• Complain

Becca Stevens - Snake Oil: The Art of Healing and Truth-Telling

Here you can read online Becca Stevens - Snake Oil: The Art of Healing and Truth-Telling full text of the book (entire story) in english for free. Download pdf and epub, get meaning, cover and reviews about this ebook. year: 2013, publisher: Jericho Books, genre: Politics. Description of the work, (preface) as well as reviews are available. Best literature library LitArk.com created for fans of good reading and offers a wide selection of genres:

Romance novel Science fiction Adventure Detective Science History Home and family Prose Art Politics Computer Non-fiction Religion Business Children Humor

Choose a favorite category and find really read worthwhile books. Enjoy immersion in the world of imagination, feel the emotions of the characters or learn something new for yourself, make an fascinating discovery.

Becca Stevens Snake Oil: The Art of Healing and Truth-Telling
  • Book:
    Snake Oil: The Art of Healing and Truth-Telling
  • Author:
  • Publisher:
    Jericho Books
  • Genre:
  • Year:
    2013
  • Rating:
    3 / 5
  • Favourites:
    Add to favourites
  • Your mark:
    • 60
    • 1
    • 2
    • 3
    • 4
    • 5

Snake Oil: The Art of Healing and Truth-Telling: summary, description and annotation

We offer to read an annotation, description, summary or preface (depends on what the author of the book "Snake Oil: The Art of Healing and Truth-Telling" wrote himself). If you haven't found the necessary information about the book — write in the comments, we will try to find it.

In the world of snake oils, you have to see the world a little differently. Where others see poverty, you see riches; where others see weeds, you see flowers; where others see sickness, you see openness.
Becca Stevens calls herself a snake oil seller: She takes natural oils, mixes them with a good story, sells them in an open market and believes they help to heal the world. Becca is the founder of Thistle Farms, one of the most successful examples in the US of a social enterprise whose mission is the work force. She is also the founder of its residential program, Magdalene. The women of Magdalene/Thistle Farms have survived prostitution, trafficking and addiction, and the natural body care products they manufacture-balms, soaps, and lotions-aid in their own healing as well as that of the people who buy them. The book weaves together the beginnings of the enterprise with individual stories from Beccas own journey as well as 20 women in the community.
In Snake Oil, Becca tells how the women she began helping fifteen years ago have been the biggest source of her own healing from sexual abuse and her fathers death as a child. Wise and reflective, Snake Oil offers an empowering narrative as well as a selection of recipes for healing remedies that readers can make themselves.

Becca Stevens: author's other books


Who wrote Snake Oil: The Art of Healing and Truth-Telling? Find out the surname, the name of the author of the book and a list of all author's works by series.

Snake Oil: The Art of Healing and Truth-Telling — read online for free the complete book (whole text) full work

Below is the text of the book, divided by pages. System saving the place of the last page read, allows you to conveniently read the book "Snake Oil: The Art of Healing and Truth-Telling" online for free, without having to search again every time where you left off. Put a bookmark, and you can go to the page where you finished reading at any time.

Light

Font size:

Reset

Interval:

Bookmark:

Make

PRAISE FOR SNAKE OIL

Those who think fracked gas is a panacea for our energy future would do well to read this cautionary accountit has an undeniable whiff of reality about it.

Bill McKibben, founder of 350.org and author of Oil and Honey: The Education of an Unlikely Activist

Many long-time observers of the world energy scene have been wondering whether claims being made for US shale gas and tight oil are too good to be true. Here is hard evidence that they are indeed. America will achieve real, long-term energy independence and security only by doing two things: reducing energy demand and developing distributed renewable energy sources.

Michael Klare, Director of Five College Program in Peace and World Security Studies at Hampshire College, author of The Race for Whats Left

Snake Oil exposes the unsustainable economics behind the so-called fracking boom, giving the lie to industry claims that natural gas will bring great economic benefits and long-term energy security to the United States. In clear, hard-hitting language, Heinberg reveals that communities where fracking has taken place are actually being hurt economically. For those who want to know the truth about why natural gas is a gangplank, not a bridge, Snake Oil is a must-read.

Michael Brune, Executive Director of the Sierra Club and author of Coming Clean

Unconventional production from shales has been hyped mercilessly by the oil and gas industry. Richard Heinberg does an outstanding job of purging the myths and bringing sensibility to a dialogue which, unfortunately, has been driven by a brand of thinking on the part of energy producers that closely mimics the mentality of Wall Street.

Deborah Rogers, founder of Energy Policy Forum, former Wall Street financial analyst

We are already living with the false promise that fracking would not harm the environment. Now read the facts about the false promise that it will provide an energy-secure future and lots of jobs. Snake Oil debunks all the myths. It is a must-read for our elected leaders.

Maude Barlow, Board Chair of Food & Water Watch and author of Blue Covenant

It always sounded too good to be true... Richard Heinberg authoritatively explains the fine print beneath the hypesure enough, fracking is the 21st-century version of snake oil. The real deal is energy efficiency along with solar and wind power. Its time for a sober and honest debate about our energy future. Thats why Snake Oil is essential reading.

David W. Orr, Paul Sears Distinguished Professor of Environmental Studies and Politics at Oberlin College, author of Down to the Wire

In Snake Oil , Richard Heinberg reveals two key themes everyone should understand: The promise of shale oil and gas abundance is exaggerated and misleading, and the cost of producing the shale oil supply has reached a level that is inconsistent with economic growth.

