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A Global Forecast for the Next Forty Years $24.95
Available for Pre-order (Expected Ship Date: May 30, 2012) Forty years after The Limits to Growth, Randers presents expert views on what the next forty years have in store -- economically, socially, politically, and environmentally.
Simple, Affordable, and Earthquake-Resistant Natural Building Techniques $34.95 The lay-up of adobe bricks is an easy, forgiving way to achieve a solid masonry-wall system. Contrary to stereotypes, adobe is perfectly adaptable for use in cold, wet climates as well as hot and dry ones, and for areas prone to earthquakes. With its efficient use of energy, natural resources for construction, and minimal effort for long-term maintenance, it’s clear that the humble adobe brick is an ideal option for constructing eco-friendly structures throughout the world.
A Life of Fritz Schumacher $22.95 E.F. Schumacher was a key figure in the development of environmentalism in the 20th century, and has left an enduring legacy. A profound thinker who was admired by Keynes, Beveridge and Cripps, he was for many years economic adviser to the Coal Board, and later put his ideas into practice by setting up the Intermediate Technology Development Group (now Practical Action) and becoming involved with the Soil Association. He was the inspiration for many other organizations that continue to this day, including the New Economics Foundation and Schumacher College. His views on industry, the environment, education and sustainable economics are as pertinent now as when Small is Beautiful was published.
How Grassroots Community Action and 21st Century Technologies Can Empower Elders to Stay in Their Homes and Lead Healthier, Happier Lives $17.95 Alone and Invisible No More is a compelling look at elder care in America today. It has all the makings of a perfect novel. The book will make you laugh, cry, and maybe even make you angry at how our elders are treated. On these pages, Dr. Teel not only lays out the problems we face with elder care today,and the overwhelming economic disaster ahead of us, but also he clearly lays out a plan for our future. This plan puts meaning and purpose back into our lives.
An A-Z $27.95 The Alternative Kitchen Garden is an evolving idea of what a kitchen garden could be in the twenty-first century: organic, environmentally sustainable, resilient, and about localizing at least some of our food production. It's also a place not only for learning and practicing growing skills but also for enjoying ourselves and having fun. The Alternative Kitchen Garden is the ideal companion for anyone getting dirt under their fingernails for the first time and full of fascinating ideas and experiments for the adventurous gardener.
Sermons from a Heretical Preacher $12.00 Religion and politics have always been a potent mix. History is littered with times when that combination caused sweeping death and destruction, when it fueled aggression and oppression—and when it gave fascism a religious and diplomatic face.
The Complete Guide to Making and Selling Artisan Cheeses $40.00 American Farmstead Cheese brings the science and history of farm cheeses from Europe and early America to small farm businesses today.
Medicina Animal $9.95 Gunter Pauli's ZERI* Education model proposes that children, adolescents and young adults learn science in a way that gives them a more profound academic understanding at the same time that it helps develop their emotional intelligence, eco-literacy, and artistic/creative capacities. Animal Medicine is one of the books in Pauli's ZERI series.
Science, Intuition, and Gaia $25.00 How Gaian science can help us to develop a sense of connectedness with the "more-than-human" world.
$9.95 Gunter Pauli's ZERI* Education model proposes that children, adolescents and young adults learn science in a way that gives them a more profound academic understanding at the same time that it helps develop their emotional intelligence, eco-literacy, and artistic/creative capacities. The Ant Farmer is one of the books in Pauli's ZERI series.
A Guide for the Organic Orchardist, Second Edition $40.00 You can grow fruit organically--here is the latest scientific knowledge about growing apples and other tree fruits. For commercial growers, CSA gardeners, and backyard gardeners.
Inspiration for a Positive and Abundant Life $18.00 The Art of Ageing gives advice on how to make the most of ageing, how we can celebrate its positive gifts and includes the stories of a variety of people who have enjoyed creative and productive lives well into their eighties and nineties.
An In-Depth Exploration of Essential Concepts and Processes from Around the World $39.95
Available for Pre-order (Expected Ship Date: April 30, 2012) With practical information on fermenting vegetables, fruits, grains, milk, beans, meats, and more…
A Guide to Growing Fruit, Vegetables and Spices from the Asian Subcontinent $24.95 “Asian Vegetables” is a unique and fascinating book that broadens the kitchen gardener’s horizons and genuinely says something new.
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The Atlas of American Artisan Cheese is the first reference book of its kind and a must-have for every foodie's library.
The Way of a Naturalist $25.00 Ted Levin tracks animal's tracks in nature and traces his boyhood roots on suburban Long Island to his present life in northern New England.
A Hands-on Guide to Gardening Berries, Brambles, & Vine Fruit in the Home Garden $17.95 Packed with reliable methods and details of berry growing for all regions of the country.
A Complete Guide to Growing Fruit Trees in the Home Garden $16.95 "...packed with down-to-earth information that the home gardener and master gardener crave."
--Journal of Small Fruit and Viticulture
Searching for a Spiritual Missing Link $14.00 A story of a journey of a nephew following his deceased aunt's lifetime of work to preserve the environment.
$25.00 Starting with the principles, design processes, and tools needed for designing, Ross Mars takes us through water harvesting, urban and rural designs, gardens, permaculture in schools and communities, and appropriate technology.
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Bayberry & Beau is an original tale inspired by a real horse and cat who became mysteriously attached to one another.
$9.95 Gunter Pauli's ZERI* Education model proposes that children, adolescents and young adults learn science in a way that gives them a more profound academic understanding at the same time that it helps develop their emotional intelligence, eco-literacy, and artistic/creative capacities. The Bear and the Fox is one of the books in Pauli's ZERI series.
A Handbook of Creative Discovery $10.00 Why go to the mall when you can make things at home using materials recycled from around the house? This classic educational and creative text features 125 projects, carefully selected by the author to "develop natural curiosity and self-esteem," and to demonstrate "simple and important concepts that have shaped the cultures of the world."
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Tomm Stanley entertains and educates adults and children alike about trees and their interactions with the environment.
$7.95 A complete guide for making biking to work a safe reality for the beginning bike
commuter. For those who live within biking distance to work, this book offers simple safety, bike-buying, gear-buying, and basic maintenance tips, as well as ways to best plan your route to and from the office. By biking to work, you can improve your physical and mental health, save money, avoid creating pollution, and contribute to friendlier cities. In the face of rush-hour traffic, biking is often faster than driving, too!
Charcoal’s Potential to Reverse Climate Change and Build Soil Fertility $14.95 The Biochar Debate is the first book to introduce both the promise and concerns surrounding biochar (fine-grained charcoal used as a soil supplement) to nonspecialists. Charcoal making is an ancient technology. Recent discoveries suggest it may have a surprising role to play in combating global warming. This is because creating and burying biochar removes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Furthermore, adding biochar to soil can increase the yield of food crops and the ability of soil to retain moisture, reducing need for synthetic fertilizers and demands on scarce fresh-water supplies.
Growing a New Energy Economy $19.95 The world, quite simply, is running out of oil. We need a solution now, one that will pave the way to a saner, more sustainable energy future without massive reinvestments in infrastructure and technology transfer. We need Biodiesel.
A Declaration of Interdependence $25.00 The Bioneers: A Declaration of Interdependence presents the fascinating and inspiring stories of 14 people at the cutting edge of technological innovation, social justice, and the natural world.
Rituals and Celebrations for the Child-bearing Years $19.95 Birthrites offers practical advice for potential parents. However, rather than concentrating solely on pregnancy, birth, and motherhood, this book also explores “Becoming a Father,” “Adoption,” and “Miscarriage” (to name but a few). Jackie Singer emphasizes the importance of ritual and ceremony in marking life-changing events, and sharing this experience with others.
The Legacy of the Exxon Valdez $19.95 Twenty years after the Exxon Valdez oil spill, marine biologist Riki Ott and the fishers in the town of Cordova, Alaska remind us that the biggest environmental catastrophe in North American history is still with us. Over time, its consequences have become all the more apparent and painful. The spill has profoundly altered the lives of tens of thousands of people, reducing them to poverty and despair.
