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Reviews several books on the environment. "Economy, Environment and Technology: A Socio-Economic Approach," edited by Beat Bürgemeister; "Green Hopes: The Future of Political Ecology," by Alain Lipietz; "Ecological Feminism," edited by Karen Warren.

The article presents information on two books, which discusses politics through essays. One of them is "Green Hopes: The Future of Political Ecology," by Alain Lipietz and the other is "Green Production: Toward an Environmental Rationality," by Enrique Leff. Lipietz identifies as the "major enemy" of political ecology the model of capitalist development offered by neo-liberalism. Leff takes aim at the economic rationality associated with capitalist development, particularly in the way in which it was transposed to zones outside the geographical and historical core of capitalism. Albeit at different scales, both argue that the social organization of production and political economy must figure in any reckoning of the causes and solutions to environmental and economic crises. It may be an overstatement for Lipietz to claim that the "environment is other people" and "ecology is a social relationship," but it has two uses. For Lipietz environmental crisis today is attributable to "productivism," defined as "a whole set of socio-ecohomic structures and mentalities which push people to 'produce for the sake of producing'" without regard for the social and ecological conditions of its own sustainability.

Reviews the book `Green Hopes: The Future of Political Ecology,' by Alain Lipietz with translation by Malcolm Slater.

Reviews the books `The New Ecological Order,' by Luc Ferry and translated by Carol Volk and `Green Hopes: The Future of Political Ecology,' by Alain Lipietz.

Reviews the book `Green Hopes: The Future of Political Ecology,' by Alain Lipietz.