I enjoy your blog about our environment, especially New York’s impact! I work at Riverhead Books (an imprint of Penguin Group) and we have an upcoming, relevant novel that says “just about everything you think you know about the environment is wrong” that I think you may enjoy. GREEN METROPOLIS challenges much of the conventional wisdom about being green and shows how the greenest place in the United States isn’t Portland, Oregon, or Snowmass, Colorado, but New York, New York:

In a radical departure from environmentalist dogma, David Owen’s GREEN METROPOLIS redefines what it means to be green, and offers vital insights into how to make our way to a more sustainable future. In this eye-opening and meticulously researched polemic, Owen argues that sustainability doesn’t depend on the acquisition of fancy new “green” gadgetry or the advent of new energy-related technologies, but on lo-fi solutions already at work in dense cities around the globe. We already have a good idea of what we need to do, or at least how to get started.

“Owen’s lucid, biting prose crackles with striking facts that yield paradigm-shifting insights. The result is a compelling analysis of the world’s environmental predicament that upends orthodox opinion and points the way to practical solutions”¬
––Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)

If you would be interested in an ARC of this upcoming title please send me an email at lydia.hirt@us.penguingroup.com with your mailing address.

Thanks and I look forward to talking with you further!

Best,
Lydia Hirt

Marketing Coordinator
Riverhead Books