Product Description: In Green Gone Wrong environmental writer Heather Rogers blasts through the marketing buzz of big corporations and asks a simple question: Do today’s much-touted "green" products—carbon offsets, organic food, biofuels, and eco-friendly cars and homes—really work? Implicit in efforts to go green is the promise that global warming can be stopped by swapping out dirty goods for "clean" ones...read more

A history of garbage and the creation of refuse in America documents such elements as the use of urban hogs in the 1800s, the practices of 'rag pickers,' and the development of corporate 'mega-fills,' in an account that offers insight into the politics of recycling.