Robert Reads

I was sitting in the Union League Club library in Chicago reading Jim Hansen's New York Review of Books article The Threat to the Planet. In that very good article Hansen reviews 3 new books on global warming and other climate issues we may be facing:

The Weather Makers by Tim Flannery

Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change by Elizabeth Kolbert

An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It by Al Gore

In the review of those 3 books Hansen also mentions Bill McKibben's seminal The End of Nature.

Lanny is currently reading and recommending A Whole New Mind by Daniel Pink.

Lawyers. Accountants. Radiologists. Software engineers. That's what our parents encouraged us to become when we grew up. But Mom and Dad were wrong. The future belongs to a very different kind of person with a very different kind of mind. The era of "left brain" dominance, and the Information Age that it engendered, are giving way to a new world in which "right brain" qualities-inventiveness, empathy, meaning-predominate. That's the argument at the center of this provocative and original book, which uses the two sides of our brains as a metaphor for understanding the contours of our times.