Summary of Neil’s review: In his review of Jeremy Brecher’s The Green New Deal from Below: How Ordinary People are Building a Just Climate-Safe Economy, Neil Seldman highlights the “little-noticed wave of initiatives” by ordinary citizens, community groups, unions, and local governments working to build a just, climate-safe economy from the ground up. Brecher’s book…

Summary of Neil’s review: In Edward Humes’ Total Garbage: How We Can Fix Our Waste and Heal the World, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author provides an excellent introduction to the plastic crisis, combining revealing facts with profiles of entrepreneurs, researchers, and activists working on waste solutions. Humes’ clear prose describes the ubiquity of microplastics and their…