Book Review: Field Notes from a Catastrophe

Elizabeth Kolbert’s Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature and Climate Change is an excellent, accessible book that contains a collection of articles originally written for the New Yorker.  Kolbert uses snapshots from her travels, interviews and research to educate the reader about man’s impacts on the environment.  Far from being condescending or depressing, Kolbert [...]

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Learning to Be Green: The WALL-E Effect

I was at a dinner party the other day when, upon hearing of my interest in environmental ethics, a lady brought the new Pixar movie WALL-E up in conversation.  WALL-E is about the last Clean-Up robot standing after humans have left the planet due to trash from rampant consumerism, induced by the huge corporation, Buy [...]

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