This is a must for conservation education professionals. The numerous indexes and summary descriptions of organizations are wonderful.

I went out of my way to find this book. Boy, am I ever sorry. Can I give this book zero stars? This book contains all of the illumination of a 10 watt bulb. Schneider's main environmental concern in this little text is global cooling! Yikes! Now he's an authority on global warming; so much for credibility. Either Schnieder's an environmental schizophrenic or someone that lives at the public money trough. The former hypothesis is the more paletable of the two possibilities. This book is nothing more than the "nonsensical ravings of a lunatic mind." Don't waste your time. The most positive environmental thing you can do is save a tree by using this book's pages as toilet paper.

Boy, it's been a long time since I read this, a lot more than seven years. The authors (and I would single out Schneider as one of the more provocative thinkers of our times) suggest that a thoughtful civilization would store enough food etc. to get it through hard times, such as changing climate.

I don't know about you, but I detect a lot of talk in the last seven years about catastrophic climate change. Hmmm, this may be one of those books that gets more important as it gets older. I think I'll give it another read...