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Radio free Vermont : a fable of resistance
\"As the host of Radio Free Vermont--'underground, underpowered, and underfoot'--seventy-two-year-old Vern Barclay is currently broadcasting from an 'undisclosed and double-secret location.' With the help of a young computer prodigy named Perry Alterson, Vern uses his radio show to advocate for a simple yet radical idea: an independent Vermont, one where the state secedes from the United States and operates under a free local economy. But for now, he and his radio show must remain untraceable, because in addition to being a lifelong Vermonter and concerned citizen, Vern Barclay is also a fugitive from the law\"-- Provided by publisher.
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David Brower
In this first comprehensive authorized biography of David Brower, a dynamic leader in the environmental movement over the last half of the twentieth century, Tom Turner explores Brower's impact on the movement from its beginnings until his death in 2000. Frequently compared to John Muir, David Brower was the first executive director of the Sierra Club, founded Friends of the Earth, and helped secure passage of the Wilderness Act, among other key achievements. Tapping his passion for wilderness and for the mountains he scaled in his youth, he was a central figure in the creation of the Point Reyes National Seashore and of the North Cascades and Redwood national parks. In addition, Brower worked tirelessly in successful efforts to keep dams from being built in Dinosaur National Monument and the Grand Canyon. Tom Turner began working with David Brower in 1968 and remained close to him until Brower’s death. As an insider, Turner creates an intimate portrait of Brower the man and the decisive role he played in the development of the environmental movement. Culling material from Brower’s diaries, notebooks, articles, books, and published interviews, and conducting his own interviews with many of Brower’s admirers, opponents, and colleagues, Turner brings to life one of the movement's most controversial and complex figures.
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Here comes the sun : a last chance for the climate and a fresh chance for civilization
Every eighteen hours, the world puts up a nuclear power plant's-worth of solar panels. At the same time, combustion continues to melt the poles, poison our bodies and drive global inequality. It is no longer necessary: For the first time in 700,000 years, we know how to catch the sun's rays and convert them into energy. In 'Here Comes the Sun', Bill McKibben tells the story of the spike in power from the sun and wind. McKibben traces the arrival of plentiful, inexpensive solar energy, which, if it accelerates, gives us a chance not just to limit climate change's damage but to reorder the world.
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Small is beautiful : economics as if people mattered
\"Small is Beautiful is Oxford-trained economist E.F. Schumacher's classic call for the end of excessive consumption. Schumacher inspired such movements as \"Buy Locally\" and \"Fair Trade\", while voicing strong opposition to \"casino capitalism\" and wasteful corporate behemoths. ... [It] presents eminently logical arguments for building our economies around the needs of communities, not corporations.\"-- Back cover.
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NEW YORK FORUM ABOUT DEATH ON DONAHUE After It's Over, Will We Watch Seinfeld?
For television, despite [PHIL DONAHUE]'s contention that it is the most accurate of mediums, has little chance of capturing the horror of David Larson's execution. The horror is not in the hideous moment of gas-chamber wriggling and gasping; that moment, in a strange way, must be mostly solace. The horror is in the time before, the time when a human being must brush his teeth, pull on his pants, watch TV, all the while knowing he is soon to die. And the horror for the rest of us - the horror that can't be captured on TV - is that the person now about to die is not the monster he was when he committed whatever crime landed him in jail. Now he's just a man, eating his dinner. [Helen Prejean] describes the days and hours before the execution of Pat Sonnier (who was quite possibly killed for a crime committed by his brother - but never mind, that's not the point). His last appeal denied, Sonnier inscribes the date of his own death in the family Bible. \"I remember Jesus' words that we do not know the day nor the hour,\" Prejean writes. \"But Pat knows. And in knowing he dies and then dies again.\" In Prejean's relentless telling, the actual moment of death is a relief for the prisoner - as undoubtedly it will be for the tense TV viewer, now freed to turn on \"Seinfeld\" or switch to Sally Jesse and watch whatever sad sacks she has assembled this afternoon.
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The Earth's Own Day Shall we celebrate or deride our efforts to end the torment of our planet? Losing Nature
The planet, by contrast, is a glorious, odd place, crowded with many million forms of life. To save it, to keep it from becoming a sort of human-dominated space station, will mean not only monitoring the air and water. It will mean cutting back on our numbers and our appetites, in order to leave some room for the rest of creation. This change in our most basic attitudes can come only from a love for the world around us. And that love begins in the soft spring woods, or on a spongy marsh, or on a rock in the middle of a field soaking up the grace of the sun.
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Home Is in the Hills, Not the Mall
These two ideas about the world have practical implications, of course. With attachment comes care, slowness, ecological concern, a cyclical sense of time - all the graces of the small farmer, fixed fast in the writings of Wendell Berry, though such concern does not demand a rural setting. You can see it, too, in the corners of cities that remain neighborhoods, that have yet to be Benettonized and Gapped. By contrast, the semidetachment of suburbia, with its lethally limited chances for natural or human contact, breeds an unchallengeable me-firstism, a search for stimulus, newness, possession: the culture of the mall. It makes no sense to pretend that the joys of the mall and the cul-de-sac are imaginary. They are as real as the sugar in a Coke, and as utterly predictable - that is their attraction, or was for me. The set of endlessly repeatable gestures of a consumer society (eating in restaurants, driving in cars, buying in stores) involves no psychic risk, for their freight of emotion and mood can be inventoried in advance - watching Letterman or Koppel each night yields the same EKG of mild, stale interest or pleasure. Engagement is not demanded - is not possible.
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Home Is in the Hills, Not the Malls
These two ideas about the world have practical implications, of course. With attachment comes care, slowness, ecological concern, a cyclical sense of time - all the graces of the small farmer, fixed fast in the writings of Wendell Berry, though such concern does not demand a rural setting. You can see it, too, in the corners of cities that remain neighborhoods, that have yet to be Benettonized and Gapped. By contrast, the semidetachment of suburbia, with its lethally limited chances for natural or human contact, breeds an unchallengeable me-firstism, a search for stimulus, newness, possession: the culture of the mall. It makes no sense to pretend that the joys of the mall and the cul-de-sac are imaginary. They are as real as the sugar in a Coke, and as utterly predictable - that is their attraction, or was for me. The set of endlessly repeatable gestures of a consumer society (eating in restaurants, driving in cars, buying in stores) involves no psychic risk, for their freight of emotion and mood can be inventoried in advance - watching Letterman or Koppel each night yields the same EKG of mild, stale interest or pleasure. Engagement is not demanded - is not possible.
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U.S. Is Icing Our Warming Report
On this continent, the Bush administration concluded, entire ecosystems would likely disappear, while heat waves stifled the plains and cities, and disappearing snow packs left the West Coast dry and thirsty. Sea levels would rise quickly, threatening low- lying and storm-raked areas like Long Island. In the mountains of New York and New England, winter would disappear and the forests that make the fall spectacular would wither. In other words, all the horrors that environmentalists have been warning about for 15 years, and that conservatives and energy lobbyists and bought-off members of Congress have been pooh- poohing, really are true. It's like the Vatican finally admitting that, oops, Galileo was right after all. The change was so blatant that conservatives demanded a retraction and President George W. Bush Tuesday blamed the report on \"the bureauracy.\" Still, it's all there in black and white. This week, the last of the European Union nations and Japan ratified the Kyoto accords and accepted their mandate to reduce fossil-fuel use. The United States, however, is offering nothing. The report repeats Bush's lame plan for voluntary reductions in \"greenhouse gas intensity\" - that is, coal and oil burned per dollar of gross domestic product - but resists any pledge to actually cut our emissions.
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