Recommended Reading

Sarah had to read My Green Manifesto by David Gessner for a class. She enjoyed it, so I picked it up. I'll forgo giving a long review but will say that it spoke a great deal to us as people who became environmentalists during childhoods lived in less-than-pristine areas of Georgia. The book asks us to fall in love with the places that are right outside our door, even if they are not perfectly preserved. Then, we should fight for those places instead of considering them beyond hope. If we all did that, we might really get somewhere.

Also recommended is the article Dramatizing the "death" of environmentalism doesn't help urban people of color, or anyone else, from March 2005 on Grist. This is another great read about needed shifts in popular environmental thinking.

Enjoy!