Rediscovering an Old Way of Warming $35.00 A comprehensive survey of masonry heating systems, Lyle brings us back to a time of wood heating systems--with high efficiency, safety, and no pollution.
Hearth Loaves and Masonry Ovens $35.00 An in-depth guide to baking superb sourdoughs and building your own masonry oven.
The Gardener's and Farmer's Guide to Plant Breeding and Seed Saving $29.95 In the age of biotech companies, genetic patents, and multinational seed companies, Deppe makes learning to save and breed your own seed and varieties easy and desirable for the gardener or farmer.
A Low-Cost Wood-Fired Mud Oven; Simple Sourdough Bread; Perfect Loaves $17.95 A manual for building and baking in a basic mud oven.
A Step-by-Step Guide $45.00 Building with Cob covers everything from design, planning, and siting to roofs, insulation, and floors. It is lavishly illustrated with more than three hundred inspirational color photographs.
A Practical Guide for the UK and Ireland $24.95 This fully revised and updated edition includes new construction drawings, standard details for best-practice design, examples of off-the-peg drawings for small buildings such as summer houses and studios, and designs for affordable houses. These designs have a carbon rating of less than zero.
Structural Design for Rammed Earth and Straw-Bale Architecture $25.00 An approachable and readable how-to book on ecological/sustainable architecture.
Neighborhood Patriots, Backcountry Rebels, and Their Underdog Crusades to Redraw America’s Political Map $17.95 It's been almost a century and a half since a critical mass of Americans believed that secession was an American birthright. But breakaway movements large and small are rising up across the nation. From Vermont to Alaska, activists driven by all manner of motives want to form new states—and even new nations.
El Cuento del Cafecito (Bilingual Edition) $10.00 The lyric story of how a small cup of exceptional coffee can bridge nations, uniting people in trade, in words, with birds, and in love. Now published with facing-page Spanish translation.
$9.95 Gunter Pauli's ZERI* Education model proposes that children, adolescents and young adults learn science in a way that gives them a more profound academic understanding at the same time that it helps develop their emotional intelligence, eco-literacy, and artistic/creative capacities. Can Apples Fly? is one of the books in Pauli's ZERI series.
Solutions for our Car-Addicted Culture $20.00 Car Sick is a passionate, well-argued case for moving away from a car-centered to a people-centered society.
36 Remodeling Projects to Help Kick the Fossil-Fuel Habit $35.00 The Carbon-Free Home gives you the hands-on knowledge necessary to kick the fossil-fuel habit, with projects small and large listed by skill, time, cost, and energy saved. For every aspect of your life currently powered by fossil fuels, The Carbon-Free Home offers alternatives you can accomplish yourself to get started using renewable and sustainable sources of power.
How Hazardous Waste Ended Up in Our Drinking Water and the Bad Science and Powerful Politics That Keep It There $24.95 When the U.S. Public Health Service endorsed water fluoridation in 1950, there was little evidence of its safety. Now, six decades later and after most countries have rejected the practice, many cities and towns across the United States continue to fluoridate their water supply and the Center for Disease Control and the American Dental Association continue to endorse it, despite increasing evidence that it is not only unnecessary, but potentially hazardous to human health.
The Penikese Island Experiment $25.00 Cadwalader, a Marine captain severely wounded in Viet Nam, recuperates but is unable to return to combat. Strongly influenced by his experience in the Marines, he recruits a small band of unlikely "teachers"--well-educated social drop-outs--and launches an experiment in the rehabilitation of hard-core juvenile delinquents. The site he selects is Penikese, a remote island off the Massachusetts coast. Once a leper colony, Penikese is slowly transformed by the students and staff into a self-sufficient school community.
How to Build Your Own $26.95 Khalili's classic, authoritative manual describes how to build arches, domes, and vaults with earth, as well as techniques to fire and glaze earth buildings to transform them into ceramic houses.
Money, Investing, and Democracy $22.50 On Sale: $5.00!
A no-holds-barred look at our money system, its threat to our survival, and how to use our investments to regain control.
The Love, Lore, and Mystique of Mushrooms $17.95 Throughout history, people have had a complex and confusing relationship with mushrooms. Are fungi food or medicine, beneficial decomposers or deadly “toadstools” ready to kill anyone foolhardy enough to eat them? In fact, there is truth in all these statements. In Chanterelle Dreams and Amanita Nightmares, author Greg Marley reveals some of the wonders and mysteries of mushrooms, and our conflicting human reactions to them.
Hot Spots Along the Pepper Trail $17.95 On Sale: $13.46!
Chasing Chiles looks at both the future of place-based foods and the effects of climate change on agriculture through the lens of the chile pepper—from the farmers who cultivate this iconic crop to the cuisines and cultural traditions in which peppers play a huge role.
A History of Cheese and its place in Western Civilization $24.95
Available for Pre-order (Expected Ship Date: March 14, 2012) Cheese and Culture embarks on a journey that begins in the Neolithic Age and winds its way through the ensuing centuries to the present. This tour through cheese history intersects with some of the pivotal periods in human prehistory and ancient, classical, medieval, renaissance, and modern history that have shaped western civilization, for these periods also shaped the lives of cheesemakers and the diverse cheeses that they developed. The book offers a useful lens through which to view our 21st century attitudes towards cheese that we have inherited from our past, and our attitudes about the food system more broadly.
A Life on the Wedge $17.95 Witty and irreverent, informative and provocative, Cheesemonger: A Life on the Wedge is the highly readable story of Gordon Edgar's unlikely career as a cheesemonger at San Francisco's worker-owned Rainbow Grocery Cooperative. A former punk-rock political activist, Edgar bluffed his way into his cheese job knowing almost nothing, but quickly discovered a whole world of amazing artisan cheeses. There he developed a deep understanding and respect for the styles, producers, animals, and techniques that go into making great cheese.
$44.95 Easy to use guides that have the answers to all your recycling, water use, energy, and composting questions. Packed with practical ideas for your home and garden. Use their A-Z listings and simple tips to do your bit for the planet.
A Cultivator's Guide to Small-Scale Organic Herb Production $34.95 On Sale: $22.72!
A leading light in the field of medicinal herb cultivation, The Chinese Medicinal Herb Farm highlights how we can produce high-quality efficacious herbs here in the United States (for all climates) with the historical connectedness of ancient practitioners.
Community Solutions to a Global Crisis $21.95 The Citizen-Powered Energy Handbook is a clear-eyed view of the critical situation of oil depletion we face and offers a way out.
Multiple Perspectives on Urban Futures $25.00 What are some of the key initiatives and perspectives shaping the 21st century city?
Multiple Perspectives on Urban Futures $20.00
Currently on Backorder City 21 is a new film with multiple episodes which presents perspectives on shaping urban futures, sparking dialogue on planning and design. This special 1-hour edition is available with support from the American Institute of Architects.
Plasters, Paints and Preservation $27.00 Whether the reader wishes to transform an old house, build a new one, go into business for one’s self, or create non-toxic works of art, this book condenses the knowledge and expertise of someone who has done those things herself, and in 1994, brought alis to the Natural Building Community.
Simple Things You Can Do to Make a Difference $7.95 You know that the ice caps are melting, the seasons are changing, sea levels are rising, storms are on the increase, but what can you do about it? Plenty! This book puts the power back into your hands in the face of the doom and gloom of climate change. You don’t have to wait for someone else to sort it out; rather than worry and feel helpless, you can get up and do something.
A Citizen's Guide $9.95 On Sale: $5.00!
Climate Solutions explains in clear and simple language what different proposed climate policies will do—and what they won't do. It tells you who's behind the policies, who'd pay for them, and who'd profit. It strips away the spin and tells you the key facts you need to know. In a very real sense, Climate Solutions ushers in the next stage of the global-warming debate. In the first stage, we discussed the problem. In the next stage, we must choose solutions.
You Can Hand-Sculpt Your Own Home $23.95 An easy-to-read look at the world of cob-building.
$9.95 Gunter Pauli's ZERI* Education model proposes that children, adolescents and young adults learn science in a way that gives them a more profound academic understanding at the same time that it helps develop their emotional intelligence, eco-literacy, and artistic/creative capacities.
