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Paul Hinze wants to read Living on the grid by William L. Thompson

William L. Thompson: Living on the grid (2016, iUniverse)

Living on the grid by William L. Thompson

Paul Hinze wants to read A Civic Technologist's Practice Guide by Cyd Harrell

Cyd Harrell: A Civic Technologist's Practice Guide (Paperback, 2020, Five Seven Five Books)

A Civic Technologist's Practice Guide by Cyd Harrell

I’ve put every single thing I know about civic tech into this little book. It’s both an onboarding guide and …

Paul Hinze started reading Recoding America by Jennifer Pahlka

Jennifer Pahlka: Recoding America (Hardcover, 2023, Holt & Company, Henry)

Recoding America by Jennifer Pahlka

“The book I wish every policymaker would read.” ― Ezra Klein, The New York Times

A bold call to reexamine …

Paul Hinze wants to read Kill It with Fire by Marianne Bellotti

Marianne Bellotti: Kill It with Fire (Paperback, 2021, No Starch Press)

Kill It with Fire by Marianne Bellotti

Kill It with Fire examines aging computer systems, the evolution of technology over time, and how organizations can modernize, maintain, …

Paul Hinze rated The Climate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal: 4 stars

Noam Chomsky, Robert Pollin: The Climate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal (Paperback, 2020, Verso Books (US))

The Climate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal by Noam Chomsky, Robert Pollin

An engaging conversation with our most respected public intellectual around how a global Green New Deal has the potential to …

Paul Hinze finished reading The Climate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal by Noam Chomsky

An engaging conversation with our most respected public intellectual around how a global Green New …

Short, interview style overview and discussion of the Global Green New Deal. It’s a few years old now but all the core ideas are still relevant.

Paul Hinze wants to read Future Ethics by Cennydd Bowles

Cennydd Bowles, Cennydd Bowles: Future Ethics (Paperback, 2018, NowNext Press)

Future Ethics by Cennydd Bowles, Cennydd Bowles

Paul Hinze wants to read Astro noise by Laura Poitras

No cover — Laura Poitras: Astro noise (2016)

No rating

"Laura Poitras: Astro Noise" is the first solo museum exhibition by artist, filmmaker, and journalist …

Can you tell I'm catching up on Pluralistic posts? 😛

Paul Hinze wants to read Last Call by Tim Powers

Tim Powers: Last Call (EBook, 2007, HarperCollins)

One–time professional gambler Scott Crane hasn't returned to Las Vegas, or held a hand of …

Paul Hinze reviewed The Overstory by Richard L. Powers

The Overstory is a novel by Richard Powers published in 2018 by W. W. Norton …

People of the Trees

4 stars

Expansive and deeply thought provoking. Packed with ideas. I'll be thinking about this one for a long time.

My only quibble: in its mission to elucidate the eco-activist viewpoint, the book can occasionally teeter into inhabiting that viewpoint in a way that lacks nuance.

It's a book about characters who can get preachy and who see the world as divided into an awakened few and an inscrutable majority perpetuating a dangerous status quo. This all makes sense. The project of the book is helping us know these people.

However, the line between being about preachy people and being preachy is a thin one. I'd say Powers almost entirely succeeds in keeping on the right side of that line, but it's delicate work and I found myself occasionally squinting.

But then I wonder, maybe that journey of being in turns swept up in the movement and disillusioned is part of the …

Expansive and deeply thought provoking. Packed with ideas. I'll be thinking about this one for a long time.

My only quibble: in its mission to elucidate the eco-activist viewpoint, the book can occasionally teeter into inhabiting that viewpoint in a way that lacks nuance.

It's a book about characters who can get preachy and who see the world as divided into an awakened few and an inscrutable majority perpetuating a dangerous status quo. This all makes sense. The project of the book is helping us know these people.

However, the line between being about preachy people and being preachy is a thin one. I'd say Powers almost entirely succeeds in keeping on the right side of that line, but it's delicate work and I found myself occasionally squinting.

But then I wonder, maybe that journey of being in turns swept up in the movement and disillusioned is part of the point of the whole thing. I'm not sure! But this is what's going into my waffle between 4 and 5 stars.