Arthur Berman, consulting geologist and Director of Labyrinth Consulting Services, Inc.

The shale revolution might be over sooner than you think. Snake Oil does what the mainstream media have failed to do: ask the tough questionsparticularly about the economicsand closely examine the real potential of fracking for oil and gas. This book is an important counterpoint to what has been little more than regurgitated industry press releases thus far and is an essential read for investors and policy makers.

Chris Nelder, energy analyst and author of Profit from the Peak

When some things are too hard or painful to understand, it takes a heroic effort to even try to get a message across. Richard Heinberg is a beacon of light cutting through the fog of wishful thinking to illuminate the critical issues by which the human project may stand or fall: energy and economy.

James Howard Kunstler, author of Too Much Magic and The Long Emergency

SNAKE OIL

How Fracking's False Promise of Plenty Imperils Our Future

RICHARD HEINBERG

Copyright 2013 by Richard Heinberg All rights reserved No part of this - photo 1

Copyright 2013 by Richard Heinberg
All rights reserved.

No part of this book may be transmitted or reproduced in any form by any means without permission in writing from the publisher.

Cover design by Luke Massman-Johnson
Cover photo of bottle copyright iStockphoto / Lebazele
Snake head illustration copyright Moustyk / Dreamstime.com

Printed in the United States of America
First printing July 2013
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

ISBN-13: 978-0976751090
ISBN-10: 0976751097

Post Carbon Institute
613 Fourth Street, Suite 208
Santa Rosa, CA 95404
(707) 823-8700
www.postcarbon.org

This book is dedicated to those activists working to create an energy system where people, places, and the future matter.

CONTENTS

Peak Oil: What the Fuss Is About Okay, When? It Gets Worse Making Sense of History as We Live It Depletionist Economics A Brief History of Fracking How to Frack a Shale Gas (or Tight Oil) Well The Shale Gas Boom, Play by Play Tight Oil by the Numbers The Claims Rush The Boom That Fizzled Shale Gas: The Evidence Is In Bakken Boom, Bakken Bust Will the Rest of the World Get Fracked? Why Do Official Agencies So Often Get It Wrong? The Bottom Line on Frackings Potential to Revolutionize Oil and Gas Production Water Air Land Climate Communities The Nation The Oil and Gas Industry Wall Street Other Unconventional Hydrocarbons Geology versus Technology Renewable Energy Energy Scenarios A Mirage Distracts Us from Hydrocarbon Rehab

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

T his book relies heavily on the research of many scientists, analysts, and activists. I owe a debt of gratitude first and foremost to my colleague David Hughes, upon whose research much of this book is based, along with Deborah Rogers and Art Berman.

The quick development of such a time-sensitive book was made possible by a community engagement model of publishing. Thanks to the many generous individuals who participated as benefactors and real-time editors. Special thanks to our Snake Charmers: Ed Adamthwaite, Ruben Bakker, Diane Blust, Brian Bucktin, Clinton Callahan of nextculture.org, Clare Conry, Leonard Edmondson, David J. Fleming, Greg Fox, Felipe Garcia, Peter Gendel, Christopher Gerwin, John B. Howe, Leo Immonen, Kelly Kellogg, John Kretsinger, Richard Larson, Gary Marshall, Chris May, Stephen Miller, Dan Miner, Charles W. Nuckolls, John Parry, Markus Schellenberg, Dennis Schulinck, Richard Seymour, Patti Michelle Sheaffer, Edgar Shepherd, Gary H. Stroy, Nathan Surendran, Jeffrey Tomasi, Richard Turcotte, David Watters, and Matt Wilson. Thanks also to the over three hundred sponsors who joined our Merry Band of Editors and provided critical feedback on early drafts; their names are listed at the back of this book.

Many thanks to our lightning-fast production team: Girl Friday Productions, cover artist Luke Massman-Johnson, map designer John Van Hoesen, and research assistant Chris Takahashi. And words of appreciation are in order for Tod Brilliant, for having the initial idea for a new and unique publication model and making it happen; Daniel Lerch, for shepherding the book through our independent publishing process; and Asher Miller, for his editorial suggestions and overall project coordination.

Finally, sincere thanks as always to PJ and LH for their constant and generous support.

Introduction

A FRONT-ROW SEAT AT THE PEAK OIL GAMES

F or the past decade Ive been a participant in a high-stakes energy policy debatewriting books, giving lectures, and appearing on radio and television to point out how downright dumb it is for America to continue relying on fossil fuels. Oil, coal, and natural gas are finite and depleting, and burning them changes Earths climate and compromises our future, so you might think that curtailing their use would be simple common sense. But there are major players in the debate who want to keep us burning more.

Next page
Light

Font size:

Reset

Interval:

Bookmark:

Make

Similar books «Snake Oil: The Art of Healing and Truth-Telling»

Look at similar books to Snake Oil: The Art of Healing and Truth-Telling. We have selected literature similar in name and meaning in the hope of providing readers with more options to find new, interesting, not yet read works.


Reviews about «Snake Oil: The Art of Healing and Truth-Telling»

Discussion, reviews of the book Snake Oil: The Art of Healing and Truth-Telling and just readers' own opinions. Leave your comments, write what you think about the work, its meaning or the main characters. Specify what exactly you liked and what you didn't like, and why you think so.