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...Unknown novelist --Minor poet --Radical environmentalist...
Recycling as we know it is stupid, or so say architect William McDonough and chemist Michael Braungart in Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things (North Point Press; 208 pages). The environmentalist mantra of reduce, reuse and recycle is based on the singularly flawed idea, according to the authors, that all things must pass into waste. Even if you turn that pop bottle into a fleece jacket?by applying brute force and chemical processing?that seemingly useful incarnation is just an additional step between raw material and landfill. "If humans are truly going to prosper, we will have...
Last May, after meeting with concerned students, Dean of FAS Jeremy R. Knowles agreed to form an ad hoc energy task force to be led by longtime campus environmentalist Lawrence Professor of Engineering Fred H. Abernathy...
...Part giddy bird-watcher and part environmentalist railing against big business, Matthiessen can sketch the fleeting sight of a rare blue crane beating its wings against the African sky in a few lithe words, then explain in detail the ecological effect of modern development. (Accompanying Matthiessen's descriptions are Robert Bateman's evocative illustrations, a blend of photographic naturalism and warm impressionism.) Although the writer's encyclopedic knowledge of the natural world occasionally makes the book slow going, he has an eye for essential details that cut through the nomenclature. For example: the crane has had the misfortune to live...
Plug in Pest Offense, whose digital cycling uses the wiring in your home to irritate the nerves of rats, mice, spiders, etc., and to zap them out without killing them. How humane; Pest Offense’s inventor, Don Hodgskin, is “an environmentalist.” Thanks to Pest Offense, Sherry Ball can “leave the cake out and never have to worry about it.” Good to hear. May we have a piece...