2:46: Aftershocks: Stories from the Japan Earthquake is comprised of lots (about 100) of short stories that focus on many different aspects of the earthquake and subsequent events. Some accounts focus on the role of the media and social networking, some on the earthquake and how it affected them or people they know and [...]

  g Do Good Lives Have to Cost the Earth? edited by Andrew Simms and Joe Smith.  Having a limited range of understanding about environmental issues I thought this book was excellent.  It discusses the environment, not in the traditional narrow scientific sense, but, instead in a way that brings together all sorts of different disciplines including [...]

A friend recommended I read Capitalism: As If the World Matters by Jonathon Porritt.  In a consumer society slowly eating itself, there’s no more pressing question than whether or not capitalism and sustainability can ever go together. Johnathon Porritt sets out here to prove that they can. On the one hand, “global capitalism as we know it [...]