$9.95 Gunter Pauli's ZERI* Education model proposes that children, adolescents and young adults learn science in a way that gives them a more profound academic understanding at the same time that it helps develop their emotional intelligence, eco-literacy, and artistic/creative capacities. Colombian Mushrooms is one of the books in Pauli's ZERI series.
One Doctor’s Journey In and Out of Medicine $17.95 If the medical profession you'd devoted your life to was completely taken over by liability concerns and insurance regulations, would you stay a physician?
$34.95 Information about sustainable forestry practices that should be all but common sense.
$24.95 “The apple is a wonderful symbol of variety, the orchard an intricate example of the cultural landscape.”
Employee Ownership and the Business of Community and Place $17.95 Part memoir and part examination of a new business model, the 2005 release of The Company We Keep marked the debut of an important new voice in the literature of American business. Now, in Companies We Keep, the revised and expanded edition of his 2005 work, John Abrams further develops his idea that companies flourish when they become centers of interdependence, or “communities of enterprise.”
Reinventing Small Business for People, Community, and Place $18.00
Currently on Backorder The Company We Keep marks the debut of an important new voice in the literature of American business. Through the lens of his experience designing and building, John Abrams explores--with a craftsman's eye and a CEO's pragmatism--the role of business in preserving and restoring local culture, social equity, and ecological balance.
$21.95 Robust and versatile, the yurt has evolved into the ultimate portable dwelling.
An Adventure with Vermicomposting $16.95 Author Michelle Eva Portman presents a wonderful adventure where a young girl and her mom convert a storage box into a house for their new pets. The box becomes a vermicomposting bin and the pets are redworms. Portman's poetic rhyming couplets provide a grand explanation of the process of vermicomposting in a manner that the youngest reader/listener will enjoy.
Feeding the Soil on the Organic Farm $12.95 Part of the NOFA Guides Series.
Information on composting techniques from the author of The Soul of Soil, Grace Gershuny.
An Easy Household Guide $7.95 Everything you need to know about composting, from the different containers available, to what to put in them, to how to use the results. Includes an A-Z directory of how to compost everything from ash to weeds; plus expert advice on how to compost in small spaces, bins, and wormeries, and getting your community involved.
The Crisis of Energy and Money in a Post Peak Oil World
A 25-Point Program for Action $15.00 On Sale: $9.75!
The world is running short of energy—especially cheap, easy-to-find oil. Shortages, along with resulting price increases, threaten industrialized civilization, the global economy, and our entire way of life.
Book/DVD Set $29.95 The world is running short of energy—especially cheap, easy-to-find oil. Shortages, along with resulting price increases, threaten industrialized civilization, the global economy, and our entire way of life.
Living Stories About Living Systems $24.95 Connected Wisdom: Living Stories About Living Systems gathers twelve stories from different cultures that each reveal a unique example of a "living system." Through them, Linda Booth Sweeney shows that what we now call systems thinking has been around for a very long time.
$19.95 Gene Logsdon combines vegetable gardening, raising livestock, pastures, grains and woodlots to create "cottage farming" for fun and profit. Logsdon's ebullient sense of humor and devotion to the land are apparent through stories and anecdotes about contrary farming.
A Year of Seasonal Recipes $34.95 A collection of over 150 original recipes designed to follow the seasons.
$25.00 William Cobbett wrote Cottage Economy, published in 1821, with a twofold aim. First, to promote his personal philosophy of self-sufficiency, which he viewed as the foundation of family happiness. And second, to "instruct country laborers in the arts of brewing beer, making bread, keeping cows, pigs, bees, ewes, poultry, rabbits, and other matters." The book has enjoyed classic
status ever since.
Netroots, Grassroots, and the Rise of People-Powered Politics $12.95 On Sale: $5.00!
Crashing the Gate is a shot across the bow at the political establishment in Washington DC and a call to re-democratize politics in America.
Netroots, Grassroots, and the Rise of People-Powered Politics $25.00 On Sale: $10.00!
Crashing the Gate is a shot across the bow at the political establishment in Washington DC and a call to re-democratize politics in America.
Working with Nature to Grow Edible Crops $49.95 Creating a Forest Garden tells you everything you need to know - whether you want to plant a small area in your back garden or develop a larger plot. It includes advice on planning, design (using permaculture principles), planting and maintenance, and a comprehensive directory of over 450 trees, shrubs, herbaceous perennials, herbs, annuals, root crops and climbers - almost all of them edible and many very unusual.
$64.95
Currently on Backorder This set includes Martin Crawford's A Forest Garden Year DVD and Creating a Forest Garden book. It tells you everything you need to know - whether you want to plant a small area in your back garden or develop a larger plot. It includes advice on planning, design (using permaculture principles), planting and maintenance, and a comprehensive directory of over 450 trees, shrubs, herbaceous perennials, herbs, annuals, root crops and climbers - almost all of them edible and many very unusual.
$10.95 How can we improve the experience and ecological footprint of cities--explore that and more in this Schumacher briefing.
Soil Resiliency and Health on the Organic Farm $12.95 Part of the NOFA guides. Covers:
* Historical roots of cover crop techniques
* Thinking beyond this season's cash crop (disease and pest reduction, weed suppression, cash vs. cover crops)
* What is a good rotation? (mapping the farm, grouping crops, sample groupings)
* The economics of rotations and cover cropping (organizing your work, reducing labor inputs, land and cover-crop seed costs)
Including on-farm examples and detailed appendices.
$25.00 What begins as an exploration of the lines of thought and experience that run between the massive lynchings in early twentieth-century America to today's death squads in South America soon explodes into an examination of the very heart of our civilization.
Reflections on the Nature of Nature $25.00 The sometimes-dry topics of evolution and ecology come alive in this new collection of essays.
$25.00 Two books under one cover deliver a brief, incisive, and entertaining romp through the science of sex and death.
$9.95 Gunter Pauli's ZERI* Education model proposes that children, adolescents and young adults learn science in a way that gives them a more profound academic understanding at the same time that it helps develop their emotional intelligence, eco-literacy, and artistic/creative capacities. The Desert Witch is one of the books in Pauli's ZERI series.
The State of the Art $40.00 For the first time, a design manual for practicing professionals, drawing on the collective experience of the most senior and respected figures in the rapidly-emerging field of straw bale construction.
$49.95 Designing and Maintaining Your Edible Landscape Naturally is the authoritative text on edible landscaping featuring a step-by-step guide to designing your own aesthetic yet productive environment using vegetables, fruits, flowers, and herbs for a combination of ornamental and culinary purposes.
Illness, Health, and the Politics of A1 and A2 Milk $24.95 This groundbreaking work is the first internationally published book to examine the link between a protein in the milk we drink and a range of serious illnesses, including heart disease, Type 1 diabetes, autism, and schizophrenia.
$30.00 Diary of an Eco-Builder focuses on environmental
issues through the story of Will Anderson's attempt
to realize an inspiring and challenging vision: building
his own eco-home, which mirrors the fine-tuned ecology
of a tree.
An Unreasonable Woman Breaks the Law for Mother Earth $17.95 Diane Wilson delivers a no-holds-barred account of how she—a fourth-generation shrimper, former boat captain, and mother of five—took a turn at midlife, unable to stand by quietly as she witnessed abuses of people and the environment. Since then, she has launched legislative campaigns, demonstrations, and hunger strikes—and generally gotten herself in all manner of trouble.
A Manual for Making Art Out of Earth $15.00 Mud is fun! Also easy, durable, and (dirt!) cheap, it is
used worldwide to make beautiful homes, temples,
and art. This book teaches you how to transform the dirt
beneath your feet into your own beauty.
High Stakes, High Risks, and the Story Behind the Deepwater Well Blowout $14.95 Disaster on the Horizon delves into the worst oil well accident in US history, which killed eleven men and led to the current environmental and economic catastrophe on the Gulf Coast. With thirty years in oil and gas operations, insider Bob Cavnar provides a candid, engaging, and chilling look at the industry, its resistance to regulation, and the government concessions that are now putting people and the coastlines in jeopardy. He brings the industry's technology and people to life, delivering the untold story of the blowout, response, and decisions made by BP, Transocean, and the US government. Ultimately, Cavnar charts a crucial course for how to avoid these disasters in the future.
