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Holiday Gift - TIME Planet Earth

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time-planet-earth-book-rev Available just in time for the holiday season, TIME's PLANET EARTH: An Illustrated History is the perfect gift for friends and family members of all ages and reaffirms the countless reasons we should care about the future of life on earth.

PLANET EARTH: An Illustrated History takes you on an epic journey of discovery through the wonders of Mother Nature where renowned photographers traveled to far corners of the earth to capture nature's most beautiful and most extreme.

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BOOK REVIEW - Bitter Sweet Chocolate

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Have you ever wondered why chocolate bars are so cheap? It is called child slavery. As a result, this universally enjoyed sweet has in recent years started to leave a bitter aftertaste. Canadian author Carol Off has written a book aptly titled 'Bitter Chocolate'. Her book lifts the lid on the use of child slavery in the cocoa plantations of West Africa. According to Off, "we have chocolate bars today that seem to be cheap and affordable even to a child...but the truth of the matter is we can only afford this chocolate because it is children picking and cultivating the beans in West Africa."
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BOOK REVIEW: Simple Prosperity

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Author David Wann makes a compelling case that the current fiscal squeeze is really a good thing in Simple Prosperity. A coauthor of the best selling Affluenza, he covers a lot of solution-oriented ground, from conscientious consumption and cohousinig to building human-scale neighborhoods and dismantling the fossil fuel economy... --Utne Reader “This book is full of wisdom for real living; and it will help you find a kind of wealth that's woven right within the fabric of everyday life.” — Sarah Susanka, author of The Not So Big Life: Making Room for What Really Matters
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BOOK REVIEW: 50 Ways to F**K the Planet

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50-ways-283x220px In a world where we're bombarded with advice on going green, authors Mark Townsend and David Glick take a refreshing line and tell us how NOT to go green.

Indeed, they're here to help us f**k up the planet good and proper. And it's easier than you think.

An irreverent celebration of environmental doom and gloom, 50 Ways to F**k the Planet takes the 'eco-handbook' in an outrageous new direction, exposing fifty very real and very scary threats facing the world today and showing just how entertaining and easy it is for us to make them worse.