Thought-provoking piece from the New Yorker...
Green Like Me
Living without a fridge, and other experiments in environmentalism.
by Elizabeth Kolbert
Living without a fridge, and other experiments in environmentalism.
by Elizabeth Kolbert
The latest publishing fad features ecology as an extreme life style; the focus is on wacky misadventure, not global cataclysm.
In 2006, Colin Beavan, the author of two works of popular history, was casting about for a book idea. Beavan was living in lower Manhattan, near N.Y.U., and that winter there was a weird heat wave that sent bevies of coeds out onto the streets in tank tops. He didn’t know much about global warming, but the sight of all those bare-armed girls in January got him thinking. Maybe his next project should be “about what’s important.”
In 2006, Colin Beavan, the author of two works of popular history, was casting about for a book idea. Beavan was living in lower Manhattan, near N.Y.U., and that winter there was a weird heat wave that sent bevies of coeds out onto the streets in tank tops. He didn’t know much about global warming, but the sight of all those bare-armed girls in January got him thinking. Maybe his next project should be “about what’s important.”
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