Books on Environment

Blood of the Earth

The Battle for the World's Vanishing Oil Resources

By Dilip Hiro

The Ten Minute Activist

Easy Ways to Take Back the Planet

By The Mission Collective

What if making a difference only required ten minutes of our time every day?

Appetite for Profit

How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back

By Michele Simon

This book exposes the hypocrisy of major food companies like Kraft, Coca-Cola, and McDonalds, that are staging massive PR campaigns to look like they are "part of the solution" while they simultaneously lobby against sound nutrition policies.

Blackout

How the Electric Industry Exploits America

By Gordon L. Weil

Ever since Thomas Edison created the first electrical utility, the energy industry has cheated American customers with impunity. Blackout delves into the history of this increasingly monopolized--and corrupt--industry.

Unsustainable

How Economic Dogma is Destroying American Prosperity

By Eamonn Fingleton

When financial journalist Eamonn Fingleton anticipated the meltdown of the New Economy in the late 1990s, his predictions were dismissed by mainstream economic writers as "far-fetched." Now, with the New Economy in ruins and America mired in recession, Fingleton's contrarian take on mainstream ecomonic thinking seems ever more prescient.