Voting Green: Your Complete Environmental Guide to Making Political Choices in the 90s - Softcover

Rifkin, Jeremy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0385419171 ISBN 13: 9780385419178

Publisher: Main Street Books, 1992

Synopsis

An indispensable political handbook for evaluating candidates' "green quotient" in the 1992 elections. The book includes a list of the most important legislation that has been introduced in the past few years; details the voting record of each member of Congress; and includes a questionnaire designed to determine candidates' allegiance to the green agenda.

About this title

About the Author:

One of the most popular social thinkers of our time, Jeremy Rifkin is the bestselling author of The European Dream, The Hydrogen Economy, The Age of Access, The Biotech Century, and The End of Work. A fellow at the Wharton School's Executive Education Program, he is president of the Foundation on Economic Trends in Bethesda, Md.

From Library Journal:

This book represents a huge research task painstakingly performed and clearly presented by activists Jeremy ( Beyond Beef , LJ 2/15/92) and Carol Grunewald Rifkin. It outlines 264 bills comprising the preponderance of the "green" legislation introduced in the last two Congresses. It scores each member of these Congresses by his or her action on these bills. And it divides the issues into 14 categories and grades the Bush administration in each category. Working strictly with legislation already introduced, it outlines a "political platform for 1992" and identifies our government's environmental leaders and villains. It also demonstrates a clear pattern of pro-green rhetoric versus anti-environment action by the Bush team. Properly publicized, this book could have a profound effect in and beyond the November elections. And its suggestion of an alternative political framework--one in which issues of the production and distribution of "wealth" give way to concerns about stewardship and sustainability--heralds a trend that may be revolutionary. Voting Green 's timeliness and quality (plus its low cost) recommend its immediate addition to both general and school collections.
- Linn Prentis, Milford, Pa.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Main Street Books
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0385419171
• ISBN 13: 9780385419178
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 404