| My Green Manifesto: Down the Charles River in Pursuit of a New Environmentalism Contributor(s): Gessner, David (Author) |
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ISBN: 1571313249 ISBN-13: 9781571313249 Publisher: Milkweed Editions OUR PRICE: $13.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Nature | Environmental Conservation & Protection - General - Social Science | Human Geography - Nature | Ecology |
| Dewey: 304.2 |
| LCCN: 2011012994 |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 5.7" W x 8.6" (0.75 lbs) 224 pages |
| Themes: - Topical - Ecology - Geographic Orientation - Massachusetts - Cultural Region - New England |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In My Green Manifesto, David Gessner embarks on a rough-and-tumble journey down Boston's Charles River, searching for the soul of a new environmentalism. With a tragically leaky canoe, a broken cell phone, a cooler of beer, and the environmental planner Dan Driscoll in tow, Gessner grapples with the stereotype of the environmentalist as an overzealous, puritanical mess. But as Dan recounts his own story of transforming the famously polluted Charles into an urban haven for wildlife and wild people, the vision of a new sort of eco-champion begins to emerge: someone who falls in love with a forgotten space, and then fights like hell for it. Considering everything from Ed Abbey's legacy to Jimmy Carter's sweater, Gessner points toward a scrappy environmentalism that, despite all odds, just might change the world. |