My Green Manifesto: Down the Charles River in Pursuit of a New Environmentalism

Inspired by a rough-and-tumble journey across country and down river, David Gessner makes the case for a new environmentalism. In a frank, funny, and incisive call to arms that spans from the Cape Wind Project to the Monkey Wrench Gang, he considers why we do or do not fight to protect and restore wilderness, and reminds us why it’s time to join the fray.

Though environmental awareness is on the rise, our march toward ecological collapse continues. What was once a movement based primarily…