Believing Cassandra: How to Be an Optimist in a Pessimist's World

Believing Cassandra: How to Be an Optimist in a Pessimist's World

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A bestseller on Amazon.com within months of its first release, Alan AtKisson's debut book quickly became a modern classic of sustainability literature. Global companies, grassroots groups, university courses, government agencies, and even the US Army ordered it by the box. Now fully revised and updated, Believing Cassandra: How to be an Optimist in a Pessimist's World is e...more
Paperback, 226 pages
Published November 17th 2010 by Earthscan Publications
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Jeff Rambharack
Believing Cassandra could serve as an introduction to sustainability thinking for someone who is not at all familiar with the subject and feeling completely lost about how to take the first step. For anyone who has exposure to the concepts or even an intuitive sense of the issues, this book will feel like a statement of common sense. The anecdotal descriptions of significant environmental milestones are interesting and entertaining but they fall short of reading up on the milestones themselves (...more
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