Bill Ayers spoke for himself on the op-ed pages of the New York Times this past weekend.

Kai Wright's Drifting Toward Love was selected as an Outstanding Book by the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights. A profile of Wright ran his past weekend in Edge Boston.

John Hanson Mitchell's The Paradise of All These Parts was selected as one of 2008's most memorable books by the Boston Globe.

TreeHugger Radio ran the first of a two-part interview with Fred Pearce about his new book, Confessions of an Eco-Sinner. Last week in the Guardian, Pearce examined what Coca-Cola's claims of becoming "water-neutral" really mean.