Guide to a Green Planet edited by Jules Pretty, University of Essex, £5.99, ISBN 1904059147 Reviewed by Fred Pearce
NOT every university would be brave enough to ask 48 academics from eight departments to write a few hundred words on something environmental, put a cover on it and call it a Guide to a Green Planet. But the University of Essex has pulled it off, under the eclectic editorship of Jules Pretty. The 90 contributions flit from the dragonflies of Essex to the organic farms of Cuba; reintroducing wolves to counting chickens; carbon trading to eco-feminism; and spotting bogus virgin…
