Today's quote
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
— Dwight Eisenhower (1890-1969)
Recently addedBottled and Sold : The Story Behind Our Obsession with Bottled Water, Peter H. Gleick The Story of Stuff : How Our Obsession with Stuff Is Trashing the Planet, Our Communities, and Our Health-and a Vision for Change, Annie Leonard 13 Bankers : The Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial Meltdown, Simon Johnson, James Kwak Gristle : From Factory Farms to Food Safety (Thinking Twice About the Meat We Eat) , Moby Travel as a Political Act, Rick Steves
Recently deployedThe Little Money Book, David Boyle The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight : The Fate of the World and What We Can Do Before It's Too Late, Thom Hartmann We the People : A Call to Take Back America, Thom Hartmann The Little Earth Book, James Bruges The Weather Makers : How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth, Tim Flannery
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Reading list
| BookProject - staff picks nonprofit | books: 13
reviews: 5 | Books and films that BookProject staff members have found particularly worthwhile. | |
Categories: Economics, Environment, Globalization, Local/global, Media Reading list rating: | substance |  | 10.0 |
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Categories: Environment Reading list rating: | substance | | 10.0 |
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Categories: Media Reading list rating: | substance | | 10.0 |
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The Problem of the Media : U.S. Communication Politics in the Twenty-First Century by Robert W. McChesney (Paperback, 367 pages) Categories: Media Reading list rating: | substance | | 10.0 |
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Plan B 2.0 : Rescuing a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble by Lester R. Brown (Paperback, 352 pages) Categories: Economics, Environment, Food Reading list rating: | substance | | 10.0 |
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We the People : A Call to Take Back America by Thom Hartmann (Paperback, 216 pages) Categories: Democracy |  | |
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Categories: Environment, Local/global | |
War Made Easy : How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death by Norman Solomon (DVD, 73 minutes) Categories: History, Media, Peace | |
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