Fibershed is a real eye opener! If you want your clothes to be good for the environment, then you need to consider their entire lifecycle. Where are the crops grown? Who processes them?How do they get transported? Where will they…
We love to read here at Whole People and recently a big debate broke out in the offices here. Half of us prefer to read traditional paper-based books and half of us have gone all-in on e-readers. All of us…
A lot of people seem to think that if you want to be frugal, you have to give up all the joyous things in your life and just focus on saving money. But it doesn’t need to be that way…
The term “anthropocene” refers to the age of man. It is the latest geological era and it is one in which we find the planet in crisis. In just two centuries, mankind has made an indelible mark on the planet…
Lewis Thomas has often been called the “poet-philosopher” of the medical world and that’s because of his ability to link all things to a central idea of biology. Where others might fear to tread, Lewis sees a world in which…
An Atlas of Natural Beauty: Botanical Ingredients for Retaining and Enhancing Beauty by Victoire De Taillac is a comprehensive guide to making beauty sustainable without compromise. This encyclopedic natural beauty tome is characterized by the following motto… “Nothing is simpler,…
With a foreword by James Lovelock, one of the creators of Gaia Theory, you know that Elisabet Sahtouris’ Earthdance will concern itself with big things. In fact, it concerns itself with two of the biggest concepts of them all in…
When the idea of “Gaia” was first proposed it was dismissed as new-age nonsense by much of the scientific community. Today, however, much of the original idea is considered to be scientific fact and those parts that weren’t? Have been…
With a foreword by the preeminent zoologist Gerard Durrell, you know that The Gaia Atlas of Planetary Management is a serious text. It was originally published in 1984, but Norman Myers’ classic work has been brought, somewhat, up to date…
Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan go on the scientific attack in Acquiring Genomes and challenge the assumptions many of us have about evolution and the world around us. They argue that instead of being the dominant factor in evolution, random…