More Good News: Real Solutions to the Global Eco-Crisis

by David Suzuki, Holly Dressel

Overview

In this edition of their bestseller, the sequel to the best-selling Good News for a Change, authors David Suzuki and Holly Dressel provide the latest inspiring stories about individuals, groups, and businesses that are making real change in the world. More Good News features the most up-to-date information about critical subjects, such as energy and the economy, not covered in the previous edition. These stories offer compelling proof from the front lines that sustainable solutions already exist.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781553656258
Publisher:	Greystone Books
Publication date:	05/01/2010
Series:	David Suzuki Institute
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	432
File size:	585 KB

About the Author

David Suzuki is an acclaimed geneticist and environmentalist, and the founder and chair of the David Suzuki Foundation. He is the author of more than forty books and is the recipient of the UNESCO Kalinga Prize for Science, the United Nations Environmental Medal, the UNEP’s Global 500 award, and has been named a Companion of the Order of Canada. In addition, he holds eighteen honorary degrees and he has been adopted into three First Nations clans. Suzuki lives in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Holly Dressel, co-author of From Naked Ape to Superspecies, has been a writer/researcher for television, film and radio for 20 years. She has worked for CBC TV's The Nature of Things, as well as on other television documentaries such as The Cola Wars and Memoirs of Pierre Elliott Trudeau. She was a researcher on Gwynne Dyer's celebrated film series War. Dressel lives on a farm near Montréal with a changing parade of family, friends and animals.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements 1

Introduction 3

1 Viva La Revolutión Political Will 10

2 Using Coyotes To Grow Grass Biodiversity 65

3 Avoiding Venus Climate Change 115

4 Listen For The Jaguar Forests 157

5 A River Runs Through It Fresh Water 212

6 The Mother Of All Oceans 266

7 Baking A Sustainable Pudding Agriculture 293

8 Green Jobs In The City Economies 349

Notes 406

Index 430