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  <title>Half Gone: Oil, Gas, Hot Air and the Global Energy Crisis by Leggett, Jeremy</title>
  <link>http://www.artsandecology.org.uk/magazine/recommended-reading/cornelia-parker/half-gone</link>
  <description><![CDATA[ An expose of the oil industry's cover-up of the diminishing oil supply, that paints a bleak picture of the future in which the price of oil skyrockets, economies and communities shudder worldwide, and the globe must move to renewable source to give it power. ]]></description>
  <pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 17:13:49 +0000</pubDate> 
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  <title>Carbon War by Leggett, Jeremy</title>
  <link>http://www.artsandecology.org.uk/magazine/recommended-reading/cornelia-parker/carbon-war</link>
  <description><![CDATA[ Excessive burning of oil, gas, and coal is raising our planet's thermostat to unacceptable levels -- a problem which has already resulted in increased natural catastrophes: storms, floods, droughts, and fires. Yet big oil companies have repeatedly hijacked efforts to slow global carbon emissions. THE CARBON WAR is a major call-to-arms for the safety of our planet. Throughout the last decade, Jeremy Leggett, a distinguished scientist at Oxford University and former director for Greenpeace, has worked doggedly to alert human kind to the threat of ecological catastrophe. With the grace of a novelist and the precision of a scientist, Leggett recounts his maddening interactions with scientific councils, international governmental meetings, and business leaders. Still, despite the government's backpedaling on eco-promises, the media's laziness, and fossil fuel company rhetoric, the transition to solar energy is coming, he argues. <i>The Carbon War</i> is a riveting read and a critical contribution to the fight for sustainable energy. ]]></description>
  <pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 17:13:35 +0000</pubDate> 
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  <title>Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things by McDonough, William</title>
  <link>http://www.artsandecology.org.uk/magazine/recommended-reading/cornelia-parker/cradle-to-cradle</link>
  <description><![CDATA[ Guided by the principle waste equals food, this book explains how products can be designed from the outset so that, after their useful lives, they provide nourishment for something fresh - continually circulating as pure and viable materials within a 'cradle to cradle' model. It makes a viable case for putting eco-effectiveness into practice. ]]></description>
  <pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 17:14:16 +0000</pubDate> 
  <guid>http://www.artsandecology.org.uk/magazine/recommended-reading/cornelia-parker/cradle-to-cradle</guid>
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  <title>Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by Perkins, John</title>
  <link>http://www.artsandecology.org.uk/magazine/recommended-reading/cornelia-parker/confessions-of-an-economic-hit-man</link>
  <description><![CDATA[ As an "economic hit man" in the '60s and '70s, covertly recruited by the US National Security Agency, John Perkins helped further American imperial interests in countries such as Ecuador, Panama, Indonesia and Saudi Arabia. He tried to write this book four times but was threatened or bribed each time to halt. The events of 9/11 was a turning point for him, pushing him to finally write this book. ]]></description>
  <pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 17:14:40 +0000</pubDate> 
  <guid>http://www.artsandecology.org.uk/magazine/recommended-reading/cornelia-parker/confessions-of-an-economic-hit-man</guid>
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  <title>The Weathermakers: The History and Future Impact of Climate Change by Flannery, Tim</title>
  <link>http://www.artsandecology.org.uk/magazine/recommended-reading/cornelia-parker/the-weathermakers</link>
  <description><![CDATA[ Tells the dramatic story of the earth's climate, of how it has changed, how we have come to understand it, and of what that means for the future. This narrative takes the reader on a journey into the past and around the globe, bringing us closer to the science. ]]></description>
  <pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 17:15:14 +0000</pubDate> 
  <guid>http://www.artsandecology.org.uk/magazine/recommended-reading/cornelia-parker/the-weathermakers</guid>
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  <title>Our Final Century: Will the Human Race Survive the Twenty-first Century? by Rees, Martin</title>
  <link>http://www.artsandecology.org.uk/magazine/recommended-reading/cornelia-parker/our-final-century</link>
  <description><![CDATA[ Our planet may be insignificant on a cosmic scale, but the evolution of intelligent life here makes it unusual, it is likely to be unique in our galaxy. Yet we may be on the verge of destroying int, of destroying ourselves - over the next century the future of life in the cosmos could be either jeopardised - of safeguarded for perpetuity. ]]></description>
  <pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 17:14:58 +0000</pubDate> 
  <guid>http://www.artsandecology.org.uk/magazine/recommended-reading/cornelia-parker/our-final-century</guid>
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  <title>Blood and Oil: The Dangers and Consequences of America's Growing Petroleum Dependency by Klare, Michael T</title>
  <link>http://www.artsandecology.org.uk/magazine/recommended-reading/cornelia-parker/blood-and-oil</link>
  <description><![CDATA[ Traces oil's impact on international affairs since World War II, revealing its influence on the Truman, Eisenhower, Nixon and Carter governments. This work shows how America's own wells are drying up as demand increases and warns that by 2010 the US will need to import 60 per cent of its oil ]]></description>
  <pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 17:13:16 +0000</pubDate> 
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  <title>An Inconvenient Truth by Gore, Al</title>
  <link>http://www.artsandecology.org.uk/magazine/recommended-reading/cornelia-parker/an-inconvenient-truth</link>
  <description><![CDATA[ A user-friendly introduction to global warming lucid, harrowing and bluntly effective. Michiko Kakutani, <i>New York Times</i>: "This frightening, galvanizing book will convince plenty of readers that Earth genuinely does hang in the balance." Warren Bass, <i>Washington Post</i>: "Gore the activist is an earnest, passionate, funny and caring individual, determined to communicate with people about the most important issue facing our earth." ]]></description>
  <pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 17:13:02 +0000</pubDate> 
  <guid>http://www.artsandecology.org.uk/magazine/recommended-reading/cornelia-parker/an-inconvenient-truth</guid>
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  <title>The Lorax by Dr. Seuss</title>
  <link>http://www.artsandecology.org.uk/magazine/recommended-reading/celebrity-2/the-lorax</link>
  <description><![CDATA[ When Dr. Seuss gets serious, you know it must be important. Published in 1971, and perhaps inspired by the "save our planet" mindset of the 1960s, The Lorax is an ecological warning that still rings true today amidst the dangers of clear-cutting, pollution, and disregard for the earth's environment. In The Lorax, we find what we've come to expect from the illustrious doctor: brilliantly whimsical rhymes, delightfully original creatures, and weirdly undulating illustrations. But here there is also something more--a powerful message that Seuss implores both adults and children to heed. ]]></description>
  <pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 16:53:07 +0000</pubDate> 
  <guid>http://www.artsandecology.org.uk/magazine/recommended-reading/celebrity-2/the-lorax</guid>
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  <title>Living on the Wind: Across the Hemisphere with Migratory Birds by Weidensaul, Scott</title>
  <link>http://www.artsandecology.org.uk/magazine/recommended-reading/celebrity-2/living-on-the-wind-across-the-hemisphere-with-migratory-birds</link>
  <description><![CDATA[ For anyone curious about the lives of migratory birds (and, incidentally, those of bird-obsessed humans), this book is a great nest of information. The author has traveled all over the world banding and observing birds and talking to the experts--amateur birders and ornithologists who have made many of the important discoveries about bird biology. ]]></description>
  <pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 16:49:42 +0000</pubDate> 
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