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Book Review: Taking Back Eden: Eight Environmental Cases that Changed the World by Oliver Houck

January 14, 2014 by Midge Raymond

Oliver A. Houck’s Taking Back Eden is one of those books that can offer great hope during tough environmental times. Published by Island Press in 2011, this book’s relevance is only going …

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