Edupunks, Edupreneurs, and the Coming Transformation of Higher Education $14.95 The price of college tuition has increased more than any other major good or service for the last twenty years. Nine out of ten American high school seniors aspire to go to college, yet the United States has fallen from world leader to only the tenth most educated nation. Almost half of college students don't graduate; those who do have unprecedented levels of federal and private student loan debt, which constitutes a credit bubble similar to the mortgage crisis.
The Uncomfortable Truth about Biodiversity $19.95 How much do we really know about the species that make up the natural world? In this fascinating book Ken Thompson explains what we do and don’t understand about biodiversity.
¡No Me Comas Vivo! $9.95 Gunter Pauli's ZERI* Education model proposes that children, adolescents and young adults learn science in a way that gives them a more profound academic understanding at the same time that it helps develop their emotional intelligence, eco-literacy, and artistic/creative capacities. Don't Eat Me Alive! is one of the books in Pauli's ZERI series.
¡No Me Dejes Solo! $9.95 Gunter Pauli's ZERI* Education model proposes that children, adolescents and young adults learn science in a way that gives them a more profound academic understanding at the same time that it helps develop their emotional intelligence, eco-literacy, and artistic/creative capacities. Don't Leave Me Alone! is one of the books in Pauli's ZERI series.
Know Your Values and Frame the Debate $10.00 George Lakoff explains in Don't Think of an Elephant! how the right has framed the notion of the political center, he presents both the most original and the most practical analysis of United States politics in many years.
Know Your Values and Frame the Debate $14.99 On Sale: $5.00!
George Lakoff explains in Don't Think of an Elephant! how the right has framed the notion of the political center, he presents both the most original and the most practical analysis of United States politics in many years.
Inspiring Ideas for a Better America $29.95 Across the nation countless individuals and organizations are dreaming a new future. Dream of a Nation sheds lights on some of the groundbreaking leaders, projects and ideas that have the potential to solve society’s toughest problems. Through a collection of essays and short commentaries, the solutions and projects presented celebrate unique contributions from the country’s diverse population and span the nation’s most prevalent concerns.
50 Cocktails, Concoctions, and Drinks from Our Best Artisanal Producers and Restaurants $18.00
Available for Pre-order (Expected Ship Date: May 1, 2012) Fifty sensational drinks featuring Maine distilled gins, vodkas, and brandies, local honey meads, fruit wines, and heirloom apple ciders.
Second Edition $24.95 Drip irrigation is the best way to help any plant flourish and survive tough times, especially short or long droughts. Pick the wrong “stuff ” and you easily can feel overwhelmed. Robert Kourik’s Drip Irrigation for Every Landscape and All Climates clearly explains how to use less water yet increase the yields of vegetables and promote the growth and flowering of all plants—trees, shrubs, and container plants—in any climate, even where it rains irregularly.
A Permaculture Handbook for Britain and Other Temperate Climates $75.00 Patrick Whitefield, one of Europe's foremost permaculture teachers, has packed The Earth Care Manual with useful information, contacts, and ideas. This book is clearly and accessibly written, lavishly illustrated, and contains many case studies.
$19.95 In Earth Pilgrim, Satish Kumar draws on his personal experience and also his understanding of the spiritual traditions of both East and West. The book takes the form of conversations between Kumar and others about the inner and outer aspects of pilgrimage: “To be a pilgrim is to be on a path of adventure, to move out of our comfort zones, to let go of our prejudices and preconditioning, to make strides towards the unknown.” If we want to tread the pilgrim’s path, we need to go beyond ideas of good and evil and to be dedicated to our quest—to our natural calling. We need to shed not just our unnecessary material possessions but also our burdens of fear, anxiety, doubt, and worry; in this way we can find spiritual renewal and enter on the great adventure into the unknown.
Series on Sustainable Development $55.00 Beginning in England, white papers have long provided a forum for exploring important social and political issues. Earth Pledge publishes the series on sustainable development to highlight and encourage discussion about the issues of sustainability the world faces in the twenty-first century. This remarkable collection, featuring essays by academics and experts in the fields of cuisine, architecture, and fashion, identifies the barriers to sustainability, provides solutions to overcome them, and celebrates the pioneers who lead the charge toward meeting the practical requirements of today without compromising the needs of future generations
The Complete DVD Guide to Backyard Ponds $29.95 The guru of earth ponds explains how to site, design, shape, and plant these beloved fixtures of rural landscapes—and make them fit your property and your life.
$37.95 The principle for permaculture is simple: provide back to the earth what we take from it to create a sustainable environment. The three principle aims are: Care for people; Care for the earth; and Redistributing everything surplus to one’s needs.
A Bittersweet Tale of Twin Brothers Who Sparked an Organic Revolution $19.95 The Earth's Best Story tells how Ron and Arnie Koss succeeded in creating the first nationally distributed organic foods company to sit next to its mainstream competition on supermarket shelves—a step that revolutionized and empowered the organic-foods movement as a whole—and benefited hundreds of farmers as well as the millions of babies whose very first foods have been organically grown, thanks to Earth's Best.
An Architect's Sketchbook $24.95 Wells’s work is revolutionary, but readers will find his message to be pure common sense. Earth sheltering offers superior comfort with minimal energy input, and it is adaptable to diverse terrains as well as a variety of architectural aesthetics.
Inventing the Future $35.00 A look at ecological design and city planning, practically and philosophically.
From Power and Greed to Compassion and the Common Good $21.95 The economic system under which we live not only forces the great majority of humankind to live their lives in indignity and poverty; it also threatens all forms of life—indeed life itself. Economics Unmasked presents a cogent critique of the dominant economic system in order to help transform our society into one in which all forms of life will be protected.
Restoring the Earth and Her People $24.95 Everything you ever wanted to know about ecovillages: how they are created and the people behind them.
New Frontiers for Sustainability, Schumacher Briefing No. 12 $14.00 In the last twenty years eco-villages—local communities that aim to minimize their ecological impact but maximize human wellbeing and happiness—have been springing up all over the world. This briefing describes the history and potential of the ecovillage movement, including the evolution of the Global Ecovillage Network and current developments around the world.
How Ordinary Citizens Are Restoring Our Great American Cities $25.00 On Sale: $10.00!
Part celebration and part inspiration, Edens Lost & Found chronicles the forward-looking transformation of America's urban landscapes and communities.
Ecological Vision and Theory for Temperate Climate Permaculture $75.00 On Sale: $56.25!
Edible Forest Gardens is the authoritative text on edible landscaping featuring a step-by-step guide to designing your own aesthetic yet productive environment using vegetables, fruits, flowers, and herbs for a combination of ornamental and culinary purposes
Volume I: Ecological Vision and Theory for Temperate Climate Permaculture,
Volume II Ecological Design and Practice for Temperate Climate Permaculture $150.00 Edible Forest Gardens is the authoritative text on edible landscaping featuring a step-by-step guide to designing your own aesthetic yet productive environment using vegetables, fruits, flowers, and herbs for a combination of ornamental and culinary purposes
Ecological Design and Practice for Temperate Climate Permaculture $75.00 On Sale: $56.25!
Edible Forest Gardens is the authoritative text on edible landscaping featuring a step-by-step guide to designing your own aesthetic yet productive environment using vegetables, fruits, flowers, and herbs for a combination of ornamental and culinary purposes
Staying Safe and Independent In Your Own Home As You Age $30.00 Altman takes you through renovating your dream home, as you enter older age
How to Build Your Own $34.95 This book, with over 700 photos and illustrations, shows how to use sandbags and barbed wire, the materials of war, for peaceful purposes as the new invention known as Superadobe or earth-bag, which can shelter millions of people around the globe as a temporary as well as permanent housing solution.
