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For the Harvard Design Magazine’s fifth book-length essay collection, editor William Saunders has assembled a variety of thinkers to dissect the opportunity and the meaning of this transforming moment of peak oil, disappearing frogs and rising floodwaters.
In an essay called “Beyond Wilderness and Lawn,” Michael Pollan, author of the recent bestseller In Defense of Food, traces the relationship between the domestic pastime of home gardening and society’s changing thinking about environmental issues. Bill McKibben, author of the influential business text Deep Economy, writes of how humanity has gained the genetic power to play God just as world ecology reaches its irrevocable tipping point.
