Picture Sundays: Our First Book in Context
...Root Simple reader Jon in Melbourne, Australia sent us this picture in Facebook to show us the company our first book keeps down under....
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Growing Food in a Hotter, Drier Land
...from the publisher because we’ve met Gary and like his work. Getting free books once in a while is one of the perks of blogging. This book, though, I would lay down cash for in a heartbeat. At the time I made the request, I merely though it would be an interesting read. In the wake of the Age of Limits Conference, and my subsequent reading about climate change–and the depression that resulted from that–its fortuitous arrival this week has given m...
DIY Christmas Trees
...our book shelf until next season: Now, I know some people get cranky about book desecration, but even as a book lover and author, I don’t feel this has to be a bad thing. If you’ve ever perused the book section of a Goodwill, you know that there are books out there which could do with re-purposing. My picks for the chopping block are celebrity bios and inexplicable runaway best-sellers like the Da Vinci Code and 50 Shades of Grey. These publishing...
Everything Must Go: Tidying Up at the Root Simple Compound
...sense and we were both were ready to hear what she said, so we bought the book. Her premise is simple enough, and there’s no need to buy the book if you’re resolute enough and don’t need prodding. Basically all she’s saying is that we have too much darn stuff for our own good, and all of the sorting and rules and organizational systems in the world are never going to overcome that basic fact. If you have too much stuff, you’ll always be caught in...
On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs
...took the most time was managing another receptionist’s Avon sales. In the book Graeber develops a taxonomy of Bullshit jobs and estimates that at least 50% of jobs could vanish and no one would notice. And, no, we’re not just talking about government jobs. It turns out that capitalism produces prodigious amounts of useless jobs despite those who claim that the alleged efficiency of markets makes this impossible. While many of the examples in the...