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Avg. Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0

The Wiseacre Challenge:

In the words of author Jim Merkel, this book acts as a kind of "monthly Earth checkbook balance statement, a method to measure just how much nature was needed to supply all you consume and absorb your effluent." But why would anyone want to do that? you may be wondering. Because currently the world's wealthiest one billion people alone consume the equivalent of the Earth's entire sustainable yield. All together, humanity consumes 20 percent more than the earth's sustainable yield.

"Well hold on," you... more info

Let's Get Radical!:

I have been waiting for this book for a long time. Seriously, there is a hole in western consciousness and in our publications about REALITY---the fact that western culture is ruining the planet, and how do we as individuals make a new way? With more calculaton tables than I liked, but interspersed with interesting, inspiring, thought-provoking world experience, philosophical musings and present-day challenges in carving a sustainable lifestyle, Merkel's book arrests the imagination of the reader. I think... more info

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