Grist: I have a confession: Im a cynic when it comes to living small. I like to garden and ride bikes; I buy local whenever I can. But I dont think my personal lifestyle choices are going to save the world - and neither will yours.
Im not alone. Just ask Greg Sharzer, a frustrated Marxist activist with a Ph.D. in Political Science from York University who also enjoys cycling and Fair Trade coffee. Sharzers book No Local: Why Small-Scale Alternatives Wont Change the World is a bucket of ice water...