The Holiday of Trees is big in Israel, but for American Jews, the celebration is just starting to catch on, reflecting a contemporary urge to live more harmoniously with the natural world.
When deciding what to buy, it’s important to know the whole story. That’s the central message of Daniel Goleman’s Ecological Intelligence, which explores why the environmental and social impacts of consumer goods remain hidden and how “radical transparency,” a system the author proposes for revealing those costs to the public, will force producers to change how they make things.