive » Book Reviews, Fall 2009

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Thursday, November 19, 2009

Daily Reads-2: November 19, 2009

Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda - Volume VII

Though this book is in my Daily Reads collection, I find I am not actually read it daily - so many distractions, disturbances and demands on my time. What to do! However, today I could read it. I generally read only a page or two and savour what I have read.

From today's reading, the following passage impressed me most and hence I am excerpting it here.

"The greatest sin is to think yourself weak. No one is greater: realise you are Brahman. ... Stand up and say, I am the master, the master of all. We forge the chain, and we alone can break it."