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Riverkeeper Alex Matthiessen on his five must-read environmental books.
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Looking to raise your green IQ? Check out these titles recom-mended by Hudson Riverkeeper and President of the Tarrytown-based Riverkeeper environmental advocacy group, Alex Matthiessen. |
| 1. Power Trip, Amanda Little Everyone should be reading this account of the author’s yearlong tour of the American energy landscape and our transition to a clean energy future, says Matthiessen. What makes it particularly noteworthy “is that in an era of polarization and vitriol, Little doesn’t demonize and stereotype the various people involved in producing or consuming our energy.” |
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2. Silent Spring, Rachel Carson Even though it was first published close to 50 years ago, this seminal book is every bit as relevant today, says Matthiessen, who recommends it as a good primer on ecological systems. “She paints a startling portrait of a world where the water and air that are supposed to sustain us have instead become vectors of poison.” |
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4. Bottlemania, Elizabeth Royte |
5. End of Nature, Bill McKibben Matthiessen calls this book by preeminent nature writer Bill McKibben “one of the most elegiac books on the environment ever written.” Why? “It gets underneath the facts and figures,” says Matthiessen, “and by the now well-known story of climate change and begins to address the potential psychological impact on humans of having done such enormous damage to the only planet we have.” |
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