$39.95 In a stunning indictment of the Bush administration and Congress, best-selling author Naomi Wolf lays out her case for saving American democracy. In authoritative research and documentation Wolf explains how events of the last six years parallel steps taken in the early years of the 20th century’s worst dictatorships such as Germany, Russia, China, and Chile.
2-Disc Directors' Edition $29.95 Investigating parallels between our current situation and the rise of dictators and fascism in once-free societies, Wolf uncovers a number of deeply unsettling similarities—from the use of paramilitary groups and secret prisons to the targeted suspension of the rule of law. With this galvanizing call to arms based on her recent book, she urges regular citizens to take back our legacy of freedom and justice.
Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot $13.95 On Sale: $9.07!
An impassioned call to action to Americans from all walks of life to restore the checks and balances—and our time-honored protections against abuses of power—outlined by our Founding Fathers.
$19.95 Very few people realize that the nature of money has changed profoundly over the past three centuries, or—as has been clear with the latest global financial crisis—the extent to which it has become a political instrument used to centralize power, concentrate wealth, and subvert popular government. On top of that, the economic growth imperative inherent in the present global monetary system is a main driver of global warming and other environmental crises.
Use Less--Save More $7.95 100 energy saving tips for everything in your home or business. Includes suggestions on heating and cooling, lighting, cooking, appliances and much more. Also provides an overview on renewable energy options.
Homes for a Small Planet $25.00 Energy Free is designed to equip building professionals and homeowners alike with a toolkit for creating homes that use no more energy than they produce—this means homes that are free from the vagaries of energy-price fluctuations and that help to free society of the high political and environmental costs of fossil fuels.
Growing the Green Economy $30.00 With insight, clarity, warmth, and enthusiasm Hazel
Henderson announces the mature presence of the
green economy. Throughout Ethical Markets Henderson weaves statistics
and analysis with profiles of entrepreneurs, environmentalists,
scientists, and professionals. Based on interviews
conducted on her longstanding public television
series, these profiles celebrate those who have led the
highly successful growth of green businesses around the
world.
War Stories from the Local Food Front $23.95 Salatin’s expert insight explains why local food is expensive and difficult to find and will illuminate for the reader a deeper understanding of the industrial food complex.
The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power $19.95 This thought-provoking work will change the way American consumers think about everyday products—from plastic softeners that can contribute to sexual malformations to lipstick additives that are potential toxins to the brain, liver, kidneys, and immune system. And it will stir them into forcing our government to take the lead of others, including the European Union, China, and countries in Central and South America.
A Multi-Generational Home-Based Business Testament $35.00 A well-written, easily read book on raising a family, children, and running a farm for a profitable business.
A Guide to Grilling, Barbecuing and Spit-Roasting Grassfed Meat...and for saving the planet one bite at a time $21.95 In her first book, The Grassfed Gourmet Cookbook, author and livestock farmer Shannon Hayes introduced a radically simple concept: sustainable practices like pastured-based farming translate into food that is tastier, healthier, and better for both people and the planet. The key to getting the most out of pasture-raised meats, though, is understanding how to cook them properly. In The Farmer and the Grill, Hayes offers useful tips on grilling, barbecuing, and spit-roasting all cuts of pasture-raised meats: beef, lamb, pork, and poultry. Dozens of simple, straightforward recipes provide all the basic cooking instructions, plus directions on how to make a variety of herb rubs, marinades, and barbecue sauces to accompany the meats. Traditional techniques such as Southern barbecue and Argentine-style asado cooking will help readers grill like the pros. And specific notes from pasture-based farmers on dealing with natural variations in grassfed meats will ensure success every time.
$19.95 From award-winning journalist Jared Flesher comes The Farmer and the Horse, a film that digs into difficult questions about sustainability,
self-sufficiency, and why we do the work we do. Flesher’s film goes beyond the usual platitudes of smiling organic farmers talking about the
good life. Farming is hard work—especially if you don’t use a tractor.
The Complete Guide to Building and Running a Small, Farm-Based Cheese Business $29.95 There has never been a better time to be making and selling great cheese. People worldwide are consuming more high-quality, handmade cheese than ever before. The number of artisan cheesemakers has doubled in recent years, and many of the industry's newcomers are "farmstead" producers—those who work only with the milk of their own animals. Today, more than ever before, the people who choose to become farmer-cheesemakers need access to the knowledge of established cheese artisans who can help them build their dream.
Genetic Engineering, Industrial Agriculture and Sustainable Alternatives $15.00 Using hilarious and disturbing archival footage and featuring interviews with farmers, scientists, government officials, and activists, Fed Up! presents an
entertaining and compelling overview of our current food production system from the Green Revolution to the Biotech Revolution and what we can do about it.
$34.95 Thousands of readers consider Sandor Ellix Katz's Wild Fermentation to be their guidepost for exploring and making fermented foods. Now, in this new DVD, Katz offers fermentation beginners and enthusiasts a chance to "sit in" on one of his popular workshops and learn through hands-on demonstration and instruction, accompanied by an interview on the benefits of fermentation, and social implications as it relates to food security.
A Toolkit for Resilience and Positive Change $21.95 Find Your Power describes how to strengthen your ability to bring about positive change.
The Natural Entrepreneur’s Guide to Responsible, Sustainable, Joyful Work $17.95 Whatever your situation, this is the book to help you get started. Finding the Sweet Spot
explains how sustainable, responsible, and joyful natural enterprises differ from most jobs,
and it provides the framework for building your own natural enterprise. You'll learn how to
find partners who will help make your venture successful, how to do world-class market
research, how to innovate, how to build resilience into your enterprise, and how to avoid the
land mines that sink so many small businesses. Most importantly, you'll learn how to find the
"sweet spot" where your gifts, your passions, and your purpose intersect.
An Organic Grower's Guide to Raising and Selling Cut Flowers $35.00 A beautifully written and illustrated look at growing organic flowers—for yourself or business.
How to Turn Your Yard Into a Garden and Your Neighborhood Into a Community $25.00 Gardening can be a political act. Creativity, fulfillment,
connection, revolution�it all begins when we get our
hands in the dirt.
$9.95 Gunter Pauli's ZERI* Education model proposes that children, adolescents and young adults learn science in a way that gives them a more profound academic understanding at the same time that it helps develop their emotional intelligence, eco-literacy, and artistic/creative capacities. Forest Drinking Water is one of the books in Pauli's ZERI series.
$22.50 This 49-minute DVD shows how you can apply the principles of forest gardening to spaces big and small. Martin takes viewers through the seasons in his Devon, England, forest garden and shows them how to plan your planting to mimic the layering, density, and diversity of a forest.
Cultivating an Edible Landscape $25.00 Hart uses years of experience in farming to explain "backyard permaculture."
with Robert Hart $22.50 Some 45 years ago, the late Robert Hart had a vision of planting a small food-producing forest that could fulfill the needs of a healthy diet and at the same time create a beautiful and ecologically sound environment. Having explored Hart’s practical and philosophical ideas, this film goes on to look at two other projects inspired by the principles of forest gardening and perennial vegetable growing.
Organic Vegetables From Your Home Garden All Year Long $24.95 Fresh salad in February, tomatoes in April—can this be Maine? If Eliot Coleman can produce a four-season harvest on his northern homestead, so can you.
The Square-Inch Gardener's Guide to Year-Round Growing, Fermenting, and Sprouting $24.95 Readers will learn how to transform their balconies and windowsills into productive
vegetable gardens, their countertops and storage lockers into commercial-quality sprout
and mushroom farms, and their outside nooks and crannies into whatever they can imagine,
including sustainable nurseries for honeybees and chickens. Free space for the city gardener
might be no more than a cramped patio, balcony, rooftop, windowsill, hanging rafter, dark
cabinet, garage, or storage area, but no space is too small or too dark to raise food.
Recipes and Stories from the State's Best Chefs $32.50
Available for Pre-order (Expected Ship Date: May 1, 2012) In the 2nd edition of Fresh From Maine, author Michael Sanders takes you deep into the world of 25 Maine chefs, their stories, challenges, secrets, and triumphs. More than 80 recipes, nearly half of them new to this edition and all brought to life by Maine photographer Russell French, capture the true bounty of this land and its waters.
