Drawing From Life: The Journal as Art

by Jennifer New

“Jennifer New takes readers on a spirited tour into the private worlds of journal keepers an architect, a traveler, a film director, an archeologist, a cancer patient, a songwriter, a quiltmaker, a gardener, an artist, a cyclist, and a scientist, to name just a few illustrating a broad range of journaling styles and techniques that in the end show how each of us can go about documenting our everyday lives. Excerpts from journals by such artists as Maira Kalman, Steven Holl, David Byrne, and Mike Figgis give us a peek at how creative souls observe, reflect, and explore.”

Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution–And How It Can Renew America

by Thomas L. Friedman

David Suzuki is reading this right now – do you really need more to go on?

Put simply: Hot, Flat, and Crowded explains how the world wide increase of the middle class combined with a growing global energy crisis has landed us in a situation where we are desperately in need of an energy solution. More doom and gloom? Not really. And that is the great thing about this author: he has hope! Friedman talks about the need for cooperation and innovation. He points out that the fossil-fuel age will end only when we invent our way out of it.

Real Food: What to Eat and Why

Nina Planck

Plancks assessment of what to eat and why comes from a compelling cross referencing of scientific evidence and folk wisdom. Using her own life experience (Planck was raised on farm food but abandoned this ‘food philosophy’ for vegetarianism in college), the author illustrates why the foods we love (animal protein, butter, eggs, milk, dark chocolate) are good for us. Nina Planck knows where of she speaks, she is responsible for the creation of farmers’ markets in London and Washington D.C. and ran New York City’s famous Greenmarket. Just looking at the book cover makes my mouth water.

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