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The Most Encouraging Sustainability Book I Have Ever Read

Revisado: 02-03-24

Hannah Ritchie presents her sustainability arguments in one of the most down to earth, pragmatic, easy to understand, easy to apply, and encouraging lectures on this topic that I have ever experienced. I have already begun to shift my planning and soon my behaviors based on the information she so wonderfully presented. I will be recommending this book to ALL of my friends and family. The only other thing I can say is, THANK YOU HANNAH FOR THIS BOOK!!!!

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Wonderfully written and disturbing book about Salinas, California gangs

Revisado: 09-08-18

First, I live in Salinas. I was in high school for most of the time period that this book covers. I am now an attorney and know many of the legal professionals named in this book. So I’m a bit biased. I had to laugh about the part in the epilogue where she says “who knows what Robert Mueller will do, but he’s not likely to be heading to Florida with white shoes and a white belt.” Nevertheless, if you have ever wanted to hear a true story about how gangs operate and how they are investigated, this is definitely a book for you. It was well written and gripping. I didn’t want to stop listening.

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Tips to buying the "right" house

Revisado: 12-20-16

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This is not a book about the actual steps of buying a house, this is a book about how to pick the "right" house for you. My husband and I are looking for a house and I realized after listening to this book that I was really not looking for the "right" house for us. I was looking for the neighborhood I wanted, but the house we could afford would not be a house that could let us live the "life" we wanted. For example, the "perceived" safety of the neighborhood on your children's childhood activities was very helpful. I wanted to buy a house in a safe (low crime) neighborhood with great schools. But the neighborhood has had a lot of car accidents with pedestrians getting hit by cars. I realized that any house I might be able to buy in this "low crime/good school" neighborhood would be at the expense of my kids being able to ride bikes or play outside in the neighborhood. That would mean that my kids would be more likely to have to stay inside (or play in the backyard only) and that would likely result in them consuming more media (TV and video games) because that is "safer" than playing on streets where they may get hit by a car.

This book got me thinking about the bigger picture of what it means to buy a house on the next several years (maybe decades) of my life and what I want that to be. I had been looking at the city, school district and how many rooms the houses had, now I am looking at houses with a whole different eye to what is important. I highly recommend this book to anyone considering buying a house.

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