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- Reading List of the Day: Sustainability (April 2010)
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- Economic Inequality Matters
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Landscape Archive
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Review of Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900 by Alfred Crosby
Posted on March 4, 2010 | No CommentsProfessor Alfred Crosby’s 1986 book Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900 is an earlier example of environmental history. Crosby asserts that Europeans, with their command and control of... -
Review of The Cottage Garden by Christopher Lloyd and Richard Bird
Posted on March 3, 2010 | No CommentsThe Cottage Garden by Christopher Lloyd & Richard Bird provides a good overview of traditional English cottage gardens, complete with illustrations, sample design types, and practical advice. Christopher Lloyd was a favorite garden writer in Britain for most of the twentieth century, and in this book he distills much of what he likes about traditional cottage gardens as well as what he dislikes about more contemporary attempts at historical reconstruction of them.
