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February 2023 Books

Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We’re in with Unexpected Resilience and Creative Power (Revised Edition)

By Joanna Macy and Chris Johnstone. New World Library, 2022. 288 pages. $18.95/paperback or eBook. Most books about the mess…

Reviewed by Pamela Haines

November 2022 Book Reviews

After Cooling: On Freon, Global Warming, and the Terrible Cost of Comfort

By Eric Dean Wilson. Simon & Schuster, 2022. 480 pages. $19.99/paperback; $14.99/eBook. It was a hot summer in Philadelphia, Pa.…

Reviewed by Pamela Haines

October 2022 Books

The Future We Need: Organizing for a Better Democracy in the Twenty-First Century

By Erica Smiley and Sarita Gupta. ILR Press, 2022. 276 pages. $125/hardcover; $24.95/paperback; $16.99/eBook. We can paint U.S. workers with…

Reviewed by Pamela Haines

March 2022 Books

Just Money: Mission-Driven Banks and the Future of Finance

By Katrin Kaufer and Lillian Steponaitis. MIT Press, 2021. 192 pages. $17.95/paperback; $13.99/eBook. I was attracted to this book for…

Reviewed by Pamela Haines

February 2022 Books

The World We Need: Stories and Lessons from America’s Unsung Environmental Movement

Edited by Audrea Lim. The New Press, 2021. 352 pages. $19.99/paperback or eBook. This collection of stories about local citizen…

Reviewed by Pamela Haines

January 2021 Books

All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis

Edited by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katharine K. Wilkinson. One World, 2020. 448 pages. $29/hardcover; $18/paperback; $13.99/eBook. This collection of…

Reviewed by Pamela Haines

November 2021 Books

A Small Farm Future: Making the Case for a Society Built Around Local Economies, Self-Provisioning, Agricultural Diversity, and a Shared Earth

By Chris Smaje. Chelsea Green Publishing, 2020. 320 pages. $22.50/paperback or eBook. It is written in Proverbs: “Where there is…

Reviewed by Pamela Haines

June/July 2021 Books

The Reindeer Chronicles and Other Inspiring Stories of Working with Nature to Heal the Earth

By Judith D. Schwartz. Chelsea Green Publishing, 2020. 256 pages. $17.95/paperback or eBook. Could land restoration play a significant role…

Reviewed by Pamela Haines

February 2021 Books

When Should Law Forgive?

By Martha Minow. W.W. Norton & Company, 2019. 256 pages. $27.95/hardcover; $17.95/paperback or eBook. When Should Law Forgive? is like…

Reviewed by Pamela Haines

January 2021 Books

The Well-Gardened Mind: The Restorative Power of Nature

By Sue Stuart-Smith. Scribner, 2020. 352 pages. $28/hardcover; $14.99/eBook. I stepped into this book ready to be supported in my…

Reviewed by Pamela Haines