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by David Gessner

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Gessner makes a frank and funny case for a new environmentalism, cautioning us against the modern pitfalls of holier-than-thou posturing, capitalist green vendors, and fractured special-interest groups. He also suggests that global problems, though real, are disempowering, arguing instead for a movement focused on local issues and grounded in a more basic defense of home.

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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 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 Edward Abbey's legacy to Jimmy Carter's sweater, weaving his intellectual quest with real adventure, Gessner points toward a scrappy environmentalism that, despite all odds, just might change the world. "Heartfelt and informed" (Boston Globe), My Green Manifesto is a spirited call to arms by a major figure on the vanguard of a new environmentalism.

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  • Title My Green Manifesto: Down the Charles River in Pursuit of a New Environmentalism
  • Author David Gessner
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Original
  • Pages 224
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Milkweed Editions, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 2011-07
  • Features Bibliography, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9781571313249 / 1571313249
  • Weight 0.75 lbs (0.34 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.6 x 5.7 x 1.1 in (21.84 x 14.48 x 2.79 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: New England
    • Geographic Orientation: Massachusetts
    • Topical: Ecology
  • Category Nature
  • Library of Congress subjects Environmental protection, Environmentalism
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2011012994
  • Dewey Decimal Code 304.2

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Citations

  • Booklist, 07/01/2011, Page 9
  • Books & Culture, 09/01/2012, Page 20
  • Kirkus Reviews, 06/15/2011, Page 0
  • Publishers Weekly, 06/06/2011, Page 0

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David Gessner is the author of eight books and countless essays about the wild world, including Return of the Osprey, which was hailed as a "classic of American Nature Writing" by the Boston Globe and was selected as one of their top ten nonfiction books of the year. Gessner is the recent winner of a Pushcart Prize and the John Burroughs Award for Best Natural History Essay. His essays have been included in The Best American Essays series and The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2008. His work has also appeared in many magazines and journals including New York Times Magazine, Boston Globe, Outside, Georgia Review, Harvard Review, and Orion. Founder of the journal Ecotone, he teaches at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington.
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