I’ll be talking about Eco Barons at the West Hollywood Book Fair Sunday, October 4, during a noon panel entitled: “The good, the bad and the ugly: Facets of Environmentalism.” West Hollywood’s mayor, Abbe Land, will serve as moderator.
It seems I’m representing “the good” part in our panel title. My fellow panelists are covering the [...]
Archive for October, 2009
Cranks Rule: Why Environmentalism Needs Troublemakers
October 1, 2009A sprawling and provocative essay on the contradictory history and impulses of American environmentalism, “The Usefulness of Cranks,” is up on The New Republic website. In reviewing several recent environmental books, including Eco Barons, TNR writer Jackson Lears decries what he sees as the debased meaning of the very language of green in contemporary discourse:
Concern [...]
