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Title: One Makes the Difference: Inspiring Actions that Change our World by Julia Hill, Jessica Hurley ISBN: 0-06-251756-2 Publisher: Harper SanFrancisco Pub. Date: 26 March, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (4 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: The world could be a better place
Comment: Maybe if there were more people like Julia Butterfly Hill, the world would be a better place. Since her heroic act of sitting a tree called Luna to prevent it from being cut down (along with many other giant sequoia trees), she has been an inspiration to many. This book is filled with the inspiring tales of people who are like Julia Hill, who do care and who have made a difference in our world. It also is packed with information on all sorts of environmental issues from water conservation to the clear-cutting of trees to to the very positive effects of vegetarianism on the environment. It has lists of the things you can do in your everyday life to make a difference. It lets you know that even the smallest things do make a difference. This is a great book for budding activists, anyone seeking inspiration, as well as just for the curious.--Reviewed by Courtney Bronte
Rating: 2
Summary: A nice try, but ultimately a disappointment
Comment: I must say I found this book to be quite a disappointment, especially after Hill's inspiring "Legacy of Luna". Part of the problem with "One Makes the Difference" is that it's not sure what it wants to be. Is it a handbook for applying environmentalism to everyday life? If it is, it fails. Many strategies (for instance, biodiesel) lack enough detail for the reader to translate them into action. It's also broken down into artificial sections, like "air" and "water" and "land"; in reality many strategies for environmental living benefit more than one of these. A better way to organize would've been into different categories of human action, like transportation, diet, and home-heating/cooling. Humans can compartmentalize; nature cannot.
Perhaps Hill intended this book to show activists *how* to "make a difference". To be sure, there are many "inspiring" stories of those who have succeeded. But in the end, I was not inspired, but instead frustrated by the lack of details. While it *can* be inspiring to read about these people, I was ultimately left wishing that the author had explained more about *why* these people were successful. Otherwise, the stories feel like nothing more than mere chance amidst the many attempts at environmental activism that fail.
I would suggest this book only to those who are relatively new to the environmental movement.
Rating: 5
Summary: A practical guide and an inspiration
Comment: I consider myself environmentally conscious. I use fluorescent bulbs, print office stuff on both sides of each sheet, eat organic food, etc. Still, I haven't thought about a lot of things Julia Hill suggests. Now I use the same styrofoam cup for 2 weeks and I stopped using plastic cuttlery. I knew burghers were not the best food but I didn't know that, by eating one at a fast food restaurant, I destroy rain forest. It is amazing how much stuff we waste without thinking about it and how much we take for granted. As Julia pointed out, we can learn a lot from trips to "3rd world" countries. For example, there are people out there who save every drop of drinking water while we take a shower for an hour. We buy bigger and bigger gasoline-guzzling and air-poluting cars we don't need as status symbols. We act as if our resourses were unlimited.
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Title: The Legacy of Luna: The Story of a Tree, a Woman and the Struggle to Save the Redwoods by Julia Hill ISBN: 0062516590 Publisher: Harper SanFrancisco Pub. Date: 03 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Heart Of A Heroine: Saving the Last Redwoods by Julia Butterfly Hill, Michael Toms ISBN: 1561708534 Publisher: Hay House Pub. Date: 01 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: The Seven Sacred Rites of Menarche: The Spiritual Journey of the Adolescent Girl by Kristi Meisenbach Boylan, Kristi Meisenbach Boylan ISBN: 1891661191 Publisher: Santa Monica Pr Pub. Date: September, 2001 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: Take It Personally: How to Make Conscious Choices to Change the World by Anita Roddick ISBN: 1573247073 Publisher: Publishers Group West Pub. Date: 15 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling by John Taylor Gatto, Thomas Moore, David Albert ISBN: 0865714487 Publisher: New Society Pub Pub. Date: April, 2002 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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