A Guide to Cooking Farm-Fresh Seasonal Produce $19.95 Ever wonder how you'll ever be able to use all your vegetables? From Asparagus to Zucchini answers the question of what to do with your armloads of greens, exotic herbs (and the never-before-seen vegetables), with recipes that are as concise and doable as they are appealing. Created for and by Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) members, the book is an indispensable tool for anyone who wants to eat seasonally and locally.
Food and the Hunger for Connection $25.00 Full Moon Feast invites us to a table brimming with locally grown foods, radical wisdom, and communal nourishment.
How Communities Can Adapt to Peak Oil and Climate Change $12.00 In Future Scenarios, permaculture co-originator and leading sustainability innovator David
Holmgren outlines four scenarios that bring to life the likely cultural, political, agricultural,
and economic implications of peak oil and climate change, and the generations-long era of
“energy descent” that faces us.
$23.00 Earth Pledge’s newest publication, FutureFashion White Papers, is a collection of essays
by a diverse and international group of contributors. Designers, manufacturers, farmers,
professors, models, business owners, and creative directors add their experiences and
wisdom, producing a unique and multifaceted view of the apparel and textile industries.
The book not only proposes solutions to environmental problems, but addresses the
financial outcomes of sustainable practices and offers individual business perspectives. FutureFashion White Papers aims to educate all people interested in sustainable
fashion and offers safe environmental practices for the industries and consumers. It is
an invaluable and ground-breaking resource that proves that style and sustainability can
coexist
$12.95 What would you do if you could hear the Earth asking
for help? In the Gaia Girls book series, that is what happens
to four girls, each from a different region of the
world. They are approached by Gaia, the living organism
of the Earth. Each is endowed with powers over one of
the four elements: earth, air, fire, and water. They must
learn to use their powers to help Gaia survive the effects
of modern humanity.
$18.95 What would you do if you could hear the Earth asking
for help? In the Gaia Girls book series, that is what happens
to four girls, each from a different region of the
world. They are approached by Gaia, the living organism
of the Earth. Each is endowed with powers over one of
the four elements: earth, air, fire, and water. They must
learn to use their powers to help Gaia survive the effects
of modern humanity.
$19.95 What would you do if you could hear the Earth asking for help? In the Gaia Girls book series, that is what happens to four girls, each from a different region of the world. They are approached by Gaia, the living organism of the Earth. Each is endowed with powers over one of the four elements: earth, air, fire, and water. They must learn to use their powers to help Gaia survive the effects
of modern humanity.
A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture $29.95 On Sale: $19.47!
The first edition of Gaia's Garden sparked the imagination of America's home gardeners, introducing permaculture's central message: Working with Nature, not against her, results in more beautiful, abundant, and forgiving gardens. This extensively revised and expanded second edition broadens the reach and depth of the permaculture approach for urban and suburban growers.
Vegetarian Recipes for Community and Family, Second Edition $25.95 Updating the first edition—winner of the Gourmand World Cookbook award for best vegetarian cookbook of 2001—the cuisine featured in Gaia’s Kitchen calls upon the best of Mediterranean, Californian, Indian, and Mexican vegetarian cooking. It celebrates old favorites rich in cheese and eggs and offers a variety of tempting new vegan dishes using ingredients such as pulses, tofu, and tempeh. Besides soups, main courses, and salads, there’s a mouthwatering selection of desserts, breads, cakes, and biscuits. Gaia’s Kitchen also explores the issues of nutrition, special diets, and the ecological dimension of food production. The recipes are the tried and tested creations of Julia Ponsonby and her colleagues at Schumacher College in Devon, England, which for almost twenty years has been brewing up a unique potpourri of human connections, raising ecological awareness, and stimulating taste buds.
An Inventory of Seed Catalogs Listing All Nonhybrid Vegetable Seeds Available in the United States and Canada $26.00 Garden Seed Inventory is an essential reference for all serious vegetable growers who care about seeds and preserving our common garden heritage.
Memoir of a Seed Saver $25.00 Daughter of Iowa farmers, Missouri homesteader, and mother of five, Diane Ott Whealy never anticipated that one day she would become a leader in a grass-roots movement to preserve our agricultural biodiversity. The love for the land and the respect for heirloom seeds that Diane shared with her husband, Kent Whealy, led to their starting Seed Savers Exchange in 1975.
A Village to Reinvent the World $16.95 Chelsea Green’s 10th Anniversary Edition of Alan Weisman’s Gaviotas will be in stores this September. Gaviotas is a classic—one of the most elegant and hopeful environmental stories ever told. In the late 1960s, a young Colombian development worker named Paolo Lugari wondered if the nearly uninhabited, infertile land sixteen hours east of Bogota could be made livable. Lugari had no idea that four decades later his experiment would be one of the world’s most celebrated examples of sustainable living: a permanent village called Gaviotas. According to Gabriel Garcie Marquez, Paolo Lugari is “inventor of the World.” Click here for Alan Weisman’s Fall Tour Dates
The Documented Health Risks of Genetically Engineered Foods $27.95 The biotech industry's claim that genetically modified (GM) foods are safe is shattered in this groundbreaking book.
Uniting Populists, Energizing the Defeated, and Battling the Corporate Elite $17.95 Polls show that the majority of Americans oppose recent US wars and Wall Street bailouts, yet most remain passive and appear resigned to powerlessness. In Get Up, Stand Up, Bruce Levine offers an original and convincing explanation for this passivity.
$14.95 Over 50 practical projects to create productive gardens using mainly recycled materials
$27.95 Now Jeffrey M. Smith's best-selling book is paired with a
new DVD and CD set that shows how genetically modified
organisms (GMOs) put our health and environment
at risk. This set will impact consumer perceptions
and buying habits.
Contra La Corriente $9.95 Gunter Pauli's ZERI* Education model proposes that children, adolescents and young adults learn science in a way that gives them a more profound academic understanding at the same time that it helps develop their emotional intelligence, eco-literacy, and artistic/creative capacities. Going Against the Current is one of the books in Pauli's ZERI series.
Understanding and Using the Warmth in Sunlight $29.95 On Sale: $14.98!
By distilling thousands of years of history and knowledge into one book, Tomm Stanley brings together the work of pioneering solar designers and some of the world's greatest scientists, along with a range of modern, practical solar-thermal applications for hands-on people.
A Standards-Based Environmental Education Curriculum for Schools, Colleges, and Communities $59.95 This unique learning resource combines an integrated, detailed academic curriculum with service-based learning activities to educate, inspire, and empower citizen learners to build greener and healthier communities.
Student Workbook $19.95 This unique learning resource combines an integrated, detailed academic curriculum with service-based learning activities to educate, inspire, and empower citizen learners to build greener and healthier communities.
Making Chairs in the 21st Century $29.95 Going with the Grain is for anyone who is interested in getting to know trees and wood better through the fulfilling process of turning a tree into their very own chair.
A New Look at Ol' Demon Alcohol $14.95 Gene brings us back to the history, traditions, and pleasures of small-scale, do-it-yourself alcohol.
Chain Saws, Portable Sawmills, and Woodlots $25.00 A look at woodcutting: equipment, people, and the connections to land.
The Invisible Force Powering Today’s Most Visible Green Brands $24.95 Brand expert Richard Seireeni interviewed more than 30 “eco-capitalists” from a broad range
of industries—home improvement, transportation, household products, food and beverage,
energy, real estate, finance, and fashion. The collective experience of leaders such as Gary
Hirschberg of Stonyfield Farms, Jeffrey Hollander of Seventh Generation, and the grandsons
of Dr. Bronner, as well as other green experts, are a rich source of wisdom for green businesses
getting off the ground or for any business aiming to improve its environmental performance.
El Jardín de La Abuela Bistonte $9.95 Gunter Pauli's ZERI* Education model proposes that children, adolescents and young adults learn science in a way that gives them a more profound academic understanding at the same time that it helps develop their emotional intelligence, eco-literacy, and artistic/creative capacities. Grandma Bison's Garden is one of the books in Pauli's ZERI series.
