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By David Gessner

In My eco-friendly Manifesto, David Gessner embarks on a rough-and-tumble trip down Boston’s Charles River, trying to find the soul of a brand new environmentalism. With a tragically leaky canoe, a damaged cellphone, a cooler of beer, and the environmental planner Dan Driscoll in tow, Gessner grapples with the stereotype of the environmentalist as an overzealous, puritanical mess. yet as Dan recounts his personal tale of remodeling the famously polluted Charles into an city haven for natural world and wild humans, the imaginative and prescient of a brand new kind of eco-champion starts to emerge: an individual who falls in love with a forgotten house, after which fights like hell for it. contemplating every thing from Ed Abbey’s legacy to Jimmy Carter’s sweater, Gessner issues towards a scrappy environmentalism that, regardless of all odds, simply may possibly switch the world.

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