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Overview

In this groundbreaking book, the New York Times bestselling coauthor of The Green Book Thomas M. Kostigen reveals the vital missing link in today's environmental crisis: how we as individuals are connected to the most tenuous geography on the planet. Despite the recent prominence of "green" issues in the news, the direct relationship between our actions and the earth is too often ignored. But the seemingly insignificant things we do every day have the power to literally alter the landscape in the ongoing battle to resuscitate the planet.

There are living narratives of climate change that reveal the consequences of our everyday actions. You Are Here allows us to both comprehend and care ...

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Overview

In this groundbreaking book, the New York Times bestselling coauthor of The Green Book Thomas M. Kostigen reveals the vital missing link in today's environmental crisis: how we as individuals are connected to the most tenuous geography on the planet. Despite the recent prominence of "green" issues in the news, the direct relationship between our actions and the earth is too often ignored. But the seemingly insignificant things we do every day have the power to literally alter the landscape in the ongoing battle to resuscitate the planet.

There are living narratives of climate change that reveal the consequences of our everyday actions. You Are Here allows us to both comprehend and care about what's happening in these encampments of ruin. Kostigen shows us what may well be a glimpse of our future in Linfen City, China, one of the most polluted places on the planet. From a garbage patch twice the size of Texas in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, to the melting arctic ice shelf, to the flood zone that is Mumbai, India, to the dwindling rainforests of the Amazon, You Are Here describes the environmental crisis in a way we can feel, see, and touch. Kostigen presents us with opportunities for change and shows us how to take action on the spot, wherever we are. Combining groundbreaking research and page-turning frontline reporting, Kostigen pulls back the curtain on the most pressing and provocative issues of the day and in so doing we see the earth and our place on it in a brand new light.

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This book has a clear and simple message: The health of our ecosystem and, indeed, global survival begins at home. Thomas Kostigen, coauthor of The Green Book, emphasizes the connection between individual action and the state of the environment. In You Are Here, he brings readers face to face with the results of small actions like flicking on a light switch or shirking just one week of recycling. Sometime the results are so vast that they cannot be ignored: The Pacific Ocean now contains a dead zone twice the size of Texas. Urgently needed insights for concerned citizens.
Rocky Mountain News
“The highly readable book is filled with surprising facts and statistics, as well as many doable ways to reduce our dirty human footprint.”
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It's not enough to abstractly consider being "green," in the world today. Kostigen wants listeners to come face to face with the realistic outcomes of overexploitation of the world's resources. Traveling from cities where the pollution is so toxic people must always wear masks to a miles-wide flotilla of trash in the Pacific Ocean or where the rainforest meets industrialization, Kostigen provides listeners with some real evidence of excessive and detrimental waste. His goals are earnest, but though he provides typical and practical advice that people can follow every day to address these issues, his intentions don't translate well into his prose. Kostigen reads his text clearly and smoothly, and his voice and tone are easy to follow and enjoy. However, given the gravitas of his ideas, his voice lacks the passion and emphasis to reinforce his words that one might expect. A HarperOne hardcover. (Oct.)

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Self-styled environmental "adventure story" makes an impassioned plea for greater understanding and commitment. Discover magazine columnist Kostigen attempts to show how our habits and consumption cause problems all over the world. Among other places, he visits Mumbai, India, to which the West exports enormous quantities of hazardous waste, and Borneo, where the global demand for palm oil is causing deforestation. "We are contributing to our own demise and health hazards by the products that we buy and the choices we make," he writes. As an example, he points to the remote Alaskan village of Shishmaref, "the first community in the world to succumb to climate change," where houses fall into the sea due to erosion of the permafrost; he agrees with residents' assertions that this erosion is caused by pollution from "the lower forty-eight." Kostigen illustrates the effects of Americans' obsession with cheap goods by visiting Linfen City, China, "the dirtiest place on earth," where coal plants fuel the manufacturing boom. He finds the tail end of consumerism in the Pacific Ocean, where he joins a researcher tracking a spiral of debris "twice the size of Texas" that generates plastic fragments that are replacing zooplankton in the oceanic food chain. The author's approach produces mixed results. Colloquial prose conveys a great deal of information in a manner that often seems scattershot. Readers learn about per capita paper use, personal carbon emissions (a pound for every mile we drive), rates of recycling, the size of New York's Fresh Kills landfill (world's largest man-made structure), the effects of soybean farming upon the Amazon (negative) and many other subtopics. When Kostigen connectsthe dots to demonstrate the effects of human action, he often sounds pedantic, despite the melodramatic asides. Similar in content to Fred Pearce's Confessions of an Eco-Sinner (2008), this is a less engaging book. A somewhat muddled clarion for readers wishing to transform their impact upon a battered planet.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780061580369
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
  • Publication date: 9/23/2008
  • Pages: 272
  • Product dimensions: 9.18 (w) x 10.90 (h) x 1.00 (d)

Meet the Author

Thomas M. Kostigen is coauthor of the New York Times bestseller The Green Book. He writes the Ethics Monitor column for Dow Jones MarketWatch and the Better Planet column and blog for Discover magazine. He lives in Santa Monica, California.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1

1 Losing Our Past: Jerusalem, Israel 5

2 Our Future: Mumbai, India 21

3 We Are Not Alone: Borneo, Southeast Asia 41

4 What Are We Doing?: Linfen City, China 61

5 Distant Consequences: Shishmaref Village, Alaska 81

6 Nature's Oxygen Factory: The Amazon Jungle 103

7 The Reality of Our Actions: The Fresh Kills Landfill, New York 123

8 Where the Currents Take Our Trash: The Eastern Garbage Patch, Pacific Ocean 143

9 The Greatest Problem No One Has Heard About: The Great Lakes, Duluth, Minnesota 167

10 Where to Spread Your Wings: Home: Santa Monica, California 191

Afterword 207

Resources 213

Index 245

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 23, 2008

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    A real wake up call.

    Kostigen does all the leg work as he takes us to the earth's most polluted, environmentally corrupt places to remind us of one beautiful truth: we are all connected by the earth. We are all affected by what we do to it.

    He links my toothpaste to the gangster-run logging camps and palm oil industry of Borneo. He explores the world's dirtiest city, Linfen City, China and how it affects global climate change and investigates a garbage patch in the Pacific Ocean twice the size of Texas! Why is this the first time I'm hearing about this?!

    He travels to these ugly places, deals with shady guides, guards and gatekeepers to open our eyes. He urges us to live simply and be conscious of what we use.

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 10, 2009

    Purchased as a text for a new class. He writes as a visitor and first hand investigator of the places he discusses.

    The book is an easy read. I am not sure about the accuracy of the information as I am not knowledgeable about world wide sustainablity and international treatment of forests and waterways. The book was interesting for base knowledge. I disagree with some of the things he said though after reading and doing my own research.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 6, 2009

    You Are Here by Thomas Kostigen

    I thought YOU ARE HERE was the best I've read so far on the environment, and I have been reading on this topic for 20 years! A lot of books focus on just one problem, i.e. global warming or e-waste, etc. but this book was all-encompassing. It had enough facts and figures to make it credible but not so many that book became boring. It was a great book -- interesting and illuminating.

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