- Paperback: 412 pages
- Publisher: Greystone Books; Reprint edition (Mar 11 2003)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 155054926X
- ISBN-13: 978-1550549263
- Product Dimensions: 22.8 x 15.6 x 2.7 cm
- Shipping Weight: 608 g
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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#207,485 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #77 in Books > Outdoors & Nature > Conservation > Environmentalism
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With Good News for a Change, scientist and environmentalist David Suzuki sheds his town crier image and, along with co-author Holly Dressel, accentuates the positive. Good News chronicles those individuals and companies who have come to terms with their place in the schematics of life. Together they have found not only better solutions, but profitable ones. The Better Buildings Partnership in Toronto, for example, is a mandated consortium to retrofit existing mega-structures. Not only have the BBP projects saved consumable energy with proper insulation and ventilation systems, thus financial savings, but the BBP itself has created thousands of jobs.
One of the most telling statements comes from an environmental ethicist who provides workshops to companies. In these workshops, employees are asked to sustain a fictional finite world. The participants surprisingly devise ingenious environmentally positive solutions. As Suzuki and Dressel recount, once placed in small groups, even those who are corporate-oriented seem to know what is "right." Yet these very participants, as part of the larger corporate entity, balk at the same solutions in the real world. The authors conclude, "As a society … we are not very bright." But there is hope, they say, in small steps. --Tim Tokaryk
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We all know the bad news;we read reports of the damage that industrial development is wreaking on our soil, air, and water. The good news is that thousands of individuals, groups, and businesses are already changing their ways. There is a spontaneous global quest for ways to survive sustainably, and, say Suzuki and Dressel, many of the technologies that we need to realize our goals are already within our grasp.
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It seems to be a fact of life that we can only survive by using up and destroying things, if only the food we consume. Read the first page
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5.0 out of 5 stars
First book of the genre I bought,
By Denis Heraud (Montreal, Quebec, Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Good News For A Change (Paperback)
I'm beginning studies in Environmental Science and this is the first book I've read along the lines of sustainability. I have to say it was an amazing read. Positive and optimistic but without losing site of how wrong things are right now and of how bad they can potentially get. Very realistic.There seems to be a focus on sustainable agriculture and foresting, which was enlightning because I had never read much on those particular subjects. There are other interesting topics that are explored in this book. A must-buy, no doubt about it. Thank you David, for an insightful read... and for fueling my optimism about our future.
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An upbeat amalgamation of working solutions,
By Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Good News For A Change (Paperback)
The collaborative effort of environmental scientist David Suzuki and writer/researcher Holly Dressel, Good News For A Change: How Everyday People Are Helping The Planet is an upbeat amalgamation of working solutions for the improvement human life while enhancing the quality of the environment. Successful plans to save species, conserve soil, and right social wrongs, range from keeping the ocean stocked with fish to preserving biodiversity among grasses and carnivores alike. Good News For A Change is a welcome and timely addition to Environmental Studies collections, as well as recommended for concerned environmental activists as being especially uplifting and inspirational reading.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Provides a positive focus and a blueprint for survival,
By Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Good News For A Change (Paperback)
Good News For A Change isn't just another account of disasters and future problems; instead it provides a positive focus and a blueprint for survival by gathering the stories of everyday people and how they are helping to change their world. The solutions to saving the planet exist, the authors maintain: they just have to be identified and implemented on a range of levels. An intriguing survey results.
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