The Raw Milk Revolution: Behind America's Emerging Battle Over Food Rights, by David E. Gumpert has recently been featured on GreenBookReviews.ca"The Raw Milk Revolution, by David E. Gumpert, would more accurately be entitled "Milk Wars." Any attempt to sell raw milk creates a froth of such proportions that we must conclude that it is symptomatic of something bigger.The war is all about politics and ideology - about food control and food beliefs. So when battle lines are outwardly drawn around issues of food safety and the right of citizens to choose the food they want, it takes Gumpert's sharp journalistic skills to uncover what risks to profits and livelihoods could lie beneath...."[Read the full review by Ellen Desjardins]  ... continue reading.

Genius of Common Sense by Glenna Lang and Marjory Wunsch + Getting a Grip: Clarity, Creativity and Courage in a World Gone Mad by Frances Moore Lappé have recently been featured on GreenBookReviews.ca"How do you change the world? Where do you start, locally or globally? For inspiration and a way out of the paralysis that stymies so many of us, two remarkable  women - Jane Jacobs and Frances Moore Lappé - offer some practical  ideas.Jacobs, the late, great thinker, activist and author, is the subject of a new book written for people aged "10 to 100." It is the story of how Jacobs' seminal work, ..."[Read the full review by Heather MacAndrew] ---Alternatives Journal and thegreenpages.ca network want your opinions to be heard! Do you agree or have a different viewpoint? Do you ... continue reading.

The War in the Country: How the Fight to Save Rural Life Will Shape Our Future by Thomas E. Pawlick has recently been featured on GreenBookReviews.ca"In The War in the Country, Thomas Pawlick has done a great service. He documents recent tensions and traumas that have battered every rural commun ity across Ontario. Moreover, he reports in the voice of family farmers, small businesses, native people and back-to-the-landers. These stories are worth keeping in your library to be read from time to time ..."[Read the full review by Thomas E. Pawlick]---Alternatives Journal and thegreenpages.ca network want your opinions to be heard! Do you agree or have a different viewpoint? Let us know. GreenBookReviews.ca welcomes you to add your own reviews and comments.Who can create reviews and post comments? Anyone who ... continue reading.

Ever dreamed of writing book reviews? Now is your chance. GreenBookReviews.ca, an interactive new book review site, has emerged from the rising interest in environmental books. With such luminary authors and thought-leaders as Margaret Atwood, Jeffrey Rubin and Douglas Coupland now using their pen to save our planet, ideas about the environment are exploding. Alternatives Journal and thegreenpages.ca have partnered up to help quench this thirst in green ideas. The new website provides the following:Constantly updated reviews featuring the newest environmentally and socially focused literature (both non-fiction and fiction)An easy-to-navigate archive of Alternatives Journal's published reviewsReviews written by recognized environmental leaders and experts, providing meaningful insight while meeting stringent editorial standardsAn interactive forum for user discussion, offering visitors the ability ... continue reading.

Waterloo, Ontario - Hot new environmental titles are jamming the shelves in bookstores across Canada.With its most recent issue, New Eco Books, Alternatives covers this ever-widening genre of environmental volumes, and features some of the world's best writers, including Margaret Atwood, Douglas Coupland, Andrew Nikiforuk, Wade Davis and Adria Vasil."Atwood and Coupland are inventing ideas and seeing what happens when they collide," writes long-time Alternatives contributor Stephen Bocking. His essay, "Science Friction," compares the newest releases from two of Canada's finest novelists. Through the dystopic future visions of Coupland's Generation A and Atwood's The Year of the Flood, Bocking analyzes the evolving nature of environmental fiction. (Also look for graphic novelist Evan Munday's stunning visual interpretation of Atwood's novel.)In the ... continue reading.

Toronto - The Living Series DVD collection will be available at select retail outlets nationally, just in time for the 40th anniversary of Earth Day on April 22nd. The Living Series was created to arm consumers with practical advice on how to make the transition to a more eco-friendly life. This six DVD series offers invaluable information and tips on everything from green cleaning to energy conservation, green gardening and organic cooking. The Living Series features a variety of experts and simple, easy to follow instructions.Many of us have been increasingly hungry for credible information on how to "go green" in all aspects of our lives. From the products we use, to the companies we deal with, to the very ... continue reading.

Waterloo, Ontario - Alternatives Journal, Canada's national environmental magazine, has been nominated for Environmental Coverage in the prestigious Utne Independent Press Awards for 2010.Utne Reader, which collects and publishes articles from 1300 independent newspapers and magazines from around the world, named the nominees for the 21st annual awards yesterday.Eighty publications are nominated across 10 categories - general excellence, best writing, politics, arts, international, health/wellness, science/tech, social/cultural, environmental and spiritual. Alternatives is one of only five Canadian magazines nominated this year.From the Utne website: "The nominees for the 21st annual Utne Independent Press Awards represent the very best of the best of what we read in 2009."Winners will be announced in Washington, D.C., during the Magazine Publishers of America's Independent Magazine ... continue reading.

New Society Publishers - With Spring on the way, we here at New Society are itching to get out of the office. Here are some of the shows we'll be attending. Federation of Canadian Municipalities Conference: Growing the Green Economy: Practical Solutions for Sustainable Communities. Ottawa, Ontario from Feb. 10-12. Join us at this national forum for leading thinkers and planners in sustainable community development. Portland Better Living Show. Portland, Oregon from March 26-28. The largest sustainable lifestyle show in the Pacific Northwest. Living Future. Seattle, Washington from May 5-7. The Unconference for Deep Green Professionals. Please consider stopping by to see us in person - we love to meet you! In fact, if you stop by our booth at ... continue reading.

From our friends at New Society Publishers... We have several titles that will appeal to those concerned about making the transition to a post-carbon world. A Nation of Farmers shows how to defeat the food crisis by creating resilient local food systems and growing, cooking and eating sustainably and naturally. The Ecotechnic Future fuses human ecology and history to envision a society that supports relatively advanced technology on a sustainable resource base. Plan C introduces a realistic community-based strategy for food, health, housing and transportation in a post-Peak Oil world.   The do-it-yourself types and retro-device junkies on your list will love The Human-Powered Home  -a compendium of plans for people-powered devices from blenders to washing machines and everything in ... continue reading.

OUR CHOICE A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis Al Gore EMMAUS, PA, and NEW YORK, NY, November 3, 2009—Rodale Books is proud to announce the publication of OUR CHOICE: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis (Rodale Books; November 3, 2009; ISBN 978-1-59486-734-7; $26.99; 416 pages w/ 4-color illustrations throughout) by former Vice President Al Gore. OUR CHOICE is the pioneering follow-up to Gore’s bestselling An Inconvenient Truth, in which he unequivocally laid out the case for climate crisis. With OUR CHOICE, he gives us the tools to solve it. During the three and a half years since the release of An Inconvenient Truth Al Gore has organized and moderated over 30 lengthy and intensive “Solutions Summits,” where the ... continue reading.