A sampling of praise for ALMOST GREEN, my comic memoir, published in 2008.
Reading ALMOST GREEN is like getting a new pair of glasses when you thought you could see just fine. Many important shades of distinction and subtle insights fill the book. A smart, contemplative read.
-Douglas Coupland
…as irreverent as is it deeply informative… Glave’s sensible (and sometimes caustically comic) green consciousness has real universal appeal.
-Publisher’s Weekly
In turns both humorous and heartfelt, James Glave shows what happens when you bring sustainability issues into your home—literally. For anyone who has ever dreamed of putting green building ideas into action, this book is an invaluable companion.
-Alisa Smith, co-author, The 100-Mile Diet: A Year of Local Eating
James Glave takes us on a delightful ride through his tortured efforts to create a more ’sustainable’ lifestyle. His memoir is brutally honest, poignant and feet in the air funny. ALMOST GREEN is frankly irresistible, and the timing [of Glave's message] couldn’t be better.
—Andrew D. Blechman, author of Leisureville and Pigeons: The Fascinating Saga of the World’s Revered and Reviled Bird .
Required reading — a parade of cranky kids, flaky designers, and hard-to-pin-down suppliers makes Glave’s struggle to build an eco-friendly writing studio an exercise in comic frustration, but he gets it done, saving ‘1/6 of a billionth of the planet’ in the process
—Outside magazine
A delightful book that takes a big theme, environmentalism, and puts it into the context of daily life.
—Booklist
I loved this book. Absolutely adored it… I found myself learning to look at things on a whole new level.
[Glave's] passion for making a difference is commendable and, if nothing else, is an entertaining and enlightening read…. tough to put down.
If you’re serious about living a green life and not making the earth worse than it was when you came here, this book is for you.”
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