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My Green Manifesto: Down the Charles River in Pursuit of a New Environmentalism

By David Gessner

Book information

Publisher
Milkweed Editions
Year
2011
ISBN
1571313249, 9781571313249
LCC
GE195 .G47 2011
Open Library ID
OL25024944M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (2824792 bytes)
Edition
Original
Pages
224\243
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2012-03-09 12:00:00

Description

In My Green Manifesto, David Gessner embarks on a rough-and-tumble journey down Boston’s Charles River, searching for the soul of a new environmentalism. With a tragically leaky canoe, a broken cell phone, a cooler of beer, and the environmental planner Dan Driscoll in tow, Gessner grapples with the stereotype of the environmentalist as an overzealous, puritanical mess. But as Dan recounts his own story of transforming the famously polluted Charles into an urban haven for wildlife and wild people, the vision of a new sort of eco-champion begins to emerge: someone who falls in love with a forgotten space, and then fights like hell for it. Considering everything from Ed Abbey’s legacy to Jimmy Carter’s sweater, Gessner points toward a scrappy environmentalism that, despite all odds, just might change the world.

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