nicole walker

In Sustainability: A Love Story (Mad Creek), Nicole Walker questions what it means to live sustainably while still being able to have Internet and eat bacon. After all, who wants to listen to a short, blond woman who is mostly a hypocrite anyway – who eats cows, drives a gasoline-powered car, who owns no solar panels – tsk-tsking them? Armed with research and a bright irony that playfully addresses the devastation of the world around us, Walker delves deep into scarcity and abundance, reflecting on matters that range from her uneasy relationship with bats to the fragility of human life, from adolescent lies to what recycling can reveal about our not-so-moderate drinking habits. With laugh-out-loud sad-funny moments and stark humor, Walker appeals to our innate…