A new issue of Earth Island Journal is out. From Human Ecology Review, a special section on Human/Environment Relationships; and Adam Douglas Henry (Harvard): The Challenge of Learning for Sustainability: A Prolegomenon to Theory; and a review of The Jevons Paradox and the Myth of Resource Efficiency Improvements by John M. Polimeni, Kozo Mayumi, Mario Giampietro, and Blake Alcott. Depending on who’s talking, oil shale is either the answer to our prayers or an environmental disaster in the making (and more). From Earth First! Journal, an interview with KKKanadian urban guerilla Juliet Belmas; and an article on the outcome of organizing with too large of a heart. Recycling is leveling off, trash is piling up and cities are broke; in a throwaway society, who should pay for waste disposal? Camilla Flodin explains how Adorno offers an alternative, non-coercive understanding of nature. Greg Unruh, the "cheap Al Gore", on the real significance of the UN Global Compact. A review of Earth, Inc.: Using Nature's Rules to Build Sustainable Profits by Gregory Unruh (and the introduction). After years of being told that products are eco-sensitive, author Daniel Goleman says consumers are finally getting a better sense of which ones really are. From The Atlantic Monthly, a large chunk of Kansas City’s real estate lies 100 feet below ground, and offers a creative solution to global warming; and runoff from old mines poisons Colorado’s rivers — why are enviro groups trying to stop locals from cleaning them up? From the Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture, a series of book reviews. The natural world vanishes: How species cease to matter. The rise of transition culture: A movement aimed at tackling the energy crisis with aplomb has been stepping on the gas since its formation.
