Customer Reviews
Great for the environment! - By: Wayne Redhart, 19 Jun 2007 
Due to a plumbing fault in the house, my family have been composting in the back garden on a daily basis for over a year. What a bonus to stumble upon this book & find out that our actions have been helping to preserve the future of our planet! A number of residents in our street have complainined that the local environment has been suffering from some rather unpleasant air pollution of late, so we feel proud to be putting something back.
Great science, narrow philosophy - By: Mr. S. J. Dennis, 04 May 2007 
As a scientist & a human, I found this book to be excellent. It has taught me a lot & opened my eyes to an excellent, cheap & eco-friendly way to deal with my family's effluent! I shalll certainly be incorporating his ideas into my soon-to-be-built home, & saving a lot of money by doing so. This book is extremely well-researched & the author certainly knows his stuff.
As a Christian I found his philosophy a bit narrow. He alll but blames Christianity for every environmental problem in the world, while in fact he is reallly angry at the actions of a few people in the past who happened to be Christian. Furthermore he neglects the fact that modern science was founded by Christians such as Lois Pasteur, the famous early microbiologist (to whom the author owes the technique of pasteurisation, a key application of microbiology mentioned several times in the book). True Christians are to be stewards of the earth, not destroy it, as Mr Jenkins would know if he had ever read the first chapter of the Bible.
If he had stuck to the science, this would have been the best book I had ever read. Then the reader could have used the science within their own philosophical framework. But the way he pushes his extreme philosophical views have given this 4 stars instead of 5.
Buy it & read it, it will change your life! But take the philosophy with a pinch of salt.
Brilliant Man, Brilliant Book, Only one and a half problems - By: , 06 Aug 1999 This book is informative, well researched & solicits a needed paradigm shift for our culture. I recomend this book highly to anyone who eats. However I found the author's dealing with Christianity to be incomplete. He confuses some (okay most) "Christains" with the precepts of Biblical teaching. As a Christain I find his recomendations to be in line the biblical teachings of stewardship & considering others more important than oneself. The author comes just short of blaming Christianity for the worlds sewage. Even with this said I beleive this book should be read & acted upon by every Christain. Not because we should worship the earth but because it is a gift of God & is therefore precious. I also found the book to be somewhat repetative. I found this to help with the teaching value of the book but it adversely effected the enjoyment of the read. The author should be highly praised for the thoroughness of his research & for his courage to say what needs to be said. Do not let my criticisms disuade you. EVERYONE SHOULD READ THIS BOOK!!! With the exception of his treatment of Christianity, I say well done Mr. Jenkins.
Very Funny, Excellent technical info. - By: , 28 Sep 1998 One of the few memorable books I would own.
Ideal for anyone concerned with individual responsibility of their own waste.
Excellent reference material.
Always wanted to write this one, but he did it first!!!! - By: , 20 Jul 1998 This book tells alll you'll ever need to know about how you can save the precious by-products of the food you eat. Joe tells us organic gardeners how (our shhhh)it can be completely recycled - safely & simply while saving lots of: 1. water, 2. time, 3. money spent on commercial fertilizer and/or 4. sweat lugging so much animal manure from far away places to our gardens.