A Guide to Organic Viticulture $35.00 Now for the first time comes a book for grape growers who wish to use organic growing methods to raise healthy, thriving vineyards in the backyard or on a small commercial scale. The Grape Grower distills the broad knowledge and long-time personal experience of Lon Rombough, one of North America's foremost authorities on viticulture.
Cuatro Ojos, Pelo Verde $9.95 Gunter Pauli's ZERI* Education model proposes that children, adolescents and young adults learn science in a way that gives them a more profound academic understanding at the same time that it helps develop their emotional intelligence, eco-literacy, and artistic/creative capacities. Green Hair and Four Eyes is one of the books in Pauli's ZERI series.
A 6-Step Program to Create an Environmentally Sustainable Lifestyle $14.95 Green Living Handbook has been driving environmental-behavior change in cities, faith communities, universities, and businesses for over a decade. Much more than another collection of eco-tips for the newly green, this illustrated workbook walks readers step-by-step through a comprehensive lifestyle transformation program that has proven it can get results. Thousands of past participants of the program have reduced their environmental footprint by 25 percent on average.
How to Design and Build Your Own Eco-Home $50.00 The Green Self-Build Book gives inspiration and information to guide you through the green building process. It is intended for anyone who is planning a do-it-yourself project, and for housing professionals, students, and teachers.
From Cupboard to Corporation: an A-Z Guide $7.95 An A-to-Z guide for offices of all sizes, from energy use and better supply purchases to recycling and reusing materials, plus summaries of a range of renewable energy options, commuting techniques, and more. These tips help your workplace save money while reducing environmental impacts, and can boost employee morale in the process. Your choices for coffee, computer monitors, furniture, invoices, lighting, paper, stamps, and hundreds of other items can add up to a better world.
$9.95 Gunter Pauli's ZERI* Education model proposes that children, adolescents and young adults learn science in a way that gives them a more profound academic understanding at the same time that it helps develop their emotional intelligence, eco-literacy, and artistic/creative capacities. Grow a House is one of the books in Pauli's ZERI series.
$24.95 Don’t like spending money in garden centers? Think you can make it yourself for a fraction of the price or find a cheaper option? Dave Hamilton shows you how, by recycling and reusing materials creatively and making the most of what you have, you can gather all you need to grow your food on a budget.
The Definitive Guide for Organic Gardeners and Small Farmers $16.95 Growing Great Garlic is the definitive growers' guide written by a small scale farmer who makes his living growing over 200 strains of garlic. Commercial growers will want to consult this book regularly.
Animal-Free Organic Techniques $35.00 The essential guide to growing organic vegetables, animal-free.
Working with Nature to Control Diseases and Pests Organically $12.95 Part of the NOFA Guides. Includes information on:
* Basic concepts of pest control (host susceptibility, soil health, genetic resistance, ecosystem factors)
* Practical approaches (crop cultural practices, rescue treatments, special section on mammals and birds, food safety)
* Farm design for pest reduction (diversity, crop rotation)
* Unorthodox approaches (farmers out of the box)
* Identifying pests
* Crop-by-crop pests and practices
The New Generation of Sustainable Farmers, Cooks, and Food Activists
Stories and Recipes $35.00 Growing Roots: The New Generation of Sustainable Farmers, Cooks, and Food Activists is about a new revolution in food that involves young people who are living sustainable lives that revolve around healthy, natural food.
A Chronicle of Death, Life, and Vegetables $17.95 Michael Pollan calls her one of his food heroes. Barbara Kingsolver credits her with shaping the history and politics of food in the United States. And countless others who have vied for a food revolution, pushed organics, and reawakened Americans to growing their own food and eating locally consider her both teacher and muse.
What the World Should Know $15.00 On Sale: $5.00!
Guantánamo teams prominent international human rights lawyer Michael Ratner with political journalist Ellen Ray to reveal the truth about the U.S. military prison camps in Cuba.
$124.99 Gunter Pauli's ZERI* Education model proposes that children, adolescents and young adults learn science in a way that gives them a more profound academic understanding at the same time that it helps develop their emotional intelligence, eco-literacy, and artistic/creative capacities.
A Practical and Philosophical Guide to Building a Cob Cottage $35.00 This bible of radical simplicity explores the philosophical underpinnings of natural building while presenting the most comprehensive how-to guide to cob ever published.
Skills for a Changing World by $24.95 Responding to the threats of climate change, peak oil, resource deletion, economic uncertainty and energy insecurity demands the utmost in creativity, ingenuity, and new ways of thinking in order to reinvent self and society. In The Handbook of Sustainability Literacy, leading sustainability educators are joined by permaculturists, literary critics, ecologists, artists, journalists, engineers, mathematicians, and philosophers in examining the skills needed in the twenty-first century.
In Search of Simplicity $25.00
Currently on Backorder William Coperthwaite is a teacher, builder, designer, and writer, who is exploring true simplicity on a homestead on the north coast of Maine. He examines themes of beauty, work, education, and design while giving instruction on hand-crafting of the necessities of life.
$12.95 On Sale: $5.00!
First in a trilogy on Happiness, Love, and Power by Spain's leading science personality.
Natural Healing and Prevention of Lyme Borreliosis and Its Coinfections $19.95 Healing Lyme examines the leading scientific research on Lyme infection and its tests and treatments, and outlines the most potent herbal medicines and supplements that offer help--either alone or in combination with antibiotics--for preventing and healing the disease. It is the essential guide to Lyme infection and its treatment.
The Art and Practice of Healing with Plant Medicines $30.00 The Herbalist's Way offers all that aspiring and experienced herbalists need to inform and inspire their practice. This updated version of The Village Herbalist provides a complete introduction to the herbalist's place in family and community life.
A Guide to Using Herbs for First Aid and Common Health Problems $24.95 This user-friendly guide to herbs and their medicinal properties explains how to deal with common illnesses—including digestive, respiratory, circulatory and nervous system conditions. Newton suggests essential herbs everyone should have on hand, and offers advice on how to get the best out of herbs for general health, including how to maintain your energy level, increase your stamina, and improve your mood. Inside you’ll find information on dosages, possible allergies, and clues for when it’s time to seek professional help. Also included is guidance on how to make your own apothecary, how to concoct a first-aid kit for when traveling abroad, and a list of herb retailer and professional herbalists.
$19.95 Jeffrey Smith is the author of world's bestselling critique of genetically engineered foods, Seeds of Deception. He has testified before various committees and spoken in 150 cities on five continents. Smith is the director of the Institute for Responsible Technology, a member of the Genetic Engineering Committee of the Sierra Club, and on the Steering Committee of the Genetic Engineering Action Network. He was formerly vice president of marketing for a GMO detection laboratory.
$19.95 Jeffrey Smith is the author of world's bestselling critique of genetically engineered foods, Seeds of Deception. He has testified before various committees and spoken in 150 cities on five continents. Smith is the director of the Institute for Responsible Technology, a member of the Genetic Engineering Committee of the Sierra Club, and on the Steering Committee of the Genetic Engineering Action Network. He was formerly vice president of marketing for a GMO detection laboratory.
DVD and Book Set $34.95 Jeffrey Smith is the author of world's bestselling critique of genetically engineered foods, Seeds of Deception. He has testified before various committees and spoken in 150 cities on five continents. Smith is the director of the Institute for Responsible Technology, a member of the Genetic Engineering Committee of the Sierra Club, and on the Steering Committee of the Genetic Engineering Action Network. He was formerly vice president of marketing for a GMO detection laboratory.
VHS and Book Set $34.95 Jeffrey Smith is the author of world's bestselling critique of genetically engineered foods, Seeds of Deception. He has testified before various committees and spoken in 150 cities on five continents. Smith is the director of the Institute for Responsible Technology, a member of the Genetic Engineering Committee of the Sierra Club, and on the Steering Committee of the Genetic Engineering Action Network. He was formerly vice president of marketing for a GMO detection laboratory.
The New Energy Crisis $25.00 Blackouts across North America have warned us of its coming: It's High Noon for Natural Gas and it's going to be bigger than Bonnie and Clyde.
