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“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

ALMOST GREEN is a quirky, poignant, and hilarious nonfiction account of one man’s fumbling quest to reinvent suburbia, starting with his own front yard. The author couldn’t afford to build a green house, so instead he built an "Eco-Shed," a 280-square foot sustainably designed writing studio and inlaw suite— but his inlaws are unlikely to ever stay there because they aren’t talking to him much anymore.

Throughout the book, Glave tries—and sometimes fails—to navigate the emerging social landscape of the nouveau-green world; instead he finds himself ensnared in the emotional entanglements of the high-octane era. Along the way, he probes the interesting "grey zone" between the relentlessly upbeat eco-evangelists and the Hummer pilots that roam his small suburban community. With two small kids, escalating debt, and mounting marital pressures, Glave wonders if he has what it takes to be a "culdesactivist."

Greystone Books will publish ALMOST GREEN in Canada on August 22 2008, while Skyhorse Publishing will bring it out September 9 in the United States. For rights queries in other markets, please contact Anne McDermid & Associates .