Reviews for Promising the Earth

The average rating for Promising the Earth based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2013-01-18 00:00:00 Michael Burwell This is more the type of book one should read as you're actually carrying out a citizen campaign, to get ideas about what to do and how to do it. I chose to read it straight through, to try and get an idea of what an effective project might look like in its entirety, which was perhaps less helpful because I didn't necessarily have concrete items to apply it to for myself right away. But overall, I think it would be an excellent guide to use during a project/campaign. The book has a ring of honesty to it, and isn't super optimistic about everything, or overly focused on encouraging people into action. Instead, it talks a lot about pitfalls that organizers can run into (say, the different ways a group can experience burnout) and ways to avoid them, which seems to me more useful. There were a couple places where I thought it fell a little short. The author's examples were focused largely on what organizing might look like in a city of a particular density, (really, it sounded more suburban, with a few houses to each block) and nothing about how to deal with incredibly dense urban areas. Is organizing by blocks really feasible if you have several hundred units (meaning possibly several thousand people) in a single apartment complex? How do you do effective canvassing when apartments, as opposed to single-family homes, are the main living arrangement for an entire neighborhood? Still, overall, I would recommend it.

Review # 2 was written on 2017-06-16 00:00:00 Marlee Spector Excellent source for understanding rental housing in the 21st century.