In My Green Manifesto, David Gessner embarks on a rough-and-tumble
journey down Boston's Charles River, searching for the soul of a new
environmentalism.
With a tragically leaky canoe, a broken cell phone, a cooler of beer,
and environmental planner Dan Driscoll in tow, Gessner grapples with the
stereotype of the environmentalist as an overzealous, puritanical mess.
But as Dan recounts his own story of transforming the famously polluted
Charles into an urban haven for wildlife and wild people, the vision of
a new sort of eco-champion begins to emerge: someone who falls in love
with a forgotten space, and then fights like hell for it.
Considering everything from Edward Abbey's legacy to Jimmy Carter's
sweater, weaving his intellectual quest with real adventure, Gessner
points toward a scrappy environmentalism that, despite all odds, just
might change the world. "Heartfelt and informed" (Boston Globe), My
Green Manifesto is a spirited call to arms by a major figure on the
vanguard of a new environmentalism.