http://www.ncreview.com/ http://www.ncreview.com/sustainability/dirt-the-erosion-of-civilizations http://www.ncreview.com/sustainability/dirt-the-erosion-of-civilizations Dirt, soil, call it what you want--it's everywhere we go. It is the root of our existence, supporting our feet, our farms, our cities. This fascinating yet disquieting book finds, however, that we are running out of dirt, and it's no laughing matter. An engaging natural and cultural history of soil that sweeps from ancient civilizations to modern times,... ]]> Mon, 18 Feb 2013 20:34:00 -0800 3062 2013-02-18 http://www.ncreview.com/images/stories/jreviews/_51f3lsj4ral-1361219644.jpg http://www.ncreview.com/sustainability/foodopoly-the-battle-over-the-future-of-food-and-farming-in-america http://www.ncreview.com/sustainability/foodopoly-the-battle-over-the-future-of-food-and-farming-in-america Wenonah Hauter is the executive director of Food & Water Watch, but she also runs an organic family farm in Northern Virginia that provides healthy vegetables to over five hundred families in the Washington, D.C., area as part of the Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program. Despite this, as one of the nation’s leading healthy food advocates, Hauter believes that... ]]> Mon, 18 Feb 2013 20:19:00 -0800 3060 2013-02-18 http://www.ncreview.com/images/stories/jreviews/_51qkllfccvl-1361218799.jpg http://www.ncreview.com/sustainability/behind-the-kitchen-door http://www.ncreview.com/sustainability/behind-the-kitchen-door "Sustainability is about contributing to a society that everybody benefits from, not just going organic because you don't want to die from cancer or have a difficult pregnancy. What is a sustainable restaurant? It's one in which as the restaurant grows, the people grow with it."-from Behind the Kitchen Door How do restaurant workers live on some... ]]> Sun, 17 Feb 2013 02:15:00 -0800 3057 2013-02-17 http://www.ncreview.com/images/stories/jreviews/_51qqtovxsyl-1361067313.jpg http://www.ncreview.com/sustainability/the-future-six-drivers-of-global-change http://www.ncreview.com/sustainability/the-future-six-drivers-of-global-change From the former vice president and #1 New York Times bestselling author comes An Inconvenient Truth for everything—a frank and clear-eyed assessment of six critical drivers of global change in the decades to come. Ours is a time of revolutionary change that has no precedent in history. With the same passion he brought to the challenge of... ]]> Sat, 02 Feb 2013 00:47:00 -0800 3036 2013-02-02 http://www.ncreview.com/images/stories/jreviews/_41e7zxiwoil-1359766071.jpg http://www.ncreview.com/sustainability/sharing-eden-green-teachings-from-jews-christians-and-muslims http://www.ncreview.com/sustainability/sharing-eden-green-teachings-from-jews-christians-and-muslims "Finding common ground between Christianity, Islam, and Judaism is a critical priority for the whole world—and nowhere is that common ground more evident or inspiring than on environmental issues."— Jonathon Porritt, co-founder, Forum for the Future "[A] very encouraging and helpful project, and I hope it inspires those in each of the three traditions to... ]]> Sat, 19 Jan 2013 18:30:00 -0800 3010 2013-01-19 http://www.ncreview.com/images/stories/jreviews/_411uoyl84vl-1358620205.jpg http://www.ncreview.com/sustainability/nature http://www.ncreview.com/sustainability/nature Nature is a work by Ralph Waldo Emerson now brought to you in this new edition of the timeless classic. ]]> Fri, 18 Jan 2013 04:21:00 -0800 3007 2013-01-18 http://www.ncreview.com/images/stories/jreviews/_51wecgrbmcl-1358482872.jpg http://www.ncreview.com/sustainability/ecomind-changing-the-way-we-think-to-create-the-world-we-want http://www.ncreview.com/sustainability/ecomind-changing-the-way-we-think-to-create-the-world-we-want In EcoMind, Frances Moore Lappé—a giant of the environmental movement—confronts accepted wisdom of environmentalism. Drawing on the latest research from anthropology to neuroscience and her own field experience, she argues that the biggest challenge to human survival isn’t our fossil fuel dependency, melting glaciers, or other calamities. Rather, it’s our faulty way of thinking about these environmental crises that... ]]> Wed, 02 Jan 2013 17:53:00 -0800 2973 2013-01-02 http://www.ncreview.com/images/stories/jreviews/_51uce2hn2ul-1357149196.jpg http://www.ncreview.com/sustainability/water-the-epic-struggle-for-wealth-power-and-civilization http://www.ncreview.com/sustainability/water-the-epic-struggle-for-wealth-power-and-civilization Far more than oil, the control of water wealth throughout history has been pivotal to the rise and fall of great powers, the achievements of civilization, the transformations of society's vital habitats, and the quality of ordinary daily lives. Today, freshwater scarcity is one of the twenty-first century's decisive, looming challenges, driving new political, economic, and environmental realities across... ]]> Tue, 01 Jan 2013 02:11:00 -0800 2972 2013-01-01 http://www.ncreview.com/images/stories/jreviews/_51lvdwpuell-1357006305.jpg http://www.ncreview.com/sustainability/the-world-until-yesterday-what-can-we-learn-from-traditional-societies http://www.ncreview.com/sustainability/the-world-until-yesterday-what-can-we-learn-from-traditional-societies Most of us take for granted the features of our modern society, from air travel and telecommunications to literacy and obesity. Yet for nearly all of its six million years of existence, human society had none of these things. While the gulf that divides us from our primitive ancestors may seem unbridgeably wide, we can glimpse much of our... ]]> Fri, 28 Dec 2012 18:33:00 -0800 2964 2012-12-28 http://www.ncreview.com/images/stories/jreviews/_51vxlmszr4l-1356719588.jpg http://www.ncreview.com/sustainability/the-crash-course-the-unsustainable-future-of-our-economy-energy-and-environment http://www.ncreview.com/sustainability/the-crash-course-the-unsustainable-future-of-our-economy-energy-and-environment The next twenty years will be completely unlike the last twenty years. The world is in economic crisis, and there are no easy fixes to our predicament. Unsustainable trends in the economy, energy, and the environment have finally caught up with us and are converging on a very narrow window of time—the "Twenty-Teens." The Crash Coursepresents our... ]]> Sat, 15 Dec 2012 01:40:00 -0800 2944 2012-12-15 http://www.ncreview.com/images/stories/jreviews/_51cwhgb7zbl-1355535626.jpg