April 1, 2008 - How can we know if consumer behaviors like recycling are little more than feel-good tools for keeping the public from addressing a lack of environmental accountability at 'the top', asks the Cleveland Free Times reporter Jo Steigerwald?

Reach for a copy of The Small-Mart Revolution, she answers.

In a March 26 book review that juxtaposes The Small-Mart Revolution with graphic novel As the World Burns by Derrick Jensen and Stephanie McMillan, Steigerwald notes:

"[T]his book looks at the myths behind economic development and posits that a true revolution is not about spending any more on good and services, but about 'consumers shopping more carefully... and accounting wisely for the costs to their community exacted by non-local purchases.'"

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