Book Review: Heaven Is Under Our Feet (Part Two)

So, here continues my long focus on Concord-related items, and this is the second part of a review for a book that I enjoy reading and find at times inspirational, at times almost too much with a barrage of depressing facts and the sense of being overwhelmed by all the people and incentive and ambitions that have gone largely unchecked, and led to this mess that we are in now. 

Others reflect on their own personal stories, and many do so to great effect.

I left off at James Michener last time, so let me resume a bit.

George Frampton urges us to make ethical progress and to create a land ethic, rather than recklessly squeezing out every last penny that we can from our own natural resources. 

Tom Cruise starts off a rather lengthy piece by reliving his experiences in a visit to the Amazon, before going on a long list of the changes that we need to make, or at least the changes that he would like to see. 

Gary Trudeau contributes certainly the most unique visual of the book,  drawing a cartoon.

Alan Edmond is former Town Manager of Concord, and he talks of his experiences in a former Eastern Bloc nation, looking for guidance on the new economic policies of the West. 

John Nichols provides some humor in his piece, talking in an exaggerated, modern jargon, and dismissing everything that Thoreau has to teach us (tongue in cheek, however). Mike Farrell marvels at the power of such a cause, and the movement, to bring so many diverse people together for a common cause. 

Bette Woody gives a personal account from her own life, before getting to some scary facts, while John O'Connor just launches into the broken political/economic system that we find today, and advocates some of the measures that he feels will preserve the environment for many a year to come. 

My apologies for the rather broken out style of this review. I am not sure if it is working, but since this is not exactly a work of fiction or anything, but rather, a series of essays, it seemed prudent to break down the essays, and to give my thoughts of some of the most important and powerful ones (according to me, anyway). 

I will continue this soon again, but am right at the moment too tired to keep going.