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An edition of Confessions of an eco-sinner (2008)

Confessions of an eco-sinner

tracking down the sources of my stuff

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"The author shows us the hidden worlds that sustain a Western lifestyle, and he does it by examining the sources of everything in his own life; as an ordinary citizen of the Western world, he, like all of us, is an "eco-sinner." In conversational and convivial prose, Pearce surveys his home and then starts out on a global tour to track down, among other things, the Kenyans who grow and harvest his fair trade coffee (which isn't as fair as one might hope), the women in the Bangladeshi sweat shops who sew his jeans, and the Chinese factory cities where the world's computers are made. It's a fascinating portrait, by turns sobering and hopeful, of the effects the world's more than 6 billion inhabitants--all eating, consuming, making-have on our planet, and of the working and living conditions of the people who produce most of these goods."--Publisher.

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English
Pages
276

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Cover of: Confessions of an Eco Sinner
Confessions of an Eco Sinner: Travels to Find Where My Stuff Comes From
2009, Transworld Publishers Limited
in English
Cover of: Confessions of an eco-sinner
Confessions of an eco-sinner: tracking down the sources of my stuff
2008, Fitzhenry & Whiteside
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Table of Contents

Part One: Introductions. Footprints : me and my stuff
Gold : a lodestone for my journey
Part Two: My food. Coffee : throwing a hand grenade into the cozy world of fair trade
Wild things : the last roundup on the high seas and in the hills
Curried crustaceans : the weird world of Mr. Prawn
Scorched earth : a sticky end with palm oil and sugar
Unzipped : when the banana lost its seeds and other tales from the orchards
Montezuma's magic : how Joseph the Cocoa Farmer became an unlikely green warrior
Air miles : why eating Kenyan beands is good for the planet
Part Three: My clothes. Drought and dirty secrets in the world of king cotton
Behind the label : bless my cotton socks
Touser truths : the unscrupulous world of sweatshops
White gold : my t-shirt, slave labor, and the death of the Aral Sea
Part Four: The Chinese dragon. Computing power : mice, motherboards, and the new emperors of Suzhou
Zhangjiagang : the world capital of rain-forest destruction
The great mall : toothpicks to placentas, everything must go
Part Five: Mines, metals, and power. My beer can : giant footprints in bloke heaven
Shock and ore : where my metal comes from
Footprints in the snow : finding the last oil
My electricity : Old King Coal lives on at Drax
Part Six: Downstream. My rubbish : down the river and across the world
Trade not aid : joining the great global rummage sale
Beyond the grave : a new life for Joe's old phone
Unexepected heroes : the queen of trash and other Chinese titans of recycling
E-waste : what to do with that old computer
Part Seven: My species and saving the planet. Good news from Africa : why we can feed the world
Beyond the clockwork orange : why we can green our cities
Zero carbon : why we can halt climate change
Defusing the bomb : why we can halt population growth
and save the world.

Edition Notes

Includes index.

Published in
Markham, Ont

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
333.72
Library of Congress
GE195.7 P43 2008

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Pagination
276 p. ;
Number of pages
276

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL26584683M
Internet Archive
confessionsofeco0000pear
ISBN 10
1554551161
ISBN 13
9781554551163
OCLC/WorldCat
231879943

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