PRESERVING OUR WORLD: A CONSUMER'S GUIDE TO THE BRUNDTLAND REPORT Warner Troyer Willowdale, Firefly Books/Warglen International Communications, 1990. 131pp, paper, $9.95 ISBN 0-969453-80-9. CIP Grades 10 and up/Ages 15 and up Reviewed by Peter Freeman. Volume 19 Number 2 1991 March The Bible, Magna Carta, Newton's Principia, Carson's Silent Spring, and Darwin's Origin of Species are arguably some of the most influential books to shape our modern existence. A tome that promises to occupy that list of "most influential books" is the Report of the World Commission on Environment and Development, commonly called Our Common Future (Oxford University Press, 1987) or the "Brundtland Report," named for the commission chairperson, Madame Gro Harlem Brundtland. To make this extremely important book accessible to everyone, Warner Troyer has whittled this report into a readable 130 pages with specific refer­ences to examples of Canadian misman­agement. His creation, Preserving Our World: A Consumer's Guide to the Brundtland Report, is a well-organized series of summaries dealing with topics such as population, food shortages, war, global warming, and endangered species. Warner Troyer has used his consider­able expertise as a best-selling author and documentary film writer and director to produce an easy reading but hard-hitting survey of the planet Earth as it exists in the dying years of the twentieth century. He has managed to avoid the emotionalism of the protec­tionists and the pragmatism of the industrialist by making the concept of "sustainable development" a viable solution to the world's woes. This easy-to-read, concise book could easily become an environmental primer for anyone wanting a holistic picture of Spaceship Earth. Peter Freeman, Booth Memorial Junior Secondary School, Prince Rupert, B.C.