Lyle Estill

I have a strange relationship to Douglas Rushkoff’s latest book, Life Inc. How the World Became a Corporation and How to Take it Back.

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I got off on the wrong footing with this book.  I was at the beach, my buddy needed a book, I had it in my knapsack, and was engrossed in the post mortem biography of Hunter S. Thompson, so I flipped this book his way.

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I just came back from London, where I had the exquisite pleasure of reading Harm de Blij’s The Power of Place. (Oxford University Press, 2009)

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I have yet to see the new Pixar flick, WALL-E, but apparently the first hour or so parallels Alan Weisman’s The World Without Us (St. Martin’s Press, 2007).
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I’ve just finished Dmitry Orlov’s Reinventing Collapse; The Soviet Example and American Prospects (New Society, 2008).
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A special guest book review by Camille Armantrout.  Richard Heinberg’s Peak Everything (New Society, 2007)

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I am just returning from a trip to Savannah, where I continued to flirt with biodiesel and the global marketplace.

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I just finished Michael Shuman’s book, The Small-Mart Revolution; How Local Businesses are Beating the Global Competition, (Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2006) and I am pleased to report I was impressed.

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Girl Mark lives down the road these days. Which means she stops by from time to time. Once she left a strange little paperback book on the kitchen table called Voices from the Farm. (The Book Publishing Company, 1988).
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One thing I like about long flights is that I get caught up on my reading.

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