Ecological Intelligence : How Knowing the Hidden Impacts of What We Buy Can Change Everything

from briantomlin

"Going Green" is everywhere right now, and nowhere more than in retail stores. Most of the things that we think of as good for the environment, such as recycling and bringing our own bags to the supermarket, but Goleman suggests that these aren't the most important things we should be doing. The ...

from shanglee

I thought this would be another book on the environment. The book I would recommend on the environment is The Skeptical Environmentalist. However, I have to say this book is still quite a good read. I especially liked the case studies which the author brought in e.g. on how Coca Cola had to rethi...

from Opinionated

I have a mixed view of this book. Firstly, on a purely literary level, as with many business oriented books these days, there is one key idea, very easily grasped in the first chapter, with which you will agree or disagree. But there is very little real need to read on after that. Secondly, I abs...

from briantomlin

"Going Green" is everywhere right now, and nowhere more than in retail stores. Most of the things that we think of as good for the environment, such as recycling and bringing our own bags to the supermarket, but Goleman suggests that these aren't the most important things we should be doing. The ...

from lilibrarian

A description of how knowing more about the products we buy, including their provenance and the environmental cost of their production, can make use better consumers and help protect the environment.