Word on the Street

If 2007 was the year when a wallop of environmental reality finally penetrated the collective Canadian psyche, 2008 begins on a more hopeful note. Tim Flannery’s The Weather Makers, George Monbiot’s Heat and Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth, with their folks-we’ve-got-a-problem message, were the gifts of choice this past holiday season. But sales of a pair of books that are sprinkled with optimism are now nipping at their heels. ...