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title: "Giles Slade on CBC BC Almanac"
description: "Giles Slade, author of Made to Break: Technology and Obsolescence in America will be on CBC Radio's BC Almanac on Tues Dec 19th at 1:30pm. This is the best non-fiction book I read in 2006. Slade..."
url: https://somisguided.com/2006/12/17/giles-slade-on-cbc-bc-almanac/
date: 2006-12-17
modified: 2006-12-17
author: "Monique"
categories: ["News: Arts & Entertainment"]
type: post
lang: en
---

# Giles Slade on CBC BC Almanac

(http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/redirect?link_code=ur2&tag=somisguided-20&camp=15121&creative=330641&path=ASIN%2F0674022033%2Fqid%3D1152390576%2Fsr%3D8-1%2Fref%3Dsr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl) will be on CBC Radio’s (http://www.cbc.ca/bcalmanac/) on Tues Dec 19th at 1:30pm.

This is the best non-fiction book I read in 2006. Slade talks about everything from our obsession with small gadgets, which leads to truckloads of e-waste, to the origins of our consumerism and culture of waste.

Listen in, and if you’re inspired, call in and ask a question. An author’s greatest fear is having no one show up for the book reading or in this case no one call in.

I love this book. Here are (http://www.somisguided.com/search/results/0ec31a3b12fedd0d5a974f82e564bc40/)