Salón De Belleza Para Hipopótamos $9.95 Gunter Pauli's ZERI* Education model proposes that children, adolescents and young adults learn science in a way that gives them a more profound academic understanding at the same time that it helps develop their emotional intelligence, eco-literacy, and artistic/creative capacities. Hippo Beauty Parlor is one of the books in Pauli's ZERI series.
Over 100 Natural Recipes for Gorgeous Healthy Skin $22.00 DIY skin care is fun, easy, and empowering. The Holistic Beauty Book is packed with safe, 100 percent natural, organic, eco-friendly skin-care potions you can make at home that are gorgeous yet affordable.
Tree Fruits and Berries the Biological Way $39.95 Many people want to grow fruit on a small scale but lack confidence—fearing that they'll mangle their trees and waste their time and money. But growing fruit is something virtually anyone with space and desire can do, and The Holistic Orchard demystifies the basic skills everybody should know, from grafting to seed saving to backyard breeding.
The Food Buyer's Guide to Farm Friendly Food $17.95 Holy Cows and Hog Heaven encourages every food buyer to embrace the notion that menus are a conscious decision, creating the next generation's world one bite at a time.
Growing Up in the Church of Knock Down, Drag Out; or, How I Quit Loving a Blue-Eyed Jesus $24.95 On Sale: $5.00!
In this rollicking memoir, Diane Wilson—a Texas Gulf Coast shrimper and the author of
the highly acclaimed An Unreasonable Woman—takes readers back to her childhood in rural
Texas and into her family of Holy Rollers.
Managing Manure To Save Mankind $17.50 With his trademark humor, his years of experience writing about both farming and waste management, and his uncanny eye for the small but important details, Logsdon artfully describes how to manage farm manure, pet manure and human manure to make fertilizer and humus.
Adapting Our Homes and Communities to Cope with the Climate of the 21st Century $35.00 Climate change is inescapable. Even if the whole world stopped pumping carbon dioxide into the sky today, at least forty years of climate change are ahead of us, thanks to the long time lag within the Earth’s ecosystem. As the century progresses, extremes will become more common: heat waves, drought, storms, and floods will test the design of our buildings and the resilience of our communities. We also face the slow rise of sea levels and the secondary impacts of climate change, especially on energy and food security.
Solutions from George Lakoff $15.00 Featuring a lively interview with George Lakoff , television news clip, and illustrative graphics, this is a must see media tool for everyone who wants to better understand and communicate the progressive agenda.
DVD and Book Set $22.50 Featuring a lively interview with George Lakoff, television news clip, and illustrative graphics, this is a must see media tool for everyone who wants to better understand and communicate the progressive agenda.
$19.95 Are you using your polytunnel to its full potential? If so, not only will it provide you with tomatoes and cucumbers in the summer, you’ll also be harvesting fresh crops all year round, even when the ground outside is frozen. You could be harvesting sweet potatoes and late celery in November; winter radish, baby carrots and celeriac in early February; salads leaves right through the winter; and even in the “hungry gap” you’ll have a choice of new potatoes, pak choi, broad beans, peas, tender cabbages, cauliflower, beetroot and more.
$24.95 Winter and early spring require a different kind of gardening than the summer months: not a lot grows at this time, but a well-planned plot may nonetheless be quite full. This book explains how to have plenty of vegetables to eat during the winter months, both stored and fresh. Through winter, soil is cool and transforms the plot into a large outdoor larder where many vegetables keep healthy and alive, ready for harvesting when needed.
A Guide for Complete Beginners $12.95 If you’ve never opened a seed packet before and want to grow your food but don’t know where or when to start, this book is for you. With advice for the new gardener, covering everything from how to plant seeds, when to pull up the carrot, and how to harvest potatoes, this book will guide you—whether you have a balcony, bare concrete, a patio, or a larger patch of ground.
$30.00 A how-to guide to growing a garden based on the model of a natural woodland forest.
The Ultimate Guide $16.95 Composting is easy, fun, saves you money, and helps you to grow lovely plants. Whether you live in an apartment with no garden or have a family and garden that generate large amounts of food and garden waste, this book shows you how to compost everything that can be composted at home, work, or school, and in spaces big and small.
The Key to Self-Sufficiency $14.95 How to store and preserve your garden produce, enabling you to eat home-grown goodness all year round.
¿Cómo Desbaratarlo? $9.95 Gunter Pauli's ZERI* Education model proposes that children, adolescents and young adults learn science in a way that gives them a more profound academic understanding at the same time that it helps develop their emotional intelligence, eco-literacy, and artistic/creative capacities. How to Take It Apart? is one of the books in Pauli's ZERI series.
How We Can Achieve Affordable Medical Care for Every American and Make Our Jobs Safer $12.95 On Sale: $5.00!
Millions of Americans lack health insurance; millions more pay for coverage that doesn't protect them from serious illness; and the status quo leaves Americans at the mercy of corporate interests. This persuasive argument from a passionate political strategist shows Americans how to take back the healthcare reins.
A Manual for Organic Growers $12.95 Part of the NOFA Guides Series.
Organic poultry basics for egg and meat flocks.
A Guide to Composting Human Manure $25.00 Everything you ever wanted to know about composting human waste. Jenkins gives an immense amount of information on purchasing, building, and just knowing more about composting toilets.
A Year of Hunger and Love $25.00 More than a cookbook, In Late Winter We Ate Pears is a love affair with a culture and a
way of life. In vignettes taken from their year in Italy, husband and wife Caleb Barber and
Deirdre Heekin offer glimpses of a young, vibrant Italy: of rolling out pizza dough in an ancient hilltown at midnight while wild dogs bay in the abandoned streets; of the fogged car windows of an ancient lovers’ lane amid the olive groves outside Prato.
Designing & Building a House Your Own Way $40.00 The most complete and easy-to-use house-building handbook available. With an emphasis on accessibility, ergonomics, and "pattern languages," this comprehensive manual of design, planning, and construction provides readers with the tools to build a home that will be beautiful and comfortable long into the new century.
Investing as if Food, Farms, and Fertility Mattered $21.95 Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money investigates an essential new strategy for investing in local food systems, and introduces a group of fiduciary activists who are exploring what should come after industrial finance and industrial agriculture. Theirs is a vision for investing that puts soil fertility into return-on-investment calculations.
Investing as if Food, Farms, and Fertility Mattered $15.95 Could there ever be an alternative stock exchange dedicated to slow, small, and local? Could a million American families get their food from CSAs? What if you had to invest 50 percent of your assets within 50 miles of where you live?
More Adventures of a Vermont Country Doctor $17.95 It's Probably Nothing continues the tale woven by Dr. Beach Conger in his first book, Bag Balm and Duct Tape. This new collection sees Conger and his wife yearning for new challenges and relocating to the suburbs of Philadelphia after twenty-some years in mythical Dumster, Vermont. Conger gamely takes a job in a teaching hospital in the poorest part of the city and gets to experience urban bureaucratized medicine and its trials—a far cry from the more idiosyncratic and hands-on version he practiced in Vermont. After five years and assorted assaults, both professional and physical, Conger and his wife decide to move back to Dumster, where he rediscovers more about his patients—capacity to both cope and cherish one another than he expected.
A Guide to Its Discovery and Appreciation $25.00 A beautiful and picture-documented guide to 300 of Italy's specialty cheeses.
Dispatches from the World of Fair Trade Coffee $19.95 Cycon’s exhuberant work provides a custom blend of travel essay and business savvy with a finish of social responsibility that leaves readers a sense of hope and possibility for the lives connected to our favorite pick-me-up.
A Kid's Five Week Adventure to Create an Earth-friendly Life $12.95 Journey for the Planet guides children through a series of action steps that can impact both climate change and the environment as a whole.
An Amazon Quest $19.95 When Sy Montgomery ventured into the Amazon to unlock the mysteries of the little-known
pink dolphins, she found ancient whales that plied the Amazon River at dawn and
dusk, swam through treetops in flooded forests, and performed underwater ballets with their
flexible bodies. But she soon found out that to know the botos, as the dolphins are locally
called, you must al
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