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Profane Waste: Essay by Gretchen Rubin and Photographs by Dana Hoey

by Gretchen Craft Rubin and Dana Hoey

Gregory R. Miller & Company

September 2006, 80 pages, $35.00

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What is the point of a self-indulgent celebration of waste, profane or otherwise, in this age of inconvenient truth, a time in which ecological sustainability is the single-most pressing issue facing the planet?

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