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'Green Gone Wrong' Uncovers Which Climate Change 'Solutions' are Part of the Problemnew

If you think you're saving the planet by buying compact-fluorescent bulbs and organic, fair trade coffee beans, Heather Rogers' new book might wipe the smug off your face.

Seven Days | Ken Picard | 04-15-2011 | Author Profiles & Interviews

Tags: environment, consumerism, Green Gone Wrong: How Our Economy Is Undermining the Environmental Revolution, Heather Rogers

'Sisters in War': A Vermont Journalist Recounts the Stories of Women in War-Torn Baghdadnew

In 2004, as Baghdad became increasingly dangerous for journalists, Christina Asquith took refuge in the apartment of two sisters. Now she tells their story in Sisters in War: A Story of Love, Family, and Survival in the New Iraq, which was published by Random House in September.

Seven Days | Margot Harrison | 12-09-2009 | Author Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Christina Asquith, Sisters in War, Iraq, nonfiction, war & peace

Eugene Jarecki Has the 'Big Picture' and a New Book on Warnew

Jareki's print debut supplements his 2006 film, Why We Fight, while the cafe he co-founded in Vermont expresses his "desire to support social betterment."

Seven Days | Mike Ives | 12-29-2008 | Author Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Vermont, military, Eugene Jarecki, Why We Fight, nonfiction, war & peace, Big Picture Theater & Cafe, The American Way of War: Guided Missiles, Misguided Men, and a Republic in Peril

Michael Pollan on Vermont and the Challenges of Eating Well in the 21st Centurynew

He says Vermont is 30 years ahead of the food-production curve.

Seven Days | Suzanne Podhaizer | 06-20-2008 | Author Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Michael Pollan, locavore, Vermont, organic, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto, food production

To Food Writer Amy Trubek, Vermont Tastes Like the Futurenew

Trubek's just-released book The Taste of Place: A Cultural Journey into Terroir is a shot across the bow of our old system of thought and commerce. But more fundamentally, it shows how a renewed appreciation of the magic of local flavor might just save our collective bacon.

Seven Days | Matt Scanlon | 06-02-2008 | Author Profiles & Interviews

Tags: food, Vermont, factory farming, gardening, locavores, University of Vermont, Amy Trubek, The Taste of Place: A Cultural Journey into Terroir

Richard Heinberg Discusses a Post-Carbon Futurenew

Chances are, when you think about gasoline, it crosses your mind in an abstract way -- as if where it comes from and how much of it exists is someone else's problem. Thanks to peak oil expert Richard Heinberg, Americans' naive attitude toward fossil fuels may be changing.

Seven Days | Mike Ives | 04-28-2008 | Author Profiles & Interviews

Tags: environment, climate change, global warming, fossil fuels, peak oil, Richard Heinberg, gasoline, Peak Everything: Waking Up to